Bengüsu Cebeci Portfolio 2021 by Bengüsu Cebeci

this is NOT a portfolio. 2021 BENGÜSU CEBECİ

ABOUT ME I am a young explorer who is eager to find her own creative style. The core strength of my character is that I’m a dreamer who tries to catch the most significant detail in everything. I’m in love with the newness and the process of understanding. As a designer, I am taking nourishment from my passions and widening my perspective through them. My goal is to serve back to the world through reflecting the values-centered on nature, people, and culture.

MY HOBBIES & INTERESTS

Photography Yoga Swimming Independent Films

Creative Writing Contemporary Art

EDUCATION Master of Science in Architecture with ‘Cum Laude’ Education focused on Sustainability & Resilient Studies Master Dissertation on “Contested Legacy” 2019-2021 / Ghent, Belgium

KU Leuven

BENGÜSU CEBECİ Architect

1995, 07/23 Nationality: Turkish Driver’s License: Turkish B Class

Faculty of Architecture and Design / B.Arch. GPA: 3.23/4.00 2013-2018 / Ankara,Turkey

TOBB University of Economics and Technology Math & Science GPA: 83.47/100 2008-2013 / Ankara, Turkey

Ümitköy Anatolian Highschool

EXPERIENCES Workshop Assistant - Heritage and Vernacular Architecture April 2019 / worked as assistant of lead host Aslı Özbay / Cappadocia, Turkey the first year of a three year heritage studies in collaboration of; University of Basilicata / School of Architecture of Lyon / Nevşehir University

Intern - TEGET Architectural Office September 2017 - December 2017, Istanbul, Turkey

Ghent, Belgium (+32) 484752899 (+90) 5546452355 bengcebeci@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/bengusucebeci

Intern - TH & IDIL Architecture Co. Ltd. January 2017 - April 2017, Ankara, Turkey

Intern - Baykan Architecture May 2016 - August 2016, Ankara, Turkey

ACHIEVEMENTS Young Talent Architecture Award 2020 Nominee / May 2020 / graduation project ‘Ribbonize’

Archiprix 2018 Turkey Finalist / December 2018 / graduation project ‘Ribbonize’

ArchED (MimED) Student Awards, 2016 2nd Category Jury Special Award granted by National Association for Architectural Education to project ‘Modlab’.

Basamaklar 2018 Project ‘Ribbonize’ is selected by Turkish Association of Architects in Private Practice (TSMD) for Basamaklar 2018 exhibition.

Basamaklar 2017 Project ‘Sky Cradle’ is selected by Turkish Association of Architects in Private Practice (TSMD) for Basamaklar 2017 exhibition.

WORKSHOPS Building Dynamics: Exploring Architecture of Change 2018 / TOBB University of Economics and Technology / Ankara,Turkey

by Prof. Dr. Branko Kolarevic (University of Calgary)

Heritage for Planet Earth® 2017 2017 /International Congress (attended as a listener) / Florence, Italy Smart Travel, Smart Architecture, Heritage & its Enjoyment for Dialogue

by Fondazione Romualdo del Bianco

Ewwud : International Week at ULHT Lisbon 14-23th February 2016 /Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal

Migrations; Architecture and Territory in Time of Change

Parametric Design with Grasshopper 2015 / TOBB University of Economics and Technology / Ankara,Turkey

by Efe Gözen (FABB Architectural Robotics)

CERTIFICATION Ankara Photographers Association (AFSAD) Granted several certificates by AFSAD through completing the courses below.

PORTFOLIO INDEX

2021 Master’s Passage To The Golden Horn Breathing Handshakes Body in Space (N)evertopia

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General English Course (Upper Intermediate Level)

LANGUAGE French Elementary Dutch Beginner

C1-C2 TOEFL IBT® 2019 Score: 97

Turkish Native

A1-A2

SKILLS

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Adobe

Autodesk

Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Premiere

Auocad Revit 3ds Max

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Sky Cradle p.98-102

Other Works

Certificate in English as a Foreign Language 06 January 2014 - 16 March 2014

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Urban Eaves p.92-94

Modlab/

LaL Language Centres, LaL Torbay/UK

English Proficient

Bachelor’s

Ribbonize

Basic Photography Training Photograph Processing Training Advanced Photograhy Techniques Training Street Photography Seminar 1/15 Exposure Experimental Photography Seminar

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p.112-118

REFERENCES Hasan Özbay, M. Ar. TH & İdil Architecture Partner, Manager (+90) 5324465087

Aslı Özbay, Ar. & Conservator Argos Architecture & Design Executive Manager (+90) 5303494195

Rhinoceros SketchUp Grasshopper Processing Enscape

passage to the Golden Horn a peri-urban transferium ferry station gathering point

