Caglar Gokbulut Portfolio by Caglar Gokbulut

CAĞLAR GÖKBULUT

PORTFOLIO

_INDEX _CV _ARCHITECTURE HOUSE IN HELSINKI PUBLIC GARDEN IN ISTANBUL GALLERY EXTENSION IN ISTANBUL VAKIFBANK HEADQUARTERS TOYA MIXED USE

_URBANISM MAPPING BARCELONA SELF SUFFICIENT NEIGHBORHOOD ROBOTIC CITY ADAPTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD

CAĞLAR GÖKBULUT 19.08.1989

caglar89@vt.edu caglar.gokbulut@gmail.com Whatsapp_+90-507-597-4667 Skype_caglargokbulut @caglargokbulut

_EDUCATION VIRGINIA TECH Blacksburg,Va,USA Bachelor of Architecture, May 2014 GPA: 3.45_Cum Laude ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA Mendrisio,SWITZERLAND Exchange Student-Fall 2012/Spring 2013 selected as 1 of 2 students for the Bilateral Exchange Program IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) Barcelona, SPAIN Master in City&Technology, July 2016 Adaptive & Augmented City Award

_EXPERIENCE TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS_INTERN Summer 2011/Summer 2012 Istanbul,TURKEY _Producing iterations for a project proposal. _Attending design meetings with the design group. _Making study models and site models for developing projects. _Working on presentation documents for a competiton proposal. SOYAK CONSTRUCTION _CONSTRUCTION SITE INTERN Summer 2013 Istanbul,TURKEY _Daily tours and documentation of jobs on the site. _Responsible from daily job logs on the site. _Attending daily and weekly meetings with the project manager and project

TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS_JUNIOR ARCHITECT August 2014-August 2015 Istanbul,TURKEY Istanbul Modern Art Museum _Research Development _Concept Design Vakifbank Headquarters (Istanbul Financial Center) _Design Development-Office System Projects and Interior Design _Detail Design-Construction Documents; System Projects, Interior Facade, Pavement Key Plans, Facade Frit Design Toya Mixed-Use _Concept Design _Design Development IAAC _ASSISTANT STUDENT September 2015-June 2016 Barcelona,SPAIN

_SKILLS _AutoCAD _Rhinoceros _V-Ray _Grasshopper _Digital Fabricaiton _Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality _Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects _Unity

_ACTIVITIES _Turkish National Swim Team _Turkish National Record Holder _Student Athlete Virginia Tech Men’s Swimming and Diving Team _Virginia Tech Men’s Swimming and Diving Team Record Holder in 1650 free

_HONORS/AWARDS _ Audi Urban Future Initiative Competition(IAAC)_Winner _Adaptive & Augmented City Award (Adaptive Neighborhood) _Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies Walter Butke Scholarship 3 years _Athletic Department Honor Roll 2 years and ALL-ACC Academic Team 2008-2009

_ARCHITECTURE

HOUSE IN HELSINKI a narrow room

Location_Helsinki,FINLAND Project Type_Private Residence Size_120 sqm Year_2012

Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio STUDIO_ERIC LAPIERRE The project transforms the unique and fictional world of film into real architectural space while using the conventions of both cinema and architecture. We were asked to capture a scene from a movie (‘OFFRET’ by Andrei Tarkovsky ), which portraits a very specific phenomenal quality of the architectural space in the film. The main aim of the project is to translate the phenomenal qualities of a fictional space into a built environment.

The house in the movie ‘OFFRET’ by Andrei Tarkovsky,1986

the selected scene portrays the house as a thin ‘permeable membrane’ where its inhabitants can penetrate through. N

Site Plan The site is located in suburban Helsinki and adjacent to Alvar Aalto’s famous studio. The neighborhood is dominated by residential buildings with big yards. The house is a simple wooden house that is surrounded by trees and a very low stone wall. Its long and narrow plan allows more daylight to come in throughout the year in Helsinki, where the daylight is mostly diffused and limited. The project reveals itself in the sectional change of floors. It delicately steps down on the site and creates a beautiful and simple relationship with the ground, and the roof, which also slopes down as a one continuous canopy above the house. The rooms are separated by the sectional change of floors rather than walls. Each room is accessible by couple steps from below or above of the adjacent space. The height of each room is based on the privacy of the rest of the spaces in the house. A person that is in the living room would have no visual access to the more private parts of the house.

