Student portfolio Eren Gazioglu Curriculum Vitae and Architecture Works 2013-2016
Contents Curriculum vitae
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Architectural projects
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Minor assignments
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Curriculum vitae Revisited version of the European CV format, with an “overview” text for a quick presentation of the student’s profile. Self-assessed language skills are based on the self assessment grid available on: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/ resources/european-language-levels-cefr
CURRICULUM VITAE Overview Born in 1994, I’ve got my high school education in a French-speaking high school in Istanbul. In 2013, I went on to study architecture in Italian in the Polytechnic University of Milan, and completed my studies in three years; along with an internship in a local office, work in a bookshop in the Triennale of Milan, and various other activities. I’m confident about my skills in graphic and
modelling programs (such as Illustrator, Autocad, Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Indesign), my language skills, and my knowledge in composition, complex design and construction in general. I’ve also been composing music since I was 13 years old, writing and translating articles, and practicing calligraphy, which have all been very important in shaping my architectural work.
Personal information Name
Eren GAZIOGLU
Birth date
21 / 11 / 1994
Nationality
Turkish
Address
Rua E. Coelho, Lisbon 1200-167, Portugal
Cell phone
(+351) 912-678-764
eren.g94@gmail.com
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Work experience (continued) Date
May 2016 - August 2016
Employer
02 Arch
Type of business
Architecture studio
Position held
Intern
Main activities and responsibilities
Active role in the design process, technical and representative drawings, catalogue design
Date
May 2015 - August 2015
Employer
Skira Editore spa
Type of business
Bookstore
Position held
Sales assistant
Main activities and responsibilities
Supporting the Bookshop of the Triennale of Milan in organizational and promotional perspective
Date
November 2014 - January 2015
Employer
Private
Type of business
Private courses
Position held
Part-time tutor
Main activities and responsibilities
Tutoring for modelling and illustration programs (Autocad, Illustrator, Sketchup pro), maths and descriptive geometry lessons
Education Date
2013 - 2016
Organization
Politecnico di Milano
Skills covered
Architectural Sciences (in Italian)
Title of qualification
Laurea Triennale in Architecture (equivalent to BSC.)
Final assignment
Research thesis
Title
Architettura in Turchia. Behruz Çinici e il pluralismo
Date
September 2016
Main theme
A study of the architectural history of modern Turkey along with its political and economical background
Date
2008 - 2013
Organization
Lycée privé St. Joseph à Istanbul
Skills covered
Science-oriented high school education in French language
Title of qualification
Turkish high school diploma + French diploma equivalency
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Skills and competences Languages
Assessment
Reading
Listening
Writing
Speaking
Turkish (mother)
Self-assessed
Native
Native
Native
Native
Italian
Self-assessed
C2
C2
C2
C2
English
TOEFL
C2
C2
C2
C1
French
DELF
B2
B2
B2
B2
Portuguese
Self-assessed
B2
B1
B1
B1
Other interests
Computer skills AutoCAD
Expert
Rhinoceros
Expert
SketchUp
Advanced
Adobe Illustrator
Expert
Adobe Indesign
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Intermediate
Microsoft Office
Expert
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Any other discipline that can be defined under Spatial Design Editorial Design Architecture history Music, musical composition Calligraphy, lettering
Architectural projects Major design assignments developed over the course of one semester. Most design studios also covered various other assignments simultaneously, some of which are present in the “Minor assignments� section.
2015 - 16, 2nd Semester | Thematic Studio
Wireframe resilience Students:
Professors:
Matteo Gawlak, Eren Gazioglu, Cristiano Gerardi, Riccardo Gialloreto
Antonella Contin, Massimiliano Nastri, Ed Wall
Program overview In the thematic studio in the last year of Architectural Sciences a new and challenging problem was confronted: the rising sea levels and flooding in the Red Hook neighbourhood of New York City, USA. A project of urban scale that would deal with both the water menace and the neighbourhood’s internal issues was to be developed.
