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Two years ago for the first time, Messe Mün-chen together with its Turkish subsidiary launched an international trade fair focusing on earthquake-resistant construction: Seis-mic Safety, with a congress organised by DETAIL. The response was extremely posi-tive, and the concept was extended. The fair is now called SeSa Build and was held to-gether with the SeSa Talks international trade forum from 25 to 27 February 2016 at the Congress Center Istanbul.

Once again the focus was on earthquake-proof planning and construction, structural engineering and IT solutions, along with to-pics such as urban requirements and con-cepts, which link together social circumstan-ces and the resilience of ecosystems. As part of the SeSa Talks, top speakers from architecture, science, politics and industry reported on innovative ideas and solutions. The general conclusion was as follows: To overcome the growing challenges of climate change, specialists such as architects, landscape architects, urban designers and engineers need to work together. Projects need to be planned in an interdisciplinary way in order to make efficient use of increa-singly scarce public spaces and financial resources given the increasing densification of cities. Some of the projects appeared so

SeSa Build 2016 in Istanbul focuses on the sustainable city

plausible and easy to implement that many of the around 800 visitors to the forum were puzzled as to why there weren‘t many more of them.

For example, in Istanbul. The city is growing at a phenomenal pace: Between 1950 and 2000 the number of inhabitants increased from one million to 10 million. According to Prof. Dr. Murat Güvenç, Director of the Is-tanbul Studies Center at Kadir Has Univer-sity, around 17 million people currently live on a strip of land approximately 110 kilomet-res in length from east to west, and approxi-mately 50 kilometres from north to south. For the years after 2020, a population increase of around 20 million is forecast. The current construction boom in the city is immense, even in the areas designated as earth-quake-prone, and infrastructure projects and public spaces have little chance of keeping pace. Another bridge across the Bosphorus and a third airport are planned. Both will stimulate construction activity and population influx to these regions. Planners and scientists such as Prof. Dr. Murat Güvenç, Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Kaptan, Atolye Yetemis and Dr. Özdemir Sönmez from Yildiz Technical University Department of Urban & Regional Planning, who have ana-lysed and documented the construction

process and its impact on the city for many years, are somewhat critical of this uncont-rolled growth. Dr. Sönmez, who is in favour of more decentralizations of the centres in Istanbul, wants a rethink with regard to pub-lic spaces and an increased appreciation of them in his country.

The social discourse and the political condi-tions in Northern Europe are totally different. Here planners are (once again) opting for densification. The 'City in the City' links pub-lic space and living, working and learning even more closely. Buildings open to the outside, include passages and space for in-teractions with the public, consciously integ-rate landscapes or themselves create new green spaces. They offer users a pleasant atmosphere, and are popular places at which to meet or to which to retreat. Nature and daylight are important components of this integrated approach.

A Swedish showcase project for sustainable urban development is SymbioCity, which was presented by Bo Jerlström, former am-bassador and head of the office for project exports at the Swedish Foreign Ministry in Istanbul. The concept has virtually become self-sustaining, and can be transferred to many other regions of the world.

1 Panel discussion on urban renewal with Prof. Dr. Asuman Türkin, Dr. Özdemir Sönmez, Prof. Dr. Erol Köktürk, Cemal Gökçe, Assist. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Şahin (from left to right)

2 Viggo Haremst, Werner Frosch, both Henning Lar-sen Architects, Sofie Kvist, Gehl Architects, and Barbara Di Gregorio, Rare Office (from left to right)

3 Prof. Thomas Auer, Transsolar, Julian Weyer, C.F. Møller Architekten and Ferhan Tinli, MMI Eu-rasia (from left to right)

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The topic of Julian Weyer, partner at C.F. Møller Architekten, was integrated design. C.F. Møller always seek to gain an under-standing of the processes behind projects. They begin by developing the landscape and the public space so that the building has as much added value as possible for all involved. This may mean high energy effici-ency or integrated flood protection. The Da-nes have used state-of-the-art tools and pl-anning methods such as BIM for many ye-ars. The panel discussion on BIM and Smart Buildings, which was well attended by ex-perts from Turkey and Qatar, showed how interesting BIM is for local planners and how it is also hotly discussed in these countries.

Context-sensitive planning, the influence of simple geometries, and open spaces are also all a matter of course for Werner Frosch from Henning Larsen Architects. Specifi-cally, this also encompasses the micro- climate on site, the influence of sunlight, and cooling effects through intelligent, multi- glazed facades. The objectives of Prof. Thomas Auer, CEO of Transsolar and Pro-fessor of Building Technology and Climate-friendly Construction at the TU Munich, are the improvement of the environment and the achievement of CO2 neutrality. This is possible with technology and computer mo-delling. Ultimately it is just 'hardcore engi-neering'. Transsolar supports architects worldwide with the realisation of technically complex designs.

The topic of Dirk van Peijpe and his team from de Urbanisten was city and water. Here the city planner sees parallels to Istan-bul. The office in Rotterdam develops strate-gies and concepts to protect people, buil-dings and infrastructure from flooding, storm surges and heavy rain. Among the projects that have made the Dutch team famous bey-ond the country‘s borders is Benthemplein Water Square in Rotterdam. Projects such as these are robust and ensure a high qua-lity of life in public spaces despite tight bud-gets, with different financing models such as crowd-funding.

Sofie Kvist‘s topics were roads, which nowa-days account for around 80 percent of pub-lic spaces, and walking and cycling spaces. She is careful not to demonize the car, and believes with the right planning both can work together. Sofie Kvist works as a city planner for Gehl Architects in Copenhagen and her projects are underlined by figures from countless studies, analyses and dis-cussions with stakeholders. Together with municipalities, local organizations and ar-chitects, she develops concepts for making public spaces accessible again. The next SeSa build is planned for 2018.

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