Longitudinal Section

1.Living Room 2.Kitchen 3.Family Room 4.Bedroom 5.Bathroom 6.Sauna 7.Bedroom

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Plan

There is no interior walls in the house, except the bathroom and sauna. All the rooms in the house share the same long and narrow space to create a one unified sense of brightness and interiority. Rooms are organized based on the need for privacy. You enter the house through the kitchen, which is between the main living room and family room. Two bedrooms are separated from each other by the bathroom and sauna. There is also a curtain between the family room and kids bedroom to separate those both visually and physically. We can also consider a room as a membrane for living that can inhabit many activities. It has a potential to be penetrated by its inhabitant due to the nature of human activity. Permeability of the space is the architectural concept for this particular project. The room manifests itself as permeable mass for the human activity. It has two doors at two opposite sides of the room that open up to the garden and allows you to be inside and outside simultaneously. Two horizontal windows at the two ends of the room create an axis of permeability for the space at the street level. The play between inner space and outer space are in delicate balance and harmony in the embodied space.

Southeast Elevation

Handmade Model

Furnitures that are speciďŹ cely designed and selected for the project:

ROOD coffe table by Caglar Gokbulut

Coffe table by Nicholai Wiig Hansen

A810 Floor Lamp by Alvar Aalto

BLACK chair by Caglar Gokbulut

Desk by Jan Retrojan

611 Stackin Chair by Alvar Aalto

Superstructure chair by Bjorn Dahlstrom

Paintings by Felix Valloton

Lamp by Alvar Aalto

Turkish Carpet

SUFA sofa by Caglar Gokbulut

Dining table by Caglar Gokbulut

Furniture It is evident that phenomenological perception has such a power on human memory. The way spaces feel, sound and smell recalls all the old memories and yet create new ones. A room in a house condenses the time with a realization of subconscious mind through our memories in the embodied space. The thoughtful selection of materials,furniture and color evoke our perception and create a very specific atmosphere and experience.

Handmade Model

Model

PUBLIC GARDEN IN ISTANBUL garden in the city

Location_Istanbul,TURKEY Project Type_Public Garden Size_17,000 sqm Year_2013

Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio STUDIO_VALERIO OLGIATI The project starts with a motto of ‘PLATFORM’ and develops around one single ‘IDEA’. The idea is to create an undulating platform that enables you to experience the beauty of the garden and city in different scales and elevations.

Below the platform

N Site Plan The site is located by Besiktas square , which is a dense urban environment in Istanbul,TURKEY. It is at the intersection of multiple transportation systems (bus, dolmus, ferry, tram). It is composed of two parts, which are separated by a road. Because of this road, two parts of the site are disconnected from each other. The idea is to connect these two parts of the site with an undulating platform that enables you to experience the beauty of the garden and city in different scales and elevations. Platform is an architectural element that can disconnect you from your existing world both physically and mentally. It puts you in a position where you can be isolated but also exposed to your surroundings at the same time. It can inhabit variety of spaces and experiences on one physical realm. The project starts with a motto of ‘platform’ and develops around one single idea. The idea of a garden and relationship to the nature have been really important in Islamic and Turkish culture. The gardens of the past were mostly in private buildings where it was only for the inhabitants of that building who can enjoy the beauty of a garden. Modern society has lost the meaning of a garden in a city. Public spaces of today are missing the sensual and intimate experience with nature. The garden in a city can create a buffer zone with its surrounding or an ‘oasis’ in an urban context.

