Gençlik Parki city of Ankara, Turkey

Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

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Gençlik Parki city of Ankara, Turkey

Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

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Type

Hospitality + Sport ›
Cultural › Hall/Theater Cultural Center

YEAR

2009

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

BUDGET

$5M - 10M

Ankara’s Gençlik park is a green area in the middle of the city designed during the early stages of the construction of the new capital of the Turkish republic. The recent renovation came about as a result of the need to change the run down state in which the park had fallen. The project was launched in 2007 by the current administration of mayor Melih Gökçek. One of the key aspects that the new design considered was the the necessity of creating a place sufficiently safe and pleasant that it could be open until midnight; a requirement that created the need for a complex lighting infrastructure that could attract people to come by night. Our design focused its attention on creating a nocturnal atmosphere of awe and wonder, beauty and poetry. We worked the landscape using theatrical lighting techniques to display trees as the fundamental living organism of the park. Shadows and silhouettes combined with washes and sparks help creating transparent veils that revealed an unprecedented depth of field composed of the many layers built upon each other. Our design focused on creating visual attributes to the different elements of the park to convey a feeling of “magic”. Everywhere in the park we created a vast array of chromatic relationships between the different lights and shadow produced. Architectural features like the Food Tent or the Opera House where illuminated In to convey the idea of natural elements: a giant shell with its white interior and its colored exterior for the Tent, or a big mass of moss for the Opera. Same thing for the inverted pyramids; in our approach we where more interested in the flower like reflection in the water than in depicting the square edges of the structure.The use of color constituted a major artistic element in the staging of the landscape of this project, and a vast quantity of light fixtures had the capability of changing color as a metaphor of the natural changes during the seasons. We used all technical means to achieve a versatile lighting installation including the use of antennas to transmit and receive signals for the color changing fixtures in order to gap the huge distances between the control desk and each and every light fixture in the place.

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Gençlik Parki city of Ankara, Turkey

Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Gençlik Parki city of Ankara, Turkey

Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

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