SELECTED WORK by Aziz Temel

AZIZ TEMEL

MSC EPFL

2015

2011

Selected Work

INTRODUCTION Resume

ACADEMIC WORK Hortus Loci

Party Wall

Mouzaia

PERSONAL WORK Pont d’Arve

Balloons

THEORETICAL WORK Family Garden

REFERENCES

RESUME Aziz Temel — Architect MSc Swiss Federal Institute of Technology — EPFL 16th August 1987 — Swiss & Turkish T — +41 78 889 23 08 E — aziz.temel@gmail.com S — aziz.temel A — Louis-Perrenoud 11, 2035 Corcelles,CH

EDUCATION 2013 — Master of Science Msc in Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL 2009 — Bachelor of Science Msc in Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL 2005 — Scientific Baccalaureate with honours, Lycée Blaise-Cendrars, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH EXPERIENCE 2015 — Preliminary design of the Cafe Pont d’Arve, Geneva, CH 2014 — Showroom project for «Une Table Pour Deux», Neuchâtel, CH 2013- 2014 — Artistic collaboration with «Une Table Pour Deux», handmade menswear 2013 — Summer job, Manufacture Cartier, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH 2010-2011 — Intern Architect, Frundgallina Architectes, Neuchâtel, CH, nine months 2010 — Intern Architect, Fovea Architectes, Neuchâtel, CH, six months 2009 — Setting up an exhibition, «Renens Les Entrepôts», CFF, CH 2004-2006 — Several jobs, Manufacture Cartier, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH LANGUAGES Mother Tongue — French, Turkish Fluent — English, German. Multiple stays in Germany SKILLS Photoshop, Ilustrator, Indesign, Lightroom Autocad, SketchuPro, Vectorworks, VRay Render, Artlantis Studio MS Office INTERESTS Botanic & Gardening, Geography & Ethnic History Editing & Graphic Design, Poetry & Literature Running

ACADEMIC WORK

HORTUS LOCI Apartment complex Neuch창tel, CH 2013/2015

PARTY WALL Private bank New-York, USA 2012

MOUZAIA Office building Paris, FR 2011

Site plan

Hortus Loci

Project : Apartment complex Location: Maladière, Neuchâtel, CH Status: Diploma project, LAST Studio, Prof. Emmanuel Rey & Prof. Jeanette Kuo Year: 2013/2015 Located at the east entrance of the city, the district of the Maladière was once a beautiful public garden called "Jardin Desor". It was a nice place for the inhabitants of the city who wanted to experience the nature without going too far. Many decades after, increasing urbanization led to the disappearance of this garden. Many blocks were built without considering the particular topography of the area and its identity. Today, the district is surrounded by urbanization and it's not isolated anymore. Now dedicated to welcome inhabitants of Neuchâtel, the district must become a porous place in the city. The urban strategy is divided into three parts and forms a complex piece of the city where each part has its own characteristics while sharing a common language, a common ground floor. The different volumes therefore are engaged in a dialogue with each other and provide a smooth transition between public space and private space. The renovation and the transformation of the area consists of a mix of program with a strong focus on family housing. Hortus Loci is the first apartment complex, located at the east end of the area. There are 41 housing units and 8 coworking spaces. The building seeks to create layered and stacked series of homes. Gardens and rooms intermingle with each other comfortably. Bedrooms, living-dinning rooms, bathrooms, terraces and common gardens interact with the surroundings on all sides. Each unit has a bright and open atmosphere, collectively connecting to surroundings gardens, spreading the activities of the residents evenly across the whole site.

