altan r. dervish
landscape architecture
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CV
curriculum vitae & personal information Graduating from the University of Greenwich, my masters project looks at communities as the driving force behind landscape design. A project influenced by my 11 year period in Cyprus. It’s diverse, multicultural environment gave me the opportunity to work alongside multiple frames of reference, helping me to mature as a person and designer. For me, landscape architecture is more than a profession; it is a responsibility to ask why? To challenge what is existing, and explore the relational aspects that make it up. Creating a dialogue for public agency within the environment. Landscape is a dynamic ongoing process of relationships. With experience in both Cyprus and UK offices, I know the importance of cohesion between the team and multidisciplinary practices. I aim to refine my skills as an designer, and I’m always looking for new challenging experiences.
Altan R. Dervish
“Questioning is a way to do justice to thought” Martin Heidegger
MLA Landscape Architecture University of Greenwich, UK - 2020
BA Architecture - First class honours
Girne American University, Cyprus - 2018
Education
Languages
2018 - 2020
MLA Landscape Architecture
2014 - 2018
BA Architecture | First class honours
Second language
1st
2nd
British Citizen
T.R.N.C. Citizen
English
Turkish
University of Greenwich, UK
Girne American University, Cyprus
Experience Jun. - Aug. 2019
Native language
Gensler
Skills
Internship, UK
Jun. 2018
Residential Project Graphics
Feb. 2018
Municipality Master-planing
Jun. 2017
Nurel Group of Companies | Architecture
Feb. 2017
Municipality Master-planing
Programs
Adobe Creative Suite • Illustrator • Photoshop • InDesign
NCY Network, Cyprus
Autodesk
Alsancak Municipality, Cyprus
• Auto Cad • 3D Max
Internship
Rhino
Girne Municipality, Cyprus Internship
ArchiCad Sketch-up
Extracurricular
Microsoft Office
Jan. 2020
Featured In ‘The Landscapists’ | Volume 90 No. 1
Jan. 2018
‘Occupy The Thames’ Exhibition | Graduation Project Girne American University
Hand Crafts
Sept. 2017
Nicosia: Inhabiting Edges | University Collage London
Graphic Design
Oct. 2016
Communicating Across Cultures/Past, Present & Future
May. 2016
Arabahmet Community Project
May. 2015
ADA Workshops - Occupy the Architecture School
Architectural Design Journal
The Bartlett DPU Summer-Lab
Interests
AIA Continental Europe
American University of Cyprus Girne American University
+44 (789) 595 95 20 altandervish2@yahoo.com
Contents The Landscape Of Making
06 - 11
The Wilderness
12 - 17
The Deptford Covenant
18 - 23
Unconscious Glimpses
24 - 25
Occupy The Thames
26 - 31
Incesu 5
32 - 33
Modular Aid Shelter Community
34 - 35
The Space & Her People
36 - 37
Coastal Path ReDone
40 - 41
Walk The City
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Graduation Project | London, UK
Zaha Hadid Design Competition | London, UK
Meanwhile Use | London, UK
Experimental Communication | London, UK
Graduation Project | London, UK
Graphic Contract | Incesu, Cyprus
Refugee Aid | Kakuma, Kenya
Rural Master Planning| Agirdag, Cyprus
Coastline Park | Lapta, Cyprus
AIA Student Competition | Girne, Cyprus
MLA BA PRF CMP
Masters of Landscape Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Professional Competition
MLA
The Landscape Of Making London, UK - 2020
Global Generation are a meanwhile use educational charity, which works together with local children to create healthy, integrated and environmentally responsible communities. The project began with designing their garden centred around a kiln, so the children could create their own ceramics. The garden is within British Land’s Canada Water Masterplan, and would be temporary. Therefore, we would build the proposal ourselves with help from the generators and funding from British Land. Together, we went camping in Kent to build a pit-fire kiln and try making ceramics to understand the landscape and activity that manifests around a kiln. This process of making and feedback from the generators led to the design of the kiln, then prototyped in the landscape context of my back garden. The project then took this process of ‘making’ and applied it to the greater masterplan, as a kind of adventure playground where Global Generation can relocate. The concept was to use all the material that is the by-product of the development to create a living landscape of kilns and structures that feed back into the development or used for fun and play. Supervisors James Fox Harry Bix
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The concept for the design was developed through a clay modelling making session with The Global Generators. There work produced inspirational designs that lead the projects creative process to make a working wood feed kiln. The kiln itself sits embedded in an earth mound, blending its form with the slopes. The mounds also provide desired planting space for an edible landscape.
The small prototype of the kiln design, built using recycled materials in my grandfathers back garden. There is a satisfying sensation while stoking the fire and seeing thick smoke, with the uncertainty of how the flames are painting your ceramics.
As reflected in this trial, the living landscape goes into cycles with the kiln: rebuilding, burning, and making. Then nature takes over with cycles of decaying, rewilding, and exploring the ruins of our creation. Given time the process begins a new with the harvest of the overgrowth material.
The development will produce large amounts of rubble, soil and timber from existing trees. The project values these materials by creating the landform, structures and fuel for the firing. The landscape interfaces with the buildings where people are initiated through the ritualistic process The Generators employ, then released into the chaotic freedom of the park.
CMP The Wilderness
London, UK - 2019 Awarded 2nd place in the design competition by Zaha Hadid Architects, Museum of Architecture and The Royal Parks. Residing in lightly wooded area in Greenwich Park that provides habitat to various species of invertebrates, birds and bats, and a padlocked grassland area where wild fallow and red deer roam. Provide a viewing platform into the parks Wilderness area, overlooking the deer. Built using site materials; the platforms each specialise on a specific niche in the environment to foster bio-activity. Engaging with ideas of Social-Ecology; that is the focus around the social structures we as humans form in relation with the environment, and rewilding which seeks ecological restoration through increased biodiversity. The project introduces the passage of time, as the environment slowly reclaims the structures change and decay are inevitable. Structures that truly become integrated with the ecosystem. Supervisors Honore Van Rijswijk Roo Angell Duncan Goodwin
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[UK]
[LONDON]
[GREENWICH PARK]
The structure at the base represents the root and stone. Here the focus is on the invertebrates.
Overlapping panels create tight habitats for bats, and oversees the deer feeding area.
The nest providing habitats for migrating birds, and deep views into the deer enclosure.
Celastraceae Adoxaceae Adoxaceae Poaceae Gentianaceae Cyperaceae Poaceae Dryopteridaceae Ranunculaceae Ranunculaceae Juncaceae
Euonymus europaeus Sambucus nigra Viburnum opulus Agrostis capillaris Gentianella amarella Eriophorum angustifolium * Cynosurus cristatus Dryopteris dilatata Anemone nemorosa Anemone nemorosa Luzula pilosa * 3 in cluster
Family
Name Pot Size
50 L 20 L 20 L 2L 9cm 2L 2L 5L 9cm 9cm 9cm
Quantity
1 3 11 58 73 30 8/sqm 1/sqm 3/sqm
fully rooted, bushy
fully rooted
fully rooted 6/sqm 5/sqm
fully rooted, bushy, unspoiled leaves
fully rooted, bushy
fully rooted
fully rooted
fully rooted, bushy
root-balled, well spaced branches
root-balled, well spaced branches
root-balled, 2m width
Specification Native
Prune
Flowering
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A walkway wrapping around the oak tree, giving perches for predatory birds.
A timber sheet structure, imitating the enclosed habitat between the bark and cambium.
A semi-open structure hoarding twigs, embodying the habitat of the branch and canopy. 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0m
MLA
The Deptford Covenant London, UK - 2019
Convoys Wharf is a huge historical dockyard going under a large redevelopment scheme. The focus of this project was to define a meanwhile use that would receive active engagement by the communities of Deptford, while the developers occupied the site with their construction. The Deptford Covenant is an organisation made up by leaders of the community, whose purpose is to reclaim the public realm re-envisioned under user agency. Rejecting insensitive topdown templates implemented by the larger powers public development. Deptford is a vibrant landscape of unique moments, spaces, and has an active, engaging community unafraid to be heard. All public spaces have an identity: the identity of the users. The dockyard was a place of continuous large scale construction, home to the working man. Broken nails, frostbite, tolling bells, groans, sweat, blood, and timber, all commonplace in the grimy environment. During the dockyard development into a residential zone, the site will see its last large scale construction effort; not as war ships and exploration vessels, but as concrete high-rises. Supervisors Bob Bagley Roo Angell
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The vision of the Olympia shed is to retain the nostalgia of a working dockyard but in a manner that responds to contemporary needs in public spaces. A nonplan approach to community development in which the shed becomes the means to build and the place to house the desires of constituents of the area. The self-built spaces will be under constant change and reiteration, deconstruction and reconstruction, never stagnating into a single function. It will be a place to enact change on the public realm with hammer and saw.
