NowHere: Designing Experience in Sille.

We were asked to design an experiential field in Sille, choosing either the dam or the cave site as our focus. The aim is to formulate diverse spatial conditions and experiences by developing spatial scenarios that enrich both bodily and visual interactions with the site.

Sille is a layered context where natural and cultural landscapes blend—hard and soft, land and water, permanence and temporality, and living and non-living coexist. We're expected to engage with this complexity and reflect our in-situ observations across different scales in our design strategies.

Our spatial scenarios should incorporate contrasts like:

• In/out, on/under, exposed/contained

• Edge/center, alone/together

• Light/dark, fast/slow, active/still, and in-between

We're encouraged to consider human scale, movement, material and tectonic qualities, and the notion of time as tools to generate spatial diversity and complexity. The goal is to create architectural maneuvers that unify place, time, space, and body, shifting between now|here and no|where.

We also had two lectures to support this process:

• “Mapping the Field Conditions” by Yiğit Acar, which taught us to read the site through layered relationships—topography, rhythms, and atmospheres.

• “From Field to Folder” by Gökçe Naz Soysal, which focused on documenting the physical world through sketches, photos, and material samples, translating field experiences into design language.

Our final design should be a tactile and spatial narrative—rooted in observation, emotion, and architectural imagination.

My strategy was having a core extends into two directions—toward the water and the hillside—where curving transitions guide water movement, creating a relationship with the land and shows the directionality of the design.