KÜÇÜKÇEKMECE ECO-CULTURE BASIN

Küçükçekmece Lagoon Basin is a unique but unfortunately damaged ecosystem that hosts a rich variety of species of flora and fauna and contains various habitats. It also stands out with its historical, cultural and archaeological heritage dating back hundreds of thousands of years.

It is necessary to develop ecosystem, waste management, urban, rural, transportation, culture, social awareness and education strategies with sustainable and ecological principles, accompanied by multi-disciplinary research and studies for this basin, which has almost disappeared despite its serious potentials. Micro-focused intervention decisions taken with these strategies can be implemented in a phased manner and the basin can be rehabilitated as a socio-ecological system where urban and wild life can coexist in harmony.

The main idea of our project is to rehabilitate the basin with gradual micro-interventions over time by trying to understand the basin instead of changing it with radical decisions, by developing local-cultural values and cultural landscape in the region, by raising the ecological awareness of the public, by creating a spontaneously protected eco-cultural social environment, by reading and mediating the effort of the structural/natural landscape to find itself.

RESEARCH AND STUDY PHASE

• Hydrological Survey
• Environmental Pollution Study
• Geological Survey
• Cultural and Archaeological Survey
• Flora and Fauna Survey
• Transportation Study

PLANNING PHASE

• Basin Ecosystem Protection and Promotion Strategy
• Basin Waste Management Strategy
• Basin Historical and Archaeological Heritage Protection Strategy
• Basin Biocultural Heritage Protection and Rural Life Support Strategy
• Basin Transportation Strategy
• Basin Urban Transformation Strategy
• Basin Social Awareness and Education Strategy

INTERVENTION PHASE

1. Küçükçekmece Lake and Surroundings (Urban Green Belt); Bathonea Archaeopark, Birdwatching and Nature Photography Area (Avifauna Park), Eco park (Natural Science Village, Botanical Park), Cultural Hydrology Park, Sports village, Water Sports Center, Dalyan Ecoculture Park, Region Archeopark, Küçükçekmece City Park and Avcılar City Park, Eco Farms Experimental Agriculture Area, Urban Gardens, Menekşe Beach

2. Sazlıdere Wetland (Rural-Urban Transition Ecotone Zone); Yarımburgaz Cave and Visitor Center, Aromatic Plants Park, Food Forest, Beekeeping Pasture, Renewable Energy Park, Ecological Observation points

3. Sazlıdere Dam Lake and Surroundings (Nature Parks and Ecotourism Corridor); Sazlidere Nature Park, Şamlar Nature Park, Glamping Areas, Controlled Recreation Areas, Ecological Observation Points, Festival Area

4. Basin Rural Development Area (Agriculture and Livestock Corridor); Ecovillages, Organic Market areas, Agriculture Areas, Pastures, Buffalo Field, Forestry Area, Honey forest, Agricultural Technology Development Center, Seed Gene Bank, Festival Area, Agriculture Based Industrial Zone and Eco-industrial Park Area, Treatment Plant and Compost Production Center

Common Units Across the Basin; ecological observation towers, navigation platforms, pedestrian and bicycle paths, bicycle stations, ecological information stations, ecological rehabilitation stations, rest stations, meditation-retreat stations, piers, urban orchards, pedestrian bridges, green bridges, floating phytoremediation islands, rainwater pond, flood ponds, ınsect houses, bird houses, measurement and observation units, ınformation and orientation elements, canopies, lighting elements and furnitures, ınformation digital app, glamping areas, eco-art spaces, workshop and event spaces..

Common units used throughout the basin are designed to ensure unity of language and cohesion.

Basin Experience Routes; water route, bioculture route, culture route, ecovillage route, electric excursion boat route