Alaçatı Windmills Square and Promenade

Alaçatı - İzmir

The Windmills Square is a large-scale urban design and landscaping project. The project reconsiders the relationship between the historic town fabric and the hilltop accommodating ancient windmills – once 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. In between the ancient windmills and the town center an architecturally undefined site populated by a junkyard, shanty construction as well as car parking. The first phase transforms this 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.