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ANTALYA,TURKEY

Open - Source Architecture "The Cube" - Int. Antalya Architecture Biennial

Date

September 2013

Type

Public Exhibition

Host

ll. International Antalya Architecture Biennial (IABA 2013)

Size

9585 m²

Partners

Hasan Sıtkı Gümüşsoy, Gökhan Kodalak

Team

Ece Sıla Bora, Ozan Özdilek, Erhan Vural, Osman Mürsel Ural, Daniel Ronca

Collaborators

Creative - İnitiative

Status

Realized

Location

Antalya,Turkey

Open - Source Architecture "The Cube" - Int. Antalya Architecture Biennial

An architectural experiment

The socio-spatial environment is hierarchically pre-determined, constructed, and operated; subordinating if not excluding the agency of the user. Is it possible to confront and overcome this structural problem instead of ignoring and even exploiting it? Is it possible to imagine an open-source architecture defined adaptively by ever-changing social dynamics, and co-utilized horizontally by users, architects, and other spatial actors in a participative and mercurial manner?

ABOUTBLANK's first open-source architectural experiment is the Cube which, 1)defies the logic of pre-determined function, allowing the users to activate the Cubes according to their needs and desires, 2)defies the logic of pre-determined static condition, allowing the users to move, relocate, and displace the Cubes as mobile containers, 3) defies the logic of pre- determined authoritarian organization of architectural profession, allowing the users to get rid of their subordinate position and empower themselves as egalitarian spatial actors.