NICMIS / ARCH 402

Architectural operation of layering plays an important role in the site. Diverse activities come together and compose a unity. Pera, Kasımpaşa stadium, embassy are some of the layers in the site. Even, in those layers, there are many different layers which I use in the museum design. I benefit from this analysis and try to regulate the activities accordingly. There is a big production volume which organizes the other part of the museum like imagination-utopia and trade-capitalism. Also, research and conservation unit works as a continuation of production.

I work on the experience of the visitors in the museum. How they observe the exhibited objects and how they experience the space, I try to plan these experiences and produce this infographic. Different themes and activities are represented with diverse colours. And the dimension of the columns are changing according to the observation layers and the characteristics of exhibited objects. There are two different suggested routes in the museum. The first one is the long one and visitor have a chance to observe all the exhibited objects if s/he follows this route. Also there is a short route for only temporary exhibitions.

MEDIA OWNERSHIP

This article is about the media ownership issue and its distribution which is one of the titles that we discussed during “alternative media” leecture. I selected this topic as a research project; because, from my perspective, it is one of the most prominent and attractive titles in the course that is remained in my mind after this communication course. In order to obtain a critical point of view, it is inevitable to learn the media ownership and the relations between media monopolies. The audiences can interpret and criticize the news logically only if they are aware of this issue.

Media is mostly defined as a collective communication channel which stores and delivers information. But also, it has a crucial role in shaping public aspect towards to daily events. Therefore, the owners of the media have a power of control how the news will be perceived by society and how it will be discussed. The effect of media on the public, who can be called as receivers, cannot be underestimated. Hence the ownership has an importance and it should be under the control of reliable corporations. The independence and pluralism of the media ownership have a significance in achieving a healthy and democratic condition in media. So that in this system, the criticism against to anyone should be freely expressed, who is criticized should not be matter. The first step in finding a free and independent preference is to monitor the ownership structure of the media and secure the pluralism of this ownership. However, not only in Turkish media but also in worldwide, media is under the influence of big monopolies which allow owners to direct the attitude of the society towards daily events in which direction they want to exploit. Also, these monopolies have a relationship based on self-interest because they spread out very diverse sectors which means that they are contingent upon tender bid so that they need to behave accordingly. This issue forces them to keep on the right side of the state and the other monopolies. I found an informative video about the media ownership in America and the video gives an answer to the question of “Who Owns the Media?”. It is important to note that Turkey is not the only one that has big monopolies in media ownership.

When the relationship of the media owners is analyzed, it is obviously seen that they have a connection with the other sector like; mostly in construction, thermal power stations, advertising and so on. So that the owners use the media according to their needs and their self-interest. For instance, when these companies bid in a state tender, they flatter the decisions of the state and they illustrate the state as they take the straight decision even if they think the reverse. Because it is the only chance to win a tender. It shows that prejudiced news is shared with the audience and during this process, perception management is done. Hence, the media owners have the power to direct the public perception by using prejudiced news.

Besides, Bianet has a research about this issue has a name as “Media Ownership Monitor Turkey”. The research is based on the distribution of media channels between the holdings and relations of those holdings with other sectors, which tenders they won. Also, Graph Commons prepared a valid graphic about media ownership which was published on mulksuzlestirme.org that is controlled and changed frequently. You can reach the updated version from here. When the graphic is analyzed, most of the company partners who have the largest forty media organizations are businessmen. Because of their activities in non-media sectors, the transition and relation between profit, politics and editorial preferences are intertwined. To illustrate, eight leading companies in media (Doğan, Doğuş, Demirören, Ciner, Albayrak, Turkuaz / Zirve / Kalyon, İhlas ve ES groups) are also active in construction, energy, mining, tourism, telecommunication, banking, and finance sectors. This situation is called as cross-media ownership which totally prevents the independent publishing principle of the media.  Therefore, it is possible to say that the media has an arrangement in which political relations and commercial interests are frontal.

