Elif Civici Portfolio 2021 by civicie

ELIF CIVICI

PORTFOLIO 2021

Elif Civici, Architect 02.04.1994 / born in Kdz. Ereğli/Turkey Loca�on: Berlin civicielif@gmail.com Turkish, Na�ve English, Fluent German, A2 Technische Universität Berlin Master of Architecture - Typology, M. Sc. 2019- Student Istanbul Technical University Bachelor of Architecture 2017’ TED Kdz.Eregli College Private Highschool 2012’ Full Scholarship Autocad Illustrator Indesign Lumion Photoshop Rhino Sketchup

Work Experiences

Awards

LIN Architects-Berlin 2020-2021 Studentenwerk Architect

First Prize Gradua�on Project Compe��on, ITU Architecture Faculty,2017

SO? Istanbul Architecture and Ideas 2017-2019- Architect-2 years 2016- intern-4 months

Equivalent First Prize Istanbul: As a Palimpsest City, IAPS Culture&Network ,2016 Team: Elif Civici, Ceren Akın

KPM Kerem Piker Architecture Intern, 2016-2 months

Encouragement Award Bakırköy Demirciler Bazaar Compe��on,TMMOB,2016 Team: Elif Civici, Ceren Akın

Salon Architects Intern, 2015-2 months Erol Inşaat Construc�on intern,2015-2 months

Projects Fold&Float House,constructed Architect,collabora�on with SO? displayed at Istanbul Design Bieannale,2018 Palanga Chicken Coop,constructed Architect,collabora�on with SO?, 2018 Pray for Rain ,installed Architect,collabora�on with SO?, 2018 Yan Kose Art Pla�orm,2018 The Visit,( a research project) Intern, collabora�on with SO? exhibited at Istanbul Design Biennale, 2016

Men�on Award Bakırköy Demirciler Bazaar Compe��on,TMMOB,2017 Team: Elif Civici, Semin Erdem,Ozan Şen,Zeynep Küheylan 3rd Prize A Place for Music and Sun, ITU Architecture,2016 Finalist,Shortlisted A place for Placelessness, Ytong, 2016 Team: Elif Civici, Baran Aybars

Workshops The Masterclass : Living with Rising water Par�cipant, Arles Atelier LUMA 2018 Supervised by Kunlé Adeyemi,Paolo Cascone Atölye Muğla Bir: Bodrum Cisterns Par�cipant,Bodrum, 2017 El Casc Par�cipant, Villena, 2014

2021 Urban Hall Alexanderplatz TU Berlin Master Thesis

instructor: Prof. Ralf Pasel

2020 Media House

TU Berlin Typology Design Studio collabora�on: Hsiao-Lan Chuang San�ago Sanchez

2018 House of Chickens collabora�on: SO? Istanbul

2018 Casa de Pa�o

collabora�on: Ceren Akın inHAUS Modular Housing Compe��on

instructor: Prof. Rainer Hehl assistants: Tobias Schrammek, Catarina Farinha

2020 A Theatrical Timber Factory

TU Berlin Design Studio 1 collabora�on: Tamar Gürciyan, Nikita Schweizer,Anastasiia Soshnikova instructor: Prof. Finn Geipel assistants: Ali Saad, Germain Chan

2018 Fold&Float

collabora�on: SO? Istanbul displayed at Istanbul Design Bieannale,2018

2018 Pray For Rain collabora�on: SO? Istanbul

2017 poly_Osmosis 1st prize

Diploma Project ITU Architecture Faculty instructor: Prof. Ayse Sentürer

2016 Building A Memory Equivalent First Prize

Istanbul: As a Palimpsest City IAPS Culture&Network Compe��on collabora�on: Ceren Akın

Urban Hall ‘Alexanderplatz’ This thesis examines the iconic building of the 1960s, the BCC its surroundings and architectural values. As a result, it proposes a hybrid building using the typological features of Bcc, considering the future projection of Alexandarplatz. It also explores and criticizes the potentials of BCC. BCC or Berlin Congress Hall, is conceived as hybrid building by having generous urban living room, a public library and residential volume on top. Formwise, iconic dome is thought as reference point to shape vertical volumes. Section and typical floor plans change according to program inside and reflect it to central space of plan likewise existing Bcc.

