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Project • By Tuncer Cakmakli Architects • Museums
Xi’an New Silk Road Museum
Invited competition for a museum to present the history and lasting importance of trade along the full length of the silk road.
The concept of the architectural scheme is to bring together colors, smells, people, etc. into one dynamic tapestry, making the history of the Silk Road a tangible rather than academic experience.
tuncer cakmakli architects
The Western Türkiye and Caucasus Region of the Xi’an New Silk Road Museum interprets the Silk Road not merely as a trade route, but as a vast network of encounter through which people, knowledge, cultures and migrations moved across continents.
The architectural concept reinterprets the historic caravanserai as a contemporary museum. Two interlocking squares define a sequence... More
Project • By do[x]architecture • Heritages
Kayseri Inner Castle Archaeology Museum
-National Architectural Competition 1st Prize Winner-
A two-stage competition was organized in 2008 to transform the Kayseri Inner Castle, which has an important place in the collective memory of the city and witnessed different life and social processes. Located in the heart of the city, the competition of the Kayseri Inner Castle was aimed to turn the complex into a cultural and artistic building. Until the opening of the competition, the inner castle served different purposes in different periods, developed independently from the city's structural progress, and became a social border between the inside and outside of the castle walls, and had no trace from its former texture.
Alp Eren
The main design approach was informed by... More
Project • By do[x]architecture • Factories
Museum Gazhane Climate Museum
Hasanpaşa Gazhane, which was established in 1892 to meet the energy needs of the Anatolian Side, was closed and abandoned after completing its factory function in 1993 due to the fact that it could not meet the current needs and the use of natural gas became widespread. With its transformation, 130 years later, in July 2021, it was redefined as a public space under the name of Museum Gazhane. The Climate Museum, located in the two buildings of the Museum Gazhane, was opened to visitors in May 2023 with the completion of the second building. The two buildings of Gazhane, which were used as gas purification facilities, were refunctioned as a permanent exhibition/museum within the scope of the project, and the theme of the museum was determine... More