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In-In Gallery

In-In Gallery

Area

110 m²

Year

2004

Budget: 7.000 €
Location: Istanbul, Turkey

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TCA understands design not as a spontaneous act of creation, but as rigorous research. Every question, every demand is simultaneously a problem to be carefully explored and penetrated. The search for the core of the problem is the first act of a lengthy investigation involving models, sketches, and design iterations. These tools are not just means of visualization but vehicles through which meaning is shaped and articulated.
Once the problem-finding phase is complete, an uninterrupted, almost meditative phase of elaboration begins. Models are built, dismantled, reinvented; sketches arise, fade, and take new form—a continual negotiation between idea and reality. This process imbues the design with meaning and breathes life into it.
A particularly striking example of this methodology is seen in the project of the Vegetable and Wholesale Market Hall, where TCA creates not only functional spaces but a symphonic composition of spatial and façade design with offices and communal areas. Here, the façade becomes a musical score that melodiously and rhythmically envelops the users, offering them a spatial experience that goes far beyond mere pragmatic use. Architecture becomes a musical image in which users and space engage in harmonious dialogue.
With each design, TCA transforms spaces into meaningful experiences, presenting architecture as a profound language—a language expressed in the tension between research, intuition, and cultural significance.
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Yet this place — let us call it, in the spirit of a stylized nostalgia, the Sun Square — is more than just a geographic location. It is a collective idea, an urban meditation, a fluid boundary between nature and city, between deceleration and acceleration.
It is in this tension of expectations that an architectural paradox emerges: something is to be built. But not just anything. A restaurant is to be constructed — Nizza am Main. A name that is more than a borrowed geography: it evokes Mediterranean ease, a certain lightness of being that in Frankfurt can only be felt under constant intellectual discipline.
But how does one build in a place that resists construction? How does one speak a language the place understands — without persuading it?
A structure in this place must not be a building; it must be a poem — a poem made of glass, steel, perhaps even scent. It must not compete with the sun, but dissolve within it.
What, then, is this Nizza am Main? It is not a restaurant in the classical sense. It is a narrative — a spatial story that allows for promenading both along the river and within one’s own thoughts. It is a place where culinary experience appears not as consumption, but as contemplation.
Perhaps, one day, Nizza am Main will be the only restaurant that retreats with the sunset — not because it closes, but because it reflects itself into the river with the evening light.
Thus speaks the sun.
And we would do well to learn how to listen.
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When one understands the city as a text — a prem

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The disused railway line stretching 8,500 meters from Sirkeci to Yedikule is not merely a corridor of tracks and sleepers; it is a resonant space of history. Once, this line cut through the city’s urban fabric, connecting the waters of the Marmara shore with the inner organs of the metropolis, carrying goods, people, rumors, and ideas. Today, this linear space is being rewritten by TCA as an Art Line: a landscape park that touches the old Byzantine city walls and brings them into dialogue with contemporary urban life.
What emerges here is more than a green belt; it is a poetic infrastructure for collective nourishment — not only in the literal sense, but also as artistic sustenance for the city’s inhabitants. Just as the agora or the medieval marketplace once functioned as sites of exchange, this park is envisioned as a porosity within the city, an open stage where nature, art, and urban memory weave a new narrative.
TCA’s working method follows a principle: to uncover the essential, to interpret the hidden layers. The large-scale models are not merely aids for form-finding but three-dimensional commentaries — plastic essays that open up spaces of meaning. They make it possible to design the landscape not as a mere ornament but as the syntax of a new urban legibility.
By connecting the railway line with the shore of the Sea of Marmara, a threshold space emerges: a transition between water and city wall, past and present, nature and artifice. The Byzantine walls — once a bulwark against intruders — are not cordoned off as museum relics but interwoven into the landscape as narrative fragments. Thus, the past is not conserved like a dead exhibit but breathes on within the new urban fabric.

