Kasser Waterfall Hydroelectric Station and Energy Museum
PROJECT BRIEFS: ELIF ÖZDEMIR
WOMEN IN THE CONTEMPORARY TERRITORIES OF TURKISH ARCHITECTURE Part of the larger collection Women in Modern and Contemporary Territories of Architecture, a project researched and developed by
Dr. Meral Ekincioglu Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016
Kasser Waterfall Hydroelectric Station and Energy Museum PROJECT BRIEFS: ELIF ÖZDEMIR
Site | Kasser Waterfall Hydroelectric Station and Energy Museum Project Details Project Type: Architectural Project Year: 2007 Dimensions: 750 m2
Project Description In the Lara district, in Antalya-Muratpaşa town, Düden stream falls into the sea as Kasser Waterfall with an impressive visual quality. A park, with the purposes of resting, sightseeing and wandering, exists where the Kasser falls. The unarranged empty space next to the park is requested to be used as HES and a museum. The museum consists of two constructural parts. The first section is above, and the second section is underground. The first section above ground constitutes the larger capacity of the museum and its architecture was designed with a dynamic point of view, taking morphology of the cliffs and the function of the museum into account, different surfaces were created with steel+glass+wood+stone material on different planes. The second section underground is shaped like a cylinder and the central is in this section, downstairs. The observers can get to this section with a transparent elevator in the center. In the entrance of the museum, there is a counter for sales. The platform near the transparent elevator in the center is covered with protective glass. Therefore observers can see the central underground from the first floor. The museum functions are held in the wings. The wing houses permanent and temporary exhibition halls, simulation rooms, projection-conference hall, and cubic for interactive applications. This area also contains facilities such as wc and kitchen. The area where the power plant and turbines exist is a cylinder construction, 30-35 m deep. Water streaming to, and out of the turbines can be seen through transparent pipes and an open pool. Observers can get out of the elevator to the attached steel platforms and watch objects on the platform, and production and the transfusion of electricity. It is also possible to get to the sea level with a tunnel in this area, and observers can be transformed to the museum with a platform on the sea.
Kasser Waterfall Hydroelectric Station and Energy Museum PROJECT BRIEFS: ELIF ÖZDEMIR Project Images
Kasser Waterfall Hydroelectric Station and Energy Museum PROJECT BRIEFS: ELIF ÖZDEMIR
Kasser Waterfall Hydroelectric Station and Energy Museum PROJECT BRIEFS: ELIF ÖZDEMIR