Deniz Topcuoglu | Architecture Portfolio 2014

DENIZ TOPCUOGLU ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS

i. PERSONAL INFORMATION

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Curriculum Vitae

ii. A NEW AGE HOTEL ON THE BOULEVARD An Urban Corridor

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Ankara, Turkey.

academic | individual | year 3, spring semester | feb - may, 2013. supervisor : Erkin Aytac | e-mail : erkin@arch.metu.edu.tr

iii. EXPERIMENTING WITH HYBRIDIZATION STRATEGIES Gastronomy Tower

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Ankara, Turkey.

academic | individual | year 4, fall semester | sept - dec, 2013. supervisor : Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan | e-mail : mennan@metu.edu.tr

iv. SUSTAINING NICOSIA - UN BUFFER ZONE

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part one: A Responsive Grid

Nicosia, Cyprus.

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group work at urban scale | urban design & research | group members: A.Sungur, F.Golghasemi, O.Kamburoglu, O.M.Duman

part two: Manufacturing as a Healing Method

Nicosia, Cyprus. p.19-25

individual work at architectural scale | architectural & conceptual design | detailing the group work

academic | group & individual | year 4, spring semester | feb - may, 2014. supervisor : Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan | e-mail : mennan@metu.edu.tr

v. DUBAI ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL TOWER

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Vertical Timeline Tower

Dubai, UAE.

group work at architectural scale | concept design & graphical visualisation | group members: Gökhan Ongun (MSc,. TU Delft)

professional | group | ac-ca architectural competition ‘09 | feb, 2014.

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DENIZ TOPCUOGLU

PERSONAL INFORMATION

CONTACT INFO : e-mail : deniztopcuoglu.dt@gmail.com Phone : +90 533 552 7352 Nationality : Turkish Address : Sehit Osman Temiz Mah. 1040.Sokak Istanbul Apt. No: 3/4 06450 Ilker, Ankara, Turkey

EDUCATION ( 2010 – 2014 )

( 2011 – 2012 )

( 2009 – 2010 )

( 2005 – 2009 )

( 2007 – 2009 )

Middle East Technical University (METU)

/ BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

Madrid Technical University (UPM - ETSAM) / ERASMUS STUDENT IN ARCHITECTURE Middle East Technical University (METU)

Ted Ankara College Foundation

International Baccalaureate (IB)

/ BACHELOR OF CITY & REGIONAL PLANNING

/ HIGH SCHOOL

/ BI-LINGUAL DIPLOMA

CURRICULUM VITAE

ANKARA, TURKEY

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ARCHITECTURAL ( 2010, June - Sept. ) ( 2012, June - August ) ( 2013, May - Sept. )

Nurol Holding; Batum Hotel Project (Internship) Nurol Holding; FNSS Armored Vehicles Production Factory’s Construction Project (Internship) ONZ Architects (Internship)

OTHER ( 2005 - 2006 ) ( 2006 ) ( 2007 )

Demo Productions; Editing the documentary of “Yellow Leaf – The Story of Turks in 9/11” Journal of Turk of America: Editing the script of 5th year memorial of September 11 Edition.

Referans Newspaper; Assistant of Journalist Elif Ozmenek (New York Office).

OTHER EXPERIENCE ( 2014, June-July )

( 2014, February )

( 2013, December )

Parametric Urban Design Workshop, Design by Drawing vs. Design by Algorithm / METU AC-CA Competition Entry, Dubai Architecture School Tower / with Gökhan Ongun (MSc.,TU Delft) METU Kemal Kurdas Mousoleum Competition Entry / with Gökhan Ongun (MSc.,TU Delft)

SKILLS COMPUTER

LANGUAGE

OTHER

Rhinoceros 3D : Advanced

Turkish : Native

PIANO : Advanced

Grasshopper : Intermediate

English : Fluent

TANGO : Advanced

AutoCAD Architecture : Advanced

Spanish : Advanced

3D’s Max : Intermediate

French : Upper Intermediate

Maya : Beginner

Italian : Beginner

Adobe Illustrator : Advanced Adobe Photoshop : Advanced Adobe Indesign : Intermediate Adobe Premiere Pro : Intermediate Autodesk Revit : Intermediate

A NEW AGE HOTEL ON THE BOULEVARD METU Faculty of Architecture Architectural Design Studio IV

A New Age Hotel on the Boulevard is a location-function-design based project which takes its main design references from its position and regarding the daily life going around the site. The area is situated between Ataturk Boulevard, which is one of the major routes in Ankara and Tunus Street. The specification of this site is while the Boulevard side is highly functional for business purposes like embassies, Tunus Street is full of residentials and it is the major point for nightlife in Ankara. Moreover, as the functions of two sides differ, they have their own architectural language. The boulevard is full of expensive and luxurious high-rise hotels whereas the street has only boutique hotels which are not more than mid-rises.

