2012
BEGUM TARAKCI PORTFOLIO
“The passion of creating energetic, livable, independent outdoor spaces and a much better feeling environment for people to interact, integrate, adapt and live in with Freedom.” Begüm Tarakçı
ALATAŞ ARCHITECTURE: GÖLBAŞI HOUSING PROJECT 2010-2011/ Gölbaşı, Ankara, TURKEY Gölbaşı Housing Project, located in Ankara,Turkey is a residential project designed while working with Alataş Architecture, an Istanbul based architectural design company found by Ahmet Alataş. We work together with Alataş from conceptual design to detailed structure of the building. Between different design proposals our client found our very linear solution clear and qualitative.
Site Section
Site Section
Site Plan
Perspective proposed by Begum Tarakçı
Concept Sketches
Aerial Perspective proposed by Begum Tarakçı
Front House Perspective proposed by BT
House Right View
Final Product: Aerial Perspective
BackHouse Perspective proposed by BT
Front House Perspective proposed by BT
PROFESSIONAL WORK //ANKARA GÖLBAŞI HOUSING 2010-2011 PROJECT LEADER: AHMET ALATAŞ Club Common-use Car-Park
Site Section
Club Building 1st Floor
House Perspective
A Perspective including the Streetscape and the car-parking Club Building 2st Floor
House Entrance Floor Plan
House Interior Perspective
House Upper Floor Plan
House Roof Floor Plan
House Interior Perspective
House Interior Perspective
According to the program, there must be 17 house placed on the site, a common used social area including an open swimming pool, a club building and car-parking area. Our idea was to create terraces and hide most of the facilities underground. Therefore, instead of seeing to much concrete on the ground we would optain more green areeas and the houses would look like they were lost in between the green areas and rised from the ground. The Houses are made of steel constuction and the material use is basically glass, steel and wood. That helped us to make the houses look more minimal, comfortable, attractive and qualitative.
GRADUATION PROJECT FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM 2009-2010 FALL SEMESTER
Location: Istanbul/TURKEY
Located in the heart of the city of Istanbul, Karaköy is an evolving commercial, residential,retail,entertainment, and open space corridor that encom connects many of the city’s diverse regions and neighborhoods. APPROACH and SITE ANALYSIS in terms of ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES VIEW and SITE LOCATION >> The Historical Peninsula of Istanbul, Historical Galata Tower, Galata Bridge, Geneo Walls, Atatürk Bridge, Haliç BRAINSTORMING Karaköy//karaköy//kara-köy-//ka-ra-köy//k-a-r-a-k-ö-y >> land-village >> end of the sea and starting point of the land village High Density//Crowded//Loud//Noisy//Metropol City//Complexity//Trade center//Motion//Active//Diversity//Fluency//Changing
>>>FLUENT CHARACTERISTIC + COMPLEX STRUCTURE <<< <<<<DINAMISM>>>>
>>City (people with senses) + City (environment with natural values)>>DINAMISM>> Living Architecture + Living Environment
<<<<SUSTAINABILITY>>>> >>>DINAMISM+SUSTAINABILITY+ACTION+TIME >>>7/24 NONSTOP ENERGY DURING THE DAY
>>>CITY+PEOPLE+ENERGY+SPACE>>> FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM & INTERNATIONAL MEETING SQUARE PROGRAM INDEX OF THE PROPOSED MUSEUM Buildings: Temporary Collection- Permanent Collection- Cafe/bar- Museum Store- Workshops Outdoor Spaces: Multipupose Square- Circulation- CarParking Museum Collections: Temporary Collections: International collections which has various clothing products btw 15th-21th century.Coming from each country. Permanent Collections:Traditional collections of Ottoman Palace and Anatolia with various textile products.
GRADUATION PROJECT FASHION & TEXTILE MUSEUM 2009-2010 / Karakoy, Istanbul, TURKEY High Density//Crowded//Loud// Noisy//Metropol City//Complexity// Trade center//Motion//Active//Diversity//Fluency//Changing >>>FLUENT CHARACTERISTIC + COMPLEX STRUCTURE <<< <<<<DINAMISM>>>>
The textile museum project is named as
>>City (people with senses) + City (environment with natural values)>>DINAMISM>> Living Architecture + Living Environment
‘DIAGONAL BOND’
influenced by the diagonal braid style which gave a start to the design process.
