Geçit is a turkish word meaning portal, passage or gateway.

The workshop had two main pedagogical aims: first, students from Interior Architecture and Industrial Design had to respond to a design brief prepared by the tutors: they where asked to activate certain areas of their campus through a spatial intervention with simple architectural actions: a roof, a wall or a bench.

Second, to provide the student a design method that would guide and frame their design process in strict relation with a given technique and material. In this specific case: pine wood and reclaimed agriculture mesh fabric.

During the first 2 days of the workshop the students and the instructors worked in a process of collaborative design in order to define: the architectural strategy to be applied, the location where to install the structure and all the constructive details to be developed in order to be build it in the following 3 days.

Part of the of the challenge of this workshop was in fact to involve the students in all the design phases leading to the experience of building a 1:1 working and usable ‘small’ architecture piece.