Regarding these site references, this project is designed to act as two different hotel blocks serving to two different guest profiles while working as one body in architectural language and functional purposes.

The taller mass is situated on the boulevard and is connected to Tunus Street via the smaller mass. The green space between the buildings works like an urban corridor, linking two sides gently.

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Standard Guest Rooms for Businessmen

140 units of 30 m2 standard rooms with or without balconies are relatively distributed to two hotel blocks. As the need of rooms for business purposes are twice tourists, these rooms are placed on both facades of the larger block while the rooms for tourists are located only on the street side.

Standard Guest Rooms for Tourists

Suite Guest Rooms for Businessmen

20 units of 60m2 suites are relatively distributed to both hotel blocks. These rooms include a small kitchen and a living room, creating a private space for the bedroom.

The units on the business block have balconies whereas the others have not. Suites are designed specifically to be distinguished from outside of the hotel.

Suite Guest Rooms for Tourists

Multi-Purpose Hall & Lounge

A 300m2 multi-pupose hall for weddings, celebration organizations or seminars is located on the roof of the business block with a vista of Ankara. A dressing room and WCs are placed next to it. On the roof of the smaller block, there is a terrace to watch the city center.

The mezzanine floor is used for the management purposes

Skyline Terrace

Hotel Management & Meeting Rooms

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Connection of Two Buildings and Common Functions

A functional and decorative connection between the two hotel blocks is designed for the circullation of guests and hotel staff. It provides access to restaurant, cafe/bar and gym from rooms and passes from the reception; new comers are reaching their rooms via this connection. It also has two entrances for guests from tboth Tunus Street and the Boulevard.

Pedestrian Guest Entrances from Two Different Directions

Gym & Swimming Pool & Changing Rooms

Restaurant & Breakfast Hall

Common facilities of the hotel are located on the ground floors of each block, having connections with the circulation structure. If it is preferred, outdoor circulation also links there common facilities through green spaces.

Reception & Lobby & Luggage Rooms

Cafe & Bar

Parking Entrances

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Interior Circulation - Stairs

Interior Circulation - Elevators

As the hotel is situated on both streets, there are two parking entrances and exits for vehicles from different routes. There is also a bypass between the boulevard and the street for arriving guests to reach the reception.

Pedestrian Circulation

Vehicle Circulation

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A NEW AGE HOTEL ON THE BOULEVARD

ANKARA, TURKEY

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EXPERIMENTING WITH HYBRIDIZATION STRATEGIES: A GASTRONOMY TOWER METU Faculty of Architecture Architectural Design Studio V

As the first term project of the 4th year, we were asked to design a hybrid complex / high-rise just across to the oldest tower in Ankara, Atakule Tower. We were expected to use hybridization design strategies instead of mixed-use architecture. We were given a sample program, regarding the major needs of the neighborhood and the city itself; but the final program of the complex was decided by the students; thus, gastronomy was not an obligation.

The project has born following the idea of reviving the bazaar culture of Turkish people which is about to be disappeared within the increasing shopping mall concept. It has occurred with an aim of creating a medium which includes both shopping, socializing the society and leading people to have a new life style under the context of gastronomy. For this purpose, a hybrid complex including a bazaar, a museum, 20 different kinds of restaurants, a culinary art school, offices for workers and cooks, residential units and a hotel for both complex members and guests, just considering ‘gastronomy’ as the main idea. The architectural reflection of this aim is working parallel with the project concept, which is hybridization, as different kinds of functions are getting into one, working as a whole in unity different than the mixed-use architecture. The inner garden is a representation of the outdoor Turkish bazaar and also an intention to form a small inner-city green space and the linear graphic of the tower is suiting the silhouette of the surrounding environment. The three modules, increasing with three different plan schemes are catching the heights of the buildings which cover the site.