The studio was organized in two modules: one for the strategies and the masterplan, the other for structural detail design. For the end critic, along with various drawings, a manifesto (for the former) and a 1:1 scale model of a structural detail (for the latter) was requested.
Manifesto The project is concieved as a quick and resilient response to the primary dangers Red Hook will face in the near future: rising tides and flooding. With balanced concern both on this natural threat that will invade certain (predictable) grounds and on an urban reality in which the already unstable structure of a neglected suburban area in New York meets the potential of gentrification, three levels of intervention redesign the city: a protective green ecosystem that acts as a sponge, a scaffolding wireframe to make up
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for (and even gain surplus from) the losses, and a public shoreline that implements indispensable urban qualities. The utopian nature of this concept that creates virgin lands is made achievable, following the theorical principles of Yona Friedman and Constant Nieuwenhuys, the technological capacities of scaffolding architecture and an attentive approach that involves both public and private figures in design and actualization processes.
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Phasework strategy Through analyses a vision of the sea levels rising gradually was clear: the city had to deal with a threat which would swallow the neighbourhood over time. By consequence, our strategy consisted of a carefully timed series of operations that would involve various actors. City shape The design follows the geometry of the existing grid, retreating the rigid body of the city to a certain level to redefine a new border with the water. The main parameter that decides how far from the previous position the new boundary will be is related to the issue of rising sea levels: the more sloping the land is, the less water may advance in case of flood. The form of the new
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shoreline that frames the consolidated urban area is obtained from the analysis of rising sea levels. Resilience The strategy is established in such a way that firstly, a green ecosystem that works like a sponge to protect what is behind is created in immediate contact with the sea, with an opportune timeline set to allow a continuous and resilient development of the new layers to come, keeping away the aggressive waves that would generate an unhealthy design. Wireframe Where topographical analyses indicate larger areas of possible flooding, over the defensive shoreline, the urban fabric is reformed on
elevated structures, following the scaffolding principle, therefore flexible and lightweight. Box-like elements are placed inside and atop to create the functional spaces. This also allows continuous adaptation as issues develop: a resilient wireframe disposed in bays. Public belt On the other hand, where the rising sea has limited effect in plan, a waterfront is designed to bear various public functions. This creates a linear connection that faces the Hudson incorporating parks, piers and other recreational spaces.
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2015 - 16, 1st Semester | Design Studio 3
Spyglass in Zamora Student:
Professors:
Eren Gazioglu
Nina Bassoli, Franco Tagliabue, Andrès Mahdjoubian
Program overview The third (and last) design studio of Architectural Sciences aimed to give the capacity to handle requests of higher complexity. The theme to be developed was a public library, with 3 primary functions:
- archives (800 sqm) - reading spaces (800 sqm) - offices (150 sqm)
- multimedia (200 sqm) - workshop (250 sqm) - auditorium (400 sqm) - children’s room (200 sqm) - bookshop (200 sqm) - café (200 sqm)
It is located in Zamora, a city in Spain which is experiencing urban decay in its older neighbourhoods.
and 6 complementary functions:
Zamora (1) The city is highly characterized by row houses that enclose single lots and create internal courtyards. As they collapse, urban voids appear, just like the ones in the project area. (2) The intervention takes advantage of this situation, seizing the occasion to reinterpret the relation between buildings and public space. (3) The sloping nature of the lot towards the river Duero (which cuts through the city) allows to create a counterslope that rises with ease to capture a panoramic view, like a spyglass anchored between two stakes. The insertion of the ramp means an inversion of the existing urban texture: the buildings no longer occupy the borders of a lot; they now occupy the center, restoring the two sides of
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the project as public spaces.
