ERSAN ILKTAN
Architecture
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ARCH 701
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ARCH 302
Debica Museum of Contemporary Art
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ARCH 301
Modes of Learning
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ARCH 202
House in Reference
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ARCH 201
Phoenix
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Mediums 2
Bifurcation
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Mediums 1
Bi-Directional Object
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History Theory 3 Paper
Ascendant Habitat
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AA Visiting School NY
Theatre of Parts 31-32
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ARCH 602
Playful Armor 33-34
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ARCH 601
Governors Island Artist in Residence
Altered Estates
ARCH 402
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Singapore GMC Addition
Architectures of Assemblages
Manuel DeLanda Gokhan Kodalak 41-42
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History Theory 2 Paper
Transformation of Social Assemblage of Istanbul by Transportation Routes
Organism’s Aggregation of Smaller Distributed Parts of Nature, Machines, Neurology and Built Environment
Sanford Kwinter Matthew Allen
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Architectural Encounters of Environmental Emergencies
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History Theory 1 Paper Masha Panteleyeva Clelia Pozzi
Stakeholder Position of the Housewife in reference to the Garage of an Eichler Home in the 1960s American Suburban Neighborhoods
Pratt GAUD ARCH 703 DESIGN 3 URBAN QUALITIES & MATERIALS
Fall 2021 Partnered Academic Work Studio Partner: Dani Abella Guerra Studio Instructors: Sulan KOLATAN Kerim EKEN
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Design 3
Residential Housing Tower in Farragut Housing Complex
Ascendant Habitat Ascendant Habitat explores the idea of a heightened connection to nature through sensory spirituality and a sense of materiality that goes beyond visuals, aiming to taunt the acoustical and tactile qualities of spiritual spaces.
Highlighting the concept of sensory — or material — spirituality, emphasis is placed on water as a healing element. Water takes a heavy presence in the program through the idea of water reuse and a groundwater remediation process. As part of these,
the water systems express themselves throughout the building, emphasizing its presence visually and acoustically.
As these systems come together, the articulation of the arched modular piece develops a sense of scale as we approach the structure, creating places that become denser and heavily articulated and moments where the curvature of the earthy module can be easily discerned. This allows the solid system to occasionally dissolve or become glazed while it interacts with the more ephemeral elements.
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WALL SECTION
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10" CMU BLOCK WALL
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2X8 BLOCKING
STONE PAVERS ON ADJUSTABLE PEDESTALS
PLANTER
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GLAZED DOUBLE SWING DOOR REF. DOOR SCHEDULE
PLANTER DRAINAGE
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STONE PANELS
TERRACE DRAINGE
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12'- 7"
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STONE PANEL ON PARAPET CAP
LEVEL 20
12'- 7"
C.I.P CONCRETE SLAB LEVEL 19
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Water Barrier
RIGID INSULATION
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LEVEL 18
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STONE PAVERS ON ADJUSTABLE PEDELTALS
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LEVEL 17
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LEVEL 13 Water Barrier
LEVEL 15
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GLAZED OPENING REF. GLAZING SCHEDULE
STONE VENEE
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ADJUSTABLE VENEER TIES LEVEL 12
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LEVEL 11
4" RIGID MINERAL WOOL INSULATION
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HUNG CEILING
4" MINERAL
LEVEL 10
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CONTINUOUS WATER BARRIER
LEVEL 12
STONE VENEER CROSS-BRACING
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SLAB THERMAL BREAK
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BOND BEAM
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GLAZED OPENING REF. GLAZING SCHEDULE
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SECTION DETAIL - TERRACE SCALE: 1 1/2" = 1' 0" LEVEL 3
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FLOOR FINISH OVER SOUND MAT
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LEVEL 1
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LEVEL 0
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GROUNDWATER POOLS
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5/8" GYP. ON 7/8" FURRING
DANIELA F ABELLA + ERSAN ILKTAN INSTRUCTOR: STEPHEN CHU FALL 2021 | M.ARCH | PRATT INSTITUTE GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
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GLAZED DOUBLE SWING DOOR REF. DOOR SCHEDULE
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STONE PAVERS ON ADJUSTABLE PEDESTALS
10" CMU BLOCK
STONE VENEER PANEL
WATER BARRIER MEMBRANE
C.I.P CONCRETE SLAB
5/8" GYPSUM BOARD ON FURRING ADJUSTABLE TIES
RAINWATER HARVESTING TERRACES
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TERRACE DRAINGE
LEVEL 21
4" MINERAL WOOL INSULATION
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LEVEL 19
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STONE PANEL CLADDING ON 7/8" METAL FURRING
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WATER BARRIER MEMBRANE
ADJUSTABLE TIES
