Adaptive
Cansu Ünal
Adaptive doesn’t have any identity and re-shapes itself with user experience and function that users need temporarily. The main intention is to demolish the boundaries of ‘social status’ and creating a social, cultural, and experimental environment for the people in Kayseri to connect with both city and other people with different socio-cultural backgrounds. Strategy for the adaptive is creating different portable volumes and spreading through the city appearing at different places by different periods and giving different functions in each case for contrasting the existing function with bringing new purposes temporarily.
Besides its’ portable and changeable volumes throughout the city, Adaptive also needs a design and control center for their volumes and schedule in the city. By getting inspiration from the changeable concept of Adaptive, the building has been created. Firstly the exoskeleton has designed with the purpose of hosting different volumes inside its voids, also it intends to create a permanent home for changeable volumes (pavilions) after their host-guest communication they can create several exhibitions in the permanent area.
The Project has been designed by getting references from two main axis. The first axis is coming from Mimar Sinan Park side and goes along through the Kurşunlu Mosque, there is no obstacle through the axes since it creates the outdoor circulation path of the project. With the help of the exoskeleton’s free form and openings, Adaptive has a unique entrance and circulation area. The second axis is the Wyndham side, for gathering people from the transportation hub and creating an entrance by this axis. A bridge, which is rising with the help of an exoskeleton, is welcoming the people which are coming from that side. By creating some kind of extra volumes, the bridge becomes a sightseeing place for important places such as; Kurşunlu mosque, Kadı Fountain, and Selçuklu Civilization Museum. Also, the bridge creates a circulation road between three closed volumes in the area. Closed areas serve as a public center and design center. Finally, it can be said that underneath this creative concept it intends to find a balance in ‘social equity' by its non-identity feature and targeting different users to the existing places for intersecting different people.
