Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
17th International Docomomo Conference - Modern Design: Social Commitment and Quality of Life, Proceedings, Valencia, İspanya, 6 - 09 Eylül 2022, ss.193-200, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
The post-war rapid urbanization and continuous waves of migration thereof towards urban areas brought a need to re-evaluate the residential needs and solutions worldwide. To overcome the housing shortage, apartment block solutions were started to be offered. Pioneered by Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, which focused on communal living for all the inhabitants to shop, play, live, and come together in a vertical building block, was rendered as a periodic Modernist model for many residential solutions in different countries. The influence of the Modernist Movement and architects were also effective in Turkish architecture during '50s. Post-war rapid urbanization in Turkey also created a housing shortage in greater cities therefore collective and cooperative housing projects, strongly influenced by Unité d'Habitation were planned. An important example for '50s residential architecture that carries traces of Unité d'Habitation is Cinnah 19 apartment block, which reflects the modernist approach of the period with its structural, formal, and spatial characteristics. Built in 1958 in capital city Ankara by architect Nejat Ersin, Cinnah 19 represented a modern living culture that is evident in the bilateral relations it created among private and common spaces, interior and exterior, and the functional and structural elements it utilized. The period it belongs was when Turkish architectural culture began to address the defining paradox of modernism for the first time - namely, the conflict between a socially concerned view of housing as the central question of modern democracies and at the same time, an aesthetic preoccupation with the dwelling as a designed product to accommodate the “good life”. As a result, this study will analyse the modernist residential lifestyle defined/presented by the architectural style and formal structure, spatial traits/characteristics of the Cinnah 19 apartment by addressing the potential it brought to modern architecture in Ankara and Turkey in the 1950s.