Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum
Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum Turkey, Karaköy Harbor Building Photos, Turkish Architecture Development
Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum in Karaköy Harbor
4 Jun 2022
Design: EAA Emre Arolat
Location: Karaköy Harbor, Istanbul, Western Turkey (Türkiye)
Photos: Thomas Mayer, Cemal Emden, Engin Gerçek and EAA Emre Arolat
Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum, Turkey
In 2009 Entrepot Number 5 in the Karaköy Harbor was allocated to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University for the purpose of transforming it into the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum.
Thus was the way cleared for the public use of an area which, although located on an important site in the city center, had almost no social permeability, and for the building of an original, high-quality museum to house thousands of valuable works including important pieces of late Ottoman to modern Turkish painting.
At EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, in the initial research phase of the design process we studied the history of the physical and sociological characteristics of the area.
Within this framework the special place that the entrepot and office blocks standing since the end of the 1950s had formed in visual memory came to the fore, over and above the area?s identity as an industrial and harbor region, which had for centuries distinguished it from other parts of the city. We emphasized the importance of preserving these buildings, whose characteristics in scale and structure were so very prominent.
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