Sight
Sound
Smell
Touch
Taste
The strong odour of a world below takes you forward passed the twin paths. An ally lined with pillars of old, holding up the grand steel way, under-which the underpaid come out at night to forget the day. A thing of white stands tall and untainted, stepping forth into the home of fry creatures, a place unchanged by time is revealed. Back on the street, after safety is ensured, a building rapped in a vivid pink questioning its purpose. Bars of red lead you on to where up is down, and hunted engines of war bathed in the blood glare beyond the gate.
The vision of Says Court Park reaccounts its historic presence in Deptford and relationship to Convoys Wharf. The park’s boundaries will extend out into the wharf as it once did. The site will become the grounds for innovative scientific research as
Evelyn once did, while supporting archaeological excavation. The rediscovered fragments of the past are studied and exposed to the elements, allowing the natural expansion of the current Says Court into the unearthed trenches.
MLA Unconscious Glimpses London, UK - 2018
An experimental method of communicating an every day journey personal to ourselves, represented in a coherent visual composition. This project was centred on my commute to the university, and my repetition of memory to build up a landscape. The stride is the subject to which the journey is plotted. In its passive state awaiting announcement, perception is docile; arrogant of the landscape. Called to reaction and released from the box, perception gains vigour, catching fragments of space; enough to navigate the material scape, while the conscious self wanders the mind ignorant beyond symbolism and curiosity. The boundaries of perception shift sporadically, revealing and concealing, recording and omitting. Objects of time become distorted then indistinguishable from the hard-scape, all impermeable; except for the glimpse. As the remnants of form congeal to recreate landscape; in the eye of the observer, only the arrival holds solace. The journey will repeat, and repetition is memory.
Supervisors Harry Bix Shaun Murray
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BA
Occupy The Thames London, UK - 2018
Over the course of a few decades a key element of London culture, geography, and societal pillars has been made redundant; The River Thames. Once seen as a life source, then becoming ‘livelihood’ and now devolved into a picture frame asset without life or interaction. The proposal aims to reunite river and people, with a bottom up approach of ‘Place Making’ along the waterfront, using the combinations of daily and event activity unique to each site. Focusing on designing a public space that opens a dialogue between The Thames and the users of the space. This project concentrates on one of these sites north of the Millennium Dome.
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Daily Activity
Supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shahin Keynoush
Event Activity
Winning the outstanding Graduation Project Award, the semi-open public space that is incorporated into a park allows free movement of people over the wharf.
The design concept was inspired by broken wooden docks and old Victorian vessels along The Thames. The sites proximity to the O2 establishes a visual hierarchy, and contextual vocal point echoed by the projects tensile structural system that gives room for large open spaces for public use.
An key design element was to allow the natural cycles of the environment influence the space. This provides an meaningful experience, and functions passively without supervision. A steel mesh just beneath the water surface gives a chance for children to come in contact with the river. During the colder months the steel will cool the water enough no create a safe frozen lake.
The project attempts to re-emphasis the feelings and senses associated to The Thames. From the reflecting wave lights on the ceiling, to the sound of gushing rain pouring down water channels into the river.
Every day The Thames water level rises and drops by seven meters. Platforms along the river bank translating the waters breath into revealing and concealing spaces, providing a type of dialogue with the river. Defining the Architectural Program was approached by categorising spaces as fluid, semi-fluid and solid. This allowed for a more flexible program that takes into account involvement with a space.
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Fluid
of people - Gallery - Exhebition - Flea Market
B
Semi-Fluid
Space that alowes for the movement of people with some privacy - Event Hall - Drama - Instalation - Modeling
C
Solid
Space for personal and utility use
High Tide Low Tide
- W/C - Showers - Changing Rooms
D
Fluid
A space enclosed by walkways and view points - Theater - Live Music - Playground - Ice Skating
High Tide Low Tide
Using a similar tensile structure as a sailing ship, the structure employs timber masts that support tall ceilings, open floor spaces and natural light.
Treated timber was used as the main construction material for creating the frame, resulting in a light weight body, that is durable against harsh weather conditions.
In essence, the design is a semi-open shelter for invoking an atmosphere complementary to the context of the park.
This collage is one of the studies looking at ‘Sense of Place’ a long the river bank. It demonstrates my own personal subjective interpretations, in abstract form. My explorations of the area was photographed, then merged into an artificial snapshot. Reinterpriting the sense of place within a single image. Like a window into the mind of the architect, the method captures my perspective and proceess looking at the space. With just a glance I can hear the creeks of cold steel waking up to early suns warmth, and the sound of emtyness looking beyond the open wharf as a young couple sitting side by side kiss godbye before departing to work.
