Browsing by Author "Tuna Ultav, Zeynep"

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A socio-spatial analysis of urban transformation at a neighborhood scale: The case of the relocation of Kadifekale inhabitants to TOKI˙ Uzundere in I˙zmir
(Elsevier Ltd, 2015) Meltem Eranil; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Neslihan Demirtaş-Milz; Eranil Demirli, Meltem; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Demirli, Meltem Eranil; Demirtaş-Milz, Neslihan; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
Particularly in the last two decades urban governors have presented urban transformation projects as ideal solutions to help low-income urban residents improve their living conditions. However the way they have been carried out and their consequences mean that these projects do not in most cases bring the expected improvements. Most projects involve relocating residents to new more peripheral districts of the city which causes social isolation and certain socio-spatial incompatibilities between their previous and new habitats. Using a case from Izmir in Turkey this study aims to analyze such socio-spatial incompatibilities in the lives of low-income residents that are caused by relocation within the framework of urban transformation projects. One of Izmir's earliest inner-city gecekondu neighborhoods Kadifekale was chosen by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality as a site for urban transformation due to the risk of landslide in the area. Before the start of the project the neighborhood contained 7324 housing units accommodating rural-to-urban migrants mainly from the southeast of Turkey. This urban transformation project aimed to relocate at least some of the inhabitants from their homes in Kadifekale to recently constructed apartment blocks in the TOKI˙ Uzundere Public Housing Project on the periphery of the city. Although many residents were reluctant to exchange their houses for new apartments some were persuaded to move to TOKI˙ which was presented as the ideal solution by the municipal officials. This study critically evaluates the Kadifekale urban transformation project particularly with regard to the relocation of some Kadifekale residents from their one- or two-story houses in Kadifekale to apartment blocks on the periphery of the city. The analysis is based on a comparison between the socio-spatial experiences of migrants in Kadifekale and their recent experiences in Uzundere and the possibility of certain incompatibilities in these two experiences. The argument aims to demonstrate the changed conditions of social life and daily life practices as a result of altered spatial properties at a neighborhood scale: their use of outdoor spaces the meanings they attributed to neighborhood space ("intimacy of place" within categories of sensual (visual and olfactory) recognition) and their sociospatial network. The argument draws both implicitly and explicitly on Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad and De Certeau's conceptualization of tactic versus strategy as the major conceptual inspirations for this study. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
After Istanbul Hilton: Turkey's local-global dichotomy in the 1950s interiors of Divan Hotel and cinar Hotel
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022) Hande Atmaca Cetin; Funda Uz; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Atmaca Cetin, Hande; Uz, Funda
This study analyzes the socio-spatial qualities of hotel interiors built in Turkey after the opening of the Istanbul Hilton Hotel in 1955. It aims to reveal the construction of the modern interior in Turkey and its effects on social life at the Divan Hotel (1956) and Cinar Hotel (1958) which were Turkey's first modern hotels built with local capital and local architects. As Turkey's first modern hotel Istanbul Hilton was regarded as a model for subsequent tourism buildings. Cinar and Divan Hotels hotels were usually compared with the Hilton's aesthetics and seen as reminiscent of the Hilton particularly the outer shell and building formation. However their interiors have been completely overlooked. This is an important omission because contrary to its modernist outer shell the Istanbul Hilton Hotel interiors were designed with a contrasting orientalist approach. This study therefore investigates how this dichotomy influenced the interiors of the Divan Cinar Hotels. Drawing on the theory of transculturation by Ortiz this study challenges the view that these hotels were mere host sites embodying and copying modern architecture without any filtering. A complete interior atmosphere was analyzed in terms of the hotels' materiality such as furniture and art objects but moreover the social meaning of the space and transformation of social habits are examined to discuss local-global dichotomies. Information for the analysis was gathered through a literature review observations and an analysis of images obtained from personal archives and databases. This data was supported with oral interviews with architects interior designers craftsmen tourism professionals and contemporary witnesses. The findings show that the Divan Hotel and Cinar Hotel were both spatially and socially influenced by the Istanbul Hilton Hotel. However they also sought a modernity of their own by carefully selecting and blending western influences both spatially and socially. Most importantly since the Divan Cinar Hotels refrained from the image difference between the modern and connotations of the orient these spaces can be read as interpretations of an internalized modernity.
