Author: OPENACT Architecture Team: Zuhal Kol, Carlos Zarco Sanz, Jose Luis Hidalgo, Zehra Saday Aygün, Barış Can Cüce, Zeynep Küheylan, Ozan Şen, Rana Zehra İmam, Pelin Doğan, Ozan Önder Özener. Client: BBB Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality Location: Bandirma, Turkey Status: Commissioned Period: 2017 - ongoing Consultancy: Ozan Önder Özener, PhD., Gülsün Tanyeli, PhD. Landscape Project.: Meliz Akyol, PhD., CeyPeyzaj Ltd. Restoration Pr. Consultancy: Arzu Özsavaşçı, Selin Gener 3D Laser Survey.: Solvotek Mühendislik Ltd. Structural project: Fonksiyon Mühendislik Ltd. Mechanical Project : Sinerji Dinamik Proje Mühendislik Ltd. Electrical Project: Pozitif Proje Ltd. Lighting Design: Nergiz Arifoğlu Light Style Ltd. Project area (m2): 261.000 m2 Total constructed area (m2): 49.000 m2 Awards: First Award –Bandırma Design Park International Architecture Competition Bandirma Park Int. Competition project Emerging against a dramatic landscape in Marmara’s industrial hub- Bandirma, Design Park offers an exploration of opportunities with its diverse programmatic, ecologic and infrastructural inputs. This reclaimed area, from a former industrial/military periphery as a public park, carries the potential to be transformed into a predominant common ground for Bandirma and a regional attraction point in Marmara to respond to the processes of the expanding city and its pluralistic users. The assumed task here is to create links and let new realities emerge through establishment of connections and programs, allowing the park to be activated by new channels and networks between people, ecology and the territorial surroundings. Aiming to create an open, interactive, collective and productive focal point locally and regionally, the proposal introduces the design park as a research and testing ground for the participative future developments; and as an idea factory in the city of factories, where the citizens alongside the professionals can produce and share ideas for their city. To allow for testing of diverse ideas, the project operates at a multiplicity of programs by embracing incremental interventions that are strategically positioned and superimposed in the park.