The courtyard of Taşkışla has huge responsibilities as a vertical space in one of the densest places. This surrounded area means a lot to people who experience the Taşkışla. The walls are the borders of courtyard but it is difficult to accept that the built environment shaped the open area. It seems like the courtyard determine the form of the building in the center of the all axis. It is the connection between the corridors on different levels. The courtyard fulfills a lot of requirements of this alive space. It breaths as lungs, it transmits the voices and visuality of outer space as ears an eyes.

The people of Taşkışla came into the building and went out in the building. Everyone in Taşkışla contribute the soul of the courtyard. The voices, the breaths, the smokes, vibrations of the steps, pulses, blinks and the other stuff…

Now, I am in the courtyard. It has rained, it has already rained the trees on the marble steps. I am going to the center. I know this silvery temple closely. I see a dynamic elliptic floor down on me and up of me same surface but more globally. Everything which comes across with this elliptic mirror becomes double. Two of us stared at the double lion while his relatives are wrapped around. The all trees and plants know their own places. The dark brown almost black columns are broken into pieces. The fragments of the sky can be seen from the fractures. The crows cut through the sky and they landed on the ground. They have flown away from the movement.

The colors of courtyard are very pastel under rainy weather. The little bright red bugs are not visible under the tree barks anymore. While I was thinking the yellow of cats is hidden and the colors are missing, I saw a little strange creature. An uncolored birdy except shiny yellow breast reminds me the beauty of whole courtyard and I released that is not only a unit of the building, it is the vertical section of life.

The life exist s on the surface of the courtyard underneath of it and upper sky, and the subjects on the ground can feel all layers. Changing, alive and temporary existence is the main feature of it.