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ESKISEHIR, TURKEY

Eskişehir Odunpazarı: Green Loop

Date

October, 2013

Type

Concept design

Program

Landscape, Masterplan

Size

723.600 m²

Client

Confidential

Partners

Erhan Vural

Team

Osman Mürsel Ural

Collaborators

Kentsel Strateji

Location

Eskişehir, Odunpazarı, Turkey

Status

Published

Demand

An urban regeneration masterplan for a former industrial land in Odunpazarı, Eskişehir.

Eskişehir Odunpazarı: Green Loop

An industrial zone in Odunpazarı, Eskişehir has been planned to be decentralized by the local municipality to maintain a new development area for the city. Project aims to create a well-stitched new neighborhood to the existing surrounding urban texture by keeping and continuing the remarkable axes on the zone. After stitching the zone in the east-west direction, the new emerged narrow plots turned into very dense urban forests in order to give this former industrial zone a new identity. For the social and open air recreational needs of both the new residents and the former residents around this new neighborhood, there is a green loop which intersects all of the new plots. This loop contains various landscape designs, social functions, sports fields and cultural functions. On the north edge the the existing canal widens and creates a center for retail and accommodation facilities including a designed bridge, an island and a lake.