DESIGNING A PAVILLION INSPIRED BY REM KOOLHAS IN SULTANAHMET,

ISTANBUL

                                                          '' INFORMATION HOME''

Casa da Musica,Portugal
 In the ring of old buildings defining Rotunda,a solitary  building standing on a travertine-paved plateau


To begin with, the pavillion is designed with some inspirations coming from Rem Koolhas' works. Particularly, that the building called the Casa da Musica stands on a travertine-paved plateau is one of the features that is inspired in the design process of the building called ''Information Home''. The inspriration point includes not only about the similarity of Rotunda and Sultanahmet in terms of historical structures and buildings, but also the need for a partially ''solitary'' building in both areas. Therefore, the pavillion's first floor is surrounded with full of glass making both outside and inside life visible, reflecting the streets with full of people and activities instead of solid walls, on the contrary of the second floor.

To continue with, in the design process, the beginning point was creating the form roughly by considering the function of the area,the rotation of the ways and paths etc.

After determining the form roughly, in order,''the design process'' need to elect,limit and specify the function types. It is analyzed and discovered that the area has restaurants and places sellig souvenirs in large quantities. Therefore, the pavillion is designed while considering the needs of the area, created to provide people wide empty and free spaces in order to use for different functions; a stopover to have a rest and get information, reading and searching in a sophisticated library part, a coffee break in the middle of the day that fatigues, etc.

The second floor plan, with a library and cafe part.

In addition to these, the chiefly challenging part of the design process was to locate the toilet part. In this stage, it is inspired by Philip Johnson's Glass House and added to the first storey, as a solid section. Placing the toilets as a solid section in the area surrounded with full of glass also adumbrates the effect of both balance and distinguishability.

First floor plan. Entrance of the building, information center part, toilets

Section A-A

As a final part of the design, I want to name the pavillion as ''Information Home'' since it provides huge free areas as a ''home'' and having large open doors to every people,regardless of differences. In my imagination and vision, owing to this reasons, it is like a small ''Istanbul'' standing with its extremely old fellow ''Hagia Sophia'' in the heart of Historical Peninsula, Istanbul.

Yaren Aslan 

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