{"id":2838,"date":"2026-08-09T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T19:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/?page_id=2838"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:53:38","slug":"kentsel-donusum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/kentsel-donusum\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.bfta-kd{max-width:760px}\n.page-id-2838 .page-header h1.entry-title{font-family:\"neue-haas-grotesk-display\",sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:40px;line-height:48px;letter-spacing:normal;color:#000}\n.bfta-kd,.bfta-kd p,.bfta-kd li,.bfta-kd a,.bfta-kd span,.bfta-kd div,.bfta-kd strong{font-family:\"neue-haas-unica\",sans-serif}\n.bfta-kd p{font-size:17px;line-height:1.72;color:#3A3733}\n.bfta-kd p.bfta-kd-giris{font-size:19px;line-height:1.68;color:#2C2A27}\n.bfta-kd strong{font-weight:500;color:#000}\n.page-content .bfta-kd h2.bfta-kd-h2{font-weight:400;font-size:16px;color:#8E8B87;letter-spacing:.1em;margin-bottom:1.25em}\n.page-content .bfta-kd .bfta-kd-baslik{font-weight:600;font-size:20px;color:#000;padding-bottom:6px}\n.page-content .bfta-kd .bfta-kd-baslik .bfta-kd-aralik{font-weight:400;font-size:13px;color:#8E8B87}\n.page-content .bfta-kd ul.bfta-kd-liste a{padding:9px 0}\n.page-content .bfta-kd .bfta-kd-grup{margin-bottom:1.9em}\n.bfta-kd ul.bfta-kd-liste .ad{font-size:17px;color:#000}\n.bfta-kd ul.bfta-kd-liste .kunye{font-size:13px;color:#8E8B87}\n.bfta-kd .bfta-kd-iletisim{font-size:17px;color:#3A3733}\n@media(max-width:768px){.page-id-2838 .page-header h1.entry-title{font-size:27px;line-height:33px}}\n.bfta-kd p{margin:0 0 1.35em;line-height:1.72}\n.bfta-kd .bfta-kd-giris{font-size:1.12em;line-height:1.68}\n.bfta-kd h2.bfta-kd-h2{font-size:13px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.09em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8a8a8a;margin:3.2em 0 1.1em}\n.bfta-kd-grup{margin:0 0 2.1em}\n.bfta-kd-baslik{display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:baseline;gap:16px;font-size:14px;font-weight:600;padding-bottom:8px}\n.bfta-kd-baslik .bfta-kd-aralik{font-size:13px;font-weight:400;color:#8a8a8a;white-space:nowrap}\nul.bfta-kd-liste{list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;border-top:1px solid #1a1a1a}\nul.bfta-kd-liste li{border-bottom:1px solid #e4e0dc;margin:0;padding:0}\nul.bfta-kd-liste li::marker{content:\"\"}\nul.bfta-kd-liste a{display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:24px;align-items:baseline;padding:13px 0;text-decoration:none;color:inherit}\nul.bfta-kd-liste a:hover .ad{text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:.22em}\nul.bfta-kd-liste .ad{font-size:16px}\nul.bfta-kd-liste .kunye{font-size:13.5px;color:#8a8a8a;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap}\n.bfta-kd-iletisim{margin-top:2em}\n.bfta-kd-iletisim a{color:inherit;text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:.22em}\n@media(max-width:640px){ul.bfta-kd-liste a{flex-direction:column;gap:3px}ul.bfta-kd-liste .kunye{text-align:left}.bfta-kd-baslik{flex-direction:column;gap:2px}}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"bfta-kd\">\n<p class=\"bfta-kd-giris\">Urban transformation is usually described as the renewal of a single building. But putting a new building in place of an old one also means re-establishing the block, the street and the neighbourly relations it belongs to. This, as we see it, is where the work of architecture begins: the expectations of the rightholders, development rights, the qualities of the existing fabric worth keeping and the sequence of construction all arrive at the table as conflicting constraints; design translates that conflict into built form.<\/p>\n<p>In T\u00fcrkiye the real driver of transformation is not architecture but earthquake risk. In a building identified as risky under Law No. 6306, the process begins long before it reaches an architect\u2019s desk: the risk assessment report, the rightholders arriving at a common decision, and state support such as rent assistance and credit. These look as though they sit outside design, but they do not; which support arrives on what timetable directly determines how many phases the building will be built in, and in what order.<\/p>\n<p>The administrative side is part of the design as well. In Istanbul every district \u2014 Kad\u0131k\u00f6y, \u00dcsk\u00fcdar, Ata\u015fehir \u2014 reads zoning practice and runs its permit process differently. Setting up a preliminary design without knowing the relevant municipality\u2019s practice usually means rewriting that design at the permit stage.