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initial mass of the tower

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seperation of different functions into three fragments

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adjusting the heights of the fragments according to function-space-program relations

twisting the mass with a helix shape to interlace different functions for hybridization

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initial mass of the base formed by the site references

formation of a void to provide space-function relation between the tower and the base

beveling of the interior facade of the base to create a vista between the tower and the base

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GASTRONOMY TOWER

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VIA OFFICE TOWER

122m

PORTAS TOWER

123m

PLATIN OFFICE TOWER

123m

ARMADA TOWER

125m

HALKBANK HEADQUARTERS

127m

ATAKULE TOWER

134m

THE PARAGON TOWER

140m

NEXT LEVEL OFFICE TOWER

140m

DIKMEN VALLEY TOWERS(4)

143m

SHERATON HOTEL TOWER

PORTAKAL CICEGI TOWER

160m

TOBB OFFICE TOWERS (2)

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EXPERIMENTING WITH HYBRIDIZATION STRATEGIES

ANKARA, TURKEY

TOWER ENTRANCE - Gastronomy Museum - Temporary Exhibition Halls - Bookshop

- Recording Studios for Gastronomic TV Programmes with a Background Vista of the Open Bazaar & Restaurants

RESIDENTIAL HOTEL COMMERCIAL

MEDIA SOCIO-CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OFFICE EDUCATIONAL PARKING RETAIL TECHNICAL

- Open Bazaar for Food & Beverage with Bistro Tables - Bazaar Storage Areas

- World Cuisine Workshop Areas for the usage of Cuisine Academy which turn into Restaurants after 4:00pm (20 different world cuisines)

- 50m2 guest houses for students - 100m2 hotel units for Chefs & Professors

- 50m2 studios - 100m2 flats

- 50m2 flexible mini-offices that can be combined with residential units - 100 m2 offices

- Inner Garden - Terraces - Green Houses

- Cuisine Arts Academy with Lecture Halls, Training&Professional Kitchens, R&D Labs, Kitchen Equipment Prod.

Ateliers, Audiotorium - Library of Food & Expertise

- Closed Car Park for 600 Cars (entrance from Hosdere Street)

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Atakule Tower

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Car Park & Service Entrance

Main Entrance

Secondary Entrance

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-4.50 PLAN Permanent Hall 1 Permanent Hall 2

Temporary Exhibition Hall 1

Temporary Exhibition Hall 2

Temporary Exhibition Hall 3

Bookshop

Permanent Hall 3

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO V

EAST ELEVATION

EXPERIMENTING WITH HYBRIDIZATION STRATEGIES

ANKARA, TURKEY

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A View from the Open Bazaar Area

SOUTH ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

ANKARA, TURKEY

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Structural Design of the Base Facades

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SUSTAINING NICOSIA: SUSTAINING A RESPONSIVE GRID

NICOSIA: A RESPONSIVE GRID

METU Faculty of Architecture Architectural Design Studio VI

TheThe lands of Nicosia which are trapped inside lands of Nicosia which are trapped inside the the Green LineLine as well as the sources of the Green as well as the sources of the city city are are currently divided by the twotwo commucurrently divided by the communities of the island.

In this casecase of aofpossible nities of the island.

In the a possible unification of the island, we consider this unification of the two nations, we consider scenario highly realistic: scenario which in this scenario highly The realistic: The inscenario the which Green the Line,Green whichLine, is desolated almost for which is for desolated 40 years, acts asonly a unifying force for almostnot 40only years, not acts as a unifying the force Cyprus but also it sustains forIsland the Cyprus Island but alsoNicosia it sustains financially this is exactly the locals Nicosiaand financially and thiswhat is exactly what the need.

Given the fact that Green LineGreen offersLine locals need.

Given thethe fact that the us offers a valuable space space ready ready to betore-conus a valuable be re-constructed in ain rather historical environment structed a rather historical environment which can can be considered as aas quite rarerare casecase which be considered a quite in urban design, we we believe thatthat we we need to to in urban design, believe need approach the the casecase of the Green LineLine withwith the the approach of the Green consideration of the city city to be by the consideration of the to affected be affected by the changes thatthat are are going to happen in the changes going to happen in the Green LineLine in social, economic, cultural andand Green in social, economic, cultural environmental manners.

ThisThis project is all environmental manners. project is all about transforming the the greater whole by by about transforming greater whole starting fromfrom a smaller segment.

OurOur considstarting a smaller segment. consideration areas are are classified in 5infocus zones: eration areas classified 5 focus zones: Low-Carbon District, Manufacturing, Culture, Low-Carbon District, Manufacturing, Culture, Health-Care andand Horticulture potentials.

Health-Care Horticulture potentials.