Ottoman and Persian miniature paintings

N Plan The project consists of multiple circular gardens in different sizes with specific plants which creates a theme for each garden. The variable size of circular gardens enables a different level of intimacy with the nature and people around you. The platform creates a promenade in the city where you can choose to isolate yourself from the city chaos and celebrate your relationship with nature and yourself, or join the crowd in bigger gardens where you can contribute to active public gardens through social interaction. Public garden also allows citizens to perform other collective activities, such as fruit picking, book clubs, yoga events or habitat clubs. It becomes an urban oasis in the city where the citizen can get away from all the chaos and distraction in their enviornment.

1/250 Physical Model

Platform dissappears between gardens.

The idea is to create a platform where the platform and garden are intertwined both physically and experientially. As you walk on the platform, you gradually go up and the city level exists below you. The platform creates a play between the city and garden, where you expereince two opposite conditions, serenity and chaos at the same time.

The idea is to create a platform where the platform and garden are intertwined both physically and experientially. As you walk on the paltform, you will gradually go up and the city will be below you. You will be physically disconnected from the city below you and will have the uninterrupted view of the sea in front of you. You can either decide to go down one of the gardens or keep walking and gradually go down to the city level again and connect with one of the the public transportations.

On top of the platform When you are physically disconnected from the city below you and you will have the uninterrupted view of the sea in front of you. You can either decide to go down one of the gardens or keep walking and gradually go down to the city level again and connect with one of the the public transportations.

Elevation

Longitudinal Section

GALLERY EXTENSION IN ISTANBUL introverted box

Location_Istanbul,TURKEY Project Type_Gallery Extension Size_1350 sqm School_Virginia Tech Year_2014

THESIS PROJECT The thesis questions the idea of identity and memory of the place, while trying to create an architectural ‘object’, that has strong ties to the region, and more balanced environment between human and his surrounding.

Exploded Axonometric

Critical Regionalism ‘Critical Regionalism’ is a concept that was introduced in Kenneth Frampton’s essay called: Six Points of an Architectural Regionalism : A Provisional Polemic. He criticizes contemporary architects for being part of the hyper-consumptive society. The idea of Regionalist Architecture distinguishes itself from Vernacular Architecture by not being sentimental, naive and shallow about vernacular tradition and forms in the region, but being aware of the memory, identity, activity, culture, and tradition of the place while rationalizing architectural spaces.

Research Sketches The site is at periphery of Taksim square, which is sociologically and physically the most important public square in Turkey. It is adjacent to an old water reservoir (Maksem), which has recently transformed into an art gallery. Because some portion of the structure was demolished throughout the time, it exists as an autonomous object in Taksim square. The site is currently used as a parking lot and storage area for nearby construction projects, and surrounded by pedestrian paths, which all lead to Istiklal Street (busiest street in Istanbul)

Site Plan

Ground Floor

1st Floor

2nd Floor The building manifests itself as an introverted object, where two opposite conditions (nothing and everything) coexists outside and inside. The courtyards emphasizes the idea of introversion as you walk through different gallery spaces. The compactness and density of the building generates a sense of physical heaviness, which is an important perception of a building in the region. The circulation is connected with the existing gallery on the second floor to create a complete loop of circulation for the exhibitions.

Model Photo

As you move into the building, you get disconnected from the street and experience the threshold or the buffer zone in a form of a narrow passages and a courtyard. The museum is accessible from three different street levels. Every entrance is a different passage, which has a specific atmosphere that is affiliated with a particular experiential memory of the city. The quietness of the building exterior creates a sense of tranquility in the physical context.

Model PhotoSection Transversal

Model Photo

Longitudinal Section

Model Photo

Model In a time of hyper-consumption of information and social values, architectural discourse has started to become obsessed with the speed of change and information over experience. So called “International Style” in contemporary Architecture has become the most valued and over-defined subject in the field of design. The architectural connection with the place, region and society is reduced to historical references with modernist fragments and some formalist behaviors. Architecture has to manifest itself as a resistance to the reductive change of creativity and undifferentiated architectural objects as a part of globalization. The importance of place, region and memory of the society should be comprehended by architects. The obsession of creating one, unified, undifferentiated society disconnects and dislocates the memory and identity of the society from its roots. Regionalism in architecture should go beyond any sort of stylistic conventions or fake images; it should confront us to the realities of the time, place and society.

