Explore the transformation of abandoned buildings at the Turkish

Explore the transformation of abandoned buildings at the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale,

The Turkish Pavilion hung a series of cloud-like fabrics reflecting hundreds of abandoned buildings in Turkey at the Venice Architecture Biennale,

looking for possible new ways to transform in light of the country’s earthquakes.

The exhibition, titled Ghost Stories:

The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture, is curated by SO?,

Where company founder Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş discuss,

In new ways of transformation through the use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

The exhibition is located in Sale d’Armi, Arsenale, and documents for the first time hundreds of abandoned buildings scattered across the country.

and explores the news about how to bring these buildings back to life at a critical time for Turkey,

Which recently suffered from the great earthquake between Türkiye and Syria and the economic crisis.

The curators, Sevins Bayrak and Oral, the curators of the exhibition, said:

The exhibition draws its strength from the radical changes that the world of architecture has undergone in the past two decades.

He suggests listening to and understanding the stories of abandoned buildings,

rather than focusing on more heroic successful examples.

They added, “Since construction in Turkey is a result of economic growth rather than spatial needs,

we have a large variety of unused buildings, from hospitals to airports.”

“While we were preparing for this project,

two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 struck southeastern Turkey,

causing great damage,” they explained.

At the show, the empty buildings on display range from partially or completely empty skyscrapers to luxury apartments,

hotels, schools, hospitals, restaurants and entertainment facilities.

The curators aim to show the potential benefits of unused buildings

as a resource and laboratory for the country in response to Leslie Loko’s theme, Laboratory of the Future.

Using artificial intelligence as a tool, they were trained on their architectural vocabulary,

Bayrak and Goktas come up with promising new insights for both uninhabited buildings,

This shows how people can repopulate these spaces and repurpose them for the benefit of society.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by the visionary science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin,

whose book, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, retold the story of human origin,

disputing the idea that the spear was the first human tool, and instead telling the story of the carrying bag,

The empty vessel that early humans could carry is more than

what can be carried in the hand based on the theory of evolution of carrying bags by Elizabeth Fisher.

The exhibition is divided into two sections: The Cloud and The Workbench.

Explore the transformation of abandoned buildings at the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale