A review about the iron cage of 9 meters in diameter, with 5 centimeters stone paved, built next to the July 15 Martyrs' Bridge.
This cage was built as a mausoleum of July 15 Martyrs and opened on July 15th, 2017.
- My Favourite Parts:
1.1. A meaningful component of the structure I like:
"In addition, detailed information related to the martyrs can be reached from the barcodes which is put in front of 250 cypresses and written on the personal records of martyr names."
1.2. Apart from liking it, I criticize the Inroduction part.
''A knelling which is performed with a faint voice at any moment in the daylight or the night.''
"Visitors will be able to sit down around the stages of this centre listening to knelling which is performed with a faint voice at any moment in the daylight or in the night, and which is in the Dilkeşhaveran Maqam, and which is estimated to belong to the great composer Itrî or Hatip Zaqir'i Hasan Efendi, and they will be able to read the Martyrs' names, and those who are willers will be able to read Quran and pray.
Of course, I support knelling, but one would wish that Mehmet Görmez would be mentioned there. Mehmet Görmez is retired now. It doesn't hurt to speak well of him.
At the most critical moment of the day, by taking tremendous initiative, he has made the speakers tremendous power, which disrupt the beauty of the crush with the noise of the parasites in the minarets, remembering the example given by his father many years ago. Thanks to Mehmet Görmez we now have a power that is not in any country: KNELLING
- Narrative Criticism
2.1. Pentagram
"The memorial, referring to a pentagram, consists of Turkish triangles which is a geodesic dome made of a pentagon and it sits on a pentagon layout.''
Referring to pentagram blurs our history clearly. Because the pentagram is the symbol that many ancient civilizations have used and assign meanings like Jews, Maya, Egypt, India, Babylon. The most ancient of them symbolizes the Sumerian Goddess Inanna and the planet Venus which align with the world every 4 and 40 years.
Our symbol is not a pentagram, our symbol is ''The Star and Crescent.'' The Star and Crescent is associated with each other.
2.2. Turkish Triangle
There is nothing to be considered as a symbol of Turkish triangle. While there is a geometric element which is called ''Pentendive'' in Italian, and which is required to place the dome into a square base, I leave it to you: How easy it is to choose and symbolize a simple form used as a decorative element in a few places like in Edirne Old Mosque.
2.3. Geodesic Dome
Geodesic Dome means ''Courbe géodésique'' in French. We can translate it into Turkish perhaps as ''The Dome resembles the shape of the Earth'' or ''The Unshaped Dome.''
Now, when you assign meanings to these words, we can understand that the sentence which is used to introduced the memorial is a meaningless sentence.
2.4. One more meaningless sentence:
"The pentagon-based geodesic dome arch is cascaded and dives underground, and it is spatialized by symbolizing the idea of ''The future whose root is in the past.''
I can't help it to admire the imagination of the mind that forms this sentence. How does this dome fall into the ground by cascading of coves? Unbelievable!
Is it this much easy to symbolize the idea of '' The future whose root is in the past?''
2.5. Emphasis on Islam
"Muqarnas, one of the most prominent elements of Islamic Arts, is used as a star-shaped, circulating water, and a pool signing that everything that is alive is created from water, which is right in the center of the cascade space surrounded by the dome. This center expresses the truth which is ''We belong to God, and finally we will return to Him (Quran, Bakara-156).'' "Visitors will be able to sit down around the stages of this centre listening to knelling which is performed with a faint voice at any moment in the daylight or in the night, and which is in the Dilkeşhaveran Maqam, and which is estimated to belong to the great composer Itrî or Hatip Zaqir'i Hasan Efendi, and they will be able to read the Martyrs' names, and those who are willers will be able to read Quran and pray.
I find these expressions unnecessary to make sense of such an memorial. July 15 is a national issue. It is the concept of "NATION" that should be emphasized. This concept is now called by the Venerable President as "RABIA" and its principles are symbolized as: "ONE NATION" - ONE FLAG - ONE HOMELAND - ONE STATE "and it expresses the present day completely.
I think it is a very cheap approach to imagine a pentagonal shape or something first, then adapt it to an Abjad.
2.6. What about the Dome and Shrine which has matured for centuries?
"The memorial was built with the conception of the tradition, which has the Dome-Shrine conception has matured since centuries, as a Martyrs Memorial at the exit of Anatolian side of July 15 Martyrs Bridge, which is the place where the most intense and terrible cases have happened, in order to keep the memory of this glorious resistance alive. "
I haven't heard of a " Dome - Shrine Conception" until this time. I did some research. I may have been wrong, but I do not think there is such a conception.
The best source for this issue is "An interview with Orhan Necmi Tuncer".
It will be an honor for us to apologize if the architect of the structure condescends to inform the public.
2.7. Reference to bunching up
"The unity, the togetherness and the bunching up against the coup attempt was cited ''In the structure in which the eternal life is depicted for the martyrs."
This sentence reveals the fact that why it is so hasty and mundane: Characterizing July 15th as a coup attempt refers to only looking it from the political party window to which it belongs.