2020-2021 Winter Semester Master Thesis Advisor: Prof. Ralf Pasel Topic: ‘Modern Palaste in der Stadt’ : Transformation of Berlin Congress Hall

Analysis of BCC

Existing Structure of BCC

Program of BCC

Typologic Elements of BCC

Building is located between housing area and vast square. In a critic way, it is possible to say that BCC is an introvert building even it can be seen as exchange of knowledge. It is mostly closed when there is no event. Current situation of BCC limits the potential of the Alexanderplatz where have lack of public-qualifiedplaces. FG Code

Moderne Paläste in der Stadt

FG Code

Moderne Paläste in der Stadt

Referring Dome Stacking

Referring Dome Expanded Grid

Variants Sommersemester 2021

Elif Civici

Stacking One Volume

Stacking Aligned Volumed Referring Dome Expanded Grid

Variants

Referring Dome Stacking Aligned Volumes

Public

Proposal

Variants Sommersemester 2021

Elif Civici

Housing

Classrooms Library

Urban Living Room

Different Intimacy Degrees

Program and Verticality

Private

Bcc is conceived as hybrid building bu having generous urban living room, a public library and residential volume on top. Formwise, iconic dome is thought as reference point to shape vertical volumes. Section and typical floor plans change according to program inside and reflect it to central space of plan likewise existing Bcc.

Urban Living Room

Library

Classrooms

Housing

Team: Elif Çivici, Tamar Gürciyan, Nikita Schweizer,Anastasiia Soshnikova Project for : Design Studio 2019-2020 Summer Semester Instructors: Prof. Finn Geipel Assistants: Ali Saad, Germain Chan Role : Concept and Diagrams, Collages,Research, Drawings

A Theatrical Timber Factory The fourth industrial revolution is upon us. In this mixed-used building in Neukölln, we investigate the possibilities of Industry 4.0, the mixing of people and machines, and the potential of recycling and upcycling industrial waste. The site is situated in an island-like landscape surrounded by industrial and residential areas. A number of nearby carpentries and timber workshops, and the lack of local timber Solid / Void Current Planned Projects recycling plants led to it being our core focus and primary material. Planned

2.1. Site Analysis II

LIA

Canal

Boundaries

Undefined Character

Undefined character yet

Homogeneous Territories and Boundaries

Homogenious territories seperated by boundaries

Homogeneous Territories and Boundaries

Context

Timber is the common-ground for all the functionings of this building. The project seeks to shift how those who experience it think about waste, the potential of timber, and the05 DEP definition of a factory. A recycling centre, a public worksop, an urban allotment garden complex. An exhibition LIA space, a furniture company, a futuristic living concept. A 3D-printing lab, a wood-pulp DEP 05 clothes manufacturer, a productive greenhouse. All exist in unison and share the commonalities of community and timber construction or use. Industrial Waste Count Industrial Waste Count

Transportation Timber Pallets

Metal

Facilities TransportationRecycling Metal Timber Pallets

Food / Mix

Wood

Fish

Wood

Paper

Fish

Paper

DEP 05 Living Working

A Theatrical Timber Factory WORKSHOPS WORKSHOPS

1 1

WORKSHOP-PRODUCTION WORKSHOP-PRODUCTION

2 2

Commerce

Culture

3D LAB 3D LAB

1 1

Living Working

product elevator product elevator

GARDEN GARDEN

material library material library

LIA

WOOD SHOP WOOD SHOP

2 2

EXHIBITION EXHIBITION

MARKET MARKET

basement basement

3 3

4 4

LIA

input circulation input circulation

output circulation output circulation

Wood Input-Output Circulation

Input Output

Production Circulation Isometry

Public and Private Circulation Program Isometry, 1:1000

DEP 05

Program Distribution Public Private

Living Working

Day-Night Program Recreation Diagrams Commerce Production Culture Education Parking / technical / circulation

