 Misafirleri ayrıca selamlıyorum. Ümit ederim İstanbul'da gönüllerince yaşıyorlardır. Ben Hüseyin Kaptan İstanbul Metropolit'e planlamanın başkanla danışmanı sıfatıyla kurucusuydu. Dört sene eee bu hizmeti yürüttüm. Eee biraz önce dinlediğiniz İbrahim Bas arkadaşıma devrettim. Eee bu oturumda eee soruları mümkün olduğu kadar kendi açımdan İstanbul yönünde geliştirmeyi düşünüyorum. Sonuç olarak ve bir ölçüde de bu deneyimin temel sıkıntılarını size bir vesile böylece aktarmak istiyorum. Ben masada bulunan çoğu arkadaşımı tanıyorum. Kristianse İstanbul'a gönül vermiş bir plancı. Çok deneyimli. İstanbul'da öğrencileriyle İstanbul Metropolit'e planlamayı ziyaret etmişti. Kendisini dinledik ve Atelya çalışmalarına katıldık. Eee Ömer arkadaşım genç Ömer. Iki Ömer vardır. Bir Ömer Yırmaz. Bir de gördüğünüz arkadaşım Ömer. Eee Arkiteranın kurucusu ve yöneticisi olan arkadaşlarım. Türkiye'nin yüz akı bizi dünyayla buluşturan genç mimarları cesaretlendiren bitmez tükenmez bir enerjiyle çalışan arkadaşlarımız. Eee Serkis onun bir daveti üzerine Harvard'da gitmiştim. Kendisiyle orada tanıştım. Eee ilk girdiğim salonda muhteşem bir Halep perspektifi vardı. Beni çok etkilemişti. Kendimi Türkiye'de hissettim. Muhteşem bir Halep vardı orada. Eee sonra ilişkilerimiz çok iyi ortamlarla devam etti. Hanımefendi Murat Tabanlıoğlu'nun patronudur. Tabanlıoğlu bizim pirimizdi ustamızdı rahmetli. Hepimizin hocasıydı. Tabanlıoğlunun misyonunu mükemmel bir şekilde taşıdılar. Onlarla biz iftihar ediyoruz çünkü dünyayla yarışan eee bir bir onun yöneticisi durumlarla var. Eee eyvah arkadaşımla yeni tanışıyorum. Onun da daha önce buluşmadık. O kendisini takdim eder. All right. Eee sizinle de yeni tanışıyoruz. All right. Ben galiba Eee Richard Semeti çok dinledim. Kendisiyle tanışmaktan çok mutluyum. Eee Faruk Gökçü'yü de söylemem lazım. Faruk Gökçü'de İstanbul Metropolitana Planlamalı eee şeydir. Eee Faruk Gökçü kendisi on busmandır yani. Benim tanıdığım tek on busman o. Eee fakat eee müthiş bir geleceği olan mesleği var. Eee yani bundan sonra işimiz on busmanlarla diye düşünüyorum. Yani uzlaşma ortamında. Eee Kaserlo eee onun da da yeni tanışıyorum. Tahmin ediyorum kendilerinin konuşma süreçlerinde eee kendilerini bize tanıtırlar. Onları burada misafir etmekten büyük bir haz duyduğumuzu ifade etmesin. Eee well thank you. Well I only want to start this going. You know we already we already heard the the agenda of my colleague Hussein here. Eee but I'm very honored and I'm very happy to be able to co-chair with Hussein with Hussein this discussion. Eee I am a little always disturbed by the term retrofitted. Which you know I would have liked to hear another word. Maybe it's about reinventing the city or something. I think the city has a much this city or any city has a much larger future than past. We have great hope on this on the future of all cities is very especially of Istanbul. Eee Eee we're eager to hear what Hussein what our friend from the Netherlands with Omar want to present today and then we'll get into the discussion. So please. Good afternoon. Just for a change. I am going to show you. Eee a large scale top down capitalist. Development. Under social democratic regime. Eee with a single client. Eee which may be leading still to a vibrant urban district. Before that. Eee I would like to recommend you to visit the BNL in Rotterdam Open City. Which as you see has already had a review in in a turkish magazine. Eee it's about almost all the aspects and also a lot of projects that we have been talking about last two days. Many of the people here have contributed to this BNL. And you see top right. Eee you see some high rise towers. Eee that are of course one of the main threats of monofunctional developments. Eee that we face. Eee in this era. Contrary to a kind of concept for the open city. So here's this top down large scale urban development. The half city in Hamburg. Eee you see one of our interventions. A new pedestrian bridge connecting this area to the city center of of Hamburg. Eee the BNL in Rotterdam is about open city. And of course open city is a very wide concept. I think we have arrived at a palette in that exhibition that really deals very well with the team. But here in short two diagrams. On the left hand side you see the tendency of today's urban development compounds, gated communities, university campuses, campings, hotels, airports connected by single access traffic lines. And on the other side on the right hand side you see a potential diagram for maybe a kind of more inclusive city with a multidirectional system of networks, streets, connectivities, etc. And in it you see a bunch of colored potatoes. These potatoes represent communities, overlapping communities that in this system establish nodes of contact in order to create a vibrant city. An open city is not a 19th century neighborhood that has been upgraded in the sense of Jane Jacobs. An open city can be active on many levels. It can be active on the level of a neighborhood like here in the harbor city on a Sunday afternoon. It can be active on the level of anaklomeration. You see a beautiful archipelago of potatoes, overlapping potatoes of communities that form the aglomeration of London. It's one of the most intelligent maps of contemporary urban representation I think has been ever made. One of the most important aspects of this is that all potatoes are equal but some potatoes are more equal than the other potatoes. The open city can function on the level of a polycentric conurbation like the Randstadt Holland for