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Intertwined is as an alternative mode of perception in the quotidian context. Intending to seize joie de vivre, the sense of wellbeing, we respond to temporary housing as an emergent dwelling that surrounds the urbanite in the metropolis. As a humble reaction to the constantly changing dynamic environment, we chase gaps in the chaos of daily life -temporary portals to a meditative act. Herein weaving and knitting comes to the fore. Act of weaving, like other crafts, has a meditative and healing effect when dealing with crisis and extreme situations. Its repetitive nature and embodied experience through hands-on production comprises “constructive addiction”. In this manner, weav-ing becomes a way of thinking enclosed spaces for different situations and actions in cross scales; our hands, bodies and metropolis. By the act of weaving, Intertwined discovers -cognitive, social, habitual...- modes of perceptions this relation is bound to, as it is to practical bodily territories. Therefore, it seeks for an alternative communal mode of construction which encourages the individuals to create a space using their own references within the metropolis.

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AURA Istanbul

Our production and consumption culture has become human-centered and dominating. Waterproof surfaces, chemical mixtures, plastics that live 10 times more than human life, concrete emitting radiation, seas full of waste, endangered bees… What is the definition of beneficial production and consumption in a human-centered age while the world is facing a climate crisis? In order to be good people and designers of the Anthropocene age, we must reconstruct the relationship between nature and the city. We must establish a mutualistic relationship between humans and other living things by preserving biodiversity.

Until now, we have designed and built with the understanding of space design with materials. In the past, places were created with locally available materials and human labor, what we could do was limited and we were consuming from nature’s reserves. After the industrial revolution, we were no longer limited to local materials, and by combining mechanization and human labor, we were able to build more complex and better insulating structures. But exceeding the limits of local and natural materials and human labor, the fast and unobstructed new construction system caused the design to transform nature in an uncontrollable way. Now, we are opening the doors of a future where design will not transform nature, but nature will transform design, with the incorporation of synthetic biology and computing into architectural design. With the reference of research and experiments conducted around the world, how biomaterialbased design can affect the future is provided to be read through Mecidiyeköy. In the future, a more sustainable life model is possible with these materials that we can obtain from nature and return to nature instead of heavy steels with carbon gas outputs, and radiation-emitting concretes.

Florist: Day 1: Printing of chitosan paste as a structural mesh with a 3d printer

Month 1: Drying mesh, layering with root material

Year 1: greening of root material

Year 10: a building with maximum efficiency that dries up and turns green depending on the season

Year30: thrown into the cemetery for conversion

Pillars of Housing: Day 1: adding mycelium and sawdust into fabric molds

Month 1: installation of algae tubes collecting rainwater

Year 1: algae coloration and mycelium-based bark yielding fungus as fruit.

Year 10: supporting the life of bees and birds in the region

Year30: Some of the columns dissolving due to rain

Lighting Poles: Design of street lighting with illuminating gene integrated copied from jellyfish.

Pillars of Housing

It is a 24-hour living museum, building fiction designed for the year 2050. It creates its architectural attitude with a scenario that brings an alternative

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Second Floor Plan [+8.80]Night; After 6pm.

A future scenario in which metropolitan cities such as Istanbul become more and more crowded and there is no room for construction is inevitable. For this reason, in line with the two principles mentioned, the most basic recommendation of the project -for future generations- is that public buildings should be open 24 hours a day instead of 8 hours. In this way, after 18.00, it continues to add value by serving in the museum facility, especially in education and accommodation. A structure that continues to serve in this way has a system that will encourage social integration.

There are various service areas in the system designed to accommodate everyone. As a museum that intersects with the metro network, it is like a new generation caravanserai. Unlike traditional museum programs, it is designed like a campus with additional accommodation, showers and lockers. The accommodation area was specifically designed as part of the museum, as it was intended to take advantage of the stimulating, intriguing and bringing together features of art. This is why the building expands at night. In this way, researchers, homeless, tourists and bored city dwellers, curious children will meet and increase their level of well-being.