Living Working

Commerce

Culture

LIA

Ground Floor

Isometric View

Section showing by recycling wood and community programs

Team: Elif Çivici, Hsiao-Lan Chuang, Santiago Sanchez Location: TU Berlin Campus Project for : Typology Design Studio 2019-2020 Winter Semester Instructors: Prof. Dr. Rainer Hehl,Tobias Schrammek, Catarina Farinha Role : Concept and Diagrams, 2D-3D Drawings, Model Making

Media House The building offers a space as an intermediary between people and media to produce,interact, acquire and publish. It has 3 main programatic elements according to the relationships with media: introversion, interaction and broadcast. The building creates an intermediate space between campus and city. Likewise, the interior void connects the introversion and the broadcast spaces. Media House maximizes the public spaces by having terraces which are accessible from street level to top. It has the character of the media itself by hosting people. It aimes to maximize public spaces and river view therefore the project tries to explore the potential of terrace typology, creating different configurations between interior and exterior.

Multiplication Of Public Space

EHL

M-ARCH T

FG HEHL Architectures of Knowledge Production

M-ARCH T

Program

Architectures of Knowledge Production

Terraces as Typologic References

Etemenanki Ziggurat Babylon 1100 BCE

Babel Tower Babylon (Myth)

Hanging Gardens Babylon 700 BCE

Saqqara Pyramid Egypt 2648 BCE

Igbo Pyramid Nigeria

Srirangam Temple India

El Castillo - Chichen Itza Mexico (Mayan)

Sun Pyramid - Teotihuacan Mexico (Aztec)

Monks Mound USA

El Helicoide Caracas, Venezuela 1961

Slovakia Radio Bratislava, Slovakia 1967

Luxor Hotel Las Vegas, USA 1993

Humboldt Library Berlin, Germany 2009

Book House Spijkenisse, Holland 2012

Stuttgart Library Stuttgart, Germany 2011

Public Terraces

Etemenanki Ziggurat Babylon 1100 BCE

Babel Tower Babylon (Myth)

Hanging Gardens Babylon 700 BCE

Saqqara Pyramid Egypt 2648 BCE

Igbo Pyramid Nigeria

Srirangam Temple India

El Castillo - Chichen Itza Mexico (Mayan)

Sun Pyramid - Teotihuacan Mexico (Aztec)

Monks Mound USA

El Helicoide Caracas, Venezuela 1961

Slovakia Radio Bratislava, Slovakia 1967

Luxor Hotel Las Vegas, USA 1993

Humboldt Library Berlin, Germany 2009

Book House Spijkenisse, Holland 2012

Stuttgart Library Stuttgart, Germany 2011

Interior Void/Negative Terraces

Terraces Explorations

Children Library Book House Film&Music House Art House Events House

Introversion Interaction Broadcast

Longitudinal Section

Main Shear Walls Secondary Shear Walls Interior Void

Circulation

Exhibition Island

Event Hall

Ground Floor Plan

Exploded Diagram

Fold & Float

Team: Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktaş, Elif Çivici, Derya Ertan, Gülce Yuyar, Selcen Fidan, Selin Çubukçuoğlu Location: İstanbul Status: Completed,2018, Client: IKSV Istanbul Design Biennale 2018, Role : Concept and Application Project Phases, 2D-3D Drawings, Illustrations, Animation

Real Prototype is displayed at Rahmi Koc Museum pier at Golden Horn for Design Biennale ‘A School of Schools’ curated by Jan Boelen between 22.9.–4.11.2018 Designated emergency assembly points in the case of an earthquake in Istanbul were announced in 2001. Since then, most of these public spaces have been built up, which raises the question of where everyone will be housed in the case of emergency. The idea of designing a speculative prototype of a floating emergency house came out of this fact: what if the response is not about stable land, but manageable water? How can be a life-after-disaster unit that is easily accessible, does not require infrastructure preparations, is energy-efficient, and can act with it instead of struggling with the earth?

Models by SO?,exhibited in Istanbul Design Biennial 2018

Animation by Elif Civici, Istanbul Design Biennial 2018

The shelters can be located in Goldern Horn which is less effected by the possible tsunamis while earthquake occurs and the shelter can be fold to storage easy and float on water. The project has been invited to Creative Exchange 2019 where the Future Architecture members and 2018 alumni selected our project among 357 applicants to be represented in the cultural institutions in Europe.