Study Models Architectural ideas should be rooted and embodied within the region, belonging or tied to a specific time and place. A physical or cultural context inhabits a variety of prominent connections and values, which needs a honest analysis and sensitivity without an overly protective and sentimental attitude. If architecture grows out from an ‘idea’ or a ‘concept’, it should blossom its flower from the ‘identity’ and ‘memory’ of the place. The realities of the physical or cultural context have to be comprehended by valuing the existential experience more than the shallow information.

VAKIFBANK HEADQUARTERS the vision follows structure

TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS

Location_Istanbul,TURKEY Project Type_Office Tower Size_257,464 sqm Year_2014-2015

The projects is to create a contemporary office tower while referencing the ancient heritage of the context and establishing a structural concept that is born from mathematical wisdom of Islamic forms.

Office Tower Front Entrance

VakÄąfbank Headquarters is part of a masterplan for Istanbul Financial District. The program consists of an office tower for VakÄąfabank, a shell and core tower to rent, conference center, cafeterias and exhibition spaces. The projects is almost identical on both sides. The two rotating towers stands on a 4 story base which has an impressive 25m canopy on top. Two sides of the project is connected through and underground parking garage.

Site Plan The form of the towers starts with a square floor plan and rotates to a Islamic star shaped plan. This rotation of the form creates a unique floor slab and facade at each floor. The columns of the towers rotate as the facade rotates. These rotating columns are connected to concrete core with pre-tensioned concrete floor slabs.

Plans

Section_01

Office Tower Elevator Hall

Office

Elevator Hall Construction Drawings

TOYA MIXED-USE TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS Location_Istanbul, TURKEY Project Type_Mixed-Use Size_59,924 sqm Year_2015

How can we design a tower in the city, which can react to its inhabitants needs in different seasons? The project is about to design a residential tower and townhouse in a mixed use projects. It questions the idea of balcony in contemporary architecture.

Residential Tower

The project is located by one of the main highways of the city. The site is separated by a creek. The program for the project i an office tower, residential tower, outdoor shopping mall and 3 story townhouses. The office tower and outdoor shopping mall is located on the north side of the site, which is adjacent to main artery of the city. The southern part of the site, which exists in a residential neighborhood, inhabits the residential tower and townhouses. Both the townhouses and outdoor shopping mall is covered by a perforated canopies, which creates a feeling of the domesticity and gives the space a human scale.

Site Plan Residential tower consists of 1br, 2br, 3br and 4br apartments. Each apartments has a threshold space betweeen facade and interior space. These threshold spaces can be open up and become balconies in the summer to enjoy the sea and island view or completely closed off to become part of the interior space to extend the living space in winter. This idea of transformable facade creates different facade scenarios in different seasons for the tower, which makes the building active or a living machine in the city.

Plans

View Analysis

The residential tower is rotated in a specific angle to capture the best view of Marmara Sea with Prince Islands. The rotation angle of the tower is also analyzed through views of each residential floor.

Facade Study The ideas was to create a residential tower, which can perform differently in winter and summer. Double facade is elaborated through different iterations to create a secondary living space between two facades. This living space can transform to a balcony as it opens up in the summer or can be the extension of interior space when it is closed in winter.

Section

Townhouses

_URBANISM

MAPPING BARCELONA landscape of invisible networks

Location_Barcelona,SPAIN Project Type_Data Visualization Size_Urban Scale School_IAAC Team_Caglar Gokbulut, Mayra Lopez, Sherine Zhein Year_2015-2016

TUTOR_CARLO RATTI TUTOR_300.000KM/S How can we understand cities through data? What is the role of data in urban planing? Mappings of Barcelona were developed during two seminar classes at IAAC. The idea was to question the role of data to reveal the invisible networks, patterns and behaviors of the urban landscapes.

