The Gedikpaşa project is a contemporary solution to one of the oldest building typologies of the East - the bazaar. The bazaar historically has been an essential component of Istanbul urbanism, life and culture. This proposal focused on a site in the Gedikpaşa district of Istanbul seeks to reinvent the bazaar, studying its core principals and the way in which fundamental architectural forms may be combined and multiplied in new ways. Conceptually, GAD’s Gedikpaşa proposal begins with a simple structural grid that is distorted and adapted to the parameters of this particular site. Historic buildings are preserved, and available land is developed as sellable retail space. The result is a system, or componential structure, that can be stacked and grown as permitted by the parameters of the site. The intention is that this system, as reflected in the iteration of one particular scenario in Gedikpaşa, could be adapted and multiplied in a number of different locations in the city as a component system for a bazaar for the 21st century. Importantly this system would provide a modular way to redevelop urban territories with an eye to flexibility and optimization. This prospect for renewal that has been an important issue in Istanbul’s urban regeneration projects over the last decade is in this project addressed by this design experimentation in the bazaar typology by GAD.