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After the rapid improvement on transportation and communication fields, the cities have embarked on an unstoppable consumption on steroids. Hence, due to the hunger of this consumer society, the public space concept has turned its back upon its multicultural and egalitarian structure and got separated from the society, from where it belongs.The city has started to lose its main actors incidental to these ruptures and the public spaces have started to serve at limited purposes and certain groups. Inevitably, these spaces became more expensive. The need to grow vertically and horizontally has resulted in rapid-producible and monotype spaces; urban voids have started to be filled up unawares. One of the most obvious tools and symbols of this consumption is the shipping containers thanks to its ability for easy and fast transportation. The short-lived and easily dispensable behavior of the consumption culture also applies to its own tools. This situation can also be read from the excessive container wastes released. While all this is happening, students are the hidden group that gets its share from the urban rupture and expensiveness. The students lead a nomadic life since they cannot create the necessary opportunities for themselves due to these ruptures and separation.

It has been observed that the problems have been handled by many different people or groups for a long time and are the subject of certain productions. Some architectural theorists have developed a number of systems approaches to the interaction of body, space, and city. The common point of these system approaches is that they defend that the space should be able to change, adapt, have a dynamic and reproductive structure, like body movements, that center body movements and give birth to space by feeding from the space-body interface. When we look at Yona Friedman's works such as "Mobile Architecture Theory (1956)" and Spatial City Example, which stands different from most of the 21st century architects with his view on the roles of the architect and the user; It is not difficult to read that he sees architecture as the experience passed between the building and the user, which is completed by including the user in the production process, rather than as the whole of the buildings completed at the end of the construction process and presented to the user.

Yona Friedman approached architecture in the context of social reality, not an aesthetic attitude (Frampton et al., 2011). Friedman argued that in the capital-oriented order of the world, designs were made according to the "average person" in the architectural processes that have become traditional. However, he stated that "the average person" is not actually, each individual is different and that the projects designed according to the "average person" cannot fully meet the needs of any user. Especially in case the number of users increases, it is impossible for the architect or the builder to respond to the increasing demands and all possible future scenarios. Friedman also mentioned that there is a directly proportional relationship between the number of users and the number of people between the structure and the user and the chance of making mistakes (Friedman, 2006). Repeating typologies in multi-storey residential buildings can be given as an example of this situation.

The project aims for spaces and groups that are in disconnection from each other to interact on the intersections of alpha-beta-gamma world cities.The intersections that have the traced traces generate a holistic urban network by creating three equivalent situations within the city. The mentioned traces do not always occur with physical dimensions; sometimes they are connected to each other through the feelings and experiences they provide and in some cases they create combinations that can be felt with all dimensions of the space. The three intersections can be classified as old-new, public-private and natural humanmade. The ancient walls on the inner cell represent the old-new encounter; urban voids caused by the consumption of the city represent the public-private encounter; and the current traces of the spread give rise to the natural-humanmade encounter.

According to Deleuze and Guattari, the movement or flow of space is always related to body and time. Therefore, the state of experiencing that occurs with the movement of the body in space is temporary, although it may vary over time (Deleuze & Guattari, 2005).

Although architecture is directly related to our body and our changing perceptions, it has to constantly adapt to them. (Rudolf, 1977).

The project is designed with a dynamic perspective that can adapt itself to the changing environments and situations; and it will be able to settle in these 3 intersections in cities.

The designed scenario provides opportunities to intervene and customize the space in order to adapt to the static and dynamic movements of the user's body in the space; which is possible thanks to the repetitive junction pieces that are present in the gaps of the containers. The container’s original shape provides places for inserts which can be used to install wooden elements and multifunctional insulating layers. The solution-seeking at these spaces which will host actions and activities such as cooking, eating, studying, laundry, socializing etc. is increasing the possibility for students to meet, gather and interact with each other. One of the total 15 containers act as an elevator in company with the equipment and the hardware placed inside, in all combinations; so that the people with disabilities would not have difficulty in the vertical circulation. All of the containers are designed to allow the movements of disability vehicles in order to increase accessibility and inclusivity. The existing covers of the containers contribute to the idea of creating breathing space, an openness thanks to its tendency to frame landscapes.

Bibliography

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