CONTRASTONE SHELL JOURNAL
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Contrastone Shell is a project in which what it has learned from the underground is requested to be exhibited in a museum program in the city of Kayseri. This design examines the underground life. It decodes the life there. While doing this analysis, It focuses on urbanity, structural development, lifestyle. After deciphering the code of the underground, it constructs his own construction together with what it learned from the underground.In addition, it analyzes the design area where the project will be located. One of the most important issues for the development of a project focuses on context. First of all, it examines the history of the city of Kayseri. It can be noticed that the supply of natural stone for the city of Kayseri is huge. it has significance. It emphasizes that this is one of the main characters of the city of Kayseri. Natural stones found underground It does this by unearthing them and creating topography from them. Afterwards, he constructs a design based on the knowledge gained while analyzing the underground at first. It makes this design with an alienation, unlike the forms that are often seen with the eye. It brings together the topographic situation and the foreign object. The contrast to this situation they actually form a backdrop for each other. One emphasizes the other. It also considers the life of the material as a process. Various throughout the material life subjected to actions. To be born, to be in a natural state, to be processed, to be used etc. Through this situation, the material that builds the topography and the material that builds the foreign objectis the same. Since the design will also be located away from the city center (on the peripheries), must provide a public indentation. He evaluates this through the museum program. While analyzing the specialized programs of the museum program in foreign objects,It is also the focus of ensuring publicity. To summarize, this design primarily studied underground life. Based on this review, he resolved it. Afterwards, he analyzed the city of Kayseri, the context in which he would be located. He evaluated what he learned from the city. It solved the problem of context. of the city of Kayseri discovered his true face. It established his own publicity. It also took advantage of the contrasts while establishing it.
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