Izmir Metropolitan Municipality opened a national architectural project competition to establish Turkey's first sustainability center. The deadline for application and project submission is 17 July. Bayraklı The center, which will be located in the Turan District, will play an important role in the zero carbon target in 2030 against the climate crisis.
Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerWork continues for the goal of making İzmir the leading city of life in harmony with nature. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality also took action to bring the Sustainability Center to the city, which will play an important role in the zero carbon target in 2030 against the climate crisis. Bayraklı An architectural project competition was opened for the Izmir Sustainability Center (S-Hub), which will be established in Turan District and will be Turkey's first and one of the few centers in the world. The competition was announced to the public with an advertisement published in the official newspaper. Applications can be made until 17 July 2023. 1 projects to be selected among the 8st Tier Projects will be announced on October 2, 26, after the 2023nd Tier Jury Evaluation. The first selected project in the competition will receive 700 thousand TL, the second selected project 600 thousand, and the third selected project 400 thousand TL. An honorable mention of 100 thousand TL will be given to the five projects selected in the competition.
Common space for sustainable solutions
The Izmir Sustainability Center, which will be implemented within the scope of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Energy and Climate Action Plan and Green City Action Plan, will be a zero carbon structure and will be designed with innovative solutions. Universities, academics, non-governmental organizations and citizens will benefit from the center where the city's sustainability strategies, policies and projects will be produced. The Center will play an active role in accelerating the transition to a zero-emission environment, promoting and disseminating urban solution practices in the field of sustainability.
National Competition
The competition opened in line with the Regulation on Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Urban Design Projects, City and Regional Planning and Fine Art Works, pursuant to Articles 4734 and 23 of the Public Procurement Law No. 53, will be a national, two-stage, free, architectural project competition. Within the scope of the project, it is aimed to encourage creative projects and authors who observe the sustainability approach throughout their life cycle, can realize the zero carbon structure target based on data and performance, prioritize climate flexibility and adaptation, and put forward a circular, cost-effective, innovative environmental and architectural understanding.
Conditions of participation
Those who will participate in the competition must be members of the chambers affiliated to the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects and must not be banned from the profession. Again, it is required that those who will participate in the competition are not among those who determine and appoint the jury members and rapporteurs, and the first degree relatives, partners, assistants and employees of the jury members and reporters. Those who receive specifications in the competition, where those who are not present will apply, will hand-deliver their 1st Tier Projects until 4734 on July 4735.
Who is on the jury?
Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Advisor Ecologist Dr. Güven Eken, Deputy Secretary General of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, Environmental Engineer Şükran Nurlu, Head of Department of Studies and Projects of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality – Architect Vahyettin Akyol, Prof. Dr. City Planner Koray Velibeyoğlu, Assoc. Dr. Mechanical Engineer Nurdan Yıldırım, Urban Planner – Green Building Specialist Murat Doğru as a consultant jury member of the competition, the main jury members of the competition are Architect Nevzat Sayın (Chairman of the Jury), M. Architect Bünyamin Derman, Prof. Dr. Civil Engineer Cemalettin Dönmez, M. Architect Aslıhan Demirtaş Cindoruk, Assoc. Dr. Architect Gülsu Ulukavak Harputlugil, Prof. Dr. It was composed of Architect Mehmet Bengü Uluengin and Senior Architect Özgür Güller.
Participatory management approach
For the project that will unite all the actors of the city in the goal of sustainability, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality organized an Exploration Workshop with a participatory management approach. BayraklıJury members were determined by taking the decision to organize an architectural competition for the center and its surroundings, which is planned to be built in Turan District of Istanbul.
İzmir, the national champion of the One World Cities Competition
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which has implemented its projects with the goal of zero carbon in 2030 against the climate crisis, became the champion of Turkey in the international One Planet City Challenge (OPCC) organized by WWF. He is also the Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. Tunç SoyerIn line with the vision of tackling the climate crisis, İzmir was also selected for the Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Mission from the European Union.
The specifications of the competition can be accessed at the address of sudurulüldülikmerkezi.izmir.bel.tr.