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Between Cathedral and Sound Lab: The Mediapark Col

Between Cathedral and Sound Lab: The Mediapark Cologne as a Semiotic Cosmos
When one contemplates TCA’s design for the Mediapark Cologne, one steps into an urban narrative that submits neither entirely to the myth of the industrial city nor to that of a futuristic media utopia. Rather, it unfolds as a palimpsest: layer upon layer of urban memories, dreams, and signs overlay each other.
It is telling — and surely no coincidence — that the architects have committed themselves to the idea of building a “new media city within the city.” It asks: how many subtexts can the urban syntax bear without losing itself?
The street axes of the Mediapark frame the cubic structures like words in a sentence. The recording and production studios disappear, half-buried in the earth — almost like medieval crypts, where no longer saints but sounds, images, and data streams lie in wait: the relics of the digital age.
The logic of the horizontal — office buildings stretching long and low — finds its counterpoint in the vertical towers. These rise like modern campaniles into the sky, charging the city with new significance. It is no coincidence that they evoke Cologne Cathedral, that Gothic hyper-sign that has shaped the city’s skyline for centuries, its spires a perpetual exclamation mark. The new towers of the Mediapark do not wish to compete but to quote, to echo, an ironic reference to the power of the vertical in the city’s horizon.
But what would such a place be without its landscape? The Mediapark’s parkland, so the plans promise, is to be shaped by hand. Here too lies a subtle irony: the handmade, the organic form, the wide meadows, water biotopes, and tree-lined avenues stand in contrast to the digital content generated beneath.
Thus, the Mediapark Cologne is more than a functional condensation of offices, studios, and park. It is, if you will, an urban sign laboratory, a semiotic cosmos in which the city itself becomes a medium.
And whoever strolls here does not merely wander through a green oasis, but through a city that quotes itself — like a medieval manuscript in whose marginalia new stories have long been waiting.
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Kurban Bayramınız Mübarek olsun !
Happy Eid al-Adha!

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BEHIND TCA DESIGN The Camellia – An Essay on Spa

BEHIND TCA DESIGN
The Camellia – An Essay on Space, Nature, and Meaning

In a time when landscape itself has become the stage of humankind, the act of design is no longer merely a question of function or form – it becomes a question of meaning. Landscape architecture is not the simple arrangement of paths, grasses, or volumes. If it is to be taken seriously, it is an act of interpretation – a text to be read.
The Camellia, designed by TCA, is such a text. A sentence set into nature – not against it, but alongside it. It is not simply an object or a structure, but a sign, a semiotic fabric that gives voice to the landscape without silencing it. A gesture that does not withdraw from its surroundings, but elevates them.
What is it? A space. Open, yet sheltered. A place for pause and reflection. An in-between – between path and destination, between light and shade, between architecture and vegetation.
Formally, it is clear: geometry, transparency, materiality. Stainless steel meets wood – a combination that may appear cool at first glance, but in its union radiates warmth, durability, and dignity. The steel reflects the sky, the wood breathes with the earth. Nature is not enclosed but invited.
But what transforms the Camellia into a bearer of meaning? It is its attitude. The way it exists. Not as a monument, but as a possibility. It resists monumentality in favor of attentiveness. It does not impose – it accompanies. Its presence is an invitation to contemplation: of the landscape, of the light, of our relationship to the natural world.
In a world where speed has become the new normal, the Camellia insists on slowness. On observation. On pause. Perhaps even – on gratitude. For within it, an idea is made manifest that reaches beyond architecture: that design is responsibility. And that every intervention in the landscape is, ultimately, an ethical act.
Thus, the Camellia is not an object – it is an attitude. An attitude toward the world, toward nature, toward human presence. A sign within the fabric of the landscape – quiet, but clear. And for that very reason: indispensable.
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RIYADH MOSQUE There are places in every city that