‘Robotic City’ by IAAC MaCT Students

understanding the city through landscape of invisible networks

ANONYMOUS

OLD

understanding the urban context through landscape of invisible networks mapping of one of the fastest growing neighborhoods of Barcelona. How can we identify the most anonymous , oldest and diverse locations in Poblenou through data visualization?

LOCATION Poblenou (BARCELONA)

DATA opendataBCN Twitter

VISUALIZATION CartoDB

DIVERSE

distribution of commercial establishments in Barcelona

density map of the population in Poblenou

understanding the development through time

what is the role of digital tools in urban planning?

what is the distribution of commercial spaces in Poblenou?

SELF-SUFFICIENT NEIGHBORHOOD a research/prototype project for a self sufficient neighborhood Location_Anonymous Project Type_Urban Research Size_1.000000 sqm School_IAAC Year_2015

TUTOR_VICENTE GUALLART Can a city be SELF-SUFFICIENT? To answer this, we examined the city as living organism. Starting from its anatomical systems, a deep research was developed around the main systems that keep the city functioning: water, energy, matter and mobility.

‘Self Sufficient Neighborhood Prototype Model’ by IAAC MaCT Students

WHY A SELF SUFFICIENT NEIGHBORHOOD? With the growth expectations of global urban populationin the coming years and taking into account that cities contribute 70% of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CO2 emissions,rethinking the city for a better environmental performance is now a priority in the global agenda. World society has grown in cities, urban life is supposed to represent amplitude of opportunities for its inhabitants yet most have not evolved to respond to the demands of life in community. As cities continue to grow, new questions arise: how can the city of the XXI century become sustainable? what are the conditions that will enable the development of cities for the future?

Cycles and layers that compose the city.

Nowadays the availability of information and methods of obtaining data have enabled all types of agents from the most diverse backgrounds to study cities. Architects and urbanists are not an exception because of the big role they play on the materialization of the city. In the occasion of the first Master of City and Technology in IAAC, the Studio tutored by Vicente Guallart and Rodrigo Rubio, posed an even bigger question: can a city be self-sufficient?

To answer this, we examined the city as living organism. Starting from its anatomical systems, a deep research was developed around the main systems that keep the city functioning: water, energy, matter and mobility. This was backed up by studies centered on urban fabrics and the distributions of public spaces, facilities, housing and tertiary activities inside the city. The aim of this was to understand how the supply chain works for each cycle and how it affects the behavior and physical composition of the city. Thus, giving us insights about how by changing the metabolic processes of these cycles, we would be able to invert relations and make the city more autonomous but also more efficient in terms of resource management. 1 KM

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Types of City Metabolism

Self Sufficient Neighborhood Prototype Layout

As a conclusion, the development and design of the self-sufficient neighborhood prototype made evident that in order to attain an efficient urban environment it is necessary to defy the existing rules of production and management of resources in the way they have worked until now. Although it would take time to invert processes, an effort from all different agents must be made to convert cities into liveable and sustainable habitats that respond to the environmental reality we live today.

HOUSING IN SELF SUFFICIENT NEIGHBORHOOD PROTOTYPE

Houshold Structure in Self Sufficient Neighborhood As you can see the diagram on the TOP, the distribution strategy is different for each housing category. Family Housing units are located closer to green spaces and more pedestrian areas. On the other hand, Shared Housing and Tourist Accommodation units are located around the perimeter which is more urban and closer to public transportation. Only exception in shared housing is the apartments for 65+, which exists closer to central green spaces and more pedestrian areas. Every household has a different housing needs and requirements in a relation with their social and physical structure. The housing units of the Self Sufficient Neighborhood is categorized in three parts; Family Housing, Shared Housing and Tourist Accommodation. Family Housing units contain couple with children, single parent with children and couple. Shared Housing units consists of people, who could normally live alone but share apartments. These people are between 16 and 64 years old, 65 years old or older, and students. They live in 5 bedroom and 7 bedroom shared apartments. Half of the need for tourist accommodation is achieved by hotel rooms, and the other half is by couples in 2 bedroom apartments, who rent the extra bedroom in their apartment.

