●Week 6- A palimpsest of Nereid Monuments: Belonging

It was difficult to adapt to feel that I am not in an Antique Greece city even if I am in the British Museum. Although there are many historical ruins in the British Museum, none of them as crazy as this idea: to reconstruct a temple in its real scale. I wanted to be in Xanthos in its real environment, to look around, to wonder about the remnants of the city. It gave me the feeling of being in different place at the same time.
With this work I will analyse the sense of belonging, our physical and mental interactions with the world.
Leach argues that design can aid the process of assimilation we go through when we adapt to our surroundings. Architecture, and indeed all forms of design and creativity—fashion, art, cinema, and others—can be an effective realm for forging a sense of belonging and establishing an identity. (Leach, N. Camouflage. 2006. MIT Press)


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History
The Nereid Monument is a very large and elaborate Lycian tomb dating from about 380 BC, an interesting mix of Greek and Lycian styles. It is the largest and finest of the Lykian tombs found at Xanthos, south-west Turkey. It is named after the figures of Nereids, daughters of the sea-god Nereus, placed between the columns.(http://www.lycianturkey.com/british-museum-lycia.htm)
The original place of many of the sculptures on the building is open to question and the reconstruction shown here is disputed. Freestanding statues of girls with wind-blown draperies thought to represent Nereids, daughters of the sea-god Nereus. Iris is a Messenger god and corresponds with Hermes in the left half of the pediment. She was winged, and her drapery was carved to suggest the rush of wind against her body during flight. It was previously believed that the winged women figures were harpies (monsters from Greek mythology with the head of a woman and the body of a bird). It is now thought that these figures may depict sirens carrying off the souls of the dead. (L. Burn, The British Museum book of Greater London, The British Museum Press, 1991)
Seventy huge crates of marbles were packed up and taken to England aboard the surveying British naval ship the HMS Beacon. The exhibition of the finds caused a huge sensation in London, almost as great as that of the exhibition of the Elgin Marbles forty years earlier. Thousands came to marvel at the finds from Xanthos which included the monumental Nereid Monument, the Horse Tomb, the Harpy Frieze and other miscellaneous reliefs from the city walls.

●Week 6- A 3d model for laser cut: Communication between two different landscapes with assymetric connections

by the way, it is a necklace...

●Week 6- Does History Museums Protect History?

“Nereid Monument”: the temple exhibited in the British Museum. The interesting thing about this gallery is its scale; 1:1. The temple’s size is 10.15x6.8m, and height is 5.15 m. It belongs to 380 BC. Since the British government wanted to protect this temple they brought this temple’s pieces from Turkey to England by sheep and reconstructed. Owing to the change of its place, maybe the temple is protected against the weather conditions, thieves, and to be forgotten, but this protection attempt leads to abolishing the history at the same time. Normally, we are accustomed to see historical ruins in museums, but building a space (historical temple) in a different space (museum) is the spectacle and in my opinion not ethical. Scale and the original stones result in originality, so it is real, but people do not use it as a temple, which is why it is not a real temple. Owing to the British Museum’s information papers about this temple, people believe that it has been carried from Turkey and it is not a copy as there is not any more the original of this temple.

●Week 5- Idea

I am looking for differences of human behaviour based on Air Street and Lavender Hill. Although the time, the day, the weather conditions, the light, the city, the actions’ definitions are the same in two streets, there are some obvious differences between people’s communication with environment.
In this work six common actions which I listed below were assessed by observing these two different streets. This observation showed that people in different streets behave completely different in terms of identification of streets.
I am fictionalizing the probable situations that if I switch the streets with same actions.
Same actions, different behaviours!

●Week 5- Same Time Different Places/ Air Street

What are Lavender Hill people doing there?
*Parking bicycle
Lavender: A bicycle parked upside down in front of cash machine which embedded in a hairdresser.
*Standing in the corner
Lavender: A group of well dressed people are standing in the corner in the lunch time break to get some fresh air.
*Looking at the shop windows
Lavender: A man interested in an attractive underwear shop window. He is not shopping and not interested in other shop windows along the road.
*Children
Lavender: Children are playing football in the street themselves.
*Answering to the environment
Lavender: A man, who is trying to understand the reason of having his picture taken, and make me afraid that if they damage my machine.
*Carrying shopping bags:
Lavender: A woman comes from market for daily shopping.

●Week 5- Same Time Different Places/ Lavender Hill

What are Air Street people doing there?
*Parking bicycle
Air: A bicycle parked in a bicycle parking normally.
*Standing in the corner
Air: A group of old men standing in the corner of William Hill and talking about lotteries.
*Looking at the shop windows
Air: A happy couple watching the different shop windows even if there is nothing in the shop windows.
*Children
Air: Children are walking with their parents.
*Answering to the environment
Air: A man, who enjoyed and posed for photograph when he realized that somebody taking his picture.
*Carrying shopping bags:
Air: A woman in a hurry comes from a fashion store.

•Week 4- Idea

My study attempts to reveal time-based relationships between human’s visual perception and architecture.
Anatomy of human visual system is changeable considering different factors such as human psychology, culture, and environment.
I will use dark and light surfaces’ perspectives from multiple angles as my presentation technique.
There is an obscurity problem in Air Street such that other streets and darkness alter people’s perception in this street. However, it can be solved with light and dark surfaces. The effects of light can change in accordance with weather conditions, seasons and time on a day. It affects scale of human, scale of building, longevity of street, wideness of street. Therefore through light, a space can be created in geometric projection of Air Street.
I tried to show Lavender Hill in section. There is an obvious difference between the different parts of Lavender Hill. Bottom of Lavender Hill is quieter than middle of Lavender Hill. Meanwhile, North wing of street is more safety than in South wing.

•Week 4- Brightness of Lavender Hill.

•Week 4- Shadows and Scales in Air Street

If light changes with the chemicals, if human perception is affected by light, if temperature is affected by light, a space that is used chemicals int he air may change the view and feelings in the street.

•Week 3- Lavender Hill-Action in Secret

•Week 3- Air Street perspectives & interested people

This paper shows the people who are interested in Air Street even if they are passing from parallel streets. Some says that they are affected by architecture in this street, some of themare just looking for car through the Air Street just passing acroos the street. When I stay in the middle of Air Street, sometimes i just see the arc,some times archs,sometimes longevity of the street is militating,sometimes height of building is more affective than longevity.

•Week 3- Frames in Air Street

Today, while i am obseving that people are how much aware of Air Street. When they are passing from parallel streets, all of them looking inside the darkness of Air Street and rhythm with the entrance of streets which can be seen from opposite side. It was my opinion, because I was concentrated on the perspectives of Air Street. Unfortunately, when i ask people about opinions of Air Street, i couldn't get special answers.
-Merve: But it took your attention. While you are passing near the Air Street you look inside, what was the thing which make you look inside of Air Street?
-Someone near the Air Stree: Actually,i was looking at that "is there any car coming?"

•interests` page

http://merve-references.blogspot.com/

•Week 3- I was a journalist today

I tried to talk with a police in the Lavender Hill Police Station about crime in Lavender Hill. But all questions' answers were same:"No!" or "I can't tell you."
I will add the video to blog.
Hopefully i find a few friendly occupier. She said that many polices looking for gun. Main problem is the people's wealth situation; very rich and very poor people live in this street together.Very rich people:generally mafia.very poor people generaly:gangster.
When you observe the street you can't say that this is slum.because appereance of street is very normal. and you can't say that this is a superb street that many rich people live here. That's why these two kind of people choose to live in.
Many crime was happened in secret, because they don't want to district this street's charming image.