The Fountain
Type: Architectural Competition
Team: Hakan Tüzün Şengün, Seda Kurt Şengün, Ahmet Ruşen Uçar, Oğuz Cem Çelik, Tarik Keskin
Year: 2021
Sebil (The Fountain) is a small-scale building proposal on the coast of Üsküdar, Istanbul which purifies the water by rain harvesting and makes the water available to the public with a total of nine gargoyles on three-sided masonry stone walls. The building system consists of radial beams supported on reinforced concrete columns, a circular pulley connecting these radial beams at the center, and a reinforced concrete shell formed in a concave form from the lower ends of the beams. The columns are circular in cross-section and their diameter is D=36cm. There is a small circular gap to allow the water flow through the center of the columns and beams of variable cross-section.
The structure produces a meditative space by hiding the central space of the twelve columns which are carrying the canopy and collecting water. The whole structure is an archipelago surrounded by bicycles, skateboards, which are used as rain collection pools. Sebil is an infrastructure project, an urban equipment design and a small scale intervention which aims to scale the inordinate public space formation on the waterfront at Üsküdar and enriches the life passing through it with different vistas. It aims to meet the coast in Üsküdar with its different interior — exterior continuities and the memory space at the centre all around the collection pool.
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