Ribbonize

The given objective may not be enough to revive the industrial area as a new public space. The project is creating an urban campus which the academy will only be a part of it and the rest will have interactions with the citizens to meet the critical need of public space in Ankara. With renovation, the heritage will also get the chance to be recognized by citizens.

The industrial campuses in early republican times of Turkey were planned to meet the social needs of factory workers and their families, as the factories had been established outside the city center. In time, the city expanded towards the periphery and surrounded these huge non-permeable plots of lands. But until today, life in these factory campuses was pretty much like a small-scale village. So, to keep this community idea and the sense of the space, the general masterplan is desired to be protected. Hence, some of the buildings have been preserved and re-functionalized through the design process and some of them are subverted. To cooperate with the city; an extroverted campus design is thought to be more proper rather than an isolated campus order. A secondary axis, designed as a reinterpretation of the removed main axis of the old master plan, is added to the area to serve as a binding ribbon between the defined programs and to make the area accessible by public. This axis also aimed to work as an open-air museum route for the area. Lastly, a platform added underneath the ribbon to strengthen relations between existing and newly added programs while creating new interaction points with the area and the secondary axis. The Music Academy is designed inside the Machine Factory building. The axis passes through the evacuated third hall of the factory to form a public intersection point. The modular design of the factory's construction style which is for creating large space in short time was the main inspiration for creating the academy's concept design for the sake of preserving industrial aura of the area. Therefore, a combination of the old and the new structure with the programs integrated to them has been created. Some of the school programs are thought to be open to public use as well, to create a dynamic relationship between the city and the campus (instrument museum, cafes, library, performance halls and gardens). Majority of these places located on the west blocks to control the circulation easily. On the east blocks of the school, silent and loud classrooms and performance halls are placed.