Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts

Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects

SANTRAL ISTANBUL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS

Emre Arolat Architects + NSMH

MECHANICAL PROJECT
Dinamik

LANDSCAPE
Trafo

DESIGN TEAM
Kerem Piker, Natali Tombak, Gani Turunç, Sezer Bahtiyar, Ertuğrul Morçöl, Orhun Ülgen, Esin Erez, Murat Yavuzoğlu, Serdar Tercan, Ufuk Berberoğlu, Gözde Sazak, Gülseren Gerede Tecim, Hale Ikizler

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT & CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
EAA

ELECTRICITY
Enkom

STRUCTURAL PROJECT
Tuncel Engineering

PHOTOGRAPHS
Emre Arolat Architects

AREA
6800 m²

PARCEL AREA
123 200 m²

FOOTPRINT
2 050 m²

YEAR
2007

LOCATION
Istanbul, Turkey

CATEGORY
Museum, Adaptive Reuse

The Golden Horn has been Istanbul’s center and stage for centuries before it lost its glamour starting from the end of the 19th century, and gradually became drabber until the 1990s when it was rediscovered, and for the last 15 years, it has started captivating the city once again thanks to many new projects.

Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects

Bilgi University offered to carry out the renovation and transformation of the Silahtarağa Power Plant into a museum and recreation and educational center; this typical modern industrial installation constructed between the 1910s and 1950s occupies a 107,000-m2 lot forming a sort of peninsula between the Alibeyköy and Kağıthane creeks right where the Golden Horn ends.

At the initial stage of the project, the aim was to establish a pool that would include all accessible strata of the installation in order to open up plausible channels of conservation and renovation.

Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects

Research carried out within this context gave tangible results such as follows: the traces of the first project prepared in the 1910s are still to be seen, yet the tight decisions taken initially were loosened among the mass of industrial structures that had formed over the course of 40 years; formal violations had been made via pragmatic moves;

though the stylistic characters and construction systems of the building groups, which could be generalized as the engine room, the boiler room, and staff housing, were decisively dissociated from one another, both sets of buildings had the same typical characteristics of the industrialized world at the time they were built.

Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects

As more time was spent on the site and as we went deeper in our surveys, these inputs, combined with the sense of place that developed spontaneously, emerged as valuable clues as to the design decisions for renovation and conservation.

A carefully-established renovation style, which would take into account the situation and the object at hand, and which at each specific encounter would reconsider them and give them their due, was accepted as the common denominator for the different components of this rather extensive project.

Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
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Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
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Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
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Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
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Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
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© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
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Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
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Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
© Emre Arolat Architects
Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
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Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
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Santral Istanbul Museum Of Contemporary Arts
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