Axonometry

Hortus Loci

Transversal section

Longitudinal section

1:100 Model

Hortus Loci

Ground floor

Courtyard garden

Hortus Loci

1st floor

1:100 Model

Hortus Loci

2nd floor

Housing unit

Hortus Loci

3rd floor

1:100 Model

Hortus Loci

4th floor

Garden room

Hortus Loci

5th floor

1:100 Model, north elevation

Hortus Loci

1:100 Model , south Elevation

1:100 Model, aerial view

Hortus Loci

1:100 Model, east elevation

Site plan

PARTY WALL

Project: Private bank Location: Broadway Avenue, New York, USA Status: Master 2 project, LAMU Studio, Prof. Inès Lamunière Year: 2012-2013 In collaboration with Nathan Hoh The studio focuses on creating new working atmospheres resulting from the confrontation of the Nature and City and the students personal interpretation of the word «climate». The starting point of this exercise was to create 3 interior images showing particular ambiances of the main spaces of a private bank : the lobby, the meeting room and the trading room. All of the spaces had to be connected and included in a «climatical principle», participating in the global atmosphere of the building. The project took place in Manhattan, between Mercer and Broadway, combined with an old blind brick façade, we chose to integrate plants to all the working places as a filter to urban and visual nuisances and an always changing relaxing element. The building was divided into 2 parts. The first one is a thin 8-storey-bar containing all the services and the partitioned spaces, serving as a structure for the rest of the bank. The second one is a column-free office areas facing the lobby and its tree, and hosting working places. Responding to the block’s skyline, the project intended to provide a city that never sleeps with a peaceful atmosphere.

Exterior facade

PARTY WALL

Axonometry

Transversal section

PARTY WALL

Longitudinal section

Lobby room

PARTY WALL

Ground Floor

Trading room

PARTY WALL

1st to 5th floor, working places

Meeting room

PARTY WALL

7th floor, administration

1:200 Model, surrounding context

PARTY WALL

1:200 Model, surrounding skyline

1:200 Model, facade detail

PARTY WALL

1:200 Model, entrance detail

Site plan

MOUZAIA

Project: Office building Location: Mouzaia, Paris, FR Status: Master 1 project, LAMU Studio, Prof. Inès Lamunière Year: 2011-2012 In collaboration with Christophe Piqué. The project is situated in the heart of Mouzaia district, a haven of green near the Buttes Chaumont. Houses all in a row, flower gardens and cobbled streets. It's a bucolic enclave where one we can walk and lose himself. The proposal is to preserve this beautiful atmosphere and create a public garden where new offices will take place. The building seeks a delicate and serene connection with its surroundings and linking upper and lower areas with a continuous urban space. Not in a direct way but creating a feeling of continuity through transparency and reflection. The glass walls enable to admire the interplay between structure and nature, blurring the tangible limits of the building and rendering the reading of a solid volume superfluous. A place where local people and employees can come and spend their time together, like a community center. The frame splits into 20 structural glass walls with 10 buildings. All buildings have gaps on the ground floor, allowing people to cross them and gain access to the buildings, the book shop, the restaurant and the nursery. It suitable for conferences and exhibitions with outdoor spaces. The upper levels are the areas for offices. There is a narrow separation between the façades here, natural light being filtered by high tech glass materials. Small break rooms float in the air and interconnect the offices together.

Transversal section

Longitudinal section

MOUZAIA

1st floor, working places

1:200 Model, surrounding context

MOUZAIA

Ground floor, public programs

1:200 Model, surrounding context

MOUZAIA

2nd floor, working places & common areas

1:20 Model, working atmosphere

MOUZAIA

Longitudinal section, facade detail

1:200 Model, workplace detail

MOUZAIA

1:200 Model, office building

1:200 Model, garden detail

MOUZAIA

1:200 Model, public garden

PERSONAL WORK

PONT D’ARVE Cafe Geneva, CH 2015

BALLOONS Showroom Neuchâtel, CH 2014

Central bar

PONT D'ARVE

Project: Cafe Location: Pont d'Arve Avenue, Geneva, CH Status: Preliminary design Year: 2015 In Geneva, most sidewalks are not made of bitumen like the other Swiss cities, but one cement screed embellished with grooves 1 meter by 50 centimeters. This hard-wearing material seeks to unify the ground and the grooves permit to rhythm the urban space. It has been introduced in late 19th century and has still nice spatial qualities in Geneva. That's why the city authorities try to preserve this old process. The proposal is to transform an old clothing store into a Cafe, featuring central bar and furniture made from wood. The old building is located near the University of Geneva and has already been refurbished in the early 2000s, so minimal interventions are required. This allows to create a suitable space with the addition of just a few elements and provide a simple spatial organisation. How to make something spatial in a space not bigger than a stamp and without terrace ? First, the entrance area is extended to connect the street with the Cafe, featuring folding windows and one cement screed similar to sidewalk. Secondly, the old plaster is stripped away to reveal the bare walls and the irregular indoor space is marked out by a precise suspended ceiling allowing to accommodate lighting and the technical space. The dilatation of the new ceiling creates 3 different spaces, the lobby-entrance, the cafe and the technical area. Finally, the central bar allows customers to sit on either side allowing them to chat directly to the bar staff giving the place an informal "local pub" feel.

