As being a permanent user of Eskişehir Yolu, I see as a necessity to mention Gökkuşağı Parkı in Road of Gökkuşağı. We are writing this blog as architecture students but one doesn’t have to be an architect to realize that something is going wrong about that set-up(I can see your faces agreeing!). Before critisizing the park on its own, I want to point out to the negative impacts it causes to its enviroment. In order to my research; after the construction of the subway , refuge of the upside of the road was enlarged for a ‘’recreation zone(!)’’ and now, it has this park on it. The road which is narrowed(narrowed into single road!) bacause of the Gökkuşağı Park, has lots of bus stations on both ways of the road.This time to enlarge the road the pavements narrowed until the National Library and resulted in a double- lane road which is also to narrow for that kind of busy route. This situation causes lots of taraffic problems especially on rush hours and makes people wait longer hours in bus stations. It is obvious that this city planning design of that road contradicts the principles of Universal Design which requires appropriate size and space for approach and use. And this structure also designed without respect to National Library, because of the park the silhoutte of the building is now impossible to see. The second issue is about the about the park itself. Its the most questioned thing about the structure is that, in what purpose that park designed onto a refuge. While creators of that park , shows university students as their target group and created spaces for eating and resting, I suppose they didn’t consider the exhaust smell and the noise pollution! I can say easily that this place can never be an eating and resting place and unsuprisingly it is totally empty now. Another problem that contradict with the design principles is that , one have to walk all along the road to get in the park which rquires a lot of physical effort. I bet no one would do that to get in that wonderful park! Finally , I’m ending this post with my best wishes to Ankara, I hope in future we will be able to experience usable and rational spaces which will be designed in respect to Design Principles.
You can see the pavement almost juxtapopsed to National Lıbrary!
Gökkuşağı Park ( Behind it you can('t) see the National Library)
The park is totally empty and rotting day by day.
As being a permanent user of Eskişehir Yolu, I see as a necessity to mention Gökkuşağı Parkı in Road of Gökkuşağı. We are writing this blog as architecture students but one doesn’t have to be an architect to realize that something is going wrong about that set-up(I can see your faces agreeing!). Before critisizing the park on its own, I want to point out to the negative impacts it causes to its enviroment. In order to my research; after the construction of the subway , refuge of the upside of the road was enlarged for a ‘’recreation zone(!)’’ and now, it has this park on it. The road which is narrowed(narrowed into single road!) bacause of the Gökkuşağı Park, has lots of bus stations on both ways of the road.This time to enlarge the road the pavements narrowed until the National Library and resulted in a double- lane road which is also to narrow for that kind of busy route. This situation causes lots of taraffic problems especially on rush hours and makes people wait longer hours in bus stations. It is obvious that this city planning design of that road contradicts the principles of Universal Design which requires appropriate size and space for approach and use. And this structure also designed without respect to National Library, because of the park the silhoutte of the building is now impossible to see. The second issue is about the about the park itself. Its the most questioned thing about the structure is that, in what purpose that park designed onto a refuge. While creators of that park , shows university students as their target group and created spaces for eating and resting, I suppose they didn’t consider the exhaust smell and the noise pollution! I can say easily that this place can never be an eating and resting place and unsuprisingly it is totally empty now. Another problem that contradict with the design principles is that , one have to walk all along the road to get in the park which rquires a lot of physical effort. I bet no one would do that to get in that wonderful park! Finally , I’m ending this post with my best wishes to Ankara, I hope in future we will be able to experience usable and rational spaces which will be designed in respect to Design Principles.
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