Portfolio 2022

Dilara Turgut

02.11.1996, Istanbul dilaraturgut1@gmail.com +31 6 827 86661 Delft, Netherlands

The selected works represent my architectural studies throughout which I had the chance to observe architectural positions in different schools and countries. I believe, discovering the dimensions of architecture as well as trying to find architecture in other professions, and communicating my work have broadened my professional and intellectual understanding. In my experience of diverse environments, I have learned to position myself in spatial, social, cultural, and economic ecosystems. As a result, I was invested in expressing my standpoint through analog and digital instruments, each of which revealed a particular way of communication. Having now completed my MSc in Architecture cum laude at the Delft University of Technology, I am looking forward to observing and learning more during my professional path.

education

2020 - 2022 Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL Msc Architecture, cum laude

2015 - 2020 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TR Bachelor of Architecture

2018 Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE March - August Erasmus Mobility Program

2014 - 2015 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TR Preparatory School of English

work experience

2018 Dietz-Joppien Architects AG, Frankfurt, DE August - September Intern Architect

2018 Öncüoglu Architects, Ankara, TR February Intern Architect

2017 AKFEN Holding Co.Inc., Ankara, TR July - August Intern Architect

2016 METU Summer Practice, Ankara, TR Intern Student

2020 Izmir Olivelo Competition Team Project | 4th Mention

2019 TSMD Exhibition Selected work

2019 The Chair’s Award Best Graduation Project of METU Department of Architecture

2017 TSMD Exhibition Selected work

volunteer experience

achievements language skills

2014 - 2015 The Duke of Edinburgh International Award Category Bronze Participant

Turkish German Native Advanced | Goethe Institut Zertifikat(C1)

English Dutch Advanced | IELTS (C1) Elementary II

Archicad Adobe Photoshop Model Making Lumion(basics) Autocad Adobe Illustrator Portrait drawing Enscape(basics) Rhino Adobe Indesign Revit(basics)

Industry : Impetus to Urbanity

Delft University of Technology, 2022

The C-loud

Delft University of Technology, 2021 Pixel Gardens

Delft University of Technology, 2020

Learning From Modernism

Middle East Technical University, 2018

1 2 3 4 5

Into the Nature

Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2018

INDUSTRY: IMPETUS TO URBANITY

Maastricht, Netherlands

Urban Architecture Graduation Studio embraces the theme of gleaning under the title of Glanuers, Glaneuses based on Agnes Varda’s documentary called Gleaners and I(Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse). To give it a second chance, the studio moves its focus toward Maastricht whose skyline is dominated by industry.

Etymologically, the term industry appears as a synonym of ‘diligence’ and ‘hard work’ which allusively refers to that of humans. However, production, once indispensable to human existence and urban tissue, is no longer a part of everyday life. By proposing a collaborative production complex, the research and design together glean the function of production, aim to give a new meaning to its existence within the urban fabric, and bring the humans and machines together with the method of research in design. In this way, production becomes an urban catalyst to evoke new possible interactions one of which is to activate the sense of collectiveness. The project deals with the integration of industry on multiple scales by deeming it as an urban, architectural, social, and economic discussion.

Delft

Eireen

problematization

Boschstraatkwartier has an entangled spatial context that has a layered nature of the built environment, infrastructure, and topography. Combined with the layers revealed by its history, the site today represents a disintegrated, forgotten piece of Maastricht that appears only as a ‘go-through’ space. It is where industry and center meet, yet where the dynamics between the urban residents and the industry could not embrace the co-existence of humans and machines. The fact that the city first intended to embrace the industry that was designed to be a part of the city center makes urban discontinuity a bigger problem. Despite its architectural and urban potential, Boschstraatkwartier does not have any spatial urban occupation.

location | Maastricht

Bassin, Maastricht 1935

The Industrial Revolution eradicated the diligence that vitalized the urban interaction between making and living, a consequence of which was the suppression of the local industries. The industry adopted these nonhuman actors for whom new spaces were designed. The research recognizes the dilemma of a human and machine space and questions the characteristics of these environments. To investigate how they spatially encounter, it collects the occupants of the production spaces in a catalog in which all these objects coexist. Through research, the design aims to host the Makers of Maastricht as a prototype user group. Once the production is scaled down to a human scale again, various types of users witness and participate in the act of making.

occupants of the building research

industry

secluded

become a

urban and architectural discussion that

also an irrefutable social and economic

on urban life and continuity. Inspired by the Atelier Brussels Productive Metropolis,

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city and the industry

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A Good CityHas Industry

economic

social dynamics

new city center with

impetus to urbanity

This big hall on Fransensingel dominates Sappi’s silhouette when one approaches the site from the center. The 20m high industrial building is an empty box with four silos inside. While keeping the proportions of this massive warehouse, the first row of the brick walls is removed to blur the borders of the building and to construct a more welcoming atmosphere. Demolition of the infill walls on the ground floor intends to go beyond an architectural intervention and fulfill an urban act by welcoming an inner street. The project transforms the inhospitable hall into a public ground where urban residents gather around the function of production.

