Im Yasemin, a final year Architecture Student at the University of Greenwich with a passion for modular and sustainable architecture.
I am a very hard working and organised individual with a passion for architecture. Throughout my projects, I tend to choose topics that interest me / have a connection to. In particular, with my dissertation I chose to focus on an earthquake that struck South Eastern Turkey in 2023. With my Turkish ethnicity, my knowledge and passion for the country, the research into the earthquake became second nature. The dissertation was enjoyable and I was able to gain valuable knowledge into the problems that occur within the architecture practice / world that we aren’t often exposed to during our studies.
This dissertation examines the international and local architec tural responses to the catastrophic earthquake in South East ern Turkey in 2023. Affecting 10 provenances with the collapse of around 230,000 buildings – led me to question, how this can happen. Turkey has been affected by earthquakes in the past (1992 Erzincan and 1999 Izmit) but never to this extent – the past studies reviewing these earthquakes show the reasoning to be linked with, the use of poor-quality materials and illegal activities from the people in charge. These people have been found to cut costs on materials in order to make a profit. These reasons and many more will be explained throughout the dis sertation. To see the architectural responses, I will be sort ing through Turkish and English Journals such as Yapi Dergisi and The RIBA Journal, showing how the local and international opinions may vary/ have similar views. Each chapter of the dis sertation has a different focus from; background knowledge, f irsthand accounts from survivors, and architectural journals, all aiding in answering the dissertation question. Whilst my initial aim is to gain an understanding of what went wrong, it is also to spread awareness and to bring to light all the uncovered truths that still go on, to prevent this from happening again.
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