Delaminating Istanbul

“Delaminating Istanbul” presents videos created by architecture students as part of this year’s bachelor study trip to Istanbul. The videos explore the city’s layered realities through one central object: the Valens Aqueduct.

Constructed in the 4th century CE to supply Constantinople with water, the aqueduct still cuts a striking line through the modern city. It is at once an engineering feat, a historical monument, and an urban element that both complicates everyday life and reveals Istanbul’s many delaminations – places where past and present collide and overlap.

The video works interpret the aqueduct as an architectural and urban element within this field of tension, while also investigating the potential of video as a medium of architectural communication – a tool for recording, interpreting, and conveying the city’s spatial and temporal complexities.

The study trip was carried out as an ERASMUS+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) with teachers and students from:

• Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
• Riga Technical University (Latvia)
• University of Chieti–Pescara (Italy)
• Kadir Has University (Turkey)