Berfin Ozel Portfolio 2023

BERFİN ÖZEL

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BERFİN ÖZEL

Highly motivated and interdisciplinary architect, currently pursuing a master’s degree in architecture with a focus on the possible effects of bio-architecture on social sustainability. I am a versatile and process-oriented designer who enjoys learning new things and exploring new ways of designing with a passion for nature, biology and technology. I am dedicated to designing concerning the sustainability and well-being of the living things. I am always excited to bring my skills and perspective to dynamic and forward-thinking creative environments.

Izmir, Turkey

berfinozel@gmail.com

+90 (553) 258 13 85

MSc in Architecture

Izmir University of Economics [2020- ]

Bachelor of Architecture

Izmır University of Economics, GPA: 3,30 [2014-2019]

Bachelor Degree in Sociology

Anadolu University, Open Edu. System [2016-2020]

RhinoCeros

Grasshopper

Revit

Autocad

3dsMax

V-Ray

Lumion

Twinmotion

Photoshop

Illustrator

Indesign

Lightroom

Premiere Pro

QGIS

Phyton

Microsoft Office

20202018

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2022 2022

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Freelance Architect & Designer

While continuing my education, I am also working as a freelance designer. I worked as an architectural designer and interior designer on several projects, as a freelance illustrator for an architectural marketplace and created flat vector packages. I experienced the design process for several brand identity and graphic design projects.

M+D Mimarlık

Office Internship, 20 workdays

I have worked on the office book preparation for publishing as an archive of the architectural firm’s 35 years. I have worked on a survey project for an elementary school to specify charity requirements and contributed to the ongoing ecological design research of the office.

Saygın Mühendislik

Construction Internship, 20 workdays

I had a very educational experience from the field trips with the field supervisor civil engineer which I observed the various stages of construction simultaneously.

Maket İzmir

Workshop Internship, 10 workdays

I have worked on the preparation stage of the Empire State Building model and worked on the model-making of a social housing proposal.

XOX Concept

Independent Office Internship 3 months

I worked on the digital archive organization of the office. I contributed to the photo shoots of the products designed by XOX Concept. Also, observed several interior design project processes. At the same time, I worked as a salesperson at the downstairs shop of the office.

Activating Co-Creation Methodologies of 3D Printing with Biocomposites Developed from Local Organic Wastes

eCAAde 2022 Conference Paper - Writers // Secil Afsar, Alberto T. Estévez, Yomna K. Abdallah, Gozde Damla Turhan, Berfin Ozel, Aslihan Doyuran

3D Printing with Bacterial Cellulose-Based Bioactive Composites for Design Applications

eCAAde 2022 Conference Paper - Writers // Gozde Damla Turhan, Secil Afsar, Berfin Ozel, Aslihan Doyuran, Guzden Varinlioglu, Murat Bengisu

ADMISSIONS & AWARDS

2020

2020

2020

2019

2017

2017

Partial Scholarship to IAAC

Master of City and Technologies 1 Programme

Admission to Politecnico di Milano

Master of Architecture Programme

Admission to University of Luxembourg

Master of Architecture Programme

Honour Student Bachelor Degree

Honour student degree with 3.30/4.00 GPA

Space Camp 3d Modelling Volunteer Educator Certificate

Tutored 3d modeling workshop for kids who are participants in Space Camp as ECOFAB team.

Westminster University FABFEST winner as ECOFAB team member

Hawthorn First Prize

Interaction design award winner

Architecture Third Prize

Architectural design quality award winner

PARTICIPATIONS

Garden of Vitality Workshop

Experiencing the revitalizing the natural elements, a joyful approach to sustainability. w/ Dilek Himam, Melis Baloğlu, Elif Tekcan

Towards Regenerative Architecture Biomaterial Workshop

Biomaterial 3D printing experiences with organic waste w/ Seçil Afşar

IAAC Big Data Urbanism & Robotic Fabrication Workshop

Lectures & experiences on data-driven urban design and robotic fabrication w/ Alex Mademochoritis, Areti Markopoulou, Alexandre Dubor and Aldo Sollazzo