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Distribution Under the ramp that divides the two functional blocks and distributes the entrances, the auditorium is placed, creating a fulcrum on the ground floor that connects with the vertical distribution of both blocks. The underground floor is used entirely for archivial and organizational purposes. The remaining need for other archivial and office spaces are scattered in the smaller
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block along with the cafĂŠ on the ground floor and reading spaces on every other. The secondary activities are placed in the larger block: zenithal lights illuminate the double-height multimedia library, by the entrance on the first floor is the workshop (and the relative exhibition space), the ground floor is more permeable for a diffuse entrance by the bookstore, and the
introverted form of the first floor hosts the children’s room. Both blocks have autonomous vertical distribution in order to reach the higher levels, but for the first two storeys they are connected. (4) (5) (6) (7)
ground floor first floor second floor third floor
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(9) Narrow streets with row houses on both sides are like tunnels with no ceilings in the city of Zamora. Everytime they encounter an open space, they offer formal contrast. (10) This means that the merging of the adjacent street with the project zone is a moment of decompression. Such feeling is accentuated even more with the presence of a foam-like isolation material of a vivid orange color. (11) The library reveals itself only after total immersion in the facing square. A ramp is
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then noticed, wedging itself between two relatively high blocks, conforming to the narrow street formation of the city. (12) The ascent creates an isolating aura: the more it is overcome, the more intense the
feeling of alienation becomes. (13) By the end of the ramp, the urban weave reemerges with all of its previous elements, this time with a carefully picked view of the natural panorama.
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2014 - 15, 2nd Semester | Construction Studio
Park residences Students:
Professors:
Benedetta Gatti, Eren Gazioglu, Pasqualino Grosso
Stefano Bellintani, Chiara Livraghi, Daniela Marinelli, Luigi Moretti
Program overview The main goal of the Construction Studio was to introduce the students to some of the more realistic challenges of the practice such as structural drawings and building laws. The project to be developed was the reevaluation of a vacant lot next to the Bovisa railway station of Milan through the establishment of residences and a market along with a public park. Following the
indications of the building laws in Italy, the project was supposed to consist of: Total area of land (TA): 19.000 sqm Public green area: 13.300 sqm (70% of SF) Total project area (TP): 5.700 sqm (30% of SF) Residences: 3.420 sqm (60% of TP) Public services: 2.280 sqm (40% of TP) Max. floor area: 3.800 sqm
Park While designing of the park, the first aim was to make the three main functions interact as much as possible, instead of disposing them in a tripartite manner: part of the park passes between the public service area (which is placed adjacent to the Bovisa train station) and the residences (which are in contact with the residential parts of the city). Another design decision is based on the likeliness of a path to be used: bordering
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areas that are unlikely to be traversed because of their nature are used to host botanical gardens or water bodies, while open spaces are treated in a manner that facilitates the free circulation of people. The curves of the park recall the history of the Bovisa neighborhood that hosted gasometers which are in circular form. One of the circumferences designed in the park is a playground for children.
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Distribution and form The actual form of the project derives from a simple scheme: two rectangular blocks that create an L shape and a gallery that follows their form. The two concrete blocks are lightly seperated in order to let the light structure pass in between them. The scheme is modified by the detachment of the gallery by 1.50m in order to ensure better privacy without compromising from the natural illumination on the northern side of the building.
given by the needs of interior spaces: the function isn’t simply inserted in a predefined mold, the depth of the building is generated by the function itself. The apartments and the gallery are two independent structures: the blocks are in reinforced concrete while the gallery is a lighter structure in steel. The gallery moves parallel to the building and the connection is assured with crystal bridges, placed on and carried by both structures.
The movement on the southern facade is
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2014 - 15, 1st Semester | Design Studio 2
Bim, bum, bam! Students:
Professors:
Camilla Galmozzi, Matteo Gawlak, Eren Gazioglu
Lorenzo Consalez, Lucia Krasovec, Andrea Starr Stabile
Program overview The second project studio of the Architecture Sciences bachelor programme was the first contact with an architectural composition that met multiple parameters and functions. In this specific course, the request was a school complex that would include a kindergarten, an elementary school and a
secondary school. It was also viewed as a gesture of urban requalification and it aimed to achieve continuity in diverse scales of architectural design, while respecting certain rigid requisites.