<\/p>\n<p>Our work in this field ranges from a single 3,500m\u00b2 apartment building to a 680,000m\u00b2 settlement plan. As the scale changes, it is not the tools that change but the question itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At settlement scale<\/strong> what determines the design is not the fa\u00e7ade or the plan type but phasing: the order in which people leave their homes and the order in which they return. Our work for the Kepezalt\u0131-Santral area in Antalya was built on the principle of in-situ redevelopment and received the \u201cBest Urban Transformation \u2013 Ongoing Projects\u201d award at the Sign of the City Awards in 2019. At this scale, if the phasing is set up wrongly, a good architectural solution is of no use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At block scale<\/strong> the question turns to layout: how the blocks are oriented to one another and to the view, whether the space left between them is genuinely usable, the relationship the ground floor sets up with the street. This is why at Enyap\u0131 Barbaros we placed eight residential blocks on a grid and gave the space between them over to shared use. A block is large enough to escape the constraints of a single parcel and defined enough to establish its own internal order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At parcel scale<\/strong> the floor area ratio, the setbacks and the position of the stair core determine the apartment typology almost on their own. Mutlu\u015f Apartman\u0131, Hakk\u0131 Bey Apartman\u0131 and Metro Home are works at this scale. Our office is in Suadiye, which makes apartment-scale redevelopment along and around Ba\u011fdat Avenue one of the areas we follow most closely; the room for manoeuvre is narrow, but the question does not change: what does this building give to the street.<\/p>\n<p>The reason we keep working in transformation is not scale. This is where an architecture office comes into the most direct contact with the city: what emerges is not a building but a neighbourhood people will come back to.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bfta-kd-h2\">Projects in this field<\/h2>\n<div class=\"bfta-kd-grup\">\n<div class=\"bfta-kd-baslik\"><span>Settlement scale<\/span><span class=\"bfta-kd-aralik\">104,000 \u2013 680,000m\u00b2<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"bfta-kd-liste\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/proje\/suryapi-antalya\/\"><span class=\"ad\">Suryap\u0131 Antalya<\/span><span class=\"kunye\">Suryap\u0131 \u00b7 2017 \u00b7 680,000m\u00b2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/proje\/enyapi-barbaros\/\"><span class=\"ad\">Enyap\u0131 Barbaros<\/span><span class=\"kunye\">Enyap\u0131 \u00b7 2015 \u00b7 104,000m\u00b2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bfta-kd-grup\">\n<div class=\"bfta-kd-baslik\"><span>Block scale<\/span><span class=\"bfta-kd-aralik\">18,000 \u2013 32,000m\u00b2<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"bfta-kd-liste\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/proje\/lotus-garden\/\"><span class=\"ad\">Lotus Garden<\/span><span class=\"kunye\">Fars Yap\u0131 \u00b7 2023 \u00b7 32,000m\u00b2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/proje\/pandros-tuzla\/\"><span class=\"ad\">Pandros Tuzla<\/span><span class=\"kunye\">Fars Yap\u0131 \u00b7 2022 \u00b7 21,000m\u00b2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/proje\/tem-avrasya-konutlari\/\"><span class=\"ad\">TEM Avrasya Residences<\/span><span class=\"kunye\">Fuzul Yap\u0131 \u00b7 2016 \u00b7 18,000m\u00b2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bfta-kd-grup\">\n<div class=\"bfta-kd-baslik\"><span>Parcel scale<\/span><span class=\"bfta-kd-aralik\">3,500 \u2013 7,840m\u00b2<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"bfta-kd-liste\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/proje\/hakki-bey-apartmani\/\"><span class=\"ad\">Hakk\u0131 Bey Apartment<\/span><span class=\"kunye\">A\u011fao\u011flu Cadde \u0130n\u015faat \u00b7 2013 \u00b7 7,840m\u00b2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/proje\/metro-home\/\"><span class=\"ad\">Metro Home<\/span><span class=\"kunye\">Helis Yap\u0131 \u00b7 2015 \u00b7 6,900m\u00b2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/proje\/mutlus-apartmani\/\"><span class=\"ad\">Mutlu\u015f Apartment<\/span><span class=\"kunye\">Y\u0131lta\u015f-Bu\u011fta\u015f Partnership \u00b7 2013 \u00b7 3,500m\u00b2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"bfta-kd-iletisim\">To discuss a transformation project, <a href=\"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/iletisim\/\">get in touch<\/a> &rarr;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentsel d\u00f6n\u00fc\u015f\u00fcm \u00e7o\u011fu zaman tek bir binan\u0131n yenilenmesi olarak anlat\u0131l\u0131r. Oysa bir yap\u0131n\u0131n yerine yenisini koymak; o yap\u0131n\u0131n i\u00e7inde bulundu\u011fu aday\u0131, soka\u011f\u0131 ve kom\u015fuluk ili\u015fkisini de yeniden kurmak demektir. Mimarl\u0131\u011f\u0131n i\u015fi bize g\u00f6re burada ba\u015fl\u0131yor: hak sahiplerinin beklentisi, imar hakk\u0131, mevcut dokunun korunmaya de\u011fer nitelikleri ve \u015fantiyenin s\u0131ras\u0131 birbiriyle \u00e7eli\u015fen k\u0131s\u0131tlar olarak masaya geliyor; tasar\u0131m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2838\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}