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Functions

Green Spaces

Airport Connection

Information taken from Nicosia Master Plan Second Phase Report

Residential Commercial Uses (Retail & Offices) Public Open Spaces Civic Area and Special Uses Mixed Uses (Comm. & Residential) Workshops I Wholesale I Storage

Girne Connection

Main Axes of Inner City Surrounding Network

Transportation Network

Limassol Connection

Cultural Zones

Major Priority Minor Priority

Wasted Spaces Courtyards / Gardens

Empty Lots

SUSTAINING NICOSIA: A RESPONSIVE GRID

Step 1: The burgess model; 1- Central business district (City center) 2- Transition zone 3- Low class residential 4- Mid class residential 5- High class residential (Commuter zone)

Association the corner points of the basic grid with attractors. In accordance with the location of the attractors, the points create an inverse or reverse attraction to the corner points.

Step 2: The burgess city model is cut by the buffer zone which becomes the central business district / a linear city center itself.

This interference does not divide the city into two, but instead it leads the potential interaction to the middle from both sides of the city.

Creation of a new deformed grid according to the cumulative effects of the attractors throughout the whole grid.

Step 3: The sample model and the zones are manipulated and rearranged according to the inclusion of the buffer zone. As the circular shape of the city center turns into a linear form, zones also change shape and are lined up following the linearization of the city center.

Utilization of the vertices of the new grid as the sites of the final grid. Formation of the optimum cell structure based on Voronoi tessellation.

NICOSIA, CYPRUS

Step 4: After the zones are arranged, the grid plan is introduced to the model.

This leads the city to have both horizontal and vertical connections within the borders.

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Step 5: According to the geometry of the borders of the buffer zone and the transportation axes within the city, the grid and the zone borders are manipulated for the final result.

1- Original Buffer Zone Determined by United Nations

Caliskan, Olgu. Emerging Trends and Tendencies in Urban Design: Generative Urbanism by Parametric Design. pp:349.

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Nicosia - Walled City Plots (original situation)

Nicosia - Walled City Pedestrian&Vehicle Routes) (original situation)

Setback Distances

Pedestrian Routes / Circulation

Plots / Voronoi Parcels

Block Footprints (standardized)

Parking Lots

Green Spaces

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Vehicular Highways Pedestrian & Bike Route Monorail Promenade

LOW-CARBON Building science & restoration research center Low-carbon high-tech residential units Eco-architecture education center Architectural history museum

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CULTURE

HEALTH-CARE

HORTICULTURE

Different scaled performance spaces Exhibition spaces & workshops A war/peace museum An art education center

Hospital Medical school Residential units for the patients Spa / wellness center

An agriculture research center An urban farm A botanic park Residential units with small gardens

SUSTAINING NICOSIA: A RESPONSIVE GRID MANUFACTURING AS A HEALING METHOD METU Faculty of Architecture Architectural Design Studio VI

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SUSTAINING NICOSIA: Manufacturing as a Healing Method

Parking Lots Wood Manufacturing Reuse - Recycle Manufacturing Textile Manufacturing Free Zones Renovation

NICOSIA, CYPRUS

Delaunay Triangulation Key Factors of Delaunay triangulation are: - Area Centroids of each Voronoi Cell - Maximum relation within cells - Flexibility within Voronoi Tessellation and Voronoi Triangulation This will be included into the project with the need of both physical and functional relationship between different manufacturing zones.

Freight and other products will be transferred from one zone to another through these vertical&horizontal connection elements.

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WOOD MANUFACTURING REUSE / RECYCLE ZONE RENOVATION ZONE TEXTILE MANUFACTURING CYPRUS IMPORT DATA INTER RELATIONS

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                         

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 

                                             

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NICOSIA, CYPRUS

   The manufacturing industry of Cyprus has been going through difficult times in the past decades, experiencing  a fall in the growth of production, exports and employement.  FIND A SOLUTION TO PRODUCTION & EMPLOYMENT PROBLEM.  The government policy about this issue is to facilitate the process of modernization and  technological upgrading of the productive fabric of the economy within the  framework of harmonization.  THIS GOVERNMENT POLICY PROGRAM CONCERNS FOUR  ISSUES: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, PROFESSIONAL  TRAINING, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING.   The aim of the project, in this case, should be focused on distinguishing between a new creative view of manufac ture and an exploitative past which destroyed the city.  A SUSTAINABLE URBAN SPATIAL PARADIGM.  The project proposes a module system which  will start from the focus point of Cyprus, the  Walled City, and will progress and grow in  the different regions of the whole island.  AN ADAPTIBLE AND FLEXIBLE  PILOT PROJECT  If the pilot project works in this  small scale, in the future, large  scaled manufacturing  modules can be applied in  whole Cyprus including  fuels, heavy machinery,  transportation  equipment and raw  materials.  

