Ersan ilktan
Architecture
Portfolio eilktan@pratt.edu ersanilktan@gmail.com
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Design 1 House 14 Artist-in-Residence
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Mediums 1 Bi-Directional Object
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History Theory 1 Paper Garage
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Pratt GAUD
ARCH 601 DESIGN I: MEDIA AND METHODS
Fall 2020
Individual Academic Work
Studio Instructor: Hart Marlow
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Establising Base for Transition
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Linear Elements oscillating between dense and sparse
Design 1 Addition to an existing colonial house
House 14 Artist-in-Residence This studio is focused on discussions around reuse, the relationship between old/new, programmatic requirements of an art space, and discourses around color, identity, experience. The site is located in Governors Island, New York where several historical colonial residential houses reside. The scheme is to convert one of those houses entitled House 14 to an artist-in-residence program supported by the community and public exhibition space that both functions inside and outside. My strategy was to define a tectonic ground strategy where the new
can integrate the interior and ground of the existing building. I am activating the lowest corner of the site to produce an entrance that gives the users a notion of entering underneath the house. This approach retains the original building’s historical references around ideas of the idealized roof and floor definitions as well as the iconic yellow siding.
Ground + Addition + Existing
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With several explorations of language, I produced this addition that references the Victorian era’s use of color and the yellow siding where linear elements oscillate between dense and sparse. Directional slits and cuts on the addition merge with each element of vertical and horizontal members. Art is exhibited on these installations and is emphasized on the dense and saturated foundation of the addition.
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NW Back View
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Activating the Corner Ground Stratedgy
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Structural Process F for Intervention with Ground Stratedgy Activating the Corner
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To construct this dichotomy between old and new but also produce moments of hybridity , the existing facade is preserved with a supporting structure. Then, the facade is lifted above to expose the seam of the ground and building. The walls are reinforced to stand on their own and an additional framework supports the building during the addition process.
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First Floor Plan A . Viewing B . Displays C . Fabrication D . Production E . Preparation J . Outdoor Exhibiton
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Section A / From Main Staircase
Pratt GAUD
ARCH 611 ARCHITECTURAL MEDIUMS I: MODELING AND DRAWING
Fall 2020
Individual Academic Work
Studio Instructor: Olivia Vien
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Mediums 1
Exploring the Experience of an Object through set Directions
Bi-Directional Object This Mediums studio is focused on exploring how the definition and experience of an object is produced. Through hybridizing photograpic documentation a study of hinge emphasizes the junction and angle of different architectural elements. This artifact is re-produced in the digital medium to work on physical material qualities.
Hybrid of Architectural elements of OMM and ARTER
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As each step introduces a new medium to represent the object, it brings with itself input and possibilites inherent in the medium. The paths and ways of producing these qualities are embeded and reformualized to live in a merged medium.
CNC Output of the Object
Experience of the object in two distinct viewpoints direct the definition of the same object to be reimagined. Cnc tool paths with varying scales of input transforms the object.
Application of color with the operation of project and wrap, produces locatized moments of relationships within elements that do not relate with a hinge. 6
The use of assembly is related with establishing a relation of junction and working with various directions. The white siding defines the edges of the object while the material blurs the boundary.
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Hybrid Physical Model
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Pratt GAUD
ARCH 651 HISTORY / THEORY I: CONNECTIVE HISTORIES
Fall 2020
Individual Academic Work
Instructors: Masha Panteleyeva , Clelia Pozzi
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History and Theory 1 Paper
Garage as a Space of Power Relations in Suburbia Many sources in the discourse indicate that Frank Lloyd Wrights’ design of houses in the so-called Prairiestyle restructured the creation of suburban communities. But, Erlanger and Ortega (contrasting many voices in the cannon that focus on other aspects of the PrairieStyle House projects) focused on the direct correlation of the garage space in Wrights’ projects and In terms of power structures, the space of garage within the early suburban communities utilized the use of the car. Therefore, the formation of spaces that are away from the city in the typology of a suburb was related to the car 9
and the space of the garage. People who could afford the car and were advertised as the “American dream” benefited while minorities were oppressed. The Federal Housing Authority in 1934 only gave mortgages to individuals that owned or had access to a car which excluded those who did not have a car. This Authority acted as a voice and privileged certain demographics in the society with the use of long-term mortgages.1 These mortgages given by both banks and government initiatives were benefiting homes with garages. This shifted the culture and promoted the practice of segregated communities
Because each Eichler design is discernible from each other, this in fact, grants the designer and the developer a form of passive control over the homeowner or residents. Thus creating a “mass-produced” culture and identity.
The book by O. Erlanger and L. Ortega (which was published by the MIT Press recently in 2018) titled Garage, offers a different narrative about the space of garage that enlarges the scholarly work on this matter previously not explored fully. Although the history of the “American Dream” of suburbia has many actors; the specific space of the garage and the voices that act on it provide us an alternative reading of social power relations. They mention that the generic garage space has strong ties to the developer, Eichler who actually produced these standardized, prefabricated and idealized suburban communities all over the United States.
The stakeholder position of the housewife setting up a garage sale explores their role in the economy of the community. Garage sales are a hybrid space where public and private meet. The American suburban “housewife”, although often considered a marginalized figure, gains some agency within the context of a traditional American garage sale. As a marginalized figure, the housewife position can be refocused to present the garage (through garage sales) as a space where monetary gains and commercial transactions are initiated by housewives. Studies of the society in 1970, especially the work of Martha Rosler emphasizes these interpersonal relationships stemming from or onto the garage space.
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FALL 2020 PRATT GAUD M. ARCH Year 1