Modular Journal

Abstract

The subject of this study is to question and investigate the vitality of Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM), which is defined as a 'living building' by its designer. The element that gives this quality to the building, which is likened to a living being, is the shell that dynamically transmits contextual data. Based on the analogy of life, the living shell layer of OMM is associated with epithelial tissue in biology. Thus, it is aimed both to reach the place of the factors that provide the vitality of an organism in architecture through OMM and to contribute to new research areas by establishing an analogy between two different fields. As a result, the action-response movement provided by the building envelope with contextual and physical data and the active transfer movements of the tissue intersected in the concepts of dynamism and context. In addition, the mechanical expression that meets the actions of the texture was synthesized by transferring it to the architecture and the evaluation was concluded with the concept of 'contextual mechanics'. By making use of literature and architectural examples, 'contextual mechanics' was fed with various concepts. Thus, the contextual mechanics of both phenomena were established by attributing a metaphorical meaning other than the analogy of the OMM shell and epithelial tissue. The study was concluded by analyzing the OMM through its sections and photographs and contextual mechanics.