Architecture Portfolio DENIZ ATAKAN
DENIZ ATAKAN Contact Details Current Address: 13 Lyndhurst Road, Bath, BA2 3JH, UK Mobile: 07 858 039 656 e-mail: deniz.atakan@bath.edu Personal Details Sex: Female Date of Birth: 17/08/1993 Nationality: Turkish
EDUCATION 2011 - 2015 University of Bath, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, BSc (Hons) in General Architectural Studies (RIBA Part 1) Diploma mark: Second class honours first division year 1: 71/100, year 2: 61/100, year 4: 64/100 2013 - 2014
ERASMUS - Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, Spain
2007 - 2011 TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School, Ankara, Turkey IB Diploma: (40/45) Mathematics SL (7/7), Biology SL (6), Chemistry SL (7), Physics HL (6), English B1 (6), Turkish A1 (7)
WORK EXPERIENCE 30.06 - 29.08.2014 18.03 - 08.06.2013 13.06 - 11.07.2012
Placement, Biotope Architecture Firm, Vardø, Norway Placement, Tabanlıoğlu Architects, İstanbul, Turkey Internship, A4 Project Construction Firm, Ankara, Turkey
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY 2012 - 2013
Mentor of first year architecture students at University of Bath
2002 - 2011
Member of School Orchestra at TED Ankara College
2009 Volunteer at Dışkapı Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2009 Salesperson at the Annual Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research
ADDITIONAL SKILLS Languages
Turkish - native / English - fluent / Spanish - intermediate / French - basic
Computer Skills
AutoCAD / Adobe InDesign / Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Illustrator / SketchUp / Rhino
INTERESTS Music Other than participating in the school orchestra, I have been playing piano since the age of 5 and gave 11 concerts so far. I also played cello for 4 years. Model making I enjoy making models for the university projects and for individual buildings that interest me. In my models, I like thinking of the details and I see it as a way of expressing my ideas. Other interests Skiing, swimming, reading, travelling, keeping journals.
REFERENCES Architect Tormod Amundsen CEO of Biotope Architecture Firm Biotope AS, Krokgata 12, Vardø, 9950, Norway +47 99 33 49 82 tormod@biotope.no Academic Tutor Martin Gledhill BSc Architecture 4th Year Studio Co-ordinator +44 (0) 1225 386649 m.l.gledhill@bath.ac.uk
ACADEMIC WORK
WESTON DANCE INSTITUTE 2015
FILM INSTITUTE 2014
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL 2013
LONDON STREET #18 2012
WUNDERKAMMER 2011
WORKSHOPS & PROFESSIONAL WORK
DESIGN & BUILD 2015
GOTHIC VAULT CONSTRUCTION 2014
BIOTOPE 2014
WESTON DANCE INSTITUTE project type year place
01
academic work / design 2015 Weston-super-Mare, UK
The brief of the project is to design a dance school in the neglected seaside town Weston-super-Mare as part of the Weston College, supporting higher education. The school will act both as a cultural venue for locals and tourists, contributing to the cultural revival of the town and also as a source of understanding bodily motion. The idea of the design is to express dance theory concepts of movement, body and space in an architectural form. Circulation spaces of both levels of the building suggest movement both in vertical and horizontal direction with ramps and curved facade forms. The exterior performance area and the auditorium space on the ground level become the core of the building, surrounded by the circulation areas and the other spaces. Dance studios at upper level follow a rotated grid to get best views of the town.
isometric structural detail sketchup & photoshop
ground floor plan autocad & photoshop
ACCESS
THE CORE
LEVEL DIFFERENCE
perspective section pen drawing & sketchup & photoshop
ROUTES
PROGRAMME SPLIT
ROTATION
scheme development sketches
external perspective view sketchup & kerkythea & photoshop
MOVEMENT
FLOW
CORE
SEEING
conceptual sketches pen & watercolour
internal perspective view sketchup & kerkythea & photoshop
1.Roof Construction Zinc cladding Breather membrane 30x30 mm battens 15 mm ply sheet 80x80 mm oak roof joists with thermal insuation between 15 mm ply sheet 200x80 mm oak rafters 400x120 mm double oak beams
2.70 mm thick double layered
translucent glass facade made of 300 mm wide glass panels
3.Dance Studio Floor Construction 100 mm wooden sprung floor 50 mm screed with under floor heating 80 mm insulation 200 mm concrete slab 15 mm wooden ceiling boards
3D detail of circulation spaces sketchup & kerkythea & photoshop
internal perspective view sketchup & kerkythea & photoshop
perspectives rhino & photoshop
FILM INSTITUTE project type year place
02 academic work / group design 2014 Bath, UK
This project was part of the Basil Spence Competition that required all final year architecture students to join as groups with civil engineers. We were asked to design a film institute that involved 3 cinemas, exhibition areas, restaurants and cafes that can be both used for educational purposes and film festivals in Bath. Creating a design that involves both an architectural and an engineering approach in terms of resolving the problems was the aim of the competition. The design was driven by the idea of the site conditions carving the form of the building, resulting in three different volumes with a cinema in each. First volume is a double storey form with the largest cinema, whereas the other two are 5 and 7 storey high towers containing additional spaces.