Second Life of the Visual Workshop

Video Editing and making Remix’es via found videos w/ Fatih Bilgin

IO-2-Noise Workshop

Experiences on sound-making as an interaction design method via Arduino w/ Daniele Savasta & Ceren Kayala r

Village Diaries Workshop

Creating diary entries as design pieces w/ Sarp Sözdinler & Ece Pek

Data Viz Workshop

A workflow simulation with Archicad with Adam Tamas Kovacs & Istvan Csusz

Navigation on The Fluid Ground

Design and fabrication process of the floating installation w/ Mehtap Altuğ & Ertunç Hünkar

Stuffed Cast Workshop

Concrete material experiments on organic forms w/ Nilüfer Kozikoğlu

Tensegrity Workshop

Experiences on small scale tensegrity models. w/ Athanasios Stasinopoulus

Geodesic Alterations Workshop

Experiments on interpreting the geodesic concept to a new computational one w/ Sibel Özgan & Ezgi Baştuğ

Augmented Cube Workshop

AR [Augmented Reality] experiments using Unity software w/ S. Müge Halıcı

Robotic Post Production Workshop

Design and fabrication of pattern application on a wooden skeleton via KUKA PRC w/Emanuel Gollob, Georg Sampl & Serdar Aşut

AIESEC

Myself MyWorld’11 Project

Event for high school students to meet with university students across the world.

FabFest is a computational design and digital fabrication festival, organized by Westminster University, Architecture and Built Environment Department. The 2017 theme was Pop-Up City. The form of the Unfold Pavillion comes from Twitter data. For capturing this data, the London central map was divided by a grid. #LONDON was searched in relation to specific diameters on each node of the grid. The search results were drained for the last 24 hours. To visualize the quantitative results on the surface that we created from the grid, the structure was manipulated by lifting and lowering the surface from the nodes on the

grid. The more the search results are dense, the more the nodes touch the ground and vice versa. In the end product, the places where data is dense determine where the pavilion touches the ground. The places that have fewer data constitute a shelter.

Team

Seyit Koyuncu, Erman Eskiköy, Berfin Özel, Furkan S. Üğütmen, Murat Kumbaracı, M. Sadık Aksu, Mert Sartık, Elfin Ulupınar, , Gözde Turhan, Çağla Balaban

Mentor

Asst. Prof. Güzden Varinlioğlu guzdenv@gmail.com

MAQUETTES

Construction Day

Construction Day

Construction

Construction Day

Navigation on Fluid Ground, which was held in the scope of GOOD DESIGN_3 , is a workshop based on experiencing the computational design and digital production process. During the workshop, the participants and coordinators followed a mutual design decision and implemented the design based on suggestions. Installation was started with the assembly of a wood structure to create a framework for ruled surfaces and was completed with the assembly of floating elements under the whole structure. The end product was a floating platform exhibited in KültürPark, Izmir.

Team

Berfin Özel, Deniz Taşkın, Elif Işıl Özdel, Elif Olca, Melis Yılmaz, Nazlıcan Özmen, Neriman Koçarslan, Nur Ulu, Nurcan Can, Orhan Koç, Pelin Üzmez, Selinay Kunter, Umut Baran Saraç, Umut Murat Ürkel

Mentors

Ertunç Hünkar ertunchunkar@gmail.com

Mehtap Altuğ mehtapaltug89@gmail.com

TENSION ANALYSIS

Tension Ratio : (Extention) / (Natural Lenght)

LENGTH STUDY OF RULED SURFACES

Cities and buildings are changing according to technological developments, demographic and sociological changes etc. which results in different forms of vertical agglomeration. High-rise office buildings are one of the responses to population growth and urbanization. The project task was to rethink the traditional closed and introverted high-rise office building typology and propose an alternative by integrating public spaces in the design proposal while offering three different types of office layouts.

Hong Kong is losing its natural tectonic/topographic movement over time with unconsidered high-rise constructions. What if the topography sheet itself could give a response to this act? The design proposal was translated as THE RESPONSE OF THE TOPOGRAPHIC SHEET to the high-density problem of the city and continued with

investigating about what if all the building would reinterpret the different NETWORK SYSTEMS OF ECOLOGY as different architectural network systems. The project aims to predict a natural movement and design a skyscraper that will function as a NATURAL ELEMENT , almost like a tree. Four main network systems flow upon Tower X: spatial network, circulation network, mechanical network, and ecological network. The building provides micro offices, coworking, cooperates, sleeping modules and public spaces. through the structure.

