Alp Demiroglu Cornell University Bachelor of Architecture 2021
Alp Demiroglu ad599@cornell.edu +1 (202) 251-2663
May 2021 Aug 2016 Jun 2016 Sep 2009
Education Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) with a Concentration in History of Architecture and Minor in European Studies.
The Potomac School (McLean, Virginia) High school Diploma and completed the requirements of the Visual & Performing Arts Concentration (VPAC).
Experience Jan 2020 Dec 2019
KaTO - Architectural Intern - (Washington, DC)
Aug 2019 Jun 2019
Tabanlioglu Architects - Architectural Intern - (Istanbul, Turkey)
Aug 2018 Jul 2018
La Biennale di Venezia - Architecture Workshop Participant - (Venice, Italy)
Present Aug 2017
Material Practice Facilities - Technician Assistant - (Cornell, Ithaca, New York)
www.katoarch.org
Built architectural model of Colegio San Lucas in Arequipo, Peru. Prepared laser-cut files as well as assembled space-frame shading device and beam-structure entirely by hand. www.tabanlioglu.com
Collaborated on an invited competition project from its inception to its submission. Conceptualized original ideas to be used in the final iterations of the design for the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC 2.0) Phase 1A. Sketches were used in final presentations. Developed the renders and diagrams for the project during the production phase prior to submission of entry. vardiya.iksv.org
Participated in the (N)everland workshop of the Turkish Pavilion, “The Shift,” at the 2018 Venice Biennale. Designed nozzles to be attached to a robot arm that created patterns in the sand that reflect on the ephemeral nature of landscapes and spatial formations. Wrote the code for the path the robot arm would take across the sandbox. Tutors included Selen Ercan, David Jenny, and Orkun Kasap of ETH Zürich, and Nizam Onur Sönmez of Istanbul Technical University. aap.cornell.edu/resources/fabrication-shop
Train students in appropriate safety and skills required to use the wood and metal shop equipment. Assist students in building models. Teach students how to apply new techniques to their projects. Keep shop functional and clean.
Summer 2015
GAD Architecture - Pre-Architecture Intern - (Istanbul, Turkey)
Summer 2014
Interned under Gokhan Avcioglu to enhance knowledge of the work architects actually do and how they do it. Created an archive of all of the firm’s models and 3D renderings from their three offices throughout Istanbul. Built multiple models of mosque complexes for research purposes. Translated multiple emails and documents from English to Turkish. Also interned with Gokhan Avcioglu and Professor Alpaslan Ataman in summer of 2014.
www.gadarchitecture.com
Leadership May 2019 Jan 2018
Present Apr 2017
Present Aug 2016
Cornell University Sustainable Design - Architect
cusd.cornell.edu
A student-run, interdisciplinary project team with the mission of creating a network of proactively sustainable communities. Bringing together all majors, including engineering, architecture, computer science, and urban planning students. Member of Sustainable Education Nepal project team, tasked with designing a primary school in rural Nepal.
AAP Ambassadors - President President for the 2019-20 academic year, Vice-President and Member for prior years. Spearheaded the organization of the first annual AAP Activities Fair to foster inter-major dialogue and a greater sense of community. Provide tours to prospective students while answering their many questions about Cornell and its Architecture Program. Connect AAPA with appropriate organizations across the college and university. Organize events for current and incoming ambassadors.
Cornell Tradition - Fellow
commitment.cornell.edu/tradition
An alumni-endowed program that recognizes and rewards undergraduates who demonstrate significant work experience, campus and community service, and academic achievement.
Software AutoCAD - Rhino3D - Adobe Creative Suite - SketchUp - Grasshopper - VRay - Lumion - ArcGIS - QGIS
Languages English - native 2
Turkish - native
French - professional
Italian - working
Spanish - elementary
Contents Music Hall
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Daw
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The Living Ruin
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Kite Museum
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Willard Way
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(N)everland
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Making
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Music Hall Ithaca, NY — Spring 2018 Professor: Peter Ballman
Structure The idea that, in a theatre, there is a visual relationship between the audience and the performer, became the concept that drove the design of this music hall. This idea was taken a step further by taking the generally linear circulation path of entrance to lobby to auditorium—second nature to music halls—and shifting it around to create unique spaces and moments throughout the building. The L-shaped site allowed for experimentation with this idea of breaking apart and shifting the circulation, so the way people would move about the building would be to draw them back by moving them in and around multiple different volumes and moments. The ideas of revealing and concealing as they relate to the concept were implemented through the use of screens like a mashrabiya or brisesoleil. This screen is made up of a singular concrete block designed specifically for this building repeated throughout the façade. This block is influenced by the plan of the design and thus influences its parti, creating a reciprocal relationship between the two.
