Delivery Format
The competition strategy involves creating a conceptual Master Plan for the architectural and urban development of the city of Iskenderun, utilizing maps, images, photomontages, digital urban views, renders, and a digital video to convey a visionary approach to earthquake-resilient architecture and urban planning. Participants are expected to adopt a multi-scalar and layered methodology, formulating proposals across four distinct scales and frameworks to guide the city's current and future resilience.
Each officially registered team is required to submit three A0 color sheets along with an explanatory video detailing their “contest journey.” Both the sheets and the video must be sent via email to director@icausarchitecture.org within the specified deadline in the timeline. Please package these files in a ZIP folder, ensuring that the total size does not exceed 20 MB.
The delivery must respect the format described below:
Sheets to deliver
Each team must deliver three A0-size sheets in digital pdf format in color, which must respect the letter format helvetic and bullet marked on the attached example sheets. The sheets and their material must respect the order and format described below:
Sheet n°1 | The Form of the City
A0 Portrait Color
For this sheet, it is important to understand that the various urban components—such as layers, sectors, segments, borders, and zones—define the urban form and interact with the city to shape its dynamics. When these urban elements are reorganized or rearranged, the relationships between different parts of the city change, consequently altering its dynamics, responsiveness, and overall character.
In this context, students are tasked with redefining the macroform of the city to create a coherent urban environment that is resilient to natural disasters. They should discuss how the relationships among different city elements directly influence its ability to respond effectively to such disasters.
SPECS
01.
Diagrams expressing the main ideas and strategies for the future of İskenderun.
It is expected from the participants to designate a strategic / conceptual design framework which responds to the “Fundamental Questions” in the competition brief.
This framework must explicitly include the answers to the Fundamental Questions previously exposed in this document and must be through drawings, sketches, writings, or perspectives, including inspirations with comments and conclusions and sketch of the main idea/vision/principles of the proposal.
A simple conceptual plan which defines the future urban macroform and its main components.
02.
A main digital image, visualization in 3D, render, handwritten perspectives, or photomontages, on a large scale and with a striking visual character that captures the central futuristic and conceptual idea of the project.
03.
Sheet n°2 | The Coast and The City
A0 Portrait Color
Re-configuring and Re-fabricating the City through Key Urban Transects:
Students will be tasked with defining and analyzing at least two urban transects (vertical axes or sections) that illustrate the relationship between the coast and various segments of İskenderun in order to establish a cohesive view of the spatial organization of the city.
Each team must reconfigure the city through these transects, rethinking the profile and section of each transect. Participants must specify spatial solutions to ensure that water and coast become integral components of the future configuration of the city, thus improving its resilience to disasters.
The goal of this reconfiguration is to harmonize coastal dynamics with urban development, improving resilience and functional integration across different segments of the city. Participants can define “the transects” based on their own design strategies.
Port
Industrial Area
Industrial Area
Port
Peri-Urban Residential
Port
Centre
Residential
Peri-Urban Residential
Gared Communities
SPECS
01.
We requested the development of a detailed elaboration of the Conceptual Master Plan outlined in Sheet 01, focusing on the following layers: the transportation system, circulation model, open space configuration, remanufacturing of the urban form, and the formation of new patterns along with their solid-void configurations.
02.
Develop a conceptual or diagrammatic plan that illustrates at least 2 selected transects to be worked on, whether those suggested or new ones proposed by each team.
03.
The development of these selected transects in Cross Sections, illustrating in a radical way the new urban and architectural proposal that connects the urban fabric with the coast in a resilient and pro-seismic way.
Suggested transects, intellectual work developed by TED University
T.1
The Cost and the Port
T.2
The Cost and the Industrial Zone
T.3
The Cost and the City Core
T.4
The Cost and the City Core
T.6
The Cost and the Periphery of the City
T.5
The Cost and the Residential Areas
Sheet n°3 | Development of 1 Transect
A0 Portrait Color
Each team is asked to select only 1 Key Urban Transect and develop it in detail at a scale of 1:2000.
This should include both plan and cross-section drawings to provide a comprehensive representation. The proposal must address essential aspects of urban design, such as developing innovative design strategies tailored to the specific context of the transect.
Additionally, it should focus on creating urban forms by specifying new architectural and urban typologies. Participants should also identify various types and scales of interventions, ranging from macro-level planning to localized spatial enhancements.
Furthermore, the submission must include clear design guidelines, operational frameworks, and codes to ensure the coherence, feasibility, and adaptability of the proposed interventions.
SPECS
The proposal must include:
01.
Massing and intensity, buildings and structures and structural landscape elements.
02.
Major transportation systems, new public transportation modes can be introduced.
03.
Circulation and open space system.
04.
Footprints of buildings and other structures.
In this document, we also recommend that participants present silhouettes, 3D perspectives, and axonometric views of the project at an appropriate scale.
Video "The Journey of the Contest"
Along with all of the above, each group must present a VIDEO MP4 format of no more than 2 minutes in 1920 x 1080 resolution with a 16:9 aspect ratio; in which you must include:
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A first-person recorded description of any of the group members recounting "THE JOURNEY OF THE CONTEST”: how and why they made certain decisions and their relationship to the Essential Questions presented in this document to be answered by each team.
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Some visualizations in 3d movement, touring the places intervened by each team.