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In the third year undergrad architecture studios, architectural design is primarily studied as an urban intervention. While the fall semester studios (Arch 301) focus on a public building project set in a multifaceted central urban context, the spring semester studios (Arch 302) tackle with a larger urban fabric, mixed-use building compounds and urban open spaces.

Student proposals are expected to stem from an architectural position developed through the collective analyses and individual readings of the urban context, as well as the typological research on the relevant precedents. BeneďŹ tting from a process of collective eort to analyze and understand the given sites, students start prioritizing some aspects of the site and form their individual positions.

By the end of the year and with the help of the other third year courses, students are expected to develop an understanding of the contemporary city and gain experience in forming architectural positions when tackling with current urban conditions.

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Tutors Banu Tomruk Bülent Çetin Can Tamirci Devrim Çimen Elvan Arıker Emrah Altınok Emre Altürk Eylem Erdinç İdil Erkol Bingöl Mert Cığızoğlu Ozan Öztepe Süreyya Topaloğlu Tülin Hadi Past Semesters Boran Ekinci Burak Pekoğlu Cansu Cürgen Gürpınar Cem İlhan Güven Şener Gözde Şarlak Hülya Oral Hüseyin Kahvecioğlu Mert Eyiler Mucip Ürger Murat Şanal Sertaç Erten Sinan Logie Sinan Omacan 1

Arch 301 , the first semester studio focuses on a public building project. The semester begins with a study of various aspects of the assigned site and its larger urban context. Students study the urban forms, block structure, open spaces, land use, transportation infrastructure, scale comparisons, density, topography and environmental factors.

Benefitting from this collective effort students start to prioritize some aspects of the site and form their individual positions. Working on the central sites and public programs student projects are expected to enhance the urban public life around it.

In the second semester, the focus of the studio project is on the urban fabric, larger mixed-use building compounds and urban open spaces.

Again benefitting from a process of collective and individual analyses of the physical conditions of the given sites and the urban forces that operate on them as well as the selected case studies, students start to form their individual architectural positions. As a final outcome, the students are expected to develop a mixed-use architectural program including public facilities and design a scheme that target achieving liveliness, urbanity, and accommodating the spectrum of daily urban activities both in and around their project site.

In this booklet, a small selection was made from different years of bothsemesters. Please visit our website for more information: http://arch3.bilgi.edu.tr/ 1

Public Pool @ Moda/ Istanbul In the fall semester of 2016, students were asked to design a public pool in Moda, a waterfront district on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. Moda has retained its residential urban character for years, due to its relatively secluded position within Kadıköy. Recently, the number of people from outside Moda who spend time in cafes, bars, restaurants, and parks of the neighborhood have dramatically increased, especially during the weekends. This popularity resulted in the raise in the number of businesses, but not necessarily in the number of public amenities. On the contrary, increased pedestrian and vehicular traffic strained the infrastructure and made locals’ life harder. It became vital to offer public amenities that primarily target the locals. There were three site options with different potentials for the students to choose from.

Students were not given a definitive and common program for the building, except that their proposal had to include a semi-olympic swimming pool with necessary service areas. For the rest they were free to form their individual program proposal.

The program proposal and their particular architectural position were to be based on the collective and individual analyses of the site, case studies on similar buildings and typological research on relevant precedents. Aside from the requirements of the semi-olympic swimming pool, students only had to comply with a restriction regarding the total built area of their proposals, which should be around 2700 m².

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Yıldırım Erbaz, Public Pool @ Moda/Istanbul, Fall ‘16 1

Yıldırım Erbaz, Public Pool @ Moda/Istanbul, Fall ‘16

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Yıldırım Erbaz, Public Pool @ Moda/Istanbul, Fall ‘16

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İsmet Bilgin, Public Pool @ Moda/Istanbul, Fall ‘16

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İsmet Bilgin, Public Pool @ Moda/Istanbul, Fall ‘16

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Improving Urban Commons: Regenerating Etiler Vocational School In the spring semester of 2017, students were asked to work on Etiler Anatolian Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School. Like many public schools with relatively large plots in the city center, this school is under pressure. It potentially runs the risk of being relocated to a less central and less valuable land, in order to give way to the redevelopment of its plot as high-end housing, offices, and retail by private enterprise. This pattern is well established in today’s İstanbul and the close by vocational school for police education is already facing it. Yet the Tourism Vocational School and its hotel is well suited to this site, architectural program of the project was based on improving and keeping these functions, albeit in new buildings.