When the distribution of the most popular television media outlets in Turkey is scrutinized, it is obvious that the owners of seven of the ten largest TV companies have the political bonds with the ruling party. Even after this information, how can it be possible to say that media is the voice of citizens? The owners of the media have the power to reorganize the news as their self-interest. As a result, the prejudiced news is published in the newspaper and broadcasted on TV. What is more, the income plays a crucial role in the media sector in order to lead publishing life; however, the source of income in media sector which is the public advertisement is also unfairly distributed between media companies because of this media ownership issue. It is possible to say that there is a political control over the financing of the media. There is no transparency of state advertisement distribution and the rules of this distribution are very vague and it depends on the relations. Thus, it is inevitable to criticize media and distribution of its income as unfair. For small-scale newspapers and TV channels, these advertisements play a vital role in the continuation of their publication lives. However, this small-scale and independent media companies cannot find a place in the state tenders. This situation causes the end of broadcast life of many small media groups and we cannot hear the voice of “others” in media, as a result we are exposed to only the propaganda of the state.

To sum up, it is significant to be aware of these relationships based on mutual interests and big monopolies in media sector who controls the publications of the news. While following the products of a media group, knowing the cross networks of the media owner gives the audience a chance to be critical about the news. Also thanks to this perspective, an audience can notice the hidden subtexts in the news and observes the relations.

PLAN | SECTION DRAWINGS / ARCH 402

I produce plans and section drawings of the 19th century museum. There is a big production volume which organizes the other part of the museum like imagination-utopia and trade-capitalism. Also, research and conservation unit works as a continuation of production. Temporary exhibition is located at the upper floors in order to control the big number of visitors. In this way, they also have a chance to observe permanent exhibited objects from a higher layer.

SECTION DRAWINGS

PLAN DRAWINGS

MASS MODEL / ARCH 402

In the mass model, architectural operation of layering plays an important role in the site. Diverse activities come together and compose a unity. Pera, Kasımpaşa stadium, embassy are some of the layers in the site. Even, in those layers there are many different layers which I use in the museum design.

I benefit from this analysis and try to regulate the activities accordingly. There is a big production volume which organizes the other part of the museum like imagination-utopia and trade-capitalism. Also, research and conservation unit works as a continuation of production.

EXPERIENCE OF THE MUSEUM / ARCH 402

I work on the experience of the visitors in the museum. How they observe the exhibited objects and how they experience the space, I try to plan these experiences and produce this infographic. Different themes and activities are represented with diverse colours. And the dimension of the columns are changing according to the observation layers and the characteristics of exhibited objects.

There are two different suggested routes in the museum. The first one is the long one and visitor have a chance to observe all the exhibited objects if s/he follows this route. Also there is a short route for only temporary exhibitions.

LAYERS OF ACTIVITIES / ARCH 402

Layers play an important role in the site. Diverse activities come together and compose a unity. Pera, Kasımpaşa stadium, embassy are some of the layers in the site. Even, in those layers there are many different layers which I use in the museum design. I benefit from this analysis and try to regulate the activities accordingly.

CASE STURY / ARCH 402

FIRST JURY | CONCEPT MODEL / ARCH 402

When I produce the concept model, I benefit from different layers and forces of the site. Also, I work on the 19th century historic maps of the site. In 1800s, there were city and municipality theatre stages which gave the characteristic of the site. I interpret this information as a social gathering space zone in the site. I decide to use this information in my design as a  gathering space and starting point of the musuem. Different forces are represented with diverse geometry and colours of the rope. The purple one which has an organic form represents the free gathering spaces of the site that comes from social zone from the 19th century map. There are also some packaged functions that are illustrated as a linear form.

FIRST JURY | SITE STRATEGIES / ARCH 402

When I analyze the site, I observe that although Pera is very close to crowded part of the İstanbul like İstiklal street, the site works as an isolated field. While on the east, there are rising buildings, on the west there is a highway which blocks all the connection of Kasımpaşa with our site. So that I need to pay attention to improve the relations of the site with its surroundings. Also, I work on the 19th century historic maps of the site. In 1800s, there were city and municipality theatre stages which gave the characteristic of the site. I interpret this information as a social gathering space zone in the site. I decide to use this information in my design as a  gathering space and starting point of the musuem. I draw some diagramatic section to illustrate what kinds of spaces I have in mind.

 

FIRST JURY | FURTHER RESEARCH ON THEMES OF MUSEUM / ARCH 402

The production and industrialization in 19th century will be the main theme in the museum which will generate and feed the other exhibited objects in the museum. Other ones are trade and capitalism, imagination and utopia. I selected these themes because the results of industrial revolution divided into two. First one is capitalism which will be held as a bad result and will be critisized. The other one is utopia because industrial revolution helped to broaden the horizons of restriction. Citizens became free and imagine lots of things.