Reconsideration of the architectural program of the olympic games /

Download

index.pdf

Date

2014

Author

Dörtdivanlıoğlu, Hayri

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

174
views

222
downloads

The role of ‘architectural program’ in the design phase of the Olympic structures becomes prominent with regard to the processes of development, transformation, and deformation that the cities have undergone by hosting the Olympic Games. Considering the previous examples, especially, the transition from the pre-determined program for the event phase to the indetermined program for the post event phase appears to be the main problem, since it is, generally, not well defined in the beginning of the whole process and then it turns into an ambiguous transition. This ambiguous transition process results in the problems related with the integration and re-adaptation of the Olympic structures into the local context in the post-event phase. This thesis argues for the fact that the main issue behind these problems is the architectural programming of the Olympic Games. Then, it aims at reconsidering the architectural program of the Olympic Games in order to address existing programmatic issues that give way to the integration and re-adaptation problems. In doing so, ‘programmatic layering’, which encourages the coexistence of various activities emerging from the interaction among the various program layers, is discussed as a design tool to define the programmatic transition in the design phase. This thesis claims that the Olympic structures should be designed with a certain level of programmatic flexibility and temporality through a proposed scenario for the long-term development in order to accommodate various programmatic layers in the structures, which are shaped with a certain level of permanency by pre-determined program. It is shown that the architecture of the Olympic structures has hardly evolved their form and spatio-functional schema despite of the several changes and updates in the program of the Olympic Games. The significant conclusion of this thesis is that the narration of the host cities has gained power to manage the program through the Olympic processes, yet the host cities underestimate the influence of the narration on the long-term development by focusing on only the issue of staging the Games.

Subject Keywords

Olympics, Hosting of sporting events., Sports facilities., Architecture

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12617987/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24037

Collections

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Evolution assessment of main stadium structures of summer olympic games: from 1896 to 2012 Madani, Nigar; Tavukçuoğlu, Ayşe; Department of Building Science in Architecture (2015) Main stadium structures of summer Olympic Games are large scale structures which are specifically-designed to accommodate a very crowded amount of people and international many sports competitions of Olympic Games. There are many written documents on Olympic stadiums, however there is scarcity of knowledge on assessment of their physical performances/capacities and evolution in time based on quantitative data. The study, therefore was shaped to examine the inherent physical performances of those structures ...
Transformation of residential interiors in the Moda district of İstanbul,1930s-1970s Sezginalp, Pınar; Altan, Tomris Elvan; Department of History of Architecture (2017) The aim of this study is to analyze how the spatial character of the interior residential space transformed in the district of Moda in İstanbul together with the urban and architectural context as an outcome of the social transformation during the 20th century. The focus is on the period from the 1930s to the 1970s in order to evaluate the transformation within the researched interior residential spaces with reference to the contemporary process of modernization experienced in Turkey. The larger scope of th...
Understanding façade between design and manufacturing : a case study on high-rise office buildings in İstanbul Şener, Duygu; Güzer, Celal Abdi; Department of Architecture (2006) The thesis aims to examine how the formation of façades, that is, the interface with a dual response both to interior functioning and exterior urban fabric, is separated from the totality of architectural design by new technological developments and design intentions. This aim is accomplished in three sections, respectively: “analysis of the façade, the properties and formation process in time”; “examining the façade formation of the high-rise office buildings in Levent-Maslak area in respect to the analysi...
An investigation on the water supply and drainage systems of historical turkish baths Dişli, Gülşen; Tavukçuoğlu, Ayşe; Department of Architecture (2008) Historical Turkish baths still keeping their functional systems represent their original architectural and building technologies. Studies on the functional systems of historical baths are therefore needed to discover such technologies and to maintain them in working order. This study was conducted on a 15th century historical Turkish bath, Şengül Hamamı, in Ankara for assessment of its water supply and drainage systems. These systems comprised of hot and cold-water supply, wastewater and rainwater drainage,...
Awarding architecture in Turkey: national architecture exhibition and awards program Durmaz, Nur; Balamir, Aydan; Department of Architecture (2009) The establishment of the National Architecture Exhibition and Awards (NAEA) program in 1987, by Chamber of Architects, coincides with the period of dissolving modernist paradigm and rising pluralist influences in Turkey. The program, as a critical medium, is expected to reflect “national” architectural practice and contribute in the “contemporary” architectural practice in Turkey. In order to evaluate the consistencies with these objectives, firstly the program identity and then the participations are analy...

Citation Formats

H. Dörtdivanlıoğlu, “Reconsideration of the architectural program of the olympic games /,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2014.