DASEIN, Behind The Wall

• The basic idea of the future is that it is possible to predict the inventions and processes that are about to occur, as well as their impact on people, society, and civilizations. A dystopian universe that takes place in the near future is usually constructed on this basic theme. Nature has left its place in technology. Advanced technology has permeated every aspect of life. No matter how advanced technology has progressed, this progress has not contributed to civilization and the structure of society has become complex and miserable. A constant disorder and anarchy prevail in crowded cities. In this dystopia, nature and society are reinterpreted together with human beings. At this point, the most conventional question is: "Which aspect of humanity makes us human?”

The year is 2049…The future has turned into a threat rather than a hope. We, on the other hand, are figurants of the idea of the future, and this future does not promise us salvation. In an era when states are dependent on capital financing, a terrifying web of control and surveillance has taken over every sphere of life, and working conditions are precarious, new barbarians and new despotic governments will no longer be the exception, but the rule in the future. Within time, the bond between a person, home, and the meaning of home transformed over time and as a result of the various events to which the person has been subjected. Home turned into a productive laboratory, a playground where ideas such as individuality, rootlessness, and mottos are changed. Mairs defines home as a set of meanings while defining house as a physical structure but home lose their importance and its difference from a house…

• The home is laid before us as a privileged space to explore phenomenologies specific to the concept of space. In the first sense of the word, it is no longer possible to comprehend the home by reducing it to a physical space. Everything is intertwined with each other. Within the framework of the concept of time, the past, present, and future bring different dynamism to the home. Most of the time, dynamisms that intertwine, sometimes oppose, and sometimes stimulate each other… According to phenomenology, state acquisition takes place thanks to the tension obtained by colliding paradoxes. The thesis is not a result but a process; a process that leads to new thoughts. In this context, the home is a model of the universe in the architectural discipline, and it consists of countless details. Home as a physical shelter, a network where people communicate with objects or a phenomenon that includes many opposites at the same time, is the source of multiple meanings, sometimes positive, sometimes negative.

However, the commodification of the home as a product of the capitalist system through high technology, modernization, and globalization results in a way that modern minds could never imagine. Dwellers become detached from the true meaning of home. They found themselves while living in a dystopia, getting homeless. Like Winslow mentions “we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us”. In the site, the way how people live changed according to the time, trends, and lifestyles, they leave behind the old city and start to live in a dystopia, but to us, there is no existence in this dystopia anymore. Fictionalized “dystopia” envisions a future that gives voice to the collective hopes and fears we have and allows us to ask fundamental questions about existence, here and now.

A NEW FORMATION: DASEIN, BEHIND THE WALL

Dasein, as a fundamental concept in the existential philosophy of Heidegger means "existence", creates itself by drawing a wall - a border - to an exhausting city. This formation purified from its toxic relationships by reinterpreting its ties with the past. In this respect, it's crucial to base the notion of a self-sufficient home, both psychologically and physiologically, in every aspect of life.

DESIGNED WALL

The designed wall meets Dasein's needs for both drinking water and electricity. With a growing population, especially in urban areas, many countries have already had serious problems in providing the required amount of drinking water to their populations. The proposed rainwater harvesting with "Dasein" not only reduces drinking water consumption but also prevents the urban drainage infrastructure from overloading in case of heavy rainfall. The system reaches all buildings and agricultural areas within the structures via the distribution channel. In this project, the wall is a prefabricated concrete panel covered with organic dye-sensitive solar cells. These dyes, which function like chlorophyll in plants, generate electricity through electrochemical reactions that occur when they are burned. In this way, the electricity needed by the building is met within its own structure.

PROGRAMME OF THE PROJECT

Programme of the project contains farming area, and ties to the earth. From these gardens where a different plant grows on every corner, we would call out to our friends, walk among the vegetables, and marvel at a natural event. Due to the stress of urban life, the trend of returning from the city to nature has started in recent years. It also offers user-centered design and social sustainability. In the Old World, the family lived in the same house for generations, they lived a well-established, respected family reputation. Building complexes and apartment life getting widespread day by day attracted almost everyone at first sight. Its compactness, the sense of security, and the more reasonable property prices pushed the preferences in this direction. However, this situation led to the weakening of social ties between families. Even if some families retain social bonds and live together, the blurring distinction between private and common spaces overwhelmed users, making it undesirable. Therefore, in Dasein’s spatial arrangements, it is a home that encompasses three generations under one roof while providing a well-balanced life between private and common areas for personal hobbies and shared activities, considering every person and their needs according to lifestyles and necessities.

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• It is a project that includes the true meaning of home through linguistic past (Kam, hamô, haimaz, ham, hoom, home; cover, village, community, close, personal, a home thrust, dwelling, not foreign, home comfort.) while letting its users exist not just from its layout also from its natural material selections. It allows phenomenological experience with visual communication and the materials provides a sense of existence and feel of a home from psychological and ontological view, tangible and intangible elements of life through generations…In this context, it is a home that not only a place but also contains psychological connotation and social meaning, part of the residence experience.

 A life we knit for ourselves…