Batikent, Turkey, Asia
Year 1983 latitude: 39° 57' longitude: 32° 43' Period 1974-1983 Initiator(s) Municipality of Ankara Planning organization KENT-KOOP (Union of Housing Cooperatives in Batent) Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Kent-Koop Architectural Bureau Inhabitants 200,000 (2000) Target population 250,000 Town website http://batikent.org Town related links http://www.archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=1217 http://www.unesco.org/most/easteur1.htm http://www.iisd.org/50comm/commdb/list/c22.htm http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/icic/today/housing/Turkey--Batikent-Project--1995- 1.html Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
The project has been designed from the ground, and consists of 18.600 two-storey housing units, 28.000 five-storey housingunits, and 4.000 housing units in high rise blocks. These are arranged around commercial facilities, infrastructure and green spaces. It is one of the first projects of good quality housing with green and open spaces build for lower and middle income groups. It thus differs in scale and organizations from anything previously build in Turkey. The project is a joint project initiated by the housing corporation Kent-Koop (itself composed of several civil cooperatives) with the municipality and central Turkish administration. To help finance the project the inhabitants - being not able to by their own houses - came together in cooperatives. The batikent project thus worked as a laboratory for further housing projects in Turkey investigating both financial schemes and how to locate and meet the demands of the inhabitants. source:
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