Conceptual Project for the Historic Windmills of Değirmenburnu in Bodrum and Their Immediate Surroundings

The Değirmenburnu Windmills project explores Bodrum's relationship with wind, sea, and production through the preservation of eight historic windmills and their surrounding landscape. These structures stand as visible witnesses to the region's cultural and architectural heritage. The project aims to make this heritage readable once again by bringing together wind, rocky topography, maquis vegetation, maritime culture, and milling traditions within a unified design framework. The idea of the archipelago establishes a broader cultural network, while the concepts of wind and time shape the spatial experience. The working landscape approach reveals the site's history of production, connecting natural processes with cultural memory. The conservation strategy embraces both the historic structures and their surrounding landscape, maintaining the relationship between architecture and nature. Together, these ideas transform the Değirmenburnu Windmills into a continuous spatial journey, extending from the entrance square to the largest windmill at the furthest point of the site.