Students were given a specified architectural program with the total built area around 15.000 sqm. The program included; a 100-room hotel building , vocational school , multifunctional hall with 200 seats , restaurant/café , public facilities and indoor parking .Students were asked to allocate min. 15% of the two hectare site for public uses, such as leisure, culture & community functions, health etc. and min. 25-30% of the site for open areas (e.g. sports, parks & recreation). This public part of their proposal is expected to be distinctly designed as to allow easy pedestrian access from the surrounding residential areas as well as the new buildings they propose. Beside these public uses, they were free to propose a limited amount of privately owned amenities, such as retail, restaurants, bars, offices, arts & crafts etc., along with their proposed building blocks.

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The projects are expected to be driven by extensive analyses of the urban context as well as the study of the relevant precedents, the brief, the requirements, and the form exercises.

İlayda Keskinaslan, Improving Urban Commons: Regenerating Etiler Vocational School, Spring ‘17 1

İlayda Keskinaslan, Improving Urban Commons: Regenerating Etiler Vocational School, Spring ‘17

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Sidre OkumuĹ&#x;, Improving Urban Commons: Regenerating Etiler Vocational School, Spring ‘17

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Working on the redevelopment of an urban public space, the student projects are expected to be driven by an understanding of the city beyond the specific site and encouraged to explore the possibilities that could enhance public life around the site.

Gizem Asıcı, Improving Urban Commons: Regenerating Etiler Vocational School, Spring ‘17

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Gizem Asıcı, Improving Urban Commons: Regenerating Etiler Vocational School, Spring ‘17

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Center for Visual and Performing Arts @ Beşiktaş For the main design assignment of the fall semester 2015, students worked on a public center for visual and performing arts. There were three site options with different potentials for the students to choose from. All three were located in close proximity with each other in the Beşiktaş Çarşı area. One of the sites is situated in the commercial center Çarşı (current BKM building plot), in Sinanpaşa neighborhood. The other two sites are located in Abbasağa, facing The Barbaros Boulevard which is the main north-south artery of the European part of the city continuing to Büyükdere Boulevard and connecting to both of inner-city motorways O-1 and E-80. Students were not given a definitive and common program for the building, but their proposal had to include a performance hall seating around 300 people and an exhibition space. For the rest, they were free to form their individual program proposal. The program proposal and their particular architectural position were to be based on the collective and individual analyses of the site, case studies on similar buildings and typological research on relevant precedents. Aside from the requirements of the performance hall and exhibition spaces, students only had to comply with a restriction regarding the total built area of their proposals, which was to be around 3500 m2.

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By and beyond fulfilling their particular functions, student proposals target achieving liveliness, urbanity, and accommodating the spectrum of daily urban activities both in and around their project site.

Deniz Ağaoğlu & Fatma Sezgin, Center for Visual and Performing Arts @Beşiktaş, Fall ‘15

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Deniz Ağaoğlu, Center for Visual and Performing Arts @Beşiktaş, Fall ‘15

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Oğuzhan Çokgünlü, Center for Visual and Performing Arts @Beşiktaş, Fall ‘15

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Berfin Mollavelioğlu, Center for Visual and Performing Arts @Beşiktaş, Fall ‘15

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Tuğçe Demircioğlu, Center for Visual and Performing Arts @Beşiktaş, Fall ‘15

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Urban Fabric: Kozyatağı / Ünalan / Zeytinburnu / Ayazma The students are expected to develop a proposal consisting predominantly of residential use, and incorporating public facilities and retail. Working on the main ingredient of the city, residential use, the student projects are expected to be driven by an understanding of the urban condition beyond the specific site. Equipped with some basic categories and tools to read a given built environment and relate it to larger urban contexts, students then focus on the given project sites, which are either at the periphery of the city or in transforming areas between the center and the periphery.

It is required to develop a mass housing scheme and offer public and retail facilities that serve the projected as well as the existing residential neighborhood.

Mixing the residential and the non-residential uses will help to achieve liveliness, urbanity and conveniently accommodate the spectrum of daily human activities.

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Working on the main ingredient of the city, residential use, the student projects are expected to be driven by an understanding of the urban condition beyond the specific site.

Asya Güney, Urban Fabric @Ayazma, Spring ‘13

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Ece Abdioğlu, Urban Fabric @Ünalan, Spring ‘15 1

Bihter Öztürk, Urban Fabric @Zeytinburnu, Spring ‘14 1

Elif Özüçağlıyan, Urban Fabric @Ünalan, Spring ‘15

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Ömer Mert Urlu, Urban Fabric @Ünalan, Spring ‘15

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