2020-2021 Spring Term - Master Dissertation Maig42 arCsus in collaboration with RAAAF Master Dissertation Design Studio “Designing From Museumization To Hardcore Heritage” “Hardcore Heritage represents a new way of thinking about monuments and cultural heritage. Through deliberate destruction, radical changes in context, and seemingly contradictory additions, a new field of tension arises between resent, past and future.” (RAAAF) Academic Advisor Prof. Dr. Arch. Marc Dujardin

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The project is located in “Halic Shipyard” in Istanbul, Turkey. The Golden Horn where the shipyard is located has a great industrial past and consisting the historical peninsula which is the oldest urban part of the city and numerous industrial heritage along the coastline. Today due to the privatization of these legacies and the wrong urban policies the coastline is unorganized and hard to access by the public. These disturbances cause the shipyard to be forgotten and getting idle. This project tries to re-introduce the coastal publicity and the shipyard to the Istanbulites by bringing back the past’s ‘Culture of Water’ in a peri-urban transferium.

context & approach _

Sishane Metro Station

‘Passage to the Golden Horn’ is a minimalistic but assembler design that will aim to bring back or relate to past coastal behaviorology while attempting to reconnect the city & the shipyard.

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The warehouse located in the periphery of the shipyard(marked in blue) next to the entrance door is selected as a vacancy to work on, because of its strategic location and the uncertain idea of the municipality to make that part public. Also, the strongest people activity is around there because of the park, station, and the social facilities located. Moreover, it can attract people who use the Sishane metro station with its proximity to there.

images: Google Maps

Persembe Bazaar Area

To re-introduce the Haliç Shipyard to the people, the first design move is to provide a public flow to the site by extending the cut connection of the pre-existing bike and pedestrian route in the Persembe Bazaar area. So, the design starts with an attempt to mend the coastal connection with a capillary going through the impermeable shipyard area. This connection deck can be openable in parts to allow the Haliç Shipyard to keep functioning perfectly as before. Then, a peri-urban passage is created as an extension to the existing warehouse which ties and channels the human flow in every direction and creates an encounter point with the Haliç Shipyard.

photo credit: Istanbul Municipality, edited by the author

reviving the past ‘s culture of water _ p.10

Turks’ physical relationship with the sea has started with ‘Sea Hammams’ and over time with the establishment of the Turkish Republic and the modernization movements, they gradually gave place their popularity to the Republic Beaches. Together with other coastal habits of the past like fishing and boat riding etc., coastal life has become an extension of the daily street life in Istanbul. Over the years, industry and the rapid urbanization combined with the crimes against the city broken this connection between the citizens and the sea. Heritages around

the Golden Horn Coasts began to be privatized and the sea has become extremely polluted to swim in. Today, “the past’s water habits” have long been forgotten, and the sea has become only a transport channel and a beautiful sight to look at instead of being directly involved by the people. In order to re-connect the sea and the people, and to ensure the public future of the legacy of the shipyard these cultural references applied in the master and overall plan.

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Sea Hammam Ferry Station/ Urban Forum

Boat Rental Area

Flexibl Even Space

Boat Mooring & Fishing Deck

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Through mapping the coastal behaviorologies, programmatic design elements applied in the master plan have been decided. These crucial cultural elements that form and affect daily life practices are the culture of water(water-related activities), transitional spaces, public spaces, and event spaces. It is aimed that this ‘passage’ design located on the periphery of the shipyard, with its architectural program, can act as a welcoming point and a catalyzer to bring people to the area. That in the end may create stronger public ownership and socio-cultural encounters in the Halic Shipyard area and hopefully may be, prevent the legacy of the 6-century old shipyard to be forgotten.

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The idea in the plan is to have maximum openness and flexibility to think of the station as an urban forum in which many different kinds of activities can be done with the movement of the people. There are long horizontal and vertical axes/passages that connect the shipyard, the urban life, and the sea. On the tip of the new extension, there is a ferry departure point connected with a marina for ship mooring and fishing. In the body part, there is a sea bath consisting of three different pools for people to enjoy the seaside and do water-related activities. Where the two building connects the bike & pedestrian route goes by and can be considered as a threshold between the old and new part of the building.

behaviorology in section _ The warehouse will be mostly left as an open area with re-arrangeable seating and stage elements which can be carried by the pre-existing crane to serve for different public events such as concerts and meetings. On the other end of the warehouse, there will be an urban elevator that will connect the people to a mezzanine route that goes to the ferry departure point.

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A modular dynamic shell will be mutually used by both parts of the building by installing horizontal slides to the rooftops and elevation sides of the old & new structures. Both of the spaces can benefit from the openness and don’t need to be fully insulated considering the building programs and the convenience of the climate. The outer shell can move according to user needs of day & night time.