instance. Because in the Randstadt Holland everybody can get work everywhere. There are no go zones. You can move from one side to the other within one hour whether you are rich or poor. So in a sense you can also consider it as an open city. And maybe you could also maintain that the whole of the western Europe with its urban network of middle sized cities that are all 100 kilometre apart and in which you can reach every city within 3-4 hours is also in fact one large open city landscape. So in the last level that we could maybe talk about is the transnational level in which heavily dependent on communication technology and travel certain communities form communities that go beyond borders and beyond oceans. So this is a kind of indication that we are talking about a multi-level system of communication when we talk about open city. If we talk about town planning how we can deal on the level of the urbanists and of the urban design plan in this field. Maybe it's interesting to focus on urban reports. It's a kind of quick scan of a lot of European middle cities that we did about a year ago. And the general diagnose that we made is that if you look at all those cities there's a general tendency of how these cities are starting to operate. The first one is that they increasingly create a structural vision an overall idea of how the city should be and how it should look like as a political covenant. The second tendency is that juridical plans like zoning plans or detailed planning applications become more reduced and are less meaningful because the political covenant between different stakeholders are getting more important. The third is that cities tend to design to define grand and petite projects. For instance the harbour city in Hamburg or the Zayda's in Amsterdam or the London legacy in order to develop within this umbrella of large scale visions compact projects that have their effects on the local scale. And four which is extremely important is that these cities tend to create mandated development agencies for these grand, petite projects that get a kind of democratic mandation. They are mostly public private partnerships in the terms of Jerry also apt for corruption that executes these projects in a kind of comprehensive, quick way. And I think this tendency that you can observe in Europe is not a bad observation of a workable methodology of dealing with cities and implementing schemes. Here we have the harbour city. You see it's a very large area almost as big as a city centre of Hamburg which you see there on the left side which is this half circle and it's of course lying very beautifully on the south facing on the elbow. Hamburg has also a vision. Hamburg is a little bit like London. It's also an archipelago of potatoes consciously defined by the city government but there's a river very strongly running through and this river establishes a so called chain of pearls that are those black dots that constitute a concept for this aglomeration bordering on the elbow and then we have the harbour city of which the city did not know what to do with because it's so large a surface that it almost swallows the inner city or anyway you get a kind of complementary double heart and so the concept for the harbour city is that it is a kind of vice potato in relation to the head potato of the city of Hamburg if I may express myself in such a way. This is of course a drawing by a development company a development company who thinks I'm going to draw the harbour city and then this will be implemented but of course this is not the way it goes. Every urban design is a process and we work according to certain principles that I want to focus on now. First of all the transformation of a status quo. We do not make plans but we start with the status quo as a plan and then start to transform it according to a certain process. The second is we very aware of traces and identity. The next block is create a multidirectional street work that creates communication between the different parts of city. Create a condition in typologies that is activating public and private make a mobility concept and then create neighborhoods and in these neighborhoods work with a varied mix of density mixed use typology and scale and of course this whole project is very sustainable but I'm not talking about that anymore than that we have technical sustainability that is being in evident rules that everybody has to comply with no emissions and on the other hand if you make good cities like Pinalosa said you will reach about half of the same sustainability by the virtual design and process development of your city. If we talk about transformation of the status quo in Hamburg we had a little bit of a problem because we had to raise the land with three meters which would threaten to kind of take all the buildings away because of water flooding danger. We managed to have this only partially in the area so there's a kind of interesting difference of level in this area. A second aspect is that we felt we must activate the area at the same moment that we start planning so there has been an information center created and all kinds of temporary activities being implied. Even a temporary cruise terminal, some follies with viewing towers, city lounges, open air cinemas and also the invasion of existing buildings with temporary use and activities. Here you see for instance the information building which is an old heating house. It's a very beautiful building that contains a large model and is a kind of contrast to the new developments that we