Inspired by the 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 protestors 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. (Read Jesse’s account in the midst of the protests).

In this project, we envision protestors expanding their role as citizen-builders. Occupying more construction sites in the area, they use found materials to construct informal civic infrastructure to extend and expand protest culture, centered around a massive public hammam in an unfinished traffic tunnel.