Gallipoli Memorial Gardens
2017
Gallipoli Memorial Gardens is an architectural concept, produced and proposed for a two-stage national ideas competition organized in 2017, for the design of 15 recently discovered war cemeteries on the historic site of the Gallipoli Peninsula. The proposal has been awarded an Honourable Mention.
Location
Çanakkale, TurkeyCollaboration
Studio Evren BaşbuğClient
Directorate of the Battle of Çanakkale and the Gallipoli Historical Site
Design strategy consists of natural and temporal inputs as well. It is anticipated that in an undefined timeframe, the rubble piled up outside the walls will be taken over by nature just as any other piece of land on the peninsula and the mound like structure will blend into the landscape making these artefacts and their designers somehow transparent and invisible.
The ‘Memorial Gardens’ are abstract volumes in a natural setting. Their strict geometry, consisting of orthogonal planimetric organizations derived from the specified borders of the discovered graveyards, is in high contrast with their environment.
