The design concept takes its inspiration from the traditional Turkish tea gardens, a place for social gatherings with friends and family under the shade of trees. We designed a moveable park which not only brings green into the city but also creates the opportunity to show how public space can be used multi-functionally. By making it moveable we created an interactive continuously changing public space. It invites the users to make a connection between them and the public space, to create a sense of involvement with their own environment and therefore a shared feeling of responsibility. 

Within the design concept, all of the seating, lighting, and table elements are designed as movable elements. The measurements of the modular elements are in accordance with the social distancing rules brought by the pandemic.

Result

Our design approach that is developed based on the traditional tea gardens is a proposal for a multi-functional park to meet the needs for public spaces within the contemporary city. Based on the limitations and opportunities of the site, the flexibility we wanted to propose, and current restrictions due to the pandemic, we designed a mainly hexagonal furniture line that offered four different functions. When combined, the furniture created a semi-enclosed space just like an autonomous tea garden, and with the help of trees that offer shade—again, just like a tea garden—the space became a true venue.

The furniture line consisted of 9 anchored trees, 8 seating elements, 5 lighting elements, 3 table elements, and a mini skatepark. Each of these components was designed to combine with others in different layouts that allow visitors to do a range of activities, like sitting down across from one another at a table or using the site as an event space.