DAY USE

NIGHT USE

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exploded diagram & materiality

formation diagrams _ p.20

STEP 1. Highlighted buildings and the border wall will be removed because they don’t have a heritage value and some are in bad condition. By this, the historic wood atelier will be restored in the Shipyard silhouette.

STEP 2. The outer layer of the warehous the Golden Horn will be created. The ped through the shipyard and where the old

STEP 4. A mezzanine connection with an urban elevator will be added to generate mobility in both ways together with the coastal extension.

STEP 5. Protected pools will be provided new wooden structure which will be mad

se will be removed and an extension through destrian and biking route will be continued entrance was located.

STEP 3. Two big decks will be added to the new ground extension for the water-related activities.

d for people to enjoy the seaside and relax. A de in the wood atelier will be installed.

STEP 6. Horizontal colored wood elements will be used to generate different spatial organizations and will provide shading when the outer shell is open.

formation diagrams _ p.22

STEP 7. The tip of the extension will be a departure point for the ferries.

STEP 8. The outer polycarbonate pane and the new extension.

STEP 10. In the daytime, water-related programs such as sea bath, ferry station, boat rental, shipyard, ship mooring, and fishing can take place simultaneously in their specified spaces.

STEP 11. At night time, when the ferry s warehouse and the drydock no.3 can b concerts.

el shell will be mutually used by the warehouse

station and the shipyard are not working, the be used as a place for big public events like

STEP 9. The floating pedestrian and cycling route will be openable in the parts where drydocks are located.

Examplary poster design for events in the Haliç Shipyard.

ferry departure point & boat rental area _

Activities: Ferry Departure Ship Mooring Fishing

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Ferry Departure Point

water deck & sea bath _

Activities: Cafe Sea Bath & Leisure

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Water Deck, The Mezzanine & Interior Spaces

urban connection mezzanine & interiors p.28

Activities: Boat Rental Point Changing Rooms Pedestrian & Cycling Route

Urban Elevator Connected With The Mezzanine

event space & sea bath _ Activities: Event Sapce Reception & Toilets Connection With The Wood Atelier

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Flexible Event Space Modules Carried By The Existing Warehouse Crane

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model photographs

breathing handshakes open urban grounds & water courtyards

2020-2021 Winter Term - Master’s Maig34 Design Studio Shenzhen: Urban Villages Preliminary research done as group(see. my youtube channel) Individual Work Studio Tutor Martine de Maeseneer

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The project is aiming to reveal the linked potential of the existing vivid street life and dynamic commercial activities on the ground floors through tackling the two major problems of life in Handshake towers in Baishizhou Urban Village in Shenzhen, China: clean water scarcity and sunlight inadequacy. Keywords: Natural lighting Rainwater collection / clean water Street activity - interior connection

open _ urban context grounds: & approach concept

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90’s-20’s Handshake Towers’ Problems:

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Solutions - Design Proposals:

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• re-organization of shops and ground floors, enhancing the street connection by partial demolition of the facades on the ground floors

• lack of infrastructure • clean water scarcity

• aiming a slow tranformation approach for building renovation throughout the whole urban village by catalyzing the change with this first step.

• high urban density = less empty ground space

• lack of sunlight in interiors and alleyways • diverse and intense commercial activities on the ground floors, but disorganized and unhygienic areas

• new core design integrated with a water courtyard idea which will provide natural ventilation, sunlight and rainwater collection

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Economic & Socio-Cultural Benefits of Open Urban Ground Floors:

crowded bulding layout

enhanced urban walkability

flexible store spaces

• disorganized existing building footprints are occupying the urban ground enormously and creating inactive urban areas

• more tourists can be attracted by new open ground organizations through increased walkability and proximity

• more efficient and flexible use of store spaces • new shops can be added or reduced according to need

Existing Unorganized Shop Typologies

Shop Typologies in Open Urban Grounds

Shops in Open Urban Grounds

Step 1 Step 2

pilot area design phases _

• Removal of facades on the street level of commercial buildings in the Backbone of the village and in the main pedestrian streets.

