Going on in this floor, there is a reception space so people can easily book the activities room and the administration staff can accommodate as well during the work hours. We strongly encourage Edremit young people to develop their hidden potentials in music, painting, sculpting and traditional handcrafts by offering ateliers and workspaces with wide open windows for the sunlight to come in. We also thought of a recording studio so there can easily be young artists which promote themselves only by using this building’s full potential.  As for the first floor, there are more general community spaces and services. We really wanted to preserve the old famous restaurant of Edremit “Cumhuriyet Lokantası” dating back to 1923 at the right corner of the frontal elevation. At the left side of it, we want to insert a library so young students can read or even buy books. The spaces which face the atrium mainly are service areas for teenagers as a smoothie shop(fresh juices made of local fruits and vegetables), a burger shop, local Turkish edibles, artcrafts, music shop and a larger area which incorporates a graffiti shop into an urban one. This graffiti shop is actually really important because of the rear elevation. We want to help young graffiti artists by giving them a whole wall made of bricks and painted all in black so they can legally paint on it and make it their own recreational space! We think this is really important to avoid vandalism in the city and in the whole region of Edremit.  

 We made some research and visited some old houses which are positioned into the city dating back to the times when Greek people lived in these areas. One thing we noticed were the “jumbas” and the extruded fences of the windows. As it was explained to us, these extruded fences were mainly added because of the sight the women could have by taking their bodies a little outside of the windows edges. We blended these two characteristics by creating a zig-zag shaped volume which stand as a cantilever up to the main entrance. Since we are using the second floor main hall as an exposition area for young artists but also for professional exhibitions, we thought of getting the light from some opening in the ceiling. The openings will coincide with the white squares of a man-size chess board which will be positioned on the now flat roof.  

 During our stay in the Edremit region, we got inspired from its unique sunset lights and colors and we implemented those colors into the building. The rusty color which takes over the building is corten, and its related with the orange color of the sun during the sunset. Apart from the concrete columns which are used for the construction, we also used transparent concrete which varies in color from dark grey to blue shaded gray, which relates to the color of the sea. The new designed jumba is made of perforated steel and the holes of it allow some sunrays to penetrate the main hall as the sun penetrates the clouds.