CROCUS ANCRENSIS / Urban Housing + Edible Garden for Çiğdem Neighborhood
FLYOVER / METADROMOS* Group Members: Begüm Şener, H.Büşra Öztürk Çiğdem neighborhood acts as a buffer zone between green (METU Forest/ Şirindere Valley) of city and urban mass. Our site is placed in the border of Şirindere Valley, inside the Çiğdem neighborhood. In this part of the city, there are no landmarks, so that The Flyover acts like a new landmark for the city. As a promenade , Flyover enriches urban life in terms of greenery (edible gardens/ greenhouses) and experimental uses (butterfly garden/ agriculture workshop and vista points). Flyover metamorphoses to form different public and private uses in the site and shapes the organization of housing units. The housing units contain greenhouses which are shared with different owners and roof street which acts like the wing of Flyover. All these shared uses support the neighborhood idea. In our analysis, We found that because of ...