built in the horizon that you see in front of it. Here you see the model. We work mostly with models and less with computer simulations and drawings because on this level of developing an urban scale it's very important to work with models. Heritage traces, it's very important to look at the existing traces. Here you see for instance a contrast between old and new but for instance the fact that we had to raise the whole area with three meters for the flooding would destroy all the key walls. The key walls are one of the most beautiful characteristics of this harbour city like you see so we managed to get a strip of six meters where the key walls were respected and then we created promenades and on top of that there was a podium with parking and the buildings on top of it. You see also that we use with very big effort existing buildings in order to kind of re-trophid them. This is the Elb Philharmonie by Khatroghan Demeron who built a philharmonic building on top of a warehouse and you see that these specific public functions are kind of marked as specific positions in this harbour city. Here you see the new science centre by Rem Koolhaas which will a ring be a ring of kind of container like buildings. Most important for me is the establishment of the street network with its connectivity. You see this map, this is the most important map of the harbour city. It establishes all the public spaces, all the intensive street forms, all the connectivity and all the public spaces basically. For instance the connection of the main pedestrian boulevard from the centre of the harbour city to the centre of Hamburg and the town hall. You see that we create a lot of types of streets and of public spaces. This is the access street running the boulevard past it. These are boulevards carefully developed and here you see a street. I would like to focus on this street. This is one of the best streets or maybe it's the best street that we have ever built. It's the best 100% new built street that I've seen so far. It's in the middle of one of the piers of the harbour city and you see it's a kind of diversity of functions and architecture and great level that has a flexibility in order to allow for working and shops. It has alleys that look through to other areas, restaurants. What I love especially is cheap lotto shops with kind of blackboards showing what they are selling. And connected to these street systems are so called double bottoms, what we call double bottoms. These are courtyards that are open on one side or half open and create a kind of semi-private zone in which economic activity or private collective gardens can be accommodated. This kind of double bottom effect between the public street and the pure private sphere is extremely important for the life of this harbour city. Some of these courts are also shopping centres because we have arrived at succeeding in forbidding shopping centres in this harbour city. So the shops are all in courtyards and the street stays free. You see models of these courtyards. If you do this right, then you get these kind of tarf rails. You can get these kind of real urban vibrant environments with a multiple architecture guided by master plan and a political stakeholder system carefully socially mixed and it leads to these kind of conditions. We have also a mobility concept. Strange enough this mobility concept also generates a private initiative. For instance these rolling things, left top, they are a private initiative in the harbour city and you can rent them out and you can also get a headphone and then drive through the city in what you see. Maybe even more important or even important as this street network is the creation of quarters. You see a model in which you see that we have a coherent urban design which consists of this streets and public space network but at the same time we differentiate into quarters. These quarters are very important as differentiation. The one where the street was is this one for instance. It's a more or less residential area but the residential area means always that it's 25% working and amenities in great level aspects. And for instance you see the central quarter which was against our will being developed by one developer but we managed to have every block at least being done by two architects, have a mix of functions and have no covered shopping malls at all. Have only shopping inside the courtyards in a kind of quiet atrium ambiance and these functions relatively well. As I said it's very important and also very difficult to get everything right. And there is only one way of working on it and that is create large scale models. This is a 1-200 model segment of this harbour city in which you really stand around the area with stakeholders and create this ambiance. You see the center of the central quarter again and last but not least I think one of the successes of the harbour city is the way land is handed over to investors. We are not giving away simply large blocks to investors. What we do is we define carefully like here a quarter in a kind of bandwidth of users so that there is a kind of flexibility of use mix but there is a kind of obligation to create a mix of users. We describe in a rough way typologies and then we give out plots and these plots are given out to investors by competitions which means that we always pick out the best project. Every project in the harbour city is a competition and this leads to this kind of environment and that was exactly the 15 minutes that I was going to talk. Thank you very much.