| 2005 - 2006 | Fatih
Topkapı Palace is not merely a museum; it is a great architectural work without equal in the world, reflecting the entire historical accumulation of a nation, from its buildings and gardens down to its smallest objects. In disregard of this significance, before the project tourist buses used to drive into the Palace gardens. The damage that had continued for years was stopped by closing the courtyard to traffic, and the courtyard was redesigned in accordance with the criteria of the Turkish garden. The muqarnas pool, which had stood without any defined setting in the middle of the courtyard, and the selsebil from the former Seaside Palace (Sahil Sarayı), which was in fact a wall selsebil and had been standing in its basin facing the wrong direction, were placed beside the fountain; in this way they were displayed together at the Bab-üs Selam entrance as elements of the Turkish garden, in an arrangement evoking the chahar bagh through the triad of fountain, pool and selsebil.
