Abstract
Contemporary museums serve education, research, and enjoyment purposes in addition to their main objectives as collection, documentation, and exhibition of cultural heritage. Thus, recent museum buildings have become “new” spaces of modern urban life through the new functions and activities rather than focusing on only isolated exhibition spaces. They define inclusive complexes with educational, research, social and public areas, and establish a more effective interaction with the society. These activities can be performed in a qualified manner, depending on multi-functional spatial configuration appropriately to provide urban experiences with participation and inclusiveness. In this context, this paper aims to study the level of inclusiveness of the first contemporary art museum of İstanbul -İstanbul Modern-, through detailed examinations on the architectural configuration with a grading criteria based on spatial relations in terms of various facilities of the museum. The story of İstanbul Modern started by re-functioning of the old Bosphorus dock’s warehouses in 2004. After the demolition of these buildings in 2018, the museum temporarily moved to another historical building, where it has also experienced the new conditions of COVID-19 pandemic. İstanbul Modern will move back to its former location during 2021, into a new building designed as a museum by RPBW Architects. Considering each three phases, inclusivity and participatory of buildings will be cross-examined on a developed rating-scale technique based on included socio-cultural activities in accordance with their spatial sizes and relations through quantitative analysis. This kind of methodology would provide preliminary knowledge for future research on museum architectonics.
Presenters
Asena Kumsal şen BayramAssistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey Filiz Irem Memisoglu
Research Assistant, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey Yekta Özgüven
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Maltepe University, Turkey Dogan Zafer Erturk
Head of Department, Interior Design, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2021 Special Focus: What Museums Post Pandemic?
KEYWORDS
Museum, Architectonics, Inclusiveness, Grading