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Architectural literary analysis: Reading "The Death Of The STREET" Through Ballard's literature and Trancik's "Lost Space"
(Middle East Technical University jfa@arch.metu.edu.tr, 2015) Zeynep Tuna Ultav; T. Nur Çağlar; Bahar Durmaz Drinkwater; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Çağlar, T. Nur; Durmaz Drinkwater, S. Bahar; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
[No abstract available]
Architectural References within Émile Zola’s Novel The Ladies’ Paradise
(Istanbul Univ, FAC Letters, 2022) Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Layal Al Sahli; müge sever; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Sever, Muge; Sahli, Layal Al; Alsahli, Layal; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
The depiction of space in literature is crucial to every story as it guides the reader’s imagination regarding the story’s location and the characters’ surroundings. This paper studies the relationship between architecture interiors and literary spaces by using a methodology that draws on architectural literary analysis a methodology that uses literature as a medium to define and analyze architectural spaces and cues. Specifically it investigates the connections between architectural and spatial references and their influences on societal concerns in literature – the literary space within The Ladies’ Paradise (1883) a novel by Émile Zola (1840-1902). The retail space portrayed within the novel dominates the narrative. Thus the architectural spaces are described to support the storyline. These spatial cues indicate a specific overall theme namely capitalism – an important issue to discuss within architectural discourse. Zola reveals a new perspective on the social and architectural impacts on society under capitalism through the public interior space of Ladies’ Paradise. The research also indicates the correlation between architecture public space and retailing culture through the birth of the “department store ” thus forever altering society’s ideology on retail culture. Although the novel is categorized as fictitious the representation of 19th-century retailing culture women’s role within society and the significance of architecture are shown to be realistic to that time. In conclusion this paper reveals the dialogue between architecture societal gender issues and the evolvement of retail culture through the medium of literature and derives lessons from this dialogue.
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Control in healthcare interiors: the staff's perspective
(TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023) Gulnur Ballice; Cigdem Cetin; Eda Paykoc Ozcelik; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Ozcelik, Eda Paykoc; Paykoç Özçelik, Eda; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Cetin, Cigdem; Ballice, Gulnur; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
As two of the most stressful professions doctors and nurses work intensively in direct contact with patients. However there has been little research into their perception of and satisfaction with healthcare interiors. To fill this gap in the literature this study evaluated the working resting and dining spaces of healthcare staff in terms of control. Specifically privacy boundary and territory and environmental control were analyzed in four state hospitals as case studies. Following a literature review observations semi-structured interviews and surveys were conducted with doctors and nurses from the four hospitals in 2017. The findings showed that controlling privacy boundaries and environmental control elements like natural and artificial lighting noise and odour were important for the participants. This indicates a need to ensure privacy and boundaries more effectively through separate spaces and furniture while noise and odour should also be given more attention.
From Private to Public: The Public Balcony as a Catalyst in Ankara Apartments
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2025) Muge Sever; Melek Pinar Uz Baki; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Sever, Muge; Uz Baki, Melek Pınar; Baki, Melek Pinar Uz; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
This study explores the role of the public balcony in collective dwelling culture focusing on how it varies and is experienced through architectural and everyday practices. It investigates the balcony's potential to enhance the social and spatial quality of life by negotiating the relationship between privacy and publicness. These two concepts are addressed together to emphasize their interdependence and the architectural richness arising from their tension. The study draws on theories of public space to elaborate how this duality manifests in apartment design. Selected apartments built between the 1950s and 1990s in Ankara Turkey are analyzed through their contextual functional formal and relational characteristics. Through this analysis the public balcony is conceptualized as a distinct architectural element that contributes to originality within the apartment typology. By offering diverse design strategies public balconies serve as intermediaries that draw urban life into residential environments enriching the living experience of collective housing.
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Interdisciplinary Nature of Architectural Discourse within the Triangle of Architecture Sociology and Literary Fiction
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2023) Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Müge Sever; Sever, Muge; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
With the supposition that architectural discourse has an interdisciplinary nature this study aims to display the way literary fiction borrows several themes from architectural discourse in order to form its “literary spaces” as well as the way architectural discourse borrows several themes from other social sciences especially from sociology. Thus new wave science fiction writer J.G. Ballard’s literature provides a fruitful resource for the construction of this study. It will be demonstrated that spatial data within the five selected works of Ballard exist in a similar way within architectural discourse of the recent past that criticizes modern architectural movement via several themes. An analysis will be made parallel to the discourses of the critiques of modern architectural discourse. In this sense intersecting both the discourse of architecture and that of Ballard there emerge three common themes to focus on: social isolation class discrimination as a result of social isolation and alienation in the modern world. While displaying the mediatory role of architectural discourse between sociology and literary fiction through reading in the spatiality of the text the study will also draw lessons to be learned from Ballard’s works emphasizing the production of design theory through the field of discourse. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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An Interdisciplinary Perspective for Reading Utopia versus Dystopia: “The Ultimate City” by J.G. Ballard
(Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Faculty of Architecture, 2015) Tuna Ultav, Zeynep
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Looking into Mid-Century Modern Furniture Design in Turkey through Oral History
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2024) Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Deniz Hasirci; Hande Atmaca; Atmaca, Hande; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna; Hasirci, Deniz
ABSTRACT Furniture design has traditionally taken second place to architecture in historiography especially in Turkey. The consequent limited furniture-related academic publications original material and documentation make it necessary to probe further into Turkey’s modern furniture history. The DATUMM (Documenting and Archiving Turkish Modern Furniture) Project (datumm.org) (2013–) was initiated to help fill this gap in the history of modern furniture design in Turkey between 1930 and 1975. Other than highlighting furniture the documentary aimed to initiate an oral history project that has not been conducted in the design realm before in Turkey. Oral history interviews were conducted with thirteen contributors including designers artisans and producers who have significantly influenced Turkish modern furniture design. This method gave a voice to those who have not been able to contribute to Turkey’s design history and reveals individual stories to construct a more comprehensive narrative. These interviews thus provide valuable opportunities to grasp what is hidden in the written history and understand the shared stories experiences and struggles of designers to create a flourishing discipline from almost nothing. © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Mid-Century Modern Furniture Representing Modern Ideals in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
(WILEY PERIODICALS INC, 2020) Deniz Hasirci; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Hasirci, Deniz; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
This study focuses on how the modern furniture designed for Turkey's third parliament building the Grand National Assembly of Turkey represented the country's new modern ideals by breaking with its Ottoman heritage. While the architecture of this building has been studied there are no assessments of its interiors and furniture as integral elements. This study uses archival research and interviews with interior designers who worked on the project. The findings shed light on how modernization was brought to life through the spaces and furniture in this powerful symbolic building.
