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Aerial view showing hillside planting and the M.E.T.U. campus. Re-Forestation Programme of METU, Ankara, Turkey.
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Shores of Lake Eymir. Re-Forestation Programme of METU, Ankara, Turkey.
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Aerial view, planting along a highway with Andara in the background. Re-forestation Programme of METU, Ankara, Turkey.
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Newly planted forest. Re-Forestation Programme of METU, Ankara, Turkey.
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Aerial view, Re-Forestation Programme of METU, Ankara, Turkey.
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Re-Forestation Programme of METU
Award Cycle: 1993-1995 Cycle
Status: Award Recipient
Country of origin: Türkiye
Location: Ankara, Türkiye
Client: Middle East Technical University
Architect: Middle East Technical University Re-Forestation Directorate, Alattin Egemen
Size: 45'000'000 m²
Completed: 1960
Preliminary planning for the Middle East Technical University (METU) re-forestation and landscaping programme began in 1958 in response to two major incentives. First, the Turkish capital of Ankara suffers from heavy air pollution. Second, support for a green zone next to Ankara exists in the provision by Turkish law that forest land cannot be expropriated. Since METU was established on land donated by the Turkish government, 4500 hectares of the campus were available for this public purpose. By 1960, the university's department of landscaping had tested tree species that would be appropriate, and in 1961, the re-forestation programme commenced.