EDUCATOR
Ankara, Türkiye
Middle Class Housing Design Workshop
EDUCATOR
Ankara, Türkiye
Middle Class Housing Design Workshop
Project Team
Müge Akkar Ercan
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This stakeholder workshop identified challenges and opportunities to improve housing in a formerly middle class suburb In Ankara. With community engagement and expert input, sustainable strategies were developed to enhance quality of life in a cooperative housing estate.
Overview
The Stakeholder Workshop aimed to explore the challenges and opportunities for improving quality of life and sustainability in Ümitköy Sitesi -a large 1970s’ cooperative housing estate located in a highly prestigious middle-class suburb on the west corridor of Ankara. The middle-class mass housing site, facing many regeneration challenges, suffered from densification, displacement, social exclusion and the loss of valuable natural and built resources. The workshop became a collaborative and co-creative design lab where experts and residents jointly explored the main needs, challenges and opportunities for improving the MCMH environment and for finding alternative architectural and urban design solutions to address these problems and enhance residents’ living conditions without demolishing and rebuilding
Institution
Middle East Technical University
Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning
Community Organization
Umitkoy Sitesi — Ankara, Turkiye
Additional Team Members
Coordinators: Müge Akkar Ercan, Juliana Martins, Irem Duygu Tiryaki Organising team: Nilay Nida Can, Aybüke Bahahun Çoban, Selen Karadoğan, Ayşegül Sarı, Furkan Erdem Sözeri Poster and film prepared by: Müge Akkar Ercan & Selen Karadoğan
Community Engagement
During three days, ten residents and the mukhtar of the neighbourhood and the international experts groups from different professional backgrounds worked together to develop diverse design approaches for sustainable regeneration of this middle-class mass housing site.
Partners
METU (Türkiye), UCL-Bartlett School (UK); COST European Cooperation in Science & Technology; EUHorizon2020 Framework Programme, Ümitköy Cooperative Housing Management