Approach After observations and analysis on the whole neighbourhood, needs of the zone have been defined (such as parking lots, playgrounds, recreational parks, meeting places). Starting from these, three “functional islands� have been disposed in an archipelago formation that makes for a good flow of people, while maintaining a protected space both inside
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each isle and in the square in between them. The latter was therefore seen as a buffer zone between public and private. Every function is distinguished with the colors on their pierced aluminium panels (the corridors are uncontaminated by color), that hide eventual windows and open up where necessary.
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Distribution Every block is created following the same formula, with a variation in dimensions and colors as suggested by their function: functional (therefore colored) blocks of organic and soft form are disposed freely in plan, and connected by a distributive (therefore white) corridor. Together they form what we called “islands” (kindergarten, elementary school, secondary school). In the case of the elementary and secondary
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schools, the corridors close in on themselves to create courtyards; in the kindergarten they meet in a central point for better control. While the “courtyard islands” have one service entry accessible by vehicles on the outer side and one main pedestrian entry on the inner side, for proper protection, the main entrance of the kindergarten is on the outer side (and accessible by vehicles).
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Green areas The functional islands (kindergarten, primary school, secondary school) each have green areas defined by three main categories that serve specific purposes and differ them from the public square. Dense green area Other than being an internal and more protected park compared to the square, it serves also as a screen between the school and the outside. Botanical garden Edible plants cultivated in this part of the island are adjacent to the cantina
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so that students would have immediate access to fresh ingredients, as other plants (i.e lavender) profume and generate a rinvigorating aura. These aspects are considerable qualities for the early education of a child. Courtyard Substantially, the definition of the others typologies was a consequence of the distinction of “didactic” and “extradidactic” areas, so the courtyard is a transition between these two.
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2013 - 14, 2st Semester | Design Studio 1
Forest Theater Students:
Professors:
Eren Gazioglu, Cristiano Gerardi, Riccardo Gialloreto
Enrico Maria Porro, Umberto Pozzi, Vanessa Vailati
Program overview The first project studio of the bachelor programme served both as the first hands-on experience on the design process and as a means to discover good referential projects to examine and interpret. A recreational
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project was to be developed at the mount San Giacomo in a province of Varese called Vergiate to requalify the abandoned ruins located on its top.
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References We have established certain themes that helped us confront our topic, and sought references from other architects that respond in an efficient way to these. Carlo Scarpa - Brion Cemetery, San Vito d’Altivole (1) This work has drawn our attention for the architect’s use of small openings and observation points that guide the point of view. This guidance isn’t based on perspective axes, it defines the beauty of organic disposition of the single elements.
Bryant Park, New York (2) The concept of freestanding seats in this park has inspired us for our project. Indeed, we’ve placed a particular type of wooden seats all over our area that invite people to pause and contemplate. High Line, New York (3) Just like this park in New York, our project works with a dismissed structure that was being taken over by nature, and instead of heavily remodelling it, it “overwrites” the preexisting form.
Project Our main goal was to create an interface for the visitors to be able to interact with the architecture in disuse. This was sought by interpreting the preexisting not as solids on their own but as cubic voids: these are then materialized with wood and connected to create stages. Therefore the main activity that connect the public with the landscape was a theater,
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and its service spaces are placed taking advantage of a terrace on the side. Because of its position relative to the landscape, it became a sort of viewpoint, and we inserted platforms on the lower levels of the panorama to invite people to reach and find a calm place where they can rest and contemplate.
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Minor assignments This section consists of minor works in support of the main projects of the studios, and other experiments, all in the search for ideal forms and solutions.