Corner Buildings

Public Square

The Backbone & Main Pedestrian Street

Busy Alleys

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Existing Businesses: 1. Little Brother Shopping (Noodle Bar) 2. Shangbaishi Wufang Farmers Market 3. Shangbaishi Vegetable Shop 4. Food 5.Market 6. Food 7. Shonan Barbershop 8. Retail 9.Market 10. Sunshine Department Store 11. Laojiefang Convenience Store 12. Retail x1 Small Market x1 13. Small Market 14. Restaurant 15. Street Food 16. Soup Bar 17. Restaurant 18. Small Market 19. Tmall Store (Baishizhou Store) 20. Food 21. Fanxiaodou-shiyidian tea restaurant 22. Wholesale 23. Ming Kee Communication 24. Vegetable Shop 25. Convenience Store 26. Professional acne treatment 27. 361Clothes Shop 28. Deep Garden Apartment (hostel) 29. Hengbo (Baishizhou mobile franchise store) 30. Jiayin Communication 31. Gold and silver processing and recycling 32. Nice and nice hotel 33. Novelty Toy Store 34. Xin Kee Seafood Restaurant 35. Furniture Shop 36. Ruicaotang Pharmacy 37. Small Electronics Shop 38. New Sunshine Store (convenience small) 39. Restaurant 40. Communication store 41. Convenience Store 42. China Welfare Lottery 43. Teahouse 44. Water Distributor 45. Fastfood 46. Communication Store 47. Hairdresser 48. Shenxing Wanjia Life Supermarket 49. Zhongtong Express (courier company) 50. Sideline Printing 51. Galaxy Kindergarten 52. Call Supermarket 53. Foodx3 54. Mellow Hakka Specialties 55. Lijiang Music Bistro 56. Retailx4 57. Limeida Beauty & Hair Products Firm 58. Mei Niang Beauty 59. Shenzhen Baishizhou Market Changjiang Trade Complex 60. Willow snail fragrant snail noodles 61. Slowly Braised Pork Ribs Rice 62. Xingliangpin soup bag 63. Hao Shun Yi Fruit Shop 64. Shangbaishi Village Committee 65. Hongli Restaurant

Step 3 Step 3

• Removal of scratchy additions of buildings • Addition of the core circulations in open ground buildings

Step 3

• Re-arranging the steps in the sidewalks as organizing platforms of new open urban ground Problematic areas (need particular solutions) To protect smooth human flowin the busy alleys some buildings should be partially cut down

• Articulation of new business modules on the platform. • Non-disturbed, dynamic human flow-building program relationship. Pilot design area in building scale

space syntax p.42

choice integration

connectivity

Old Closed Ground Floors

New Open Ground Floors

Old Closed Ground Floors

New Open Ground Floors

Space Syntax Analysis Conclusion: Based on the space syntax analysis we can see the integration is enhancing especially in the main street and the backbone street (where the reddest axes are). Also, secondary important axes observed are surrounding the red axes and, strengthening the general proximity. Thus, a conclusion can be made that opening up the ground floors will contribute to the walkability and the strengthening of the commercial activity on the ground floors.

water courtyards concept _ Economic & Socio-Cultural Benefits of New Core Design:

Historical and Cultural Reference:

Is it possible to compliment and revitalize an ancient courtyard culture in extreme urban conditions?

siheyuan housing layout

haka compounds

• central courtyards in vernacular Chineese architecture are used for natural cooling and as central green space

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communal sunken ring

• central cores in handshake towers are already holding great importance as the landlords change the interiors very often to gain more rent profit

• improved living environment with climate integrated building cores and open ground floors • renewed centered core which will make future refurbishments and new floor additions easier • if new storeys will be added, the core and water-sunlight tunnel can be lenghtened and keep providing for the future residents • landlords will have the chance for gaining more long term renters or even buyers who wants to enjoy a nice neighborhood

• culture of gathering in courtyards are still existing in urban villages today • villagers are washing their clothes and children in fresh water wells in the hidden courtyards of urban villages

Ground Floor Plan & Section of Pilot Building:

• New commercial shops integrated into open urban grounds. To create flexible and needs oriented spaces, design for re-assembly method will be used • Existing stepped street typology will be re-designed connected with the new platforms of open grounds

Alternative Core & Residential Floor Configurations:

Example Space Divisions For Different Income & Renter Groups:

6.9m² room

10.8m² room

11m ² room

35.2m² apartment

13.2m² balcony

3.9m ² balcony 42m² residence

12.8m² common kitchen & wc

9.2m² balcony

24.5m² apartment

192m² open office

34.3m² apartment

8.7m ² balcony

Example Core & Courtyard Configurations:

• Available space for apartments or offices etc., interior walls can be installed according to needs and residents’ choice central floor circulation • Central floor circulation

22.5m² balcony

water collection scheme

DESIGN ELEMENTS

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Tensile membrane

Upcycled PVC pipe structure

Damp catcher net from light diffusing fabric

Bowl shaped surface to collect condensed damp from the net Recycled plastic bottle tube for rainwater flow Pocket courtyard

Collective rainwater tank

Sun Light Tunnel System Will provide natural light throught the curtain walls around pocket courtyards on the sides of the building core

Cooling Pocket Courtyard Working in tandem with the open ground floors and central circulation in the upper floors these central courtyards will act as a chimney to passively cool

Steel frames

Light amplifier mirrors

Rain Water Collection System Will provide fresh water for the residents. A protective anti-bird net will be installed on top of the membrane.

