eCAADe 28 295 - Generative and Parametric Design Future Community in Istanbul An interpretation of Istanbul to generate a new urban life Ebru Arkut Ulu 1 , Burcu Arkut 2 , Onur Yuce Gun 3 1 Istanbul Technical University/Turkey, 2 Istanbul Bilgi University/Turkey, 3 lstanbul Bilgi University/Turkey 1 (http://mimark.wordpress.com/), 3 (http://o-cdc.com/) 1 ebruarkut@gmail.com, 2 barkut@gmail.com, 3 onewyork@gmail.com Abstract. The parametric design techniques are developed over the past 15 years. And a new style called parametricism is born, which is the style rooted in digital animation techniques. The parametricism is based on the advanced parametric design systems and scripting method (Schumacher, 2009). This study is the research of defning the city of Istanbul and the skyscraper together in the sense of the parametricism. The result is expected to be a self-suffcient urban living proposal by using generative and parametric tools and scripting techniques. The other purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, and the urban living. Skyscraper; Istanbul; Banyan tree; upwards and downwards growth; shape grammar. General The intention of Istanbul’s built environment is to go upwards since it began to develop. The geographi- cal structure of Istanbul has 7 hills. The empires built Maiden’s Tower, the mosques with minarets, Galata Tower in the early ages. In the 20th century, the sky- scrapers began to appear and they keep on being built. It is easy to perceive this upwards movement, especially by the silhouettes of Bosphorus and 4.Lev- ent-Maslak areas. The more the prestige among the frms get important and the less the city’s unused horizontal areas are left, the higher the buildings get. The sky is being scraped over and over again, each time more deeply. The vertical life has become more important than the horizontal life due to the modern living. It used to be diferent than today. Along with the upwards movement of the built environment, the in- dividual living and working in the city have moved to upper layers. In spite of this, the public life that peo- ple share in the city still exists on the lowest horizon- tal direction. People go up to be one and go down to share and become more. Figure 1 shows the vertical movement in the context of the use of skyscrapers. On the other hand, Istanbul is not just a city of function. Istanbul has an enormously huge memory of the past. Old and new, past and future. All of them are together in one organism. The present and the future are fed by the past. Istanbul does not deny the existence of its history. Furthermore, it embraces the past while moving ahead. As Lukez (2007) agreed that examples of time-layered sites reveal how the unique quality of a place emerges out of the interac- tion of place and time, such that people can postu- late that the identity of a community emerges from Keywords.