01Separating street and shore creates a threshold against street noise.
Ringabell
Design · Architecture · Çatladıkapı, Istanbul
Anatolian Music Conservatory And Museum
Massing Development
02Privacy and a semi-public inner garden are established.
03The impact of sound and vapour from the sea is limited.
04An alternative passage shortens the route to the coast.
05Visual openings are created at ground level.
06Squares form where circulation intensifies.
07The roof is inclined to make use of sunlight.
08Vertical facades establish a relationship with the historic walls.
A route connecting musical heritage and making.
Ringabell is a proposal for an Anatolian music conservatory and museum on the Çatladıkapı waterfront of Istanbul’s historic peninsula. Its location opposite the ruins of Boukoleon Palace connects music education with cultural routes and waterfront life. The conservatory supports making, while the museum considers the past, present and future of Anatolian music.
From Museum To School
Alongside basic music education, the programme proposes spaces for musicology, theory, composition, voice, instruments, dance and music technology. A concert hall, recording and control rooms, archive, library and exhibitions complete the programme. At selected points, the museum route offers views into teaching, laboratory and recording spaces, bringing visitors into contact with musical production.
A Public Relationship With The Waterfront
The arrangement considers approaches from both street and shore. Voids carved from the mass form courtyards, passages and meeting places. Colonnades and broad overhangs accommodate public circulation in different weather conditions, while thresholds between teaching and exhibition regulate the relationship between observer and maker.
Reinforced concrete columns and floors establish a horizontal mass, complemented by steel-supported roofs and balconies. A southward-sloping roof arrangement aims to bring light into circulation and central spaces. Vertical sunshades work with glazed surfaces to give the waterfront facades their rhythm.