Inspired by the Istanbul protest movement to save Gezi Park. One of the few public green spaces in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Gezi Park was slated to become a shopping mall. Encamped occupiers set up a micro-city within the park, even building a small library out of torn-up flagstones. Police attacked nightly with tear gas and rubber bullets. For many residents in the area, participation in the protests became a part of nightlife.

In this project, we envision the protestors taking over other construction sites around Taksim Square. They become citizen-builders, using found materials to construct informal civic infrastructure for extending and expanding protest culture, centered around a massive public hammam in an unfinished traffic tunnel.