Main reflector mirrors controlled by computer

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WATER FLOW

Design for Re-assembly The structure of water collector umbrellas will be PVC pipes which can be easily found in the urban villages. It will also make an easy installation possible by villagers when needed.

MATERIAL PRINCIPLES 1. Roof Extension Detail

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Damp Cathcher Net Detail

Roof to ground whole system

Damp catcher outer mesh

Light amplifier angled mirror system

Plastic tube that transmits the rainwater

2. Courtyard Extension Detail While the inner tube transmits the water from the roof to the tank, the outer net traps the moisture inside the system.

5. End Part Detail

PVC Pipe Structure Connection Detail: Universal Joint 2 The bowl at the end of the body part collects the water coming from the outer net and the roof and transfers it to the tank.

6. Body Structure 5

The steel circle frames on the body hold the whole system together and are connected to the core of the building with steel 1. Roof Extension Detailropes which take the tension.

Tensile Membrane Views

Roof Structure Views

3. Mirror System Detail

Mirror system reflects sunlight int the building up to the ground floor.

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Roof to ground whole system

Damp catcher outer mesh

Light amplifier angled mirror system

Plastic tube that transmits the rainwater

Steel frames which connects the body

Connection to the wall of the core

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Plastic Tube Detail (Made by Heating Plastic Bottles)

2. Courtyard Extension Detail

While the inner tube transmits th water from the roof to the tank, th outer net traps the moisture insid the system.

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The bowl at the end of the body pa collects the water coming from th outer net and the roof and transfers to the tank.

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The steel circle frames on the bod hold the whole system together an are connected to the core of th building with steel ropes which tak the tension.

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Although the future of Handshake Towers does not seem very bright, total demolition is not a feasible and humane solution. The displacement of a large number of people will cause sociological and urban problems as well as the loss of enormous potential which urban villages obtain. It is clear that Shenzhen is turning into a busy metropolis full of skyscrapers and the Handshake Towers will have to adapt to this change one way or another. In this project, it is questioned that if it is possible to reveal the potential of the urban villages by enhancing the urban conditions and therefore, catalyze a slow, steady change from the bottom to top. Refurbishment over demolition will support a more diverse community in which everyone feels belonging.

body in space how to measure space with a body ?

2019-2020 Spring Term - Master’s Maig24 Design Studio Wicked Home Individual Work Studio Tutors Annelies De Smet, Jo Liekens, Nel Janssens

phase I _ Remembering the world in common: Co-Existing “In natural world no organism exists in absolute isolation.”

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Where there is water and soil, there is life. We should allow life inside our homes and minds without forcing it to grow on it artificially. We just need to allow life; water, soil, sun, wind, and odor pass through and then step back and watch what grows inside us, inside our homes. All those new life forms and you might so beautifully emerge into each other. HOMES WITHIN HOMES… Ensemble of scales simulating a mini-earth. Habitus within habitus… Oh, how poetically it could exist this relation of unconscious care of one another. Reviving and stimulating our connection to mother earth via the material world of home. The feeling of nostalgia and remembering what we have been forgotten for so long… Unfolding an endless number of homes by connecting with the sensible landscape through human touch where we bind our genius with Gaia’s. What are the elementals of senses which appeal to us in terms of home? Through which actions of the body and combinations are they created? How can we remember to care again? Maybe the wickedness of this type of home is that it borns and dies in an instant. Then re-borns multiplies and explodes into fragments of memory.

phase II _

Watch The Performance Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5d1oOmGM1U&ab_channel=Beng%C3%BCsuCebeci

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This project can be considered as a guideline for body-based live space creation. To demonstrate this made-up terminology, a mapping of different subjects has been done to make the viewers start to question their relations with the surroundings. Firstly, a map states a series of new elements of the space which are different than conventional ones. For example, it uses traces, textures, and skins instead of walls, floors, and openings, etc. In the second section of the map, there is the body and/ or the form which defines the space with motion or just being in it. In the last section: Home, the map leads us to think about the idea of home and how these two previous measures already can create a space that is inhabited co-existing. The video performance and the guidelines together aim to raise questions on how we can alter the way we look into and build the space, the architecture, and more importantly “our home”.

