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OKTAA is an award-winning architecture office co-founded by Gürkan Okta and Birge Yıldırım Okta, practicing architecture, landscape architecture and urban design since 2005. Granted more than ten prestigious national and international awards, OKTAA expands the boundaries of spatial design towards theory, research and cultural analysis. As an interdisciplinary studio OKTAA, aims to create know-how with a dynamic and innovative practice that is based on a collaborative sprit.
Hill of Tears | .studio
International Architecture Biennial of Antalya
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Grief as Resistance
Hill of Tears is a space of mourning created to remember and never forget the women and children murdered by gendered violence.
Here, grief is not silence; it is resistance.
Every stone, every drop, every light carries the trace of a lost life.
The space makes visible the pain that society seeks to bury;
it transforms the forgotten into a forest of remembrance woven from water, soil, and light.
To mourn here is to remember,
and to remember is the act of resistance itself.
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Team:
Birge Yıldırım Okta
Gurkan Okta
Murat Opus (Musical Composition)
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Site Installation:
Furkan Toru
Can Gök
Ece Erçelik
Batuhan Efe Şahin
Ece Başgör ecebasgor
Ayşe Öztürk syaozt
Hira AylinÖzkan
Elif Temel
Mustafa Kılıç
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Dance Performance:
Özlem Ural
Özlem Soytürk
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Supporters:
Liverpool John Moores University
Mimarlar Odası Antalya Şubesi
OKTAA.Studio .studio
Hasan Çerçiler
Antalya Dans Akademi
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Thanks to..
Jale N. Erzen tulin_gorgulu .dr.kemalrehakavas Pelin Yoncacı Arslan pelinozgen Bilal Ateş .cem .akay
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Hill of Tears | OKTAA Studio
Antalya Mimarlık Bienali 2025
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Hill of Tears – Yas Olarak Direniş
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Hill of Tears, kadın ve çocuk cinayetlerini hatırlamak ve unutturmamak için bir yas mekânıdır.
Burada yas, sessizlik değil; direniştir.
Her taş, her damla, her ışık bir yaşamın izini taşır.
Mekân, toplumun bastırdığı acıyı görünür kılar; unutulanları suyla, toprakla, ışıkla bir orman düşüne dönüştürür.
Yas tutmak burada hatırlamanın,
hatırlamak ise direnişin kendisidir.
09/05/2025
Our project OASIS is being exhibited as part of the Turkish Pavilion "Grounded" at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
OASIS projemiz Venedik Mimarlık Bienali'nde "Grounded" temalı Türkiye Pavyonu'nda sergileniyor.
.arifoglu
Küratörler:
Architettura2025
Pavyonu
25/10/2021
25 Ekim, Türkiye saatiyle 16:00’da.
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://learn.zoom.us/j/63524195798?pwd=bEtCMWVJOVFuTi9aZGlhaW5FY3JPdz09
Meeting ID: 635 2419 5798
Passcode: rVx*&8$b
14/08/2021
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07/08/2021
FIELD SCHOOLS is designed for supporting the community based organizations in the local regions of tropical savanna territory of Africa. With it is building components the project offers to start the interaction between unemployed population (in construction) and local authorities. In the construction process of the school unemployed locals will be trained in the manufacture of stabilized earth and shading components.
For this reason the project offers variation of natural materials according to different regions such as reeds, branches, timber, earth, cob, bamboo which would easily be obtained, processed and manufactured by the local people. The tropical savanna climate was decisive in design process. For the year round high temperatures and preventing perpendicular lights of the sun shadow and semi shadow areas are created in the courtyard playground. According to the needs it is optional to use wind generators positioning to the strongest possible wind.
The heavy rainy summer season of tropical savanna climate become and adventage for rainwater storage. Grey water is also used as a renewable water source in toilets. The project’s green design strategies stresses the vulnerability of the local ecology.
The pyramidal mud huts of vernacular African architecture was an inspiration for the project. Taking the inspiration from the vernacular architecture, the flat top pyramidal roofs respond both to heavy rainy summer season, provide passive ventilation and generate electricity with photovoltaic panels.
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| Tuesday | 09:00 - 18:30 |
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