existing building

image above photo : Zhenduo Feng

collage | an urban public ground

research in design indusry: impetus to urbanity

1:1000 city and industry

1:500 urban context and factory

1:200 users and production

1:100 human and machine

1:50 appropriation and products

The integration of industry is an urban, architectural, social, and economic issue that should be dealt with on multiple scales. In order to bring the industry back to the city, the project collects all the actions on different scales under the name of transformations. It aims to transform the city, the urban fabric, the architecture, and the objects by stimulating new interactions and explorations.

transformations

1:20 | 1:5 communication and system

image below longitudinal section model

left image system detail

The system details actualize the interaction between the urban life and production in the larger sense; makers and the building, and humans and machines on the smaller scale. In this case, creating an embracing public building and visibility are the key concepts of the project that exhibit production to the public. The curtain walls provide a transparent inside-outside relationship, while also revealing the existing structure for the interior users.

urban street

image above

1. insulated laminated frosted glass

2. metal mesh railing

3. 50 mm x 100 mm curtain wall transom

4. corrugated metal cladding

5. 100 mm rigid insulation

UPN160 profile

7. curtain wall bracket

100 mm x 50 mm x 2,5 mm Z profile

9. IPE450

10. 600 mm cellular beam 11. 100 mmx 100mm L profile

12. cable tray

image below

1. insulated laminated frosted glass

2. UPN200

3. 80- mm steel box profile

4. fixed aluminium frame

5. 15 mm accoustic rubber mat

6. 1000 mm porcelain square tiles with concrete look

7. 30 mm mortar 8.underfloor heating pipes

9. 50 mm rigid insulation

10. 150 mm composite slab

11. corrugated steel deck

IPE450

Complex Projects

Msc2

Group Members

Ali Fatih Cebeci Dilara Turgut

Instructors

Hans Larrson

Negar Sanaan Bensi

Paul Cournet

Setareh Noorani

THE C-LOUD

Data is shaping our world and our life. We constantly live in a pool of data and share more and more every day to exist in the modern journey of life. The vast amount of data online is used for the sake of security of the public through surveillance. However, with facial recognition technology combined with our online data, our face now becomes a façade to our identities, our thoughts, our past and our future, to our virtual subjects. It becomes a public object, and our privacy is therefore invaded. The will to be anonymous on the street but actively using the perks of the online world pushes individuals to take counter surveillance actions on a personal level mostly by manipulating the architecture of the face. The C-loud visions ever persisting battle of surveillance and countersurveillance as a rewarding conflict rather than assigning role as good and bad when this kind of blinding power of knowledge is regulated. The project proposes a new body to the United Nations for the regulation of surveillance. The operations of C-louds tackle the border in between the eyes of any machine and the face of the individual while discovering architecture in the world of data. The project promises a heterotopia where the old luxury of anonymity and the new fashion of knowledge can exist together.

Surveillance is not new for humanity, but the meaning of the term is slowly shifting. While surveillance means observation for data collection, today we live in a world of surveillance created by data given by ourselves rather than collected from us. Development of the facial recognition systems cracked the layer of anonymity of the real world and exposed our faces to the online world.

Today face recognition is slowly becoming one of the main ingredients of the modern day. While we encounter facial identification systems every day, these systems are actually the end point of a complex network of data. We are being tracked by data-collecting machines constantly during the day.

research and problematization

right image daily encounters

The design visions a mediatory role on the regulation of facial recognition technology. This intergovernmental, AI based mediating organization observes, controls, regulates and if necessary, eliminates surveillance agencies. C-louds are eclipses of surveillance; they cast a shadow on the street with its expanding skin and reflect an everchanging hologram architecture on the street. This hologram wall creates a virtual layer of counter surveillance on the faces of the people, disabling facial recognition systems to identify landmarks of the face hence recognizing who that person is.

design | decision mechanism

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help people stay

THE INVISIBLE ZONE Drones released from the C-loud disperse an invisible layer of smoke to create a layer where the walls can be projected.

Illustration by the authors

holograms

the mechanism of the

THE C-LOUD

skin

shadow

by the authors

Delft University of Technology

PIXEL GARDENS

Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Instructors

The Apeldoornsche Bosch, located in the woods of Apeldoorn, was a Jewish psychiatric institution whose policy was ahead of its time until its invasion during the Second World War. Now known as Groot Schuylenburg, the complex has become vacant due to the lack of means to maintain the demands of modern daycare. The Heritage and Architecture studio focuses on Bosduif, one of the three buildings in the complex, and requires an interpretation of the building’s values to revitalize the area and commemorate its mournful past. The project cherishes the witness of the past, now, and future: the green. It recalls the history of the site through pixel gardens around which a sustainable community settles. The concept disregards the misconception of mental care having been pushed away from the center; instead, it invites this community to create a whole by doing. By respecting the original function, the design intends to break the concept of an institution; it rather embraces the idea of creating a home for people with intellectual disabilities, where individual care is taken among togetherness. They come together around pixel gardens, help each other and glorify their past.

