The festival that the art world has been waiting for for a long time and includes thousands of projects from many different parts of the world, The World Architecture Festival 2022 begins!
The festival is hosted by a different city every year, and this year took place in Lisbon capital of Portugal. A total of 253 projects, including names from Turkey, will compete in the festival, which will be held between 30 November and 2 December. Let's take a closer look at this year's theme of the World Architecture Festival 2022 and the projects from Turkey!
Due to extraordinary conditions, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) took place virtually during the pandemic period in 2020 and 2021. The festival, which took place physically in Amsterdam in 2019, is experiencing the excitement of being together again after a two-year hiatus. Precisely for this reason, the theme of the 2022 festival was determined as "Together". Evaluations of how post-pandemic architecture has had an impact on the development of collective life and how it has undertaken tasks in the fight against climate change will come to the fore at the festival.
The festival, which was held for the first time in 2008, brings together thousands of names from the architectural community every year and allows them to introduce their projects to the world. Hosts a platform where architectural design understandings can be shared. The companies from Turkey, which are creative at the forefront of the festival, are Autoban, BKA Architecture, EAA- Emre Arolat Architecture, Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architects, Erkal Architects, GAD Architecture, Tabanlıoğlu Architects and Yazgan Design Architecture partisipated in this year.
Ataturk Cultural Center
Atatürk Cultural Center is an opera house built with the modern architecture of the 60s and renovated by Tabanlıoğlu Architecture by preserving the values it inherited in the best way. In addition, as you will remember from our previous blog posts, the design office, which takes care to use local products in the renovation works, preferred to use DENDRO Parquet for the flooring of the building. The iconic façade of the building is located in Taksim square and rebuild with new technologies. The gigantic red hemisphere-shaped concert hall with a capacity of 2040 people also highlights the renovated structure. The cultural center project, which was opened in 2021, will compete in the World Architecture Festival 2022 in the "WAF Completed Buildings: Culture" category.
İstanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum
İstanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum is the project of transforming Warehouse No. 5 located in Karaköy Port, İstanbul. The museum has been allocated to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. In the design of the building, dynamically structured spaces that allow the exchange of works to be exhibited in the museum have been set up. The exhibition galleries connect each other with bridges. At the same time, it has created spaces that offer different perspectives in the interior. The project, which was completed in 2021, will compete in the World Architecture Festival 2022 in the "WAF Completed Buildings: New and Old" category.
Palanga Goat Shelter
The Palanga Goat Shelter project locates in Erzincan. The project, signed by Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architecture, was designed by considering the geographical features of the land and the sustainable resource use possibilities. The walls of the building, which was built on a deep stone foundation, were designed by constructing semicircular crushed earth walls. The shelter project, built with natural materials and traditional construction methods, will compete in the World Architecture Festival 2022 in the "WAF Completed Buildings: Production Energy and Recycling" category.
Galataport İstanbul Cruise Port
The "Galataport Istanbul CruisePort" project, which is the heart of the Galataport project and undertakes the transportation leg, is located in Karaköy. Autoban, which undertook the project to design this project, which is the first underground passenger ship terminal in the world, preferred ASPEN products in this important project. This special project opens the coastline to public use with all circulation designed underground. Such as a significant project in Galataport İstanbul preferred by ASPEN’s INTEGRA Metal Suspended Ceiling and Wall Systems, which offers fire-resistant and innovative design options. This special project will compete in the "WAF Completed Buildings: Transportation" category at the World Architecture Festival 2022.
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