ELIF CIVICI ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Elif Civici, Architect 02.04.1994 / born in Kdz. Ereğli/Turkey Loca�on: Berlin civicielif@gmail.com Turkish, Na�ve English, Fluent German, A1 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
SO? Istanbul Architecture and Ideas 2017-2019- Architect-2 years 2016- intern-4 months
First Prize Gradua�on Project Compe��on, ITU Architecture Faculty,2017
KPM Kerem Piker Architecture Intern, 2016-2 months Salon Architects Intern, 2015-2 months Erol Inşaat Construc�on intern,2015-2 months Tasarım Atelier Kadıköy Intern,2014-1 month
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
Equivalent First Prize Istanbul: As a Palimpsest City, IAPS Culture&Network ,2016 Team: Elif Civici, Ceren Akın Encouragement Award Bakırköy Demirciler Bazaar Compe��on,TMMOB,2016 Team: Elif Civici, Ceren Akın 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
2020 Media House
TU Berlin Typology Design Studio collabora�on: Hsiao-Lan Chuang San�ago Sanchez instructor:Prof. Rainer Hehl
2018 Fold&Float
collabora�on: SO? Istanbul displayed at
Istanbul Design Bieannale,2018
2018 House of Chickens collabora�on: SO? Istanbul
2018 Pray For Rain collabora�on: SO? Istanbul
2018 Casa de Pa�o
collabora�on: Ceren Akın inHAUS Modular Housing Compe��on
2017 poly_Osmosis 1st prize
Diploma Project ITU Architecture Faculty
2016 Building A Memory Equivalent First Prize
Istanbul: As a Palimpsest City IAPS Culture&Network Compe��on collabora�on: Ceren Akın
Team: Elif Çivici, Hsiao-Lan Chuang, Santiago Sanchez Location: TU Berlin Campus Project for : Typology Design Studio Instructors: Prof. Dr. Rainer Hehl,Tobias Schrammek, Catarina Farinha
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. In-between space The building creates an intermediate space between campus and city. Likewise, the interior void connects the introversion and the broadcast spaces.
Public Terraces 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.
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FG HEHL Architectures of Knowledge Production
M-ARCH T
Architectures of Knowledge Production
M-ARCH T
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
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
SITEPLAN 1:1000
Group 3 - Elif, Lan, Santiago
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
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
FG HEHL
FG HEHL
M-ARCH T
M-ARCH T
Architectures of Knowledge Production
Architectures of Knowledge Production
Children Library Book House Film&Music House Art House Events House Children Library Book House
Film + Music House Art House
Events House
Longitudinal Section
Introversion Interaction Broadcast
Introversion
Section 1:200
Interaction Broadcast
Main Shear Walls Main Shear Walls
Secondary Shear Walls Secondary Shear Walls
Interior Void Interior Void
Circulation Circulation
Exhibition Island Exhibition Island
Urban Section 1:500
Event Hall
Group 3 - Elif, Lan, Santiago
Ground Floor Plan
Event Hall
Group 3 - Elif, Lan, Santiago
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, Following 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
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‘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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poly_OSMOSIS
Award: 1st Prize, ITU Architecture Faculty Graduation Projects 2017 Location: Athens Brief: Re-thinking Dwelling and Publicity Instructors: Prof. Ayse Sentürer, jury Prof. Semra Aydınlı, Assoc Prof. Meltem Aksoy, R.A Hakan Tuzun Sengun, Kerem Piker, Cem İlhan
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’
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
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.
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.
Memory Machine Projector The element that creates the architectural program as virtual reality.
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
Energy Panels Transform and store its own energy by sun panels.
Memory The maxhine’s brain is memory. Transferring data to the projector and manage the process of formation of space.