RIYADH MOSQUE
There are places in every city that are more than a mere fabric of streets and façades. They are carriers of signs, symbols that shape a community and inscribe its memory into the future. The commission to build, in the very heart of Riyadh, a mosque that is simultaneously a foundation and an urban center with commercial spaces, is more than an architectural program.
The mosque – for centuries it has been a place of gathering, of contemplative order, of ritual rhythm in which the individual and the community turn toward transcendence. It is not only a built space; it is semiotics in stone: the orientation toward Mecca as an arrow of meaning, the minaret as a voice in the urban palimpsest, the courtyard as a stage of encounter.
Yet here, in the center of Riyadh, a second syntax joins this sacred vocabulary: the commercial spaces, conceived as an endowment. For the patron – the Saudi prince who acts in the name of his father – inscribes through this gesture a chapter of continuity: a building that is at once spiritual heritage and economic foundation for the community and its future.
The task of TCA – Tuncer Cakmaklı Architects is therefore not only to build, but to interpret. One must read as a philologist does: the signs of tradition, the texts of Islamic geometry, the invisible strata of the city of Riyadh.
The mosque must not only be space, but sign. It must mark, within the dense texture of the city, a point of gathering, a silent center that acts like a breath.
The architecture of TCA can here become a hermeneutics: a reading of Islam that also thinks of urbanity; a morphology that unites heaven and earth within a single construction.
And so, the commission is not merely the erection of a building. It is the creation of a symbol, a sign at the heart of Riyadh, one that will endure for centuries. A construction that narrates – of faith, of community, of responsibility, and of the infinite human capacity to bestow meaning through architecture.

#riyadh #mosque #design #architecture #islam #religion

BEHIND TCA DESIGN “A Song of the Sea, Speaking O

BEHIND TCA DESIGN
“A Song of the Sea, Speaking Once Again”

Kartal, my friend, was once a song.
A song of salt in the air, of children running barefoot over the stones.
The Princes’ Islands stood on the horizon like silent poems,
and the people — simple, honest —
let their worries float in the water
while the sun turned the day to gold.
Then came the great dream of the city —
visions hard as concrete,
coastal roads like scars across the heart of the shore,
and the song fell silent.
The people now stood behind fences of asphalt,
and the sea,
once their mirror,
was now just a picture from old memories.
But now,
now the human hand holds a different tool —
not the jackhammer,
but the idea.
Not just a plan, but hope.
TCA didn’t merely draw.
No — they listened to the place,
spoke with the earth,
with the wind,
with the old shadows of the pines.
The levels shift,
like verses in a poem.
Open squares like exclamation points,
protected spaces like parentheses of silence.
The trees don’t just stand —
they sing,
they shield,
they whisper to people:
Here you are safe.
Here you may breathe.
And behold —
the Princes’ Islands wave once again.
Not just from afar,
but from within the hearts of those who sit, walk, and dream here.
The sea was never gone.
It was just buried under noise for a while.
Now the land rises,
the view opens,
and with it, the soul.
A city park — yes.
But more than that:
A promise.
A place where life begins to hear itself again.
Where landscape is not a backdrop,
but an answer.
To the call for calm.
For belonging.
For a simple, honest day in the light.
This is Kartal.
The new song of the sea.
Not invented —
rediscovered.
#design #ferryboat #istanbul #türkiye#princeislands #landscaper

The Threshold of the City – The Design for the C

The Threshold of the City – The Design for the Cruise Port in Kaohsiung
A port is not merely a place of logistics – it is a threshold. Like airports and train stations, it marks the transition between the familiar and the unknown, between the now and the after. Here, hope and farewell meet. Joy and melancholy coexist. In these fleeting yet profound moments, space becomes the vessel of inner emotions.
The design for the cruise port in Khosing embraces this idea: it is not a terminal in the purely functional sense, but an architectural narrative of arrival and departure. Openness and retreat, vastness and shelter – these are not opposites, but complementary experiences.
Material, light, space, and direction come together not to impress, but to compose a quiet dramaturgy of transition. The architecture remembers: the salt in the air, the horizon of the sea, past journeys and beginnings yet to come. It does not speak loudly – but it speaks.
For the true gates of a city are those places where we feel that we are leaving or arriving – not just physically, but with everything we are.

#taiwan #cruise #port #design #architecture #sea #city

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