HYBRID // ARTIFACTS

Located in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul, this project re-imagines the ruins as something generic; not special at all, implementing a new role for the Tophane Barracks. It is mundane, sometimes revealed as a storefront or some other form of normative architecture, that draws from the idea of continuity. It solely takes advantage of the top of the park as an opportunity to design a new garden landscape that begins to take on the ruinous elements with a slight twist, spinning them into a new formal expression. The project implies a close reading of objects that start to reveal existing plans as well as ruins, that have been both extruded and modeled within the context of Istanbul. Machine in the Garden deals with a notion of thickness that undermines the seamless fusing together of machine parts with architectural artifacts - creating a series of spatialized hybrids that are found beneath the garden.