Mentors

Işık Ülkün Neusser isik.ulkun@ieu.edu.tr

Metin Şahin msahin@gmx.at

Course

Arch 498

Architectural Graduation Project

Technology is changing the way people access and store information. Public libraries started disappearing and losing their importance as the learning environment of our cities. The challenge of the project was to redefine and redesign a public library to make it an attractive public space again. Given the background, the project investigates the role of the public library in today’s and tomorrow’s cities and Izmir in particular. The THIRD SPACE is a concept developed by Ray Oldenburg which offers an undefined space for everyone in their life. He

states; every healthy person needs three spaces: a home, a work environment and a third notdefined space. The project aims to create a third space library in Izmir.

Mentors Işık Ülkün Neusser isik.ulkun@ieu.edu.tr Metin Şahin msahin@gmx.at Ayşe Aydoğan fraydogan@gmail.com

Course Arch 401 Architectural Design V

izmir public library

“Emotionally healthy every person needs three spaces: home, work and a third as yet undefined place .”

Ray

Oldenburg,

1989, The Great Good Place

The TSD MZEROEM (Mugla Rehabilitation and Special Education Center for Intellectual Disabilities) is designed for the need for an institute for intellectually disabled people in the city. The client asked for a centre that includes educational

spaces, an office for the Turkish Disabled Association (TSD), an administrative area, residential blocks and a sports centre. Educational blocks are designed with pockets for nature to not disconnect from them inside the spaces.

SECTION BB’

We are changing how we look, live and design, as we saw the non-collaborative design or living style with nature, can cost so much. As we reconsider from very basic daily habits to complex design problems, our perspective on circular life is evolving.

Engaging children with this cycle culture is one of the important things to create a base to put on to this reform. The re-play project aims to create small-scale interventions in the city which will allow children to see and play with something which is made of their own plastic waste. This urban furniture intends to encourage children to create a playful road to/from their school.

Data is used for the intervention’s location. SOURCE - USERSPACE TRIANGLE concept is used to find the optimal place to

create the smallest scale cycle. The workshop consists of 2 modules: In the first module, we are introduced to new datadriven design concepts and how to collect and use data while designing for the city. We experimented with the QGIS. The second module was to learn the basics of robotic fabrication and design for it. At the end of the workshop, we are asked to use these modules’ information and workflow and design an urban furniture for a specific public space.

Mentors

Alex Mademochoritis

alex.mademochoritis@iaac.net

Areti Markopoulou areti@iaac.net

Alexandre Dubor alex@iaac.net

Aldo Sollazzo aldo.sollazzo@iaac.net

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Green Points are a project developed by Barcelona Municipality to collect citizens’ recyclable waste.

GREEN POINTS PUBLIC SPACES

Public

Public

Public Spaces Labeled as Small [ Espai Petit ]

First; the closest school and green point were found with distance analysis. Then, the closest pair which also has a registered public space in the perimeter of 250 meters is picked. In this way a Source - User - Space Triangle was created.

With this triangle principle, it might be possible to create a very small-scale cycle. For this project, the smallest triangle was selected. However; this logic can be used in different places all over the city to optimise the selection of intervention locations.

Note: Green Points are a project developed by Barcelona Municipality to collect citizens’ recyclable waste.

Bioprinting the possibilities is a combined research project aiming to discover new possibilities of materials and their future projections to architecture.

As a part of two hybrid studies, two different material formulations are designed prepared and 3d-printed and tested for the study.

One of the researches focused on 3d printing biocomposites made from eggshells simultaneously in Izmir and Barcelona with open-

source data transfer. The other project is a study of creating and 3d printing a bio-composite based on bacterial cellulose.