Heritage & Architecture Msc1 Design Studio 2020 Fall Semester

Annette Marx Paul Hermans

The linden trees in front of Bosduif represent the oldest existence on the site. The presence of the surrounding green also has been one of the characteristics of the site that used to be known as Jews’ Heaven. Enriching the roots of the site with the concept of pixel gardens also touches upon the prominent approach that the Apeldoornsche Bosch once displayed: occupational therapy. The act of pixelating creates a garden typology that engages the users with occupational therapy on an individual level as well as a collective level. With each pixel, they interact with each other and with the traces of the Jews’ Heaven while saluting their past.

Autism CP. Cerebral Palsy

While focusing on the historical and cultural values of Bosduif, the project also prioritizes the user’s needs. It investigates four possible intellectual disabilities as case studies and acknowledges the common needs that form the spatial quality of the intervention. The second type of users, the caretakers, should be able to observe the patients constantly, which enables them to intervene when there is an emergency. To create a harmonious community, the caretakers and the residents should be inseparable provided that the privacy of the caretakers is not disturbed. Thus, with a subtle intervention, the architectural response places the caretakers at the intersection points to preserve their privacy and to avoid possible segregation between user types.

private life cluster

landmark

orientation

interaction point

stimulation

colour preference

colours

barrier free CP clear space CP, D spaciousness

CP

contrast

larger corridors

pause niches

boundary A, D freedom D

Dementia

Down Syndrome

care taker

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

communal kitchen

image above north facade

LEARNING FROM MODERNISM

Skopje, Macedonia

Middle East Technical University

401-402 Graduation Studio

Design V&VI

-2019 Instructors

Ayşen

Arzu Gönenç Sorguç Onat

Emre

Sezin

For centuries, Skopje -the city divided into two by the Vardar River- has been hosting many differences and conflicts in many aspects: nature, ethnicity, language, economics, architecture, politics, etc. All these diverse elements that Skopje has are still connected to the same ground physically and metaphorically, which means they lead to division without complete separation like cracks. Skopje needs a new crack that may physically separate but functionally unifies the people. Considering the natural elements in Skopje –Vardar River and Matka Canyongreen and water have always been able to gather people while they separate physically, which is why they are capable of meeting this ideal crack function. To do so, water should be leaked into the city, so that green can also be created with the existence of water. This can be achieved by a canal structure that is spreading all over the city. Learning from the legacy of the city, which is full of ‘modernism’ thanks to Kenzo Tange, and learning from the rules of the city itself help to code and recreate Skopje.

Skopje has undergone many transitions throughout its history that resulted in numerous physical, social, cultural, and natural separations. The research collects these under the theme of crack and undertakes the understanding of the extent of Skopje’s cracks on different scales.

Having studied the existing cracks, the project proposes a new masterplan for Skopje, which introduces a new type of crack inspired by the natural divider of the city: the Vardar River. The water leaks into the city, which provokes the proliferation of new existences like green, and new types of interaction. This new crack

the intervention, a

the architecture

megastructure,

the potential spatial characteristics of this new infrastructure.

Mepso

from modernism

educational production | educational production cultural production | educational production educationa production | dwelling cultural production | dwelling

The canal study follows a sustainable approach that realizes the spatial quality that the canal structure itself and its mould offer. It addresses many tangible and intangible relationships that provoke various social, architectural, and urban encounters on the site. The canal formation responds to the morphological needs of different functions that exist on the site to stimulate more interaction between them.

functional relationships | canal formation

of the

canal opera existing open exhibition hall auditorium urban pool living units elementary school library existing

green mould

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Architectural Design IV Spring Semester 2018 Instructors

Anett-Maud Joppien

Benjamin Trautmann

Emanuel Gineßen

Jan Dechow

Sebastian Schuster

INTO THE NATURE

Plansee, Austria

The Plansee, the second largest lake in Tyrol, offers a chance to be an attraction with the beautiful mountain peaks and waterfall surrounding it. To strengthen tourism and to create an inviting atmosphere for people to enjoy nature, mountains, and excellent quality of water, a mountain-lake hotel is aimed to be designed considering sustainability. Appreciating the values the Plansee offers, the design proposes settling at the intersection point of the woods and the lake to accommodate various spatial interactions with its surrounding. While offering different individual experiences to its guests with two particular sceneries, the design also intends to reinterpret the notion of a hotel as a more collective space where the level of privacy is also decided by the users. The architectural approach creates a typology that introduces two platforms for each unit, one of which grants their privacy while the other encourages people to socialize. The user- and environmentally-friendly project assures the minimum footprint by inserting a wooden grid structure elevated from the ground.

The design prioritizes adapting itself to nature and is respectfully inserted into the woods by creating a diagonal axis that connects the key components of the site. This diagonal configuration is strengthened by an axis that moves the guests from the land to nature. This axis, towards which more public parts of each room unit face, also creates a platform where people prefer to get socialized. It appears as a street along which various types of rooms with diverse levels of privacy and views are located. Although the rooms as the units of the wooden grid system aim to respond to different preferences, they follow the same logic of organization by providing one public platform towards the axis, and a more private one facing either of the natural values.

PRODUCED

PRODUCED

above cross section image below south elevation