Design Interventions to Creating In-Between Spaces for Healthy Neighbourhoods: Case of Mersin, Halkkent Neighbourhood

Restrictions on public life during the Covid-19 pandemic caused the spatial organization to be questioned in the modern city and revealed the importance of "in-between/border spaces". This study was designed as an explanatory article; It aimed to develop design interventions to create in-between/border spaces for the Halkkent neighbourhood in Mersin province, Türkiye. Although the problem area has many possibilities in its mass organization, it is weak in terms of spatial hierarchy and social levelling. The method of this study is quantitative research; the potential and problems of the problem area have been analysed through 6 spatial criteria that the spaces should contain, and the current situation has been revealed by using schematic representation techniques and a base map. In the study, schematic representation, and photographing techniques were used. Based on the identified problems and potentials of the space, the study was concluded with a proposal urban design scheme for the creation of semi-public and semi-private spaces in the study area within the framework of spatial needs.