2015 - 16, 1st Semester | Design Studio 3
1 book, 100.000 books Student:
Professors:
Eren Gazioglu
Nina Bassoli, Franco Tagliabue, Andrès Mahdjoubian
Program overview For the integrative assignment of the third (and last) project studio, an abstract project was requested: a pavilion for a book collectionist, with an architectural composition that followed strict rules, such as: - the pavilion is based on a 10m x 10m square lot and it has to occupy all of it, - the initial volume is precisely 500 m3, - this volume has to be divided into two
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functions (250 m3 each): an archive for the disposition of 100.000 books (which translates in 30 linear meters of bookshelves) and a reading area for the consultation of only 1 book, - in the end, a single sculpting operation is necessary where you have to eliminate 10% of the total volume (this way the square base of the pavilion can be trenched as well)
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2014 - 15, 1st Semester | Design Studio 2
White refuge Student:
Professors:
Eren Gazioglu
Lorenzo Consalez, Andrea Starr Stabile
Program overview The assignment of the second project studio was very open to interpretation as it was a little project on an abstract and subjective theme: a refuge for ourselves as children. We were asked to think what kind of refuge we would’ve dreamed of as children and to
design it. It didn’t have to be realistic, any context was imaginable and it could push the limits on imagination: it was possible for the project to be immaterial, out of scale, or in an unhabitable context (such as the clouds or the space).
Program overview Childhood is a period in which we ask ourselves (consciously or not) about how the world functions. To confront the needs of my child self, I knew I had to begin with the “discovery” theme. With this as a main topic, it was necessary to search for other perspectives. I’ve established four key concepts from my childhood for my formal search:
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- contact with nature - hiding place
- exploration - observation
For me, context wasn’t about geographical location but about circumstances, so I’ve imagined a forestal setting, with many trees and steep hills, which reinforced the idea of a natural context. The material, on the other hand, had to be mineral and painted; it consisted of a homage to human intervention, a monument that evoked the artificiality of our little world.
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2015 - 16 | Workshop “Atmospheres�
Polimero Students:
Tutor:
Eren Gazioglu, Cristiano Gerardi
Lorenzo Consalez
Program overview The workshop was about designing an object / installation that would revitalize problematic points of the campus of the Polytechnic University of Milan. It had to offer a response to a specific problem and be limited in scope, clearly identifying the location in which they are set. Its character could be architectural/spatial and site-
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specific, or oriented toward the design of manufactures/objects which can be replicated in different parts of the campus. The project had be made out of some or all of the following materials: cement, iron, wood, dulver (solid surface).
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Manifesto Sitting is a dynamic experience. A single seat is an exploration of one among the infinite range of forms such experience can assume. People have sitten in countless ways, people were designed for sitting in various postures, and design responded with archetypal forms throughout the history. Bearing this in mind, we’ve decided to confront the problem of what a chair should look like. Gio Ponti knew. superleggera
Modular design The main reason for designing clean-cut, sharp, crystalline boundaries for Polimero has been the challenge to deal with multiple necessities through a single and repeatable process. Intuitive design that allows the Polimero “chair-display-table” to stack enhances its potentials even further: Vertically, the vivid geometry of the seats combines with the plain slab to create gabriela cavities that can be used as shelves and object displays; Horizontally, when the oblique end of one slab meets another, the result is a more “regular” shape with appropiate proportions for a better functionality.
On-site handling Other than being effortless to move, through convertible design the needs of transportation are minimal: the ordinary livio of a specific area can be equipment rearranged to host occasional events without the need of bringing in extra furniture. It can stack vertically and horizontally to occupy less space.
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Dimensions [mm] Format: A4 - 210 x 197 Content margins: 28 horizontal, 56 vertical Column width: 73.4
Fonts Source Sans Pro (open source) 10 pt, 105% horizontal scaling, 20 tracking Montserrat (open source) 24 pt, 103% horizontal scaling, 20 tracking
Color swatch White - 255/255/255 (#FFFFFF) Black - 0/0/0 (#000000) Gray - 120/120/120 (#787878) Orange - 255/120/0 (#FF7800)
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