Longitudinal section

PONT D'ARVE

Ground floor

Indoor climate

BALLOONS

Project: Showroom Location: Neuch창tel, CH Status: Showroom project for a menswear brand Year: 2014 "Une Table Pour Deux" lives through a network of studios based across Switzerland and contributes to the development of the collections, as a result, streetwear is converted into high-end couture. For their collection called "AW 1953", which is mainly composed of black clothes, they contacted me to conceive a showroom that would take place in the cafe L'interlope. The showroom should be transposable into other places too. L'interlope is characterized by high ceilings, approximately 7 meters at the top, supported by steel columns and beams. This structure allows the facade to have large windows and skylight. What the client needed was only to expose clothes temporarily in a place where customers would feel free to touch them. So it was important to conceive a space somehow free of geometry or any other rules, like a landscape. A kind of place where people would come to see the clothes and feel like they were strolling into the wild with sunlight filtering through the clouds. A project interested in what sort of spaces would be created by the extremely slow movement of many floating objects, something like a very gentle, slow-moving flow. In order to achieve this, a very modest installation was done; composing of 400 standard balloons, 10 extra large balloons, several hundred meters of ribbon, oxygen and helium tanks. The iteration of a helium balloon connected to an oxygen balloon creating a blurring landscape, the larger balloons were used to hang the clothes. All these floating particles together created a fog creeping into the place and transforming it into a world of white and so that clothes could become landmarks for the people.

Transversal section

BALLOONS

Plan

THEORETICAL WORK

FAMILY GARDEN Master Thesis with LATER Studio Prof. Emmanuel Rey, Prof. Jeannette Kuo, Assist. Sophie Lufkin EPFL, CH 2013

Book cover

FAMILY GARDEN

Project: Master Thesis Location: EPFL, Lausanne Status: Research publication, LAST Studio, Prof. Emmanuel Rey, Prof. Jeannette Kuo, Assist. Sophie Lufkin Year: 2013 Published in "Terre & Nature" magazine ClĂŠment Grandjean, "Ferme urbaine: la ville, nouvel eldorado agricole", 3 Dec. 2015: 17, print "Family Garden & Collective Housing " is an architectural and landscape approach to reconcile urban density and quality of life. Public authorities, architects, urban planners and city dwellers are increasingly concerned about the declining quality of the city and disidentification of urban centers. The reasons behind this trend are complex. Much of the blame is attributed to the factors like car dependency, long commuter distances and the development of urban centers that no longer correspond to the expectations of citizens. Considering the environmental, sociocultural and economic perspectives, the purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of how community gardens can catalyze positive change in an urban environment, to determine and catalog the impacts, and to learn about their importance to small-scale agricultural production. By analysing several projects, the research try to demonstrate that the gardens afforded qualities to conceive better collective housing projects. Moreover, this allows residents to relax, undertake physical activity, socialise and mix with the neighbors, and sharing cross-cultural diversities. The gardens also provide opportunities to learn about horticulture and sustainable environmental practices, such as composting and recycling, as well as being an important source of low-cost fresh products for a healthy diet. These are the fundamental points of this study which served as the basis for my Diploma project.

History of kitchen gardens, Midle Ages & Monastic garden

FAMILY GARDEN

History of kitchen gardens, Post Industrial society & Family Garden

History of kitchen gardens, urban morphology & archetypal garden

FAMILY GARDEN

Urban analysis, mapping and infographics organized by topics

REFERENCES

JEAN-CLAUDE FRUND Co-founder of Frundgallina Architectes jc.frund@frundgallina.ch

ANTONIO GALLINA Co-founder of Frundgallina Architectes a.gallina@frundgallina.ch

© Aziz Temel — 2015 Edited with Zurich LT BT Typeface Printed on 160g paper ©Photographic credits Aziz Temel Lamu Studio Thanks to — Professors, Assistants & Projectmates from EPFL Emmanuel Rey Jeanette Kuo Inès Lamunière Frundgallina My family and friends

aziz.temel@gmail.com