“Re-Awakening Water” project investigates Bergama as a layered urban landscape where history and contemporary life coexist. Water becomes a metaphorical and physical thread that connects Bergama’s historical layers, from its ancient aqueducts and cisterns to contemporary public life. Through architectural interventions, forgotten water infrastructures are reactivated as experiential spaces rather than static remnants. It acts as a temporal graft, flowing between the buried and the elevated, reviving the memory of Bergama through the experience of water. By revealing hidden water routes and spatial relationships, the project reframes heritage as a living system, integrating collective memory, movement, and public space into everyday urban experience.
Author: Selin Su Karagöz
Studio: ARCH 401 Fall 2025
Instructor(s): Ensar Temizel
