Gated landscapes: METU Forest and the formation of a topological ground

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With the first tree planted in December 1961, METU Campus’ Afforestation Project was a crucial move in the formation of the campus as an establishment of autobiography, which documents a higher aspiration for change in the whole society. The Campus’ Forest, which transforms into a well-thought landscape design as it approaches the main campus, forms a sustainable, ecologic, and endurable ecosystem in the midst of the city. The campus landscape becomes a physical entity and ensures its endurance depending on what it initiates, provides, activates, and inspires. This thesis focuses on the intricate landscape relationship and interaction with architecture, its aesthetical cohesiveness, and all elements that assemble it as a whole. It examines the landscape of the campus in its topological terms: its spatial relations in terms of connective properties. METU Campus, a human-made forest centralized with a designed landscape, unfolds various layers of aesthetics and meanings and performs effectively in sustaining the campus’ needs. The campus, dating from the 1960s, is an example of a successful topological landscape design, a term used first in 2011 in the field. The thesis is a documentation and a representation, at the same time, of the landscape and all its elements that form the topology of the ground on the campus.

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Forest, Landscape, Topology, Architecture, METU Campus

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S. Rraja, “Gated landscapes: METU Forest and the formation of a topological ground,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.