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO VI

Steel outer shell

Steel structure

1st floor slab freight entrance

REUSE / RECYCLE MANUFACTURING ZONE

Front & back glass facades

Ground floor slab

SUSTAINING NICOSIA: Manufacturing as a Healing Method

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO VI

WOOD MANUFACTURING ZONE

Vertical element of the freight transportation system

Timber roof like a shell

Structural columns

Glass facades & lightwells

Ground floor slab

SUSTAINING NICOSIA: Manufacturing as a Healing Method

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO VI

Structural roof with skylight holes

Skylights & lightwells

Structural columns

1st floor slab

Bearing walls with columns inside

Ground floor slab

RENOVATION ZONE

SUSTAINING NICOSIA: Manufacturing as a Healing Method

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO VI

Grass shell/cover as urban green space

Concrete roof

Structural columns

Water resistant bearing walls

Glass facades

Ground floor slab

TEXTILE MANUFACTURING ZONE

SUSTAINING NICOSIA: Manufacturing as a Healing Method

NICOSIA, CYPRUS

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DUBAI ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL: VERTICAL TIMELINE TOWER AC-CA Architectural Competition 09 February 2014 with Gรถkhan Ongun (BArch.,METU ; MSc.,TU Delft)

As a different approach towards the creation of an architectural school, the project itself offers an extraordinary program and vision to an education and training center. Besides the massive cosmopolitan life of Dubai, the project also has to compete with the unlimitedly rising height of the city. In the brainstorming process of the project, two main ideas arose which led the tower came to its final form. The first key point was the relationship between the historical development of architecture with its transformation through the time and the training and improvement process of an architecture student and his transformations through his education. The other key point was the idea of the rotation of a horizontal/linear perception – which is the school in this context – and obtaining a vertical plane with different parameters. Till the end of the design process, these two ideas were combined together and as a matter of a linear and historical element, a timeline was decided to be used as the main concept of the project. This conceptual attitude towards the school is represented as a vertical timeline in which the verticality of a tower can be read easily and the history of architecture and the developments can be represented through the architectural elements, mainly with facades.

The project is composed of two different module systems which work as the major and minor spaces of the school inside th e tower and the main and sub periods of the historical background on the facades. The bigger modules (10 modules) are representing the main historical styles or periods while including the main design studios, lecture rooms, specialized laboratories and period-based museum galleries of the school. As the student passes years, he will also improve within time and have the chance to experience the improvements of architecture one by one. In each module, there will be unique material laboratories in which students can discover the properties of that period’s materials. Also, there will be a museum-gallery floor where students can find some architectural elements’ examples and learn architecture within different perceptions and dimensions. While the historical change in timeline is seen with different functions and spaces inside the building; on the other hand, it will be easily readable from outside the tower just through the façade applications of the historical background of architecture.

However, the importance of those applications is that while they are representing a period from history just with the materials, architectural elements or geometric forms, on the circulation axes, the structural system of the building and the interior facades, the building itself represents the original period of its construction.

The smaller modules on the back of the building are representing the minor elements of both history and school spaces. As an element of the vertical timeline, a small module is representing a sub-category of a period or just a short-time style which is not as effective as a major title but also existed in history. Within the building, this small module will work like a container-archive, in which special books or documents of that period will be located, like boutique libraries. The importance of their working and construction mechanism as containers is that as much as the need of an archive room or a library increases, or some new documents are found about a special period, a new container will be installed and easily be ready for the use.

The location of the tower within Dubai is purposely not indicated, as the only important aspect for the school is to be located in the city center. As Dubai is still under construction, both in architectural and infrastructural manners, a special location for the school building must be decided especially after the transportation facilities for students are provided. Also, this is an important aspect for the sustainability manners as the more public transport is used, the less energy is consumed.

As architecture is a branch or a lifetime style which started in very prehistoric times and not known when it will stop changing, the project is open-ended, which means that as more new styles or periods form in the future, the building will be constructed more for the new coming modules and it will eventually become a vertical timeline of the architectural history of humanbeings.

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AC-CA ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION - ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL TOWER

Slabs of the tower (5 floors for each module)

Creation of the steel structure with columns

Covering all three facades of each module with glass

Steel construction for elevator and staircases

Installation of the non-structural facades of time modules

VERTICAL TIMELINE TOWER

1st floor plan of each time module

2nd floor plan of each time module

3rd floor plan of each time module

4th floor plan of each time module

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