Illustration by Elif Civici National Geoghraphic,Feb 2018

House of Chickens

Team: Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktaş, Derya Ertan, Elif Çivici, Selin Çubukçuoğlu, Gülce Yuyar, Zeynep Çabuk Location: Erzincan,Turkey Status: Completed,2018 Photos : Ali Taptık Role:Concept and Application Project Phases, 2D-3D Drawings,Supervision of Construction on site

The design process of the chicken coop mainly deals with the initial questions. Designing for a user, that does neither demand, nor pay for a property, is the most ambitious task of the design process. The design process is driven by this natural fact; every design principle is based on the observation of the species, and the previous experience. A cross-ventilated and daylighted interior space covered by plywood and magnesium oxide wallboards; timber roosting bars with specific angles for the chickens’ claws are some of the main principles of the layout while the sectional design provides egg collection to be made easily from outside without disturbing the chickens.

Construction Documentation, Elif Civici

Pray For Rain If a work is to be exhibited in open air, facing all the elements; what does that change – if rather than in a specially climatized, controlled space, it sustains its existence by coping with every season’s unique conditions? Can the scorching sun, rain that may cause flooding and the wind be considered collaborators that transform design, rather than events that require precaution? These are the questions “Pray for Rain”, specially designed for the site of Yanköşe by SO?, departs from. To be shown in the autumn and winter months, the work will be installed in the open air, and that is a design factor. The installation itself, its shadow, volume, form and effect can change in time, but they need rain to change. It is about nature although it belongs to the city, despite its spectacular appearance it needs an external element, and although it appears abstract at first, it is a concrete work in terms of its functioning. Fostered by dualities, this installation gently falls in step with the city’s chaos and weather; and it will have completed its mission if it encourages passers-by to think about nature, the city and time, even if only for a few moments.

We researched materials due to its durabilities and tension potentials. These silicon threads can extend up to twice as much. They’re as cheap as they’re durable. Also the color options were very attractive.

Team: Sevince Bayrak, Oral Göktaş, Elif Çivici, Selin Çubukçuoğlu, Selcen Fidan, Gülce Yuyar, İrem Uygur, Yağmur Özsoy, Elif Adıgüzel Status: Completed,2018 Location: Istanbul Role: Research,Concept and Application Project Phases, Managing Construction on site

https://vimeo.com/305829717

When it rains, roof water fulls storage by passing through connection pipe.

Type: Competition project, inHAUS Modular Housing Competition Team: Elif Çivici,Ceren Akın Location: Spain Role: Design process, text-story, 3D modelling,diagrams, collages

‘Casa’ de Patio

The perspectives of this house cherish the relationship between nature and house. While doing this, deaf north facade holds storage units. The courtyard is encountered directly at the entrance of the house. This can be considered one of the main ideas of the house. To support this idea, both ends of the corridor face outward. The bedrooms and common areas of the house are separated from each other by a courtyard. The courtyard, which acts as a buffer, is a common meeting place. The courtyard, which can be easily accessed from the kitchen and bedroom.

cross ventilation

storage

views to the nature

660

‘A house’ can create its own environment by only existing in a land. Being a part of the nature and the nature becomes the part of the house. It is a house that merges together inside and outside by organizing a courtyard.Being a part of the nature and the nature becomes the part of the house.

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Award: 1st Prize, ITU Architecture Faculty Graduation Projects 2017 Location: Athens Brief: Re-thinking Dwelling and Publicity Advisor: Prof. Ayse Sentürer

poly_OSMOSIS Understanding ‘Athens’: Antiquity and Today ‘’The osmosis* of private and public spheres that takes place in a modern urban context has been the strongest output of the informal urban development in Greece.’’ says Panos Dragonas, curator of the ‘Made in Athens’ at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012. During this project, I made an intense research about Athens city texture and Athenian architectural history in last 50 years intensely. I focused that how Acropolis is important and sacred for entire Athens while analyzing the current dynamic situation of the city life. Acropolis is the still biggest identifier of the modern Greek city while the dense concrete texture on the outskirts of the acropolis is the biggest truth of Athens. All these irreconcilable repeats emphasize the greatness of the dreamy hill. This up-town, which inspires the whole city, stands there as an object that reminds Athens of its ancient supreme past. The Acropolis is stable despite all its infinity but the city is constantly changing and transforming. After independence, Athens received rapid immigration, and in the last century the population has increased fivefold. Density increased and urban gaps decreased. This increase led to uncontrolled growth and many apartment buildings. Unlike Istanbul, heterogeneous Athens, repeating itself homogenized again.

