Winners of Mars 2050: Habitat Idea Competition Announced

With the cooperation of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and Bursa Technical University, the winners of the "Mars 30: Living space idea contest" with a total of 2050 thousand lira award, addressing the issues of "space architecture and exoplanet urbanism" were determined.

In many areas firsts in Turkey, Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and Bursa Technical University took a project by signing the name will be talked about a lot of cooperation. The "Mars 30: Living space idea contest" with a total of 2050 thousand pounds, which deals with the subjects of "space architecture and exoplanet urbanism", was completed with intense participation. In the competition, in which the subjects of space architecture and exoplanet urbanism were discussed, it was aimed to give product to the new field of activity on research, design and construction of environment, resource and habitat probability in new generation vision and project fields such as Mars and other celestial bodies. Interesting ideas emerged from each other in the competition held in two categories: student and professional. 29 people in the student category and 18 people in the professional category participated in the competition. Assessment and Coordination Responsibility The jury, made by the lecturer Ersan Koç, determined the works that ranked in both categories.

Professionals category

The winner of the professional category was Keremcan Yılmaz and Erdem Batırbek, while Ekin Kılıç and Ceydanur Katmer came in second and Merve Çengel and Onur Ertaş came in third. In the professional category, the work of Özlem Demirkan, Huriye Önal and Uçman Tan was deemed worthy of first prize, the work of Mertcan Tonoz, Büşra Kavcar and Mehtap Ortaç was awarded second prize, and the work of İrem Ercan and Talha Member was awarded third prize. Again, in this category, the works of Selin Sevim and Ayşe Büşra Önş, and Ecenur Sezgin and Berfin Ekinci were also entitled to receive an incentive award.

Student category

In the student category, ideas that were eligible to receive 6 peer achievement awards and 2 incentive awards were determined. Accordingly, the project of Mine Dilmaç and Yaren Müge Arı, the project of Berca Kavani and Envercan Vural, the project of H.İbrahim Yılmaz, H.İbrahim Han, Özgür Yeşilçimen, Hüseyin Emir Aydemir and Şevval Çoksaygılı, Göksu Eda Yılmaz, İsrafil Taşlıbeyaz and the projects of Yiğit Dağlier and Arman Assylbek, Muhammed Eker and Ömer Faruk Korkmaz's projects were deemed worthy of the co-achievement award. In this category, the project of Muhammet Emin Çelik and Yaşar Şekeroğlu and the project of Osman Çaputçu and Ecem Doğan were also eligible for the Incentive award.

In the competition, where a total of 30 thousand TL prize money will be distributed, the awards of the authors who are entitled to receive awards will be sent directly to the bank accounts, as a ceremony will not be held within the scope of corona virus measures.