Modernizing Turkey through mid-century modern furniture
(Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2022) Deniz Hasirci; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Hasirci, Deniz
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Reading 19th century architectural and interior space reflections of modernization through the literary space: Émile zola’s nana
(Istanbul Teknik Universitesi Faculty of Architecture, 2021) Büşra Aydin; Bahar Sezen; Gizem Güler Nakip; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Nakıp, Gizem Güler; Güler Nakip, Gizem; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Sezen, Bahar; Aydın, Büşra; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
The interdisciplinary study of architecture across many fields adds meaning to architecture. Literature which is one of the areas that works together with architecture conveys information to the reader on many topics such as periods daily life practices social problems and human-space relations. Analysis of a literary work combines literature and architecture while expanding the boundaries of architecture thereby contributing to both disciplines. This study reads the spatial components drawn from social problems through one literary text. Specifically it reveals the social and spatial results of modernism experienced in 19th-century Paris in Nana (1880) the ninth book of Emile Zola’s (1840-1902) 20-book Rougon-Macquart series. A qualitative methodology was used for the literature review and analysis of the novel. This case study revealed two main conflicts at the birth of modernism: The issue of class discrimination and the issue of gender. It is displayed that such an interdisciplinary spatial reading can directly relate literary texts and architecture. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Yok Olan Bir Tipolojinin Arkeolojisi: Türkiye Coğrafyasında Moteller
(Yildiz Technical Univ, FAC Architecture, 2020) GÖKÇEÇİÇEK SAVAŞIR; Zeynep Tuna Ultav; Savasir, Gokcecicek; Tuna Ultav, Zeynep; Ultav, Zeynep Tuna
Bu çalışmanın odağı günümüz Türkiye coğrafyasında yok olan bir tipoloji olarak karşımıza çıkan motellerdir. Bu odak kapsamında yüzyılbaşında Amerika bağlamında ve yüzyıl ortasında Avrupa’da ortaya çıkan öncülleri üzerinden çerçevesi çizilecek çalışmada Türkiye turizmmimarlığı kesitindeki motel tipolojisi yarım yüzyılı aşan tarihçeleriyle mekânsal ekonomik ve sosyo-kültürel açılardan irdelenecektir. Her ikiölçekte yaşanan dönüşüm süreçleri ve onları doğuran tarihsel koşullar içerisinde yorum ve anlam kaymaları göz önünde bulundurularak tipolojinin küresel ölçekte geçirdiği dönüşümün Türkiye bağlamındaki izleri aranacaktır. Turizm konaklama yapıları arasında önemli bir yeriolan moteller üzerinden mimarlık ve turizm alanlarına ait kavram ve niteliklerin açığa çıkarılması için yapılacak olan bu arkeolojide konum ölçek biçim gibi mimari özellikler ile tüketim kültürü içinde motel işletmelerinin popülerliklerini yitirerek yok olmaya yüz tutan dönüşümleri görsellerle desteklenen literatür taraması yöntemiyle incelenecektir. Kentteki konumu ve küçük ölçeği biçimsel ve işlevsel yalınlığı vesunduğu mekansal konfor anlamında özgün bir tipoloji olarak turizm mimarlığı tarihi ve literatüründe karşımıza çıkan motel tipolojisinin özgün anlamıyla kullanıcılarına “yeni yaşam biçimi” sunduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Ancak tarihsel olarak Türkiye’deki örnekler (EmniyetMotel Florya ve Kilyos Tesisleri bünyesinde yer alan A ve B Moteli TUSAN Motel zinciri ve Çizmecioğlu Motel dışında) bu tanıma uymamaktadır. Bir başka deyişle aslında bu tipolojinin Türkiye bağlamında özgün anlamıyla uygulandığından söz etmek güçtür. Motel tipolojisi kıyıturizmine yapılan vurguyla kıyılara yerleşen bir turizm anlayışıyla anlam değiştirmiş dolayısıyla Türkiye’de yerel yorumunu bulmuştur.