SKINS SKINS SKI

“We behold, touch, listen and measure the world with our entire bodily existence, and the experiential world becomes organised and articulated around the centre of the body. Our domicile is the refuge of our body, memory and identity. We are in constant dialogue and interaction with the environment, to the degree that it is impossible to detach the image of the Self from its spatial and situational existence. ‘I am the body,’ Gabriel Marcel claims, but ‘I am the space, where I am’ establishes the poet Noel Arnaud.’’ Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, p.64

Reference: A Lİİine Made by Walking, 1967, Richard Long

Phase 2

TEXTURES TEXTURES TEXTURES

Phase 1

body- space measuring map

TRACES TRACES TRACES

Phase 6

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Phase 5

Phase 4

Phase 3

Reference from the Flowers

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HOW T0 MEASURE/DEFINE/CREATE space with BODY_?

Reference: People on Stone Plinths, 1987, Karin Sander

body against nature/ space

ARCHITECTURE IS DEFINED SPACE!

e: e Earth/ Body Works; on Body, 1973, Ana Mendieta

“Our architecture has no physical ground plan, but a psychich one. Walls no longer exist. Our spaces are pulsating balloons. Our heartbeat becomes space; our face is the façade’’ Coop Himmelblau, 1968

body against objects

body- space measuring map

DY_? HOME HOME HOME

Architecture is defined space. In this defined space (in this case forest) to create a home is to create a smaller scale defined space. What is to be a body in space is what is to inhabit. Home is where we inhabit. Thus our body creates its own refuge by moving in the space. Nature is our first and ultimate home and a good example of ensemble of homes within homes.

Reference: Tierra/ Earth, 2013, Regina Jose Galindo

Reference: Shelter, 2017, Alİper Aydın

“Long did I build you, oh house! With each memory I carried stones.’’ Maison de Vent, Louis Guillaume

taken from the book ‘The Poetics of Space’

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Himmelblau, 1968 Reference: Untitled from the series ‘Siluetas’, Ana Mendieta

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Reference: Self Burial, Keith Arnatt

a HOME is a Gap

p between BORDERS.

HOW TO LIVE WITH A TREE?

TRACES

TEXTURES

SKINS MEASURING WITH BODY 1: BODY AGAINST_ NATURE/ SPACE MEASURING WITH BODY 2: BODY AGAINST_ OBJECTS HOME 1: FORM AND HOME HOME 2: LIVING WITH A TREE

a HOME is a NesT in the FOREST.

phase III

Watch The Performance Video:

Beating the Bounds Bingo:

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definition. beating the bounds n old custom, still kept in some parts of Brita ain, of marking the boundaries of a church parish by walking round them and hitting the ground, or certain boundary marks, with long sticks. The ceremony is performed once a year, usually on Ascension Day or before Easter. source: Oxford Learners Dictionary

mind radiates through space, body as a central point

s a continuation of the home-space-body A thematics “beating the bounds” further elaborates the measuring of the space and the factors which create belonging to that space. In order to do that, several encounters have been made with the vertical and horizontal elements existing in space this phase re-discovers my home and its borders in a depressing and dark COVID-19 quarantine state of mind.

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bodily movement in space and time

(n)evertopia technomadic occupancy

2019-2020 Winter Term - Master’s Maig14 Design Studio Field Station: Automation Individual Work Studio Tutors Corneel Cannaerts & Michiel Helbig

The Rise of Technomads Automation, technology, and increased mobility have dramatically changed most of the essential things in our daily life. Like perception of home or workspaces or the way of living. Further, it has created a new type of traveling community which is ‘neo–nomads’. Neo-nomads can be divided into several subgroups according to the difference in lifestyles, ideologies, and ethics. Among them, the project is focused more on technomads. Technomads are actually the new generation that is more connected to the world by the internet than the past generations have ever been. Sharing ideas is equal to internetworking now. So, they rather stay in and share their ideas from their comfort zone or work from away. Off-grid people are the ones who want to live more freely like ‘neo-nomadic outsiders’ – punks, hippies, anarchists, and ravers. They exist within the current context of an automated era but they are against it. They have more communal notions, different societal values, and a much more simple and analog way of living. Compulsory neo-nomads are people who are being forced to live a nomadic life due to war, hunger, joblessness or migration to cities, etc. Joblessness, in fact, is one of the most drastic upcoming results of automation.

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In the future, new architectural and industrial typologies will be created for this new mobile society. More temporary and individualistic fast solutions (like furnitectures) will be seen more as the main way of living. This project tries to question what might be these new typologies and designs and in which ways they will co-exists with the old architecture.

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Social Media as a new “socializing” place of the city. “What is even public space anymore?”

Amazon Xpress market for neo nomads. “What my food have become?”

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The most comfortable “sleep” with the sleeping pods.

Who needs their “own” house when you have maxi capsule.

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“Does anyone even has time for a real date now, seriously?”

“There is a party in my own head and no one is invited.”

ribbonize re-thinking Etimesgut sugar factory as a music academy

2017-2018 Summer Term Bachelor’s Diploma Project Archiprix Turkey 2018 Short Listed Group Work Bengüsu Cebeci & Ayşe Dağoğlu Objective Refunctioning the Industrial Heritage; Etimesgut Sugar Factory Area as a Music Academy Studio Tutor Prof. Dr. Nur Çağlar

Etimesgut Sugar Factory is one of the most important facilities that contributed Turkey’s sugar production for years. In time, with the changes in technology and market needs, the sugar factory will eventually face the danger of losing its function. The factory area is an important industrial heritage from the early republican period, so it has an important place in the city memory. Also; if the area lose its function, it has a potential to be reclaimed as a public space for Ankara.

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Within the process of re-programming the industrial area, the objective: music school may not be enough to create an urban space which is acknowledged by the citizens. Therefore, the project is trying to create an urban campus that will have interactions with the city dwellers to meet the critical need of public space in Ankara. By renovating the area into a contemporary public space, the heritage will also get the chance to be recognized by citizens. To cooperate with the city; an extroverted campus design is thought to be more proper rather than an isolated campus order. A secondary axis is added to the area to serve as a binding ribbon between the programs and to make the area accessible by public. Lastly, the platform underneath the ribbon strenghtens all relations at the same time creating new interaction points with the area.

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1. Current plan of the factory campus

2. Possible entrances to the campus

3. Buildings that chosen to be preserved

Factory Buildings Sugar Instıtute Community Facilities Education Facilities Dwelling houses

4. Remaining roads and buildings

5. Existing functions of buildings

6. Decided new main axis of the area

7. Axis is approaching to the sugar factory

8. Axis creating a space in-between

9. Axis is approaching the dorms

10. Formed axis and new entrances through it

11. Adding the platform underneath the axis

12. Creating new event & action points

13. Placing industrial ruins & objects

14. Creating vertical circulation points

15. Greening some areas

Exploded view of the platform & axis

Industrial campuses were planned to meet the social needs of factory workers and their families, as the factories had been established outside the city center and were isolated from cities. To keep the sense of the area, the general masterplan is desired to be protected. That is why some of the buildings have been preserved and refunctionalized. A secondary axis is added to the area from a different layer as a reinterpretation of the removed axis on the ground.

substantial places along the axis _

Entrances

Master Plan Decisions

1. Secondary entrance; square design

Sugar Factory renovated as Sugar Museum and Warehouses were left as reserve areas for temporary events. 5

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The park across the railway station re-designed and arranged as primary entrance.

7. Primary entrance; public park design

Platform Organizing Elements Playgroungs

1 Secondary entrance is located in the existing space on the parcel.

Sand Pool Skateboard Ring

Table Tennis

Sugar Institute

Balloon Playground

Playground

Skateboard Ring

Splash Playground

Campus Facilities Complex Playground

Vertical Fun Sticks

Resting & relaxing units

Industrial Garden

Mini Stage

Existing houses were turned into school dorms.

Sports Facilities

Amphitheater

Stream Amphitheater

Sitting Units

Vertical circulations & axis’ section

Grand Concert Hall

Industrial ruins & objects

Machine Factory was revised as Music School. Structure Gardens

Old Chimneys

Silo Concert Halls

substantial places along the axis

2. Campus facilit

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3. Industrıal garden from factory ruins

6. Entrance of sugar museum route

4. Grand concert

ties for students

5. Renovated & reserved warehouses

Grand concert hall section 1

Grand concert hall level ±0

hall & axis connection

Grand concert hall level +5

the music academy

Factory walls

Old structure

New structure

Curtain walls

Floors

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Walls

Landscape

Music school exploded view

School & axis connection views The Music Academy is designed inside the Machine Factory which is located in the factory campus. The axis passes through the evacuated third hall of the factory to form a public intersection point. The modular design of the factory’s construction style which is for creating large space in short amount of time was the main inspiration for creating the academy’s concept design for the sake of preserving industrial feature of the area. Therefore the old and the new structure combined and programs integrated to them. Some of the school programs are thought to be open to public use as well, to create a dynamic relationship between the city and the campus (instrument museum, cafes, library, performance halls and garden). Thus majority of these places located on the west blocks in order to control the circulation easily. On the east blocks of the school, silent and loud classrooms and performance halls are placed.

