Spine Dairy in Karacabey

 

As the main project of the course, this part investigates the role of architecture as a key player in preserving and cohabiting with biodiversity. You are to design an eco-farm where humans, animals, and plants coexist harmoniously, located in the countryside of Bursa. The architectural program focuses on creating a multi-functional space on a farm that combines agriculture or livestock activities with educational and recreational elements for visitors. The program provides approximately 1000-1500 m² of closed space, accommodating a visitor's learning center, workshop, and multi-purpose exhibition unit.

 

Other than the specifics of your design and your own design methodology, the focus of the farm and the exact location of your project in the given areas would be parts of your proposal – to be discussed and elaborated in parallel with the physicality of the project. Such decisions and ideas would be made considering the particular conditions of Bursa, its history, its ecological context and social components, focusing on the specifics of the site itself as a rural area and non-urban context.

To commence your design process and formulate your concept, following central questions arise in a somewhat consecutive manner:

 

1- What is it like to be there?

2- What is it like to be with nature?

3- Which species have you encountered, what was their context like?

4- What is it like to be involved in certain activities there?

5- How to coexist?