Howewer, an architect's part is to be unbiased, not biased. Because Architectural Profession is excluded from the politics.
An impartial observation should have been like that: July 15 is the attempt to invade the entire country. If it does not succeed, Plan B is to cause chaos and turn the country into a bloodshed.
2.8. Effortlessness of forming the shape first and then forming the conception!
"The roof of the memorial was built as a strong, unshakable and locked way by representing the continuity of the nation and the state.
''The dome emphasizes eternity and immortality of the martyrs.''
- Emphasize on the Structure:
3.1. Material and technique that should not be used for the memorial:
''For memorial, 5cm-thick limestone was veneered over the steel construction.''
This is really tragic. This kind of ordinary approach shown to July 15, which is one of the touchstones of our history, is very surprising. Twenty years later, limestone will be dissolved, and iron will be rusted. Is this what has been understood by the memorial?
3.2. Triangles and pentagons which is not known where they are. Distorted shapes.
3.3. Do not underestimate the size of the structure and July 15.
Compare the pool of the villa with the size of the memorial.
Above, I have criticized the way of the presentation of the monument which is constructed as a memorial.
But my main criticism is the inability to take stock of 15th of July, and the levity that has been shown by the structure built up accordingly. It's not enough to just criticize. The critic must be able to bring forward an alternative proposal. Here I am also bringing my alternative views.
Until recently, I described the incident as "July 15th invasion attempt". Suddenly we had an epiphany and it was revealed that cases happened until this day were real, not conspiracy. Now, we could see the events more clearly. The traitors were prepared for fifty years. Fifty years of preparation had collapsed in a night.
In the course of time, with the help of epiphany we have had, I was able to comprehend the situation more broadly. But we were blind, we couldn't even see the evil. We were deaf, we couldn't hear the sound of the thunder. To my surprise, it smelt fishy and our brains couldn't work very well in order to anticipate the causes of this.
July 15 is a saga.
Plan implemented step by step for 150 years by Zionism in order to take revenge for 1071 Malazgirt defeat that exerts the feeling of one thousand years revenge, which couldn't be done by Byzantium who mobilized the Christians. After, Emanuel Karasu who notified dethronement to Sultan II.Abdülhamit on April 1909, after the foolishness of Party of Union and Progress, who has been guided by Ottoman Empire's last chief rabbi Hayim Naum and Lord Rothschild, Zionism were about to achieve their aim with the treaty of Sevres, thanks to God's gift to Turkish Nation, Veteran Soldier Kemal Atatürk who is from the heart of Turkish Nation stopped this plan.
But they did not stop. They restarted to execute the plan. They have had many Turks like Kasım Gülek who are unprovided with the irritability and who are brainwashed by Rockefeller scholarship. With their help, and without spending too much money, the Pakrudin Fethullah was prepared throughout 50 years.
On July 15, they became more stronger than the following situation:
''The enemies conspiring against your independence and your republic, may have behind them a victory unprecedented in the annals of the world. It may be that, by violence and ruse, all the fortresses of your beloved fatherland may be captured, all its shipyards may be occupied, all its armies may be dispersed and every part of the country may be invaded. And sadder and graver than all these circumstances, those who hold power within the country may be in error, misguided and may even be traitors. Furthermore, they may identify their personal interests with the political designs of the invaders. The country may be impoverished, ruined and exhausted.'' (Address to Turkish Youth by K. Atatürk)
They even took over the top of the country's army. They achieved to drive the government to inattention and perversion by hiding themselves.
They deceived the Christians under cover of a thousand-year revenge. They would have settled the account of 500 years long by conquering Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Canaan Region which is conquered by King Sargon in 722 B.C. and by the king of Babylonia Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. They would have let Jesus Christ to ascend the throne of King David. The Evangelists would have rise to the air, the millennial golden age of Israelites would have begun. Didn't Oracle of John of Patmos tell like that?
A single flick was enough for two thousand five hundred years-old dream to come true.
Here, July 15 burst the bubble.
Sabri Ünal who lay down under the tank deliberatively, Ömer Halisdemir who shot the traitor in the head, Hande Fırat, our martyrs, our veteran soldiers, and the main hero Tayyip Erdoğan who said ''I don't recognize any power which is more powerful than the nation'' by keeping ahead of the nation with the determination made the epic of June 15th together.
Anyone who can make that remark above understands that the memorial which will be constructed in memory of the epic must be befit the epic's dignity.
However, the building that is built and claimed to be a memorial is smaller than the villa's pool next to it, construction failure is a complete "Bilbao Ineffectiveness".
This unbearable weight of Bilbao ineffectiveness keeps me very engaged.
Bilbao Effect
Bilbao's story is like a fairy tale. This industrial city, which has not been noticed for years, is transformed into a city where is visited by lots of people around the world by constructing a building by an architect. After that, all the cities who think that they are back from the technology of the world wait for the architect to give them a jewel.
hcBOYSAN translated.