Urban Transformation Project for Kartal Region of Istanbul Metrpolitan Municipality

Istanbul, Turkey

Sea View, Render © Zaha Hadid Architects

PROGRAM:
Proposal for a new city centre on the east bank of Istanbul.

CLIENT:Greater Istanbul Municipality

SIZE:555 Hectares (6 million m²)

CONCEPT:The Kartal Pendik masterplan is the redevelopment of an abandoned industrial site into a new sub-centre of Istanbul. It is complete with a central business district, high-end residential development, cultural facilities such as concert halls, museums, and theatres, and leisure programs including a marina and tourist hotels. The site lies at the confluence of several important infrastructural links, including the major highway connecting Istanbul to Europe and Asia, the coastal highway, sea bus terminals, and heavy and light rail links to the greater metropolitan area. The project begins by tying together the basic infrastructural and urban context of the surrounding site. Lateral lines stitch together the major road connections emerging from Kartal in the west and Pendik in the east.

The integration of these lateral connections with the main longitudinal axis creates a soft grid that forms the underlying framework for the project. The fabric is further articulated by an urban script that generates different typologies of buildings that respond to the different demands of each distric. This calligraphic script creates open conditions that can transform from detached buildings to perimeter blocks, and ultimately into hybrid systems taht can create a porous, interconnected network of open spaces that meanders throughout the city.

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Quarry View, Render © Zaha Hadid Architects

Aerial View, Render © Zaha Hadid Architects

http://www.zaha-hadid.com/masterplans/kartal-pendik-masterplan

Video

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Kartal Project - Latest Official Renders

Urban Transformation Project for Kartal Region (East End of the city) of Istanbul Metrpolitan Municipality is designed by famous architect Zaha Hadid. Hadid calls the project "the project of my life" and works on it for two years and constantly traveling between London and Istanbul

With this project, Kartal disctrict will have a modern face and complately turn a new city.

Mayor Kadir Topbaş inspects the project

Mayor Topbaş and Zaha Hadid

The project prepared by world's renowned architect Iraq-originated Zaha Hadid proposes a new architectural network of geometric shapes for Kartal and Pendik. Two sites will be connected. A new metropolis will be established, connecting roads, railways and residential areas. Formation of a new identity and its embedding to the current one is planned.

Business and residential towers are present in the project. There will be parcels ranging from 2,500sqm up to 25,000sqm. Mutually raised towers will be established. Free spaces will be allocated for the parks in sides. All the geometrically-shaped buildings will be combined. There will be more of business towers and less of residential buildings. There will also be cultural fields, opera house, park, hotels, restaurants, yacht port and marina