Sedad Hakki Eldem e il Bosforo, il progetto per la riva di Kuruçesme

In the general and long-lasting experience of Istanbul as Byzantine and - later - Ottoman town, the human settlement and the creation of a landscape along the shores of the Bosporus is a unique artifact. The yali architecture in the Bosporus is a settlement’s principle, continuing, organizing and in work setting an original Greek byzantine landscape marked by walls, water and terraces. The work of Sedad Hakki Eldem in Kuruçescme focuses on a strip of the Bosporus, which was used during the last period of the Ottoman Empire as summer Imperial Residential area.