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Enclosed Paradise: Istanbul’s Microcities as Megaprojects
The Turkish word for Gated Community is site, from the French cité, and they generally resemble the French highrises of the same name, rather than American tract housing. Towers and slabs stand shoulder to shoulder, dancing in a circle around the gardens they surround.
— failed architecture
How to Make an Enclosed Paradise:
- Raze a blighted industrial site or neighborhood close to the city center, preferably along a new highway or metro line.
- Build an access road around the perimeter. Like a castle moat, this isolates your project from context and gives distance for height setbacks.
- Fill the offset parcel with a base. This plinth elevates the garden while providing parking underneath.
- Arrange towers and blocks along the borders of the site, maximizing the area of the captured central garden.
- Stand out from your neighbors with shiny materials.
- Market the project with a name that sounds like a car, i.e. ‘Innovia’, or ‘Quasar’.
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