Waste Field, Front Field

Abstract: For years the body of Tarlabası community has been squeezed into a container to protect the neo-liberal socio-economical representation of Istanbul. Today a subject of Turkish regeneration policies its deteriorating architectural heritage is sunken in piles of waste and entirely cut off from the municipal waste management system. Waste Field, Front Field proposes a rehabilitation of Tarlabası,preserving the collective memory and historical tissue and emerging as a mixed income district. The project adopts a strategy revolving around re-cycle, re-use and re-distribution circuit. The waste as the untreated component on neighbourhood level is seen as the urban trigger and major resource to be enclosed in a continuous loop. The architecture will be repurposed into structurally new typologies and will accommodate a waste management element - the chute. As a result the revitalized Tarlabası will boost up on site micro-economy, generate infrastructure, provide income and allow for a new collective mentality to emerge. The circuit can be perceived as cathartic, serve to the real owners of Tarlabası and therefore contribute to a more sustainable lifestyle and development.