Turkish studio KOOP Architects has revitalized the 17th-century Ottoman fortress Seddülbahir on the Gallipoli peninsula, making a picket define that means how its stone ruins may need appeared earlier than.
Positioned within the village of Sedd el Bahr on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Seddülbahir Citadel was initially in-built 1656 and suffered extreme harm throughout World Struggle I and subsequent earthquakes.
The regeneration challenge by KOOP Architects, which was shortlisted within the heritage tasks class of the Dezeen Awards 2024, presents a devoted exhibition area alongside a sequence of reversible interventions that remodel the positioning into an open-air museum.
“A guiding idea within the restoration of the positioning and the museum and a significant problem within the design course of at Seddülbahir Citadel was to protect the reminiscence of the destruction of the First World Struggle, but additionally to create an area to replicate on peace,” defined the studio.
“There may be little left on the peninsula that reminds of the violent destruction of the battles fought there,” he added.
“A number of parts of the fortress have due to this fact been preserved as ruins and function areas to ponder how battle takes its toll on buildings, folks and the atmosphere.”
Enclosed by a stone wall dotted with round towers, the advanced consists of varied buildings from completely different durations, which have been linked by a brand new accessible route that features a perforated metallic ramp.
The citadel's predominant gate and domed constructing had been each destroyed, so KOOP Architects drew on archival sources to recreate their kinds as slatted picket silhouettes.
Close to the middle of the positioning, the museum constructing occupies the footprint of two 1960s concrete barrack constructions, that includes a largely glazed exterior enveloped by regionally quarried stone partitions.
“The on-site museum and the exhibitions designed for the outside and indoor museum spotlight the central and little-known function performed by the ladies of the sultan's court docket within the Ottoman previous as benevolent patrons of structure,” defined the studio.
“The masonry of the brand new museum constructing is much like the big limestone blocks used within the earlier phases of the fortress.”
“They’re a special interpretation of the unique system of lateral picket beam ties used within the historic partitions and cut back the visible affect of the museum,” he added.
To the northeast, an deserted faculty constructing from the 1940s has been restored and tailored to deal with an exhibition area for oral histories alongside a craft centre.
Subsequent door, the ticket workplace and reward store overlook a public sq. on the fringe of the fortress partitions.
Different tasks which have integrated historic constructions embrace the conversion of a 19th-century fortress in Spain right into a museum and lodge by Fuses Viader Arquitectes and the Shakespeare Museum, which protects the 16th-century stays of London's Curtain Playhouse .
The picture is by Egemen Karakaya.