Concentric Stitching

Concentric Stitching reimagines Dereiçi not as a frozen ruin, but as a living village where memory, landscape, and everyday life can continue to evolve. Rather than treating the remains as isolated relics, the proposal introduces a strategy of stitching that reconnects fragmented spatial, cultural, and social relationships across the site.



Centered on the shared landscape of two hills, three churches, pathways, and village life, the project reorganizes Dereiçi through concentric rings and three primary routes. These routes connect an open-air museum, spiritual and communal spaces, and community-led economic areas, allowing visitors and returning residents to move through the village as part of a continuous narrative.



New interventions remain light and context-sensitive: reused architectural fragments form spaces of memory; light installations reveal absence and remembrance; vine-covered burial grounds become cultivated living ruins; and shading canopies, modular structures, and pavilions reinterpret existing spatial patterns without replacing them. A new Visitor Centre anchors the experience and supports cultural exchange, orientation, and future growth.



Concentric Stitching proposes a heritage strategy based not on reconstruction, but on continuity—where ruins, landscape, and new life coexist within an evolving village fabric.