Stairstreet Competition, Sutluce/Beyoglu Istanbul.
1st
Prize
Team:
Nikoloz Lekveishvili
Ilhan Muedin
Stair Street Competition was organized by Municipality
of Istanbul together with Stairsteps producting company “Seranit” for Istanbul
Cultural Capital of Europe 2010. Competition was opened on 8 main Stairstreets
which are the connection bridges between districts on the different
levels.
TASK: To create new design for the exhisting Kirkayak Str.(Stairstreet).
As for the connection stairs and recreational zone for locals.
SITUATION: Kikrayak street is located in European side
of Istanbul on the northern side of the goldern Horn, in Beyoglu, Sutluce
District. As Stairs are rising from the east to the west, on the southern side
of the stairs are Residential Blocks with several unorganized openings. On the
northern side are the ruins of historical (19th century) building and the green zone currently used as
garbage collecting spot.
OUR CONCEPT: “Stairs as a carpet thrown over the
topography + Op Art”. Every human is in
different sizes and searches a place for his own parameters… Street Represent
the Cloud or Open Cave shaped by the openings of the southern building and existing
Topography.
Stairs are connecting and separating, so if one step
is 15 cm, two steps together gives us 30 cm what is the better size for
children’s chairs, or 3 teps would give us with 45 cm chair etc periodically
organically transforming into Amphitheatre.
The circulation line of the stairs is in two colors –
white and grey, as a piano keyboard. it represents
our Joke in this project. We believed that it would give the playground atmosphere
as well as define the main route.
It was designed a structure with the name “hangman”
where the lightening cube is hanging with the thin rope on a massive L-shape steel structure. And the
LED lightening to be fixed under the
stairsteps.
It was impossible to make a ramp for invalids because
of the big height and lack of territory. It was proposed the invalidplatform
that is fixed on the handrail.
The Steps near the the house entrences are filled with
grass, it represents the visual barrier between public and private spaces.
Exhisting Situation:
