Perşembe Pazarı Park
An Interactive Urban Landscape Shaped by Art and Participation
A participatory waterfront park in Istanbul transforming an underused urban site through graffiti, sculpted topography, flexible structures, interactive art, and community-driven public spaces.
Location
Karaköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Project Type
Urban Design & Landscape Architecture
Status
Research Project
Studio
MasiR Studio
Location
Karaköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Project Type
Urban Design & Landscape Architecture
Status
Research Project
Studio
MasiR Studio
Urban Reclamation
From Urban Void to Collective Ground
Located along Istanbul’s historic waterfront, Perşembe Pazarı Park reimagines an underused urban fragment as an active civic landscape. The proposal builds on the cultural identity of Karaköy and transforms graffiti from a spontaneous urban trace into a spatial strategy for reclaiming public space, strengthening local identity, and encouraging social exchange.
Participatory Landscape
The Park as an Urban Canvas
Rather than treating the landscape as a fixed composition, the project allows users to continually reinterpret it. Graffiti surfaces, interactive structures, open gathering areas, and adaptable installations turn visitors from passive observers into active participants, creating a public realm shaped through collective expression and everyday occupation.
Landscape Topography
Architecture Through Ground Formation
A system of sculpted topographic islands organizes the park into zones of gathering, performance, movement, and artistic production. Their layered surfaces create seating, amphitheatre-like edges, elevated viewpoints, and accessible platforms while giving the landscape a distinctive three-dimensional identity inspired by the fluidity and spontaneity of graffiti.
Connected Movement
A Continuous Public Network
Walking and cycling routes weave through the project as continuous spatial loops, connecting activity zones without fragmenting the landscape. The circulation system responds to the park’s elongated waterfront geometry while encouraging exploration, visual connectivity, and multiple ways of experiencing the site.
Adaptive Public Space
Flexible Modules & Social Infrastructure
Movable timber modules, reconfigurable exhibition frames, and lightweight teardrop pavilions introduce a flexible layer of architecture within the park. Seating can shift from individual elements to linear, circular, or communal arrangements, allowing the same space to support informal meetings, exhibitions, workshops, performances, and temporary events.
Interactive Urban Art
Light, Reflection & Expanded Expression
Interactive devices extend artistic participation beyond conventional graffiti walls. Colour reflectors manipulate sunlight, sculptural installations create changing visual experiences, and selected inaccessible surfaces can become canvases through drone-assisted painting. These interventions merge landscape, technology, and public art, establishing Perşembe Pazarı Park as an evolving urban environment rather than a finished object.
Service Type: Full Architectural Design · Project credits: Research Project · Designed By: MasiR Studio · Year: 2024 · Software: Rhino Ceros + Lumion
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