The full details of Foster + Partners’ plan for an urban recovery of the earthquake-damaged Turkish city of Antakya and Hatay province have been made publicly available for the first time since the project was announced last October. 

The regeneration plan entails eight separate ‘design principles,’ among them: Build on safe land, Improve circulation, Improve open spaces, Create new districts, Layer neighborhoods, Enhance connectivity at a city and neighborhood scale, and, finally, Build back. Other aspects of the published scheme include the consideration of the regional architecture's traditional building scale, relationships, configurations, facades, and formal language. 

The UK-based firm says it is working closely with several local NGOs and Turkish civil agencies (including the Turkish Design Council, the Turkish Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism). Buro Happold, MIC-HUB, and Turkish practices DB Architects and KEYM Urban Renewal Centre collaborated on the Antakya proposal. The plan will reportedly be implemented in a 30-square-kilometer (11.6-square-mile) planning area. No exact timelines for its start or completion have been provided at this time.