MÜGELSEE REHABILITATION CENTER, BERLIN

The project is planned on the southern shore of Müggelspree river. The design is based on the gradation between public and private functions in a way, in which temporary visitors and outpatients can use according facilities close enough to the entrance and the forest vehicle road, while the inpatients can enjoy their privacy on the shore of the river.

The building orientation is intended to create similar rights in terms of the daylight by avoiding purely northern or southern facades. The project’s facade is designed to be maximum transparent where it is possible. Its rhythm changes from the southern to the northern sides according to the building orientation. Despite the low height of the designed rehabilitation center, the various space qualities were provided by the constant sequence of open, close and double spaces.

UNFOLDING DOMAINS, BERLIN

During an intensive CoLab workshop in TUB, students were asked to investigate foldable structures, their spatial configurations, their fabrication and overall efficiency, based on algorithm-based tests and represented by diagrams and technical drawings.

After the research and prototype fabrication, each group created a narrative, which would enable such structures to be implemented in real life.

Our group presented a comic book telling a story of an artist, whose work involves a deployable wall structure both as an instrument and as an art object.

2018, 4th academic year

Collaborative Design Laboratory, TU Berlin, led by Prof. Dr. Ignacio Borrego

With:

Aberto Calderon, Anna Manfredi, Patricia Bozyk

Personal contribution: concept, parametric modeling, graphics

SUNPHI, BIOMIMICRY WORKSHOP

During the workshop, we studied different mechanisms and behaviors that can be found in nature in macro and nanoscale and are used in fields such as engineering, chemistry, optics, etc.

As a part of the course, for the first time we were presented with tools of parametric modeling.

Being quite enlightened with this new design approach, our group created a shading system over the Technion campus amphitheater, which was inspired by saucer trench beetle skin and by eucalyptus leafs. In addition, we optimized the system in order to get maximum sun light on the tribunes duringwinter and maximum shading effect during summertime, when it is so much needed in the Technion.

2016, 3rd academic year, Biomimicry workshop led by PhD Guy Austern

With: Lev Zhitnik and Farouk Karawani

OPTIMIZATION

FACTORS:

1. POINTS’ LOCATIONS IN SPACE

2. PANELIZATION DENSITY

3. 1ST ROTATION DEGREE

4. 2ND ROTATION DEGREE

5. SCALE FACTOR

OPTIMIZED: