KeDo - Urban Animal Home
made by: Esra Erdem & Gülşen Kopuz
Along the long path of Recep Yazıcıoğlu Park, people move in waves — morning commuters, afternoon wanderers, night-time passersby. Between these shifting rhythms, the semi-feral cats search for warmth, safety, a moment of stillness. Urban animal shelters often remain peripheral in public space design, treated as temporary solutions rather than integral elements of the urban ecosystem. This project proposes a modular cat shelter embedded within a park landscape, designed as a layered structure that responds to external thermal conditions. Through repetition, adaptability, and passive insulation strategies, the shelter offers protection without isolation, allowing animals to remain part of the everyday life of the park rather than removed from it.
This urban shelter threads itself into the park’s daily pulse. It leans into trees, folds around trunks, rises with the changing ground. Triangular modules perch lightly on steel legs; some stretch upward, offering sunlit resting decks under translucent plexiglass, while others remain low and close to the earth, sheltering quiet nests.
As people walk, the shelters walk with them— a companion line of small architectures. Cats weave through the wooden frames, pause above eye level, descend to greet familiar volunteers. Humans and animals share the path without forcing proximity — connected only by gentle invitations, by glances, by shared movement.
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