Reading Bayrampasa Prison as a living space

The basic needs such as sheltering and protection of individuals to spend their life does not only express the physical environment. Together with the expression of the circumstances limited by the physical environment, it consists of physical integrity of the space. Begins with the quest for meaning and trying to read the footprints of experiences by means of combining the 'concept of space' are the main objectives of the study. Beyond responding the basic needs of the daily lifes in which physical structural elements limited by the physical environment, the questions were asked to subject such as how 'life' which is limited by the environmental conditions can be read according to the design discipline. The subject mentioned herein constitues user itself. Begin with the search for the meaning of space, the study tried to find its own meaning in differentiating their dynamics. It means in this context the meaning itself has become the method. However, the space itself has been tried to find by studying thoroughly the relationships of language, dialogue, atmosphere, body and memory. Bayrampaşa Prison (Sağmalcılar Prison) fieldwork, resides on searching of the principle of how those querries could arise and become concrete questions in professional practice. In order to examine the 'production of space' via extreme spaces, the study has been established as the field in terms of experiential relationship between the user and the space itself. In this sense of 'correlation', using the term 'örneklem' is considered to be more deterministic way rather than naming as 'example'. Bayrampaşa Prison has become a wellness center in time in which includes all the dynamics of the city along with the development and growth of the city from the detention center in the city's periphery as well as being necessary periodic sample properties. During these transformation process, some questions are asked and tried to be examined such as how bodies turn into energy where bodies are trapped in space or how they could transform the meaning. However, it is tried to be explained how individuals as 'designers' experience the space as well as explaining the efforts of interpretation of the space by the individual as experiencing the space. The study at the same time tries to read the perception of 'existence' in the space of both the individual's experiences and the designer's by means of whole interrelations. Additionally, during this interaction it is tried to be explored the potentials resulting from the relations between those spaces experienced by the individuals. The subject of the resolution itself, rather than trying to identify the existing start and end points, then followed by the passage of time and experience is also defined as the process of transformation itself. arising from the subject and place in constant motion, this vitality becomes all encountered situations in different ways. During this study the questions has been responded such as why Pallasmaa's orientation and the concept has directed the researches. Pallasmaa not only express his world by architectural drawings and technical terms in construction world but also reveals existence of architecture between philosophy and art. According to Pallasmaa, the main task of architecture should appeal all the senses rather than having limited functions like sheltering and the relation between user and space. For this reason Pallasmaa's orientation has been chosen as the determining factor for the study. In the second chapter, mainly Pallasmaa's concepts are presented to the reader. There some readings have been made through the writer's experiences of the spatial character and space perception, space language (graffiti), the atmosphere of the place, memory-space and experiences-body. In the third section accordingly, Bayrampaşa Prison readings have been made and in the final section as a result, questioning ideas have been opened as a discussion on these issues within the scope of the thesis as well as the relationship with the interior architecture of the study have been discussed. This experience or acquisition of the design process have also been questioned regarding to network relationship.