The researches are presented and published as 2 conference papers in eCAADe 2022 which can be found in the Cumincad database.

bio-printing the possibilities

Team

Seçil Afşar, Gözde Damla Turhan Berfin Özel, Aslıhan Doyuran

PREPARATION OF BACTERIAL CELLULOSE BIO-COMPOSITE MATERIAL

MAIN COMPONENTS OF REMOTE WORKING SYSTEM DESIGN FOR 3D PRINT PASTE EXTRUSION OF BIOCOMPOSITES

curves, surface, solid

design compatibility with rheological properties of the material

overhang angle

G-code

z off-set

slicing distance

nozzle diameter

print speed

flow rate

extruding multiplier

retraction constant

communication platforms feedback loop system

decision making online documenting constant transferability & adaptability enhancement

GEOMETRY

MATERIAL

extrudability

printability

plasticity

structural performance & collapsibility

placing syringe/nozzle without air gap

shear-thinning behavior

printability

binging mechanism

shrinkage&cracking

DATA TRANSFER

3D PRINTING

stepper motor torque

stepper drivers

microstepping

motherboard

firmware

printer type (delta/cartesian)

extrusion technique (syringe, pneumatic, screw)

power supply

wiring calibration

The robotic post-production workshop is an experience of a workflow of computational design and robotic fabrication. We are all given a chair and asked to design on it and then carve our design with Kuka PRC.

Team

Gönenç Kurpınar, Berfin Özel

Mentors

Serdar Aşut S.Asut@tudelft.nl

Emanuel Gollob

Georg Sampl

robotic post -production

The main idea of the project is to answer or elaborate on the questions “What can we learn from our house plants?” and “How can a house plant become a database for an architect/designer?”. As an answer, a very common plant ivy and its growth are investigated in digital environments. Thomas Luft’s algorithm “Ivy Generator” is used, tested, examined and

documented for experimentation. The outputs of the project are 200 ivies as three-dimensional digital files (.obj), renders and a catalogue of them(.pdf), and a datasheet/dataset (.csv) which is made manually to document the manipulated parameters and quantitative outputs of the experiments.

Behind the garden is inspired by nature’s many interconnected cycles and oscillations. The project, as a tool to explore the way these oscillations come together, wonders about the change, transformation and retransformations in the “garden” in metal shelves in an apartment.

The life forms in the data abstraction study, which aims at the compassionate and empathetic perception of feminine wisdom to the unseen/unknown, consist of plants in the researcher’s home which they share mutually changing care and healing roles. It aims to open the curtain

of changes/transformations/ oscillations of the plants that she cares for /grows /nourishes in her own garden and in return she is taken care of/grown/nourished-; in dimensions that are difficult for human perception.

The study begins by constructing a dataset from estimated 5-year flowering oscillations of approximately 40 plants. By borrowing the lines formed by the visualisation of this data, it tries to discover the secrets, connections and flows between them with a playful attitude.

MARS

The workshop encouraged us to design a habitat for the possible colony going to Mars while experiencing computational design tools and digital fabrication methods. Each team was given a biomimicry inspiration. Ours was STENOCARA BEETLE which is living in the desert and it can catch the water molecules and produce the WATER that it needs thanks to its hydrophilic feature. Another interpretation was focusing on the RADIATIONRESISTANT feature of beetles. We suggested a new material that consists of N-asetiglikozamin enzyme and regolith, the soil of mars, for structure materials.

The growth pattern of the colony is a replication of beetle egg distribution.

Team

Berfin Özel, Çağla Balaban, Ece Masırcı, Elfin Ulupınar, Irmak Özdemir, Nur Ulu, Pelin Üzmez

Mentor

Ayşe Bozkurt Karal aysebozkurtkaral@gmail.com

Computational Supporter

Mehmet Sadık Aksu mehmetsadikaksu@gmail.com

Course Arch 202 Architectural Design II

Stenocara Beetle

Ongoing independent photography study focused on openings in an architectural sense. For the rest of the series, you can check my Behance.

Virginia Parts is a school project, which aimed to understand how a specific media (a book, a movie or a song) is STORYTELLING , and create a photographic set that refers to this storytelling. Chosen media is Virginia WoolfLighthouse. For the rest of the series, you can check my Behance.

Mentor Toros Mutlu

torosmutlu@gmail.com

Course VCD 207 Basic Photography