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Level ±0

plans & perspective

Level +5

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Level +10

plans & perspective

Level +14

sections & perspective _

Music school section 1-1

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Music school section A-A

Music school’s industrial garden

Transition tube betw

Music school section 2-2

ween school blocks

Music school’s library

urban eaves a place for gathering

2017-2018 Spring Term - Bachelor’s Individual Work Objective Cultural center in Senegal, Africa This project was prepared for Kaira Looro Architecture Competition but never entered. Studio Tutors Nihat Eyce & Aslı Özbek

1. Performance Hall 2. Exhibition Hall 3. Classroom 4. Management Office 5. WC

5 4 3 2

Plan +0.20 There are no exteriors or interiors there is only space itself. Objects / Boundries / Walls / Roads / People Define PLACE and create ACTION PLACES.

Urban Identifiers ‘Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It’s how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment… all of that expressed in culture.’

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Wendell Pierce

When we look at the Sedhiou region, it is seen that climatic conditions play an important role in urban life and space formation. Also cultural and belief systems have a big influence on organizing these spaces and urban life. In this context, cultural center design has been dealt with in the context of urban tectonics and actions organizing space in the city. To ensure cultural survival, it is intended to create an urban space idea where the locals can come together to resume these shared exchanges and reorganize the space with different actions.

The Space

Walls as Vertical Identifiers

Section AA

Southeast elevation

Northwest elevation

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Eaves supports water harvesting and plays role as a inclusive landscape element.

Section BB

Southwest elevation

Northeast elevation

sky cradle a deck for observation

2016-2017 Summer Term - Bachelor’s Basamaklar 2017 selcted for exhibition Group Work Bengüsu Cebeci & Ilgın Büke Ulular All Project Visuals Bengüsu Cebeci Objective Observatory house Competition Entry: YAC 2017 Observatory Houses Studio Tutor Murat Sönmez

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Observation is a perpetual activity neither starts in a specific time or space nor stops another. It is a perception which goes on prolongedly as long as one exists. Although the observation proceeds all over the topography, it is cut by the field on adverse slope between the castle and the path. In this design, it is intended to provide a continuous observation; as if changing a rough stone in the floor the arrangements ought to be considered as a part of the topography. Connected to the existing path between the church and the castle the design is shaped as a monolithic floor. The upper surface of this upholstery acts as an observation deck and aimed to emphasize the main topic: the sky and observation. It is desired to strengthen this situation with the sky tunnel (a preparation process including sky maps and other training materials) that is connected with the cradle . Since the observation is supposed to be the main focus, the remaining spaces are compressed into this thick deck.

Circulation of whole is provided from two large courtyards. The solid design gets the light by courtyards and sky rips on the floor. The space organized as an open plan which is arrranged with the diversive walls and vegetation. Because it is thought as a part of the topography and should be a sustainable design, rammed earth for the walls and hempcrete for the upholstery are preferred as the materials.

Northwest Elevation

Northeast Elevation

Sky Tunnel

Observatory Deck

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Open Plan

Exploded View

Section BB

Section AA

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1. The Cradle

Site Plan

2. Sky Tunnel

Plan

3. Courtyard

4. Sky Rips

modlab/ a modular fablab

2015-2016 Fall Term - Bachelor’s MimED 2016: 2nd Category Jury Special Price Group Work Bengüsu Cebeci & Çağatay Erbaş Objective Designing a FabLab Competition Entry Designnext 2015 Studio Tutor Aktan Acar

West View

South View

North View

East View

Due to it’s dynamic and lively characteristics, Bahçelievler region is one of the first choices of the youth in Ankara. Therefore it is a perfect place for a FabLAB created for young designers.

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The two main goals for the design were avoiding any conventianal building types and re-creating the old urban typology of Bahçelievler by reviving public green connections with the neighbourhood on level 0. With the help of local, easily accesible and inexpensive materials; a modular building design that changes and adapts were created. By using fruit boxes to create modules like lego pieces, we aimed spaces which adapts to changes of neccessities in a FabLAB. Former spaces created based on ideal lightings according to the solar analysis. In other respects, design separates the building and the ground in order to contact with the back gardens tend to be forgotten in the neighbourhood. South and west façades have lots of hanged ivies that can help to save some heating energy. The modularity of this design touches the idea of flexible, participative and therefore inspirational places.

Modular Floors

Alternative Plans

Terrace & Cafe Floor Plan +12.00

Modular Walls

Alternative Plans

Production Floor Plan +8.00

Exhibition Area

Circulation Core

Alternative Plans

Study Floor Plan +4.00

Grid System

Urban Floor Plan ±0.00

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Façade grid modules constructed from 4x4m pallets

Sandwich panel floor modules

OSB-wooden grid-heat protection-pallets

other wo photography & collages

orks

Photography Portfolio

Video Portfolio

Writing Portfolio

@pe.polyethylene

channel: Bengüsu Cebeci

@bengusucebeci

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Kayseri, Turkey

photography

Ankara, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

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Lisbon, Portugal

photography

Ankara, Turkey

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collages

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collages

thank you

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