Concept Sketch
<<<<SUSTAINABILITY>>>> DINAMISM+SUSTAINABILITY+ACTION+ TIME >>> 7/24 NONSTOP ENERGY DURING THE DAY
Workshop Units
>>>CITY+PEOPLE+ENERGY+SPACE>>> FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM & INTERNATIONAL MEETING SQUARE
Permanent Exhibition
Performance Platform Cafe / Bar
Museum Library
Diagonal Bond Site Plan
Temporary Exhibition
Concept Sketch
Inspiring piece of textile
Perspective of the Workshop Units Green Corridors Diagram
Perspective of the Cafe/bar meeting the Permanent
ACADEMIC WORK// FALL SEMESTER 2009-2010 INS: PROF.DR BELKIS ULUOGLU DIAGONAL BOND
Perspective of the Permanent Exhibition Building Aerial Perspective of the complete Site The Fashion and Textile museum project was designed with ispiration of a textile product and it turned in to a environment friendly land form project. The surfaces and the buildings designed are all look like ups and downs on the land which is just by the water and it gives a unique charecter to the shore. It also has a huge recreation area which gives opportinies to many public activities. Another good opportunity of the project is that it helps solving the Car-Parking problem by creating a huge parking lot with the help of the cracks on the surface of the green terrace.
Aerial view of the complete Site
Permanent Exhibition Building Section
Temporary Exhibition Building Section
Concept Model
Perspective of the Permanent Exhibition Entrance Concept Model
URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT HAYDARPAŞAPORT/TransPort To TransForm APPROACH TO THE SITE
Haydarpaşa( Eng: Haidar Pasha) is a neighborhood within the Üsküdar district on the Asian Part of Istanbul,Turkey. The place on the coast of SEa of Marmara, borders to Harem in the Northwest and Kadıköy in the Southeast. It i a historical area with almost solely public buildings. Also known as ‘the Gate of Anatolia’ Port of Haydarpaşa is a general cargo seaport, ro-ro and container terminal situated in Haydarpaşa, İstanbul at the southern entrance to the Bhosphorus.The port is operated by the Turkish State Railway and serves a hinterland which includes the country’s most industrialized areas. It is the biggest container port in Marmara Region and with an annual cargo volume exceeding six million metric tons, Turkey’s biggest port after Mersin and İzmir. Port construction was commenced by the Anatolian Railway Company on April 20,1899. Which means it has a very valuable historical background all over the years.Therefore, this project made me analyse the history of the area as much as i can and while converting the port area into a urban entertainment area the first idea was to keep the containers and the cranes somewhere. The Containers turned into a container architecture building and Cranes turned into movable sculptures because i desired people to always remember what it used to be in the previous times.
Project Name: TRANS-PORT to TRANS-FORM
Concept: Collecting the containers in one building, perfoming arts center=Container Architecture Building// Deformation (Observatory Terraces viewing the Historycal Peninsula) occurs and Container blocks starts
URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT HAYDARPAĹ&#x17E;APORT/TransPort To TransForm 2008-2009, Istanbul
This Project is an Urban Renawal project. and the idea is to transform the cities old transportation area into a public place considering all its historical values. Moving all the transportation equipments including containers & ro-ro. Very important never to forget its previous usage. Since it is a living linkage. A connector to world in the heart of Istanbul.
Approaching to the Site
Coming Closer
Site Model
Observatory Terraces
Site Analysis Model
Model
Model
Sketches The concept of the project has 3 main phases called Transformation and 2 breaking phases which is called Deformation Phases. 1st phase, is the Container Architecture Building,influenced by the containers removed, 2nd phase is the Observatory Terraces, influenced by the Historical Peninsula View of the site. Created for visitor to have the opportunity to watch the beauty of Istanbul. The 3rd phase is the Contemporary Concert Hall which is a floating concert Hall and tatally new for the environment.
ACADEMIC WORK// FALL SEMESTER 2008-2009 INS: PROF.DR MURAT ŞAHİN Project Name: TRANS-PORT to TRANS-FORM Concept: Collecting the containers in one building, perfoming arts center=Container Architecture Building// Deformation (Observatory Terraces viewing the Historycal Peninsula) occurs and Container blocks starts to seperate// at the end of this DEFORMED TRANSFORMATION the contemporary structure (Concert Hall) appears.
SWA GROUP SUMMER PROGRAM 2008 INTERNSHIP Location: Houston/TX
Located in the heart of the city of Houston, Super Neighborhood 22 (SN22) is an evolving residential,retail,entertainment, and open space corridor that encompasses and connects many of the central city’s diverse regions and neighborhoods.
