The Contributions of Competitions to Cities and Urban Design

n Merzifon Municipality’s Business and Life Center Architectural Project Competition

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https://doi.org/10.29080/eija.v7i1.1212

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Urban design, urban dsign objectives, urban built environment, competitions

Abstract

Competitions are a significant means of focusing on specific spaces in cities and forming public opinion. Competitions result in many professionals such as architectures, urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects, civil engineers, etc. proposing lots of designs for the same space, and thereby submitting various solution offers for it. Therefore, competitions are important not only for their results, but also for increasing knowledge about the occupational groups of design and the shaping of urban open spaces and built environments, in other words, cities. This study analyzes competitions’ contributions to urban design based on the experience of Merzifon Municipality’s Business and Life Center Architectural Project Competition. The discipline of urban design, which plays an important role in forming the urban open spaces and built environments, is enriched by competitions. The approaches developed in the projects that compete for the urban spaces focused on the competitions play an important role in shaping cities.

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Baris Ergen, Erciyes University

Baris ERGEN was born in Ankara/Turkey in 1980. He started his bachelor education at City and Regional Planning department of Mimar Sinan University in 1999. In 2003 he graduated from City and Regional Planning Department of Mimar Sinan University. He got the title of “urban planner” in 2003. He started City Planning master education at Yildiz Technical University in 2003, during his master education Baris ERGEN first started to work as a city planner at Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality from 25.04.2005 to 24. 11. 2005. And then he moved from Istanbul and he was assigned as research assistant at City and Regional Planning department of Erciyes University Yozgat Engineering and Architecture Faculty in November 2005. He graduated from City Planning master program in August 2006. The title of his master thesis is “A Research on Relationship between Urban Conservation and Urban Design Case Study Tokat”. Yozgat Engineering and Architecture Faculty separated from Erciyes University and Bozok University was founded. With establishment of Bozok University he continued his duty at Bozok University. In September 2006 Professor Kai TOBIAS accepted Baris ERGEN as Doctorate Student. He started his PhD education in March 2007 at Regional and Environmental Planning department of Technische Universität Kaiserslautern in Germany. He completed his PhD study “Buffer Zone Method, Land Use Planning and Conservation Strategies about Wetlands under Urbanization Pressure in Turkey” in 2010. He got “Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften” (Dr.-Ing) degree. He returned to Turkey in April 2010 and continued his job City and Regional Planning department of Bozok University Engineering and Architecture Faculty. He interests in environmental planning, urban green systems, urban design and he published papers on these subjects in journal, conventions and symposiums.Şehir ve Bölge Planlama sources https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/159809/bio

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2021-12-27

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Ergen, B. (2021). The Contributions of Competitions to Cities and Urban Design: n Merzifon Municipality’s Business and Life Center Architectural Project Competition. EMARA: Indonesian Journal of Architecture, 7(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.29080/eija.v7i1.1212

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021): EIJA August-October edition

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