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Incesu 5
Incesu, Cyprus - 2018 Incesu 5 is residential project situated on a hill top beneath the Five-Finger Mountains, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Contracted by ‘NCY Network’ my role in the project was to produce visuals of their proposals for marketing, and input my opinions to develop the design. This project was entirely produces using the software AutoCAD and Photoshop. The facade make use of the favourable conditions in the north; with an amazing view of the valley and sea below, while limiting the direct sunlight during the scorching summers.
Team NCY Network
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Accessibility
Public Green Space
Built Area
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Modular Aid Shelter Community Kakuma, Kenya - 2017
The scope of the project was to conceptualise a refugee shelter in the context of Kakuma in Kenya. Sensitivity toward the habitat and socioeconomical conditions of what is one of the largest refugee camps in the world, played a large part in the design process for a shelter. After a crisis, basic human needs for shelter need to be met. The concept of modular is simple and very versatile. The main two building blocks of the aid shelter is ‘utility’ compacting plumbing and appliances into one unit. The second block being living spaces. The culture in Kenya is communal orientated, where families host meals together with neighbours. To empathise this connection with sharing and community the shelters can be organised to create visually permeable spaces and social nodes. Materials for construction were recycled from the near by city.
Supervisor Asst. Prof. Dr. Silvia Covarino
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The most minimal configuration supporting two people with basic living condition necessities. With the ability to add extensions on many of its faces, and can disassemble with minimal environmental footprint. Water being an issue, the W/C uses a dry lush system that can then be used as fertiliser.
The smallest possible unit with full functionality, at the cost of efficiency. The openings on both sides of the unit open possibilities for inner shared spaces with neighbours.
As units get larger, maintaining air quality, temperature and lighting become more important. To solve these issues, raising the shelter off the ground was necessary and opening in full cover on the roof were designed.
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The Space & Her People Agirdag, Cyprus - 2016
Agirdag is a small rural village located half way between two cities. The project’s aim is to reconnect the space with the people resisting the ‘dormitory’ development pressure that urbanism has on surrounding settlements. The project master-plan aims to improve the quality of life in Agirdag, with large public space designs based on the needs of the residents. Demographic, social and environmental studies were used to help understand the and strengthen the identity of the village, and its relationship with neighbouring settlements. By implementing participatory based planning and design. Seasonal festivals and events can be organised with the community to improve the local economy.
Supervisor Asst. Prof. Dr. Silvia Covarino
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Festival Day
The village rests against the slopes of the Besparmak Mountains giving amazing views of the plains and fields below. Making use of the existing qualities and activities of the village plays a pivotal role in its sustainable development.
Vision Of The Village An important element to the project was creating a large public space for gatherings, and support the relationship between natives of the village and new comers, inspired by regional festivals in other parts of the island.
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Coastal Path ReDone Lapta, Cyprus - 2018
The Lapta Coastal Path is a 5km long public walkway in the T.R.N.C constructed on February 2017. The project was funded 3,520,000TL by the European Union. Spanning along the coast, it gives an uninterrupted view of the Mediterranean sea. On the path is a small harbour primarily used by fisherman to dock their boats, and a mini cafe serving breakfast and refreshments. The Project is a course summery of the principles of Landscape Architecture. Aiming to highlight the positive characteristics of the existing space, preserving its identity and improve its usability.
Supervisor Asst. Prof. Dr. Valentina Dona
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CMP Walk The City
Girne, Cyprus - 2016 Within the old harbour district of Girne/Kyrenia, the Bandabuliya, or Old Bazaar, was originally a space that functioned both as a town hall and an indoor market. Since the early 2000’s, the Bandabuliya was no longer a thriving cultural centre giving and part of the city’s identity. This design proposes a revitalisation of the building into a multi-functional community centre. In order to ensure a sustainable future for the Bandabuliya and its surrounding historic fabric, a reorganisation of the vehicle congested city was critical. Giving more power to pedestrian activity reveals the natural potential of the building to be a social hub.
Supervisor Nora Demeter, Int’L Assoc. AIA Team Jasmin Sadegh Bakhadurl Ergasher Safaa Kaddaj Marina Soler Porcà
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The Bandabuliya faces the main street leading out to a small old square, making it a great potential entry point to the historic harbour. The tall ceiling and natural skylight allow for flexible interior spaces. Supporting community organised events.
PEDESTRIANIZATION OF OLD HARBOUR
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Pedestrian Automobile
The existing situation of the accessibility to the Old Harbour. The narrow unpaved streets make walking discomforting during vehicle activity.
The first stage opens up the area around the Bandabuliya giving room for safe activities by the youth.
The final phase accounts for local business adjustments for stock deliveries.
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