third floor plan autocad & photoshop
short section autocad & photoshop
short section autocad & photoshop
external view rhino & photoshop
cinema space circulation
axonometric detail autocad & photoshop
50 x 175 mm steel bar
50 x 90 mm steel connecter
300 mm steel I-beam
54 mm triple glazing
steel plate 20 mm expanded metal cladding
300 mm steel I-column
isometric connection detail autocad & photoshop
perspectives sketchup & photoshop
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL project type year place
03
academic work / design 2013 Bath, UK
The brief was to design a new architecture building for the department on campus of University of Bath. The building required studios, crit and exhibition areas, print rooms, offices, workshop, a cafĂŠ and several other utilities. Creating an environment in which different year groups can easily communicate with each other was an important aspect of the project. In my design each studio is in a different level, but connected to each other by the double height crit spaces. These face north, the entrance area to the campus, and serve as a way of displaying the works of architecture students to the rest of the campus.
short section autocad & photoshop
STRUCTURE
parti diagrams
HIERARCHY
MASSING
perspective watercolour
LONDON STREET #18 project type year place
04
academic work / survey 2012 Bath, UK
In this project we were asked to make a survey of an old building in London Street in Bath. I made research about the history of the building and who inhabited it before the current users. Based on the measurements and photos taken both from inside and outside I made an elevation and a section of the building. I analysed the deterioration patterns on the exterior and tried to understand what caused these marks on the building. This project also involved careful analysis of the carved patterns and detailed work made on the exterior walls and window frames of the building.
detail sketch pen drawing
detail sketches pen drawing
elevation autocad & photoshop
WUNDERKAMMER project type year place
05 academic work / design 2011 Bath, UK
The brief was to design a single room made of wood for an imaginary collection of objects. The design required storage and presentation of the selected collection of objects in the best possible way. I chose to collect glass vases. The idea is to display vases from all sides instead of only one view point. The design is a simple rectangle room with thin, long glass boxes fixed within the two opposite walls. These boxes serve as windows and also store the vases, displaying them both from inside and outside. The roof is made of glass and a layer of horizontal timber slats on top. This creates a pool of light inside, reflecting on the vases and spreading colourful lights across the room.
external perspective hand drawing
east elevation hand drawing
DESIGN & BUILD project type year place
08 extracurricular activity / design workshop 2015 Westonbirt, UK
The brief of the workshop was to design a temporary woodland house that will act as an attraction point for visitors of all age in Westonbirt Arboretum, also contributing to the experience and education that you get out of the forest. The challenge was to come up with a buildable design in one day. We worked in several design teams and after presenting the designs we built the design that was chosen by the client. The main idea of the design is to have viewing points for the visitors and to make the kids enjoy the experience as well as the adults by creating playful activities with the structure of the pavilion. The wood used for the structure, cladding and weaving, ash and oak, was supplied from the Westonbirt Arboretum.
GOTHIC VAULT CONSTRUCTION project type year place
07
extracurricular activity / construction workshop 2014 Madrid, Spain
The aim of the workshop was to build one part of a gothic vault to real scale. Each student was required to carve a block of the vault out of plaster. The challenge was to understand the complicated geometry of each piece, carve it as precisely as possible and to understand the geometry of the vault and how pieces come together. We were then asked to model the vault in 3D in order to demonstrate our understanding of the geometry and the building process.
3D composition sequence rhino & photoshop
Batsfjord birdhide
BIOTOPE project type year place
06 professional work experience 2014 Vardรถ, Norway
The architecture firm that I worked in is specialised in birds and birdwatching and uses architecture as a tool to protect birds, wildlife and nature. The work mainly involves design and building of birdhides and photohides. They also work on various other types of projects including house refurbishments, destination development studies, exhibitions, workshops, nature trails and outdoor amphitheatres. My work there involved designing the exhibition panels for promoting wildlife in Varanger, helping to build one of the birdhides, building a photohide, helping the design of a new house extension, preparing physical models of the already built birdhides for an exhibition.
building a photohide
Transferring a birdhide to Ekkerรถy