Housing Distribution in Self Sufficient Neighborhood

MIXED TYPOLOGIES OF HOUSING As the cities transform into new forms of habitations, new building typologies starts to appear, and become centers for food and energy production rather than just centers of consumption. Greenhouses, green rooftops, solar panels and thermal panels starts become an essential part of the new building typologies as they become instruments of production of resources in the city, which offers a new concept of living for the inhabitance of the city. Another important strategy for the Self Sufficient Neighborhood is to have mixed typologies throughout the neighborhood. This is particularly important in order to manage the density and heights of the building blocks, but also to generate variety of spacial experiences for the people.

Mixed typology of housing in Self Sufficient Neighborhood Prototype

HOUSING SCENARIOS IN DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES These three building diagrams show possible scenarios of blocks in the Self Sufficient Neighborhood Prototype. Each of them gives information about number of people, number of units and amount of square meters within the blocks. Three different scenarios of habitation represent different building blocks in different scales and distribution in the neighborhood. In addition to this, you can also see the different types of energy and food production systems on each block.

ROBOTIC CITY

speculations for a robotic city Location_Barcelona,SPAIN Project Type_Vision/Book Size_Anonymous School_IAAC Team_Caglar Gokbulut, Francesca Martellono, Yayun Liu Year_2016

TUTOR_WINY MAAS The Robotic City book questions the future of technologies and how those could change the planet and the way we inhabit our cities, because we believe that technology is an important component in the future of the humanity and urban planning.

‘Robotic City’ book by IAAC MaCT Students

what if we envision a city where everything is managed and maintained by robots? From pop culture to scientific research and applications, we have mapped the evolution and advances of robotic technologies and the place they take in our cities in order to develop a library of speculations. The library is composed of future potential scenarios â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from utopian to dystopia, from near to far future, form auto-, robo, nano- to geno-. Along with 29 students from TU Delft, we have produced a series of visions exploring what are the potentials and spatial implications of the robotic city in order to develop unique and cutting edge narratives and future urban scenarios. How they change the form of the streets, infrastructure, house, urban blocks, neighborhoods, landscapes, etc? How do the redefine built forms, leisure, mobility, public space and all other layers of the city? Link for the full book: http://issuu.com/mayis67/docs/robotic_city_booklet.compressed/47?e=2593566/36512548

Catalogue of Robots (Black: Existing Robots Red: Speculative Robots)

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SONY ASIMO

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FOOD PRINTER

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CRAWLER

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SPACE EXPLORER

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ADAPTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD a model for an adaptable environment Location_Mumbai,INDIA Project Type_Strategic Masterplan Size_240,000 sqm School_IAAC Year_2016

TUTOR_ARETI MARKOPOULOU BRUNO MOSER If Space adapts to activities, the we can have the neighborhood that can sustain and suitable for the future. We propose a responsive system in the neighborhood that will make the space adapts to activities. The projects also introduces digital tools such as augmented and virtual reality into urban planning process.

Augmented Reality

MUMBAI (BOMBAY)

Mumbai Skylne Metropolitan cities in India especially Mumbai are growing at a phenomenal rate, most of which is haphazard and unplanned, and neglecting future environmental and unplanned and neglecting future environmental and social impacts. Recent development is geared towards economic gains for the extreme lacks or ignorant to acknowledge the existing social relationships in-between people and between people and space. And the new high rise typology have failed to acknowledge the community and social spaces and thereby corrupting the existing social fabric of the city. With such pattern of growth, cities tend to become monotonous without any specificity of the place, and thus losing the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity and ruining the existing social networks. First we raise the following questions: What strategy do we follow to ensure that the both social and economic qualities of the space are not lost in transformation and still allow people to upgrade their lifestyles? What is the spirit of the space that should be kept while others can be change?