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Daw Baghdad, Iraq — Rifat Chadirji Prize Entry — Summer 2018 Collaboration with Sahir Choudhary
Competition In the last 15 years, 700 historic buildings were destroyed in Baghdad. The Old Governate building, with its outer skin remaining, has thus transformed into a new public space—a meeting point—due to Iraq’s recent history. To act as a memorial, the design retains the open-air space created by the historic Governate building, while adding 70 glass volumes to remind the visitor of the buildings Baghdad has lost to war. These volumes reach up to the sky, but also descend into the space below, which houses the programmatic elements of the proposed Design Centre. The existing Governate building has a portion of the northwestern wall that is completely destroyed that becomes the entrance to the design. After sitting down for a meeting or just experiencing the memorial space, the visitor can enter the proposed building through one of the glass volumes in the northeastern corner of the site. Descending further, the lower level includes workshop spaces for creative collaboration.
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The Living Ruin Guayaguayare, Trinidad & Tobago — Fall 2019 Professor: Tao DuFour
Research Guayaguayare is a string of fishing villages that rests along the coast bracketed to the east and west by facilities that refine and process oil and natural gas. A large and expensive “fishing port” was constructed by the oil companies in an attempt to ameliorate how the locals see them. Meant to be a public space, the site never fulfilled its intended program, and exists as an inaccessible concrete monolith on the sea. The proposal aims to appropriate this alien infrastructure by transforming it into a landscape that articulates the gradual disappearance of the coast. Investigated through specific moments of absence, melancholy, and mortality, the interventions intend to acknowledge the shared loss of site and story, while allowing for the community to assign their own programs as time passes. As the edge of the coastline retreats further inward, the site mutates into a ruin in the sea and becomes a part of the landscape. This condition will expose the edge as an organism that changes, adapts, and deteriorates—a living ruin.
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Kite Museum Gujarat, India — Spring 2017
Professor: Val Warke & Luben Dimcheff TA: Isabel Oyuela-Bonzani
Analog The Kite Museum is a hierarchical series of larger, vertical and thinner, horizontal interlocking planes sliding to create densities and spatial layers around a central volume. Entering from a slit in the ground plane the visitor is totally submerged in the earth until he exits into the main hall of the museum, where he has the choice to walk up through the gardens, enter secondary structures, or see the museum’s main exhibit. Circulating through heavy, vertical planes, the visitor makes his way to the thin, horizontal planes to see the kites, with his main route ending either in the fields at ground level, or above the ground plane viewing other visitors flying kites. The kite is a symbiotic relationship of intersecting frames and planes. The history of the kite is the collection exhibited throughout the complex. These kites are designed by the artist-in-residence, who in turn gains inspiration from all of the visitors flying his kites— another symbiotic relationship.
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(Top) Final Model in section view (Bottom) Three Plans, Graphite Drawing
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Willard Way Ithaca, NY — Fall 2017 Professor: Katharina Kral
Residence The clients for this house are Pietro Desantis and his wife Refia An. They are the foremost linguistic scholars that must house their collections of many books and souvenirs from their travels and research. Pietro grew up in the small town of Dolceacqua in the Liguria region of Italy, thus preferring a more calm, stoic, and rural lifestyle. Refia comes from Istanbul, Turkey, and is used to a more busy, hectic, and urban lifestyle. Though they seem like complete opposites, they love each other and want a house that can accommodate both of their personalities, and the multitude of books they have amassed. The dwelling acts as a reaction to the site. Without removing the existing site conditions, the residence conforms to the location and cascades down with the changes in topography. This also relates to how the private spaces are determined. Because the clients are linguists, and they love and collect books, it is these books that create the public, shared spaces, and those that are more private. The main axes, which are realized as walls, act as a spine wherein program is located. Thus, the design is based on this idea of a series of courtyards. These courtyards are both interior and exterior, private and public, pre-existing and built.
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(N)everland Venice, Italy — Architecture Biennale — Turkish Pavilion — Summer 2018 Tutors: Selen Ercan, David Jenny, Orkun Kasap & Nizam Onur Sönmez Collaboration with Aslı Özen, Damla Erkoç & Ekin Sıla Sahin
Robotics (N)everland is based on the concept of ever-changing landscapes and their relation to human experience. During the duration of the workshop, a sand-shaping material process was investigated through the means of digitally controlled machines that allow participants and visitors to reflect on the ephemeral nature of landscapes and spatial formations. The centerpiece of the workshop was a digitally manipulated “sandbox.” The design process was iterative—we interacted with this self-contained space filled with sand, by making use of hardware and software tools, to reshape it continuously. By changing multiple computational parameters, we explored the formation of nonpermanent sandscapes. Through the overlay of simple rules and the material interaction over time, complex temporary spatial formations emerged.With this project, we attempted to formalize this process and create a sandscape that resembles the organic while being produced by the technological. Our design aimed to merge the additive and subtractive aspects of sandscaping.
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Making Since Spring 2016 For each of my projects I have always produced a physical model. Over the past four years, I have refined my model-making skills and expanded the breadth of materials and methods I use. Aside from architectural models for studio projects and during past internships, I have also made a luminaire (below) and table (right). The focus on making, and not just representing, is a theme in everything that I do.
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Alp Demiroglu ad599@cornell.edu +1 (202) 251-2663