SN22
Student participants of SWA’s 2008 Summer Program were tasked with analyzing and understanding the complex issues of SN22 in order to recommends appropriate urban planning, urban design and landscape architectural solutions that can be added to the current discourse on the future of SN22. The students engaged with a neighborhood stakeholder group, regional and local leaders from multiple professional disciplines, and principles and associates representing each SWA office within the United States. The program consisted of a total of eight students and spanned a four week studio period. Participants recieved a new design topic at the beginning of each week, developed a set of design ideas, and concluded the week with a group presentation to the stakeholders.
WEEK 01- URBAN PLANNING
Working as a group the interns examined the neighborhood’s lager systems, both natural and man-made, to understand the dynamic forces that have and will continue to shape SN22. Some of these systems include: socioeconomic/cultural, transportation,land use,regulatory,hydrologic,ecological, and macro/micro climate. The end result was an analytical study that considers that stakeholders concerns,documents systemic forces, produces a master plan that illustrates a long-range vision for the neighborhood, and provides strategies for achieving the overall vision.
WEEK 02- URBAN DESIGN
Narrowing the project focus from week one, four systems were chosen for an urban design study. Four teams of two were created and each team studied a separate system within the project area. Team1:Transportation Team2:Natural Systems and Open Spaces Team3:Land use Team4:Connections. The goal of the week was to produce an urban design plan for each system that builds on the broad design gestures from week one and responds to the specific needs and challenges of the site. By the end of the week, a plan for future development was created.
WEEK 03- PLACES DESIGN
Ultimately,SN22’s future will be decided by individual projects within or adjacent to its boundaries. At the beginning of week three, each intern choose a site specific project and produced a detailed site design that was presented at the end of the week.The project could be streetscape, a park, a waterfront, or ant other approved site of interest. The resulting design considered the challenges facing SN22 and was built on concepts outlined in weeks one and two.
WEEK 04- OBJECT DESIGN
The character of a designed space can often be attributed to the design and arrangement of individual objects within a project.These innumerable objects could include kiosks,sculptures,water features,lighting fixtures,seating,shelters or wall features. During the final week each member chose an object and created design details that consider both aesthetic and functional concerns relative to the overall project goals.
SWA GROUP
Connections:
SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2008 / SN22, Houston,TX Of all these connections, I felt that the most critical was the missing link btw the bayous. Therefore, I focused on the ways in which
Major + Minor Connections During the second week, I choose to focus on major and minor connections throughout the neighborhood. Specifically, I examined connections to historical areas, connections btw the industrial land in Ward One and the Downtown Central Buss. District, connec and btw existing green spaces including the cemeteries and bayous.
to connect the bayous and surraounding park
spaces.
Major Connection Diagram
Bubble Diagram
Conceptual Master Plan
In order to accomplish this, I utilized the Olivewood, Glenwood and Washington Cemeteries and proposed an active park space in between. Doing so would
create
another major recreation zone,
Minor Connection Diagram
Minor Connection Conceptual Diagram
Minor Connection Conceptual Diagram
Proposed Cross-Section Through Washington Avenue
ParkLine
As i was working on the idea of the green connections, i tried to find the most important for green linkages. Therefore, the spaces btw Olivewood and Glenwood Cemeteries, as well as Washington Avenue, became my week three site project.The reason that i chose to work on this specific site was to encourage pedestrians to use both sides of the Avenue. I designed a
Concept Sketch
complimenting the location of the existing Memorial Park.
Perspective of Land Forms and the Water Feature
Perspective of Washington Avenue
Perspective of the Skateboarding Area
ParkLine, which connects the north side of the Avenue to the south.
Concept Sketch
ParkLine Site Plan
Perspective of the Amphitheater
Aerial Perspective of Washington Avenue
The Model of the elevated part of ParkLine Plan of the Floating ParkLine
Blue Light Sensors Lighting the Benches as Cars Pass
Placing light sensors on Washington Avenue which are connected to benches within the park.
Whenever a car passes through the light sensors they activate the connected benches and the sitting area shines. This means that if Washington Avanue is busy the Floating ParkLine is also busy and if the Washington
View of the North Ramp
Avenue is quiet the park is quiet.
Waterfall Feature over Washington Avenue Green Light Sensors
Floating ParkLine
Orange Light Sensors
As i was designing ParkLine in week three, I focused on connecting the north and the south sides of Washington Avenue. However, I realized that Washington Avenue was still dividing my site in two, and was possibly too great of a barrier. Therefore, I elevated my park, in turn creating the Floating ParkLine. I wanted the park to be dynamic and interactive with people and cars.
Aerial View of the Floating Parkline
PROFESSIONAL WORK //SWA SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2008