Mumbai Metropolitan Region The site of design studio is BDD chawls, locating in Worli,Mumbai,India. This part of the city was pre-diminatly occupied by textile mills in the begnning of 20th century and correspondingly crawls were built to house the mill workers and migrant workers. The Worli BDD chawls cover an area of 24 hectares, 121 buildings and with a population of 38,400. The BDD chawls in Mumbai are originally built for migrant male workers, they were predominately located in the heart part if the city. These mass scaled rented houses gained popularity in Mumbai during the beginning of the 20th century as a result of the textile industries were booming in the city. To accommodate the masses of workers, crawls are designed as a suitable answer which provided a single room and other shared spaces like toilets. The condition in BDD chawls are no longer suitable for both basic resident livings and other activities. And with the fall of the textile industries, people in the crawls are no longer mill workers. In the meantime, people living in the chawls tried to build new additions to meet their new daily life and conduct informal commercial activities.

A MODEL FOR AN ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENT

If Space adapts to activities, the we can have the neighborhood sustain and suitable for the future. We propose a responsive system in the neighborhood that will make the space adapts to activities. The input will come from citizen decision ( which activity to perform) and real time data which includes traffic flow, pedestrian flow and weather data. The output will be the adaptive surface of the space that can change responsive to the input, conducting enclosure,transformation,expansion and connection. These new adaptable spaces will be able to inhabit variety of activities, such as informal activities, social activities and even generate different configurations for mobility. All the spaces will transform both with citizen input and real-time data.

TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPACE

BDD Chawls Worli, MUMBAI

So we first created a connectivity grid, which was based on the existing size of circulation corridors of BDD chawls, then the circulation grid is interrupted by the existing road and adjusted by the size of main courtyard. As the result if the circulation grid becomes the corridors, it generated series of courtyards that are connected through corridors, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a closed loop of circulation, but instead itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a network of circulation, embracing both formal and informal activities and social interactions.

Adaptable Spaces that are related with informal activities are attached to the corridors of circulations. Then naturally as a result, housing units are attached to corridors along with adaptable spaces.

Masterplan We implementing 2 strategies for our masterplan of the neighbourhood: 1)Poly-centric distribution of facilities(Walkable Slow Neighbourhood) 2)Interconnection of corridors,courtyards,adaptable spaces and residential units.

Section

Axonometric View

ADAPTABLE SYSTEMS

The physical spaces will be no longer suitable for future living and conducting informal activities and social activities. But the activities are the qualities we want to keep. So we proposed a adaptive neighborhood plan for the redevelopment of BDD chawls, which will preserve the social and economic activities qualities and keep the identity in the neighborhood. As we all know, through the changes of tune, activities will change and grow. The space suitable for the activity today will not be suitable for tomorrow. So here raise another question: can we provide an adaptive space for activities?

Through our analysis and on-site interview, we categories all the activities into informal activities, formal activities and social activities. The formal activities are services and facilities, for example: education, cultural, health care, sport, religious, street market, gathering and commerce, which they performed in a dedicated space, the informal activities(services and activities),which they performed in an informal space( such as residential or public/ semi-public space) like manufacturing, daycare, laundry, cooking and repairing, and the social activities which performed in public spaces as gathering space, street market etc.

VIRTUAL REALITY

AUGMENTED REALITY

Augmented Reality demonstration to visualize the proposal with adaptable spaces .

PARTICIPATORY EVENT

Virtual Reality experience of the project for current residents of BDD Chawls in Mumbai,INDIA

Augmented Reality demonstration to visualize the proposal on the site.

CAÄ&#x17E;LAR GĂ&#x2013;KBULUT Caglar Gokbulut is an architect from Istanbul, Turkey. He has received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech and Master in City and Technology degree from Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC).He has worked as a Junior Architect in Tabanlioglu Architects in Istanbul between 2014-2015. He has received multiple awards and honors spanning from architecture to urban design, including Augmented & Adaptive City Award with his final project Adaptive Neighborhood at IAAC.

Contact: caglar89@vt.edu caglar.gokbulut@gmail.com @caglargokbulut (+90)507-597-4667