“a threshold to well-being”
4nd year graduation project
HEALOW is an award-winning project that transforms Basmane’s underground into a public threshold for sensory relief and environmental balance. By addressing air, noise, and light pollution, the design creates a sequence of low-stimulus spaces—silence zones, air-purified courtyards, reflection units, and sensory balance areas—integrated with the existing metro system.
Far from being mere infrastructure, HEALOW demonstrates how subterranean architecture can enhance urban life, promote wellbeing, and serve as a resilient model for future cities.
Ali Özgür Kaya 