Çatalca is the largest district (1291 km2) of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. It is located in the Thracian hinterland of the metropolitan city where urban frenzy meets with the rural landscape. And have been a critical region for the inhabitants of Constantinople for hundreds of years containing strategical line of defense against the west; the Anastasian wall build by Roman Empire Heraclius, the first battle of Çatalca during the Balkan war or the Çakmak Line bunkers during the IIWW. Now İstanbul being a fast-growing metropolitan, with its megaprojects sprawling towards east and west and swallowing nature and history on its way.

Sector 1 considers a new network of resilience which can embody, support and restore memory of the Çatalca region. This network is made out of various bunkers, aqueducts, historical structures which are being repressed / under pressure by current land uses and patterns/by present land patterns. We have founded that this network is part of the Çatalca’s lost historical landscape.  And want to revive and protect this network through extracting hidden archetypes and reconstructing them in a landscape to regenerate a collective memory. Memory consists of byzantine artefacts, military infrastructures and natural amenities. Creating a landscape where information is collected, protected and retransmitted.