Experiencing architecture: Bayrampasa Prison

The basic aim of this work is trying to read the traces of experiences that begin with the search for meaning combine the continuation with the concept of space. There are some hidden meanings in the footprints of the lifes driving on the environment surrounded by the physical building elements that making up the space. For the designer, the discovery of life restricted by these environmental conditions constitutes the meaning of design. This work, which began with the search for the meaning of the space, tried to find its meaning by differentiating within its own dynamics. In this context, the meaning itself has been transformed into a method. Accordingly, the relation between language, dialogue, atmosphere, body and memory has been investigated and the space itself has been tried to be found. Bayrampaşa Prison fieldwork is based on the principle of how these inquires can be transformed into a body in professional practice. Bayrampaşa Prison (Sağmalcılar Prison) was chosen to read the experimental relationship established between the user and space in order to examine the production of space through extreme spaces. In this case, it would be more decisive to use the term “case study" rather than to name or describe it as ‘example’ in the context of “relationality".