Terrace

‘‘POLY KATO IKIA’’

Balcony

Stoa

Apartments called as ‘polykatoikia’ can be defined as compressed Athens. Arcades,balconies,tents and terraces are striking components of the smart typology of the city. The Mediterranean soul has in this polykatoikia but the city is full of repetition.

* : Passage of a solvent (such as water) from a lower-concentration solution to a higher-concentration solution, through a semi-permeable membrane (that allows the solvent to pass but not what is dissolved in it) separating the two solutions.

Can Athens, build its own future from these repetitive typologies by inspiring Acroplis?

Evolution of housing in last century

Corbusier Domino Greek Domino

Polykatoikia

Next?

The conversion of apartment fragments: kitchen, terrace,stage,balcony into public programs is the main idea. The private fragments transform to public programs where embraces the city. This is how the project that comes out with the idea that different forms of engagement and existance in the city.

The Osmosis of different dwelling forms can produce a new dynamic Athenian urban life. This production holds on the local repetititons as ‘polykatoikia’s but it does not singularize it. Could variety of repetitions create hybrid spaces? The new model of neighborhood, not only touches given area but also touches Athens scale.

Zooming local scale The road comes from touristic Ermou, is working as a vacuum. This route connected to the area with a park. The potential of park is being bridge between residential neighborhood and city center. For given Thissio neighborhood, , understanding the relation with the city is very cruical. Teknopolis, Agora and Acropolis are 3 main attraction point of conceptual section.

Dwelling -shops, offices, houses

Temporary housing -students, hostel

Public Stage -free space

Observation Tower -hello Acropolis!

Open Kitchen

Subway Connection

Park Connection

Re-Thinking Athens The reinterpretation of the apartment ‘polykatoikia’ brings a new perspective into Athenian’s housing and public needs. The common terraces, the use of the ground and the upper streets are used to create a physical environment with many encounters in public. Additionally, the relation with the Acropolis is thought at a lookout point like the terraces of current polykatoikias. While the tourists have caused the need for a temporary accommodation unit, hostels or Airbnb has a significant number in Athens.

Modules of poly_Osmosis

Single who are using AirBnb -near to common terraces to socialize

family type -trees for privacy

2 people or a couple AirBnb user -near to common terraces two storey family type

2 people or one child family New types

home office

Building A ‘Memory’ City and Memory This dual formation between the city and the human is the design of the past. Designed images (engravings, memories of travelers, or old photographs, etc.) that are carried to the present day, as well as all nostalgia, are useful for comparing, reading and predicting the past and present-future relations.

Award: Equivalent First Prize Type: Competition project, Istanbul: As a Palimpsest City IAPS Culture&Network ,2016 Team: Elif Çivici,Ceren Akın Location: Istanbul , Role: Design process, text-story, 3D modelling,diagrams, collages Memory Machine Projector The element that creates the architectural program as virtual reality. Energy Panels Transform and store its own energy by sun panels.

Designing the ‘Past’ The built and natural environments are the main scenes of human life and the places of memories. The architecture of the city forms the human’s designed memory. He reproduces his people by shaping his memories and his subconscious. This reproduction is mutual. Memories also have the power to reproduce the city.

Layers of ’Memories’ The spaces of the city changes over time. This change can be transformed from physical spaces to virtual spaces. Today, the virtual networks, as an alternative to the real, enables people to think and live in a new dimension. The virtual world can be seen as a secondary living space of human. The world of virtual realities and holograms can be no more than a fantasy and can be the new definition of space production or architecture. Instead of physically constructing, space and memory production can be completely virtualized

Memory The maxhine’s brain is memory. Transferring data to the projector and manage the process of formation of space.