alacati-urban-design

URBAR Office for Urbanization and Architecture. Architecture Urban Planning Urban Design Landscape Architecture Landscape Design Garden Design Infrastructure Planning and Design Interior Design Historic Preservation Project Management Planning Consultancy Application Projects Research and Implementation Ali Kural Architect and Urban Designer

Alaçatı Windmills Square Urban Design

Alaçatı - İzmir

The Windmills Square is a large-scale urban design and landscaping project. The project aims to reconsider the relationship between the historic town fabric and the hilltop accommodating ancient windmills – once just outside the town center, in time came to be an extension of it when a new highway connection was built allowing vehicular traffic access to the town from this point. In-between the ancient windmills and the town center – an architecturally undefined site, came to be populated by a junkyard, shanty construction accommodating small shops, ATM machines as well as irregular car parking. The first phase transforms this in-between site into a new gate to the town.

UrbAr’s proposal for the project outlines an urban extension scheme based on developing a pedestrian promenade and starting a network of small urban squares, keeping up with the rural character of the town of Alaçatı. The whole project area covering 3,5 hectares will be completed in three successive phases.