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5/8" GYPSUM BOARD ON FURRING
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GLAZED OPENING REF. GLAZING SCHEDULE
STONE VENEER PANEL
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4" MINERAL WOOL INSULATION
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FLOOR FINISH OVER SOUND MAT
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10" CONCRETE MASONRY UNIT REBAR REINFORCMENT
C.I.P CONCRETE SLAB
BOND BEAM
PLANTER DRAINAGE
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TWO-PIECE ADJUSTABLE VENEER TIE HUNG STONE CLADDING
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GLAZED OPENING REF. GLAZING SCHEDULE FLOOR FINISH OVER SOUND MAT
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STONE PANEL ON PARAPET CAP GROUNDWATER POOLS
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10" CMU BLOCK WALL
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PLAN DETAIL - TERRACE PARAPET UNDER PLANTERS SCALE: 1 1/2" = 1' 0"
5/8" GYP. ON 7/8" FURRING GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION
2X8 BLOCKING
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PLANTER DRAINAGE
4" MINERAL WOOL INSULATION
STONE PANELS
BUILDING SECTION
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WATER BARRIER MEMBRANE
5/8" GYP. ON 7/8" MTL. FURRING
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CONDITIONED SPACE
C.I.P CONCRETE SLAB
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RIGID INSULATION
ELEVATION SCALE: 1/2" = 1' 0"
OUTDOOR SPACE
STONE PAVERS ON ADJUSTABLE PEDELTALS
REBAR REINFORCEMENT
10" CONCRETE MASONRY UNIT
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STONE CLADDING ON 7/8" FURRING STRIPS
PLANTERS - REF. PLAN DETAIL BELOW
4" MINERAL WOOL INSULATION 5/8" GYP. ON 7/8" MTL. FURRING
WATER BARRIER MEMBRANE
STONE PAVERS ON ADJUSTABLE STANDS
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10" CONCRETE MASONRY UNIT STONE CLADDING ON 7/8" FURRING STRIPS
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STONE PAVERS ON ADJUSTABLE STANDS
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A-02 MATERIALS AND ASSEMBLIES
DANIELA ABELLA + ERSAN ILKTAN INSTRUCTOR: STEPHEN CHU FALL 2021 | M.ARCH | PRATT INSTITUTE
PLAN DETAIL - EXTERIOR WALL TO TERRACE
SCALE: 1/2" = 1' 0"
Architectural Association SoA + Pratt Institute SoA Urban regeneration & Reexamining Urban Assemblages Summer 2021 Partnered Academic Work Partners: Noah Rosenberg , Jasmine Chung Instructors: Andrew R. Haas, Marvin Bratke, Ramon Weber, Paul Clemens Bart, Angela Huang
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AA Visiting School New York
Designing an Assemblage for the NYC Waterfront
Theater of Kit of Parts During this two week intensive class, we designed a kit of parts of “assemblage“ discrete parthood architecture that responds to the needs of the context. The script changes as the proximity to the water gradually shifts. The speculation of the relationship of highway to waterfront is designed so that the parts assemble with the according to the rules that the community sets. The rising sea levels and changing programmatic requirements are identified with a conceptual design for a UI interface.
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New York Waterfront as a “different” approach presents FDR (east side) as a hybrid condition between automotive transit and pedestrian occupation. Potential within these spaces for amplifying this hybridity - what does the highway system currently represent sectionally? How can one manipulate this condition to create something new? We decided on an articulation which addresses or presents a challenge in the context of discrete architecture & assemblage theory.
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DATA COLLECTION UNITS AND COASTAL RESILIENT AGGREGATIONS
GARDENING AND VERTICAL FARMING ZONE WITH PHYTOREMEDIATION
RECREATIONAL // SOCIAL GATHERING POCKET ZONES
CROWD-SOURCED SKATEBOARDING, BASKETBALL AND KAYAK LAUNCHES 2
Pratt GAUD
ARCH 602 DESIGN 2: INTERIORITY AND CONTEXTS Spring 2021 Individual Academic Work Studio Instructor: Maria Sieira
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Design 2
Designing a School through Interiority and Context
Sunset Park Middle School Designing this Middle school in the heart of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn provides us opportunities to explore topics of interiority, context, school program, and most importantly how the students using the school as a primary stakeholder project their own experiences and memories on to these learning environments. Physical Models of this space to speculate on the integrated relationship of spaces. The use of balconies serves visual continuity purposes. 1
The entrance is branching from the side of the building overlooking the 8th street so that It will be easier for neighborhood communities engagement with the school. A sense of gradually discovering experiences is what I aımed to create. The entrance level exhibits a vertical lobby space that connects spaces throughout the building and also the community outreach space that is located on the upper left side of the plan.
Second Floor Plan
Chipboard Physical Models
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Morning Socializing
Cafeteria Visual Continuity
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Teacher Student Interraction
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This 3d speculation is also supported by 2d medium. The design tool of large slit walls that separate program elements while also combining them with their contrasting separation becomes evident. This approach also connects with the projection techniques that produce my spaces.
Main Lobby Chunk Interiority of an Interior
All of these explorations have the potentials in them to determine the spaces that I create. The use of projections and intersections create sectional interest for the student to when they are circulating throughout the school. Here you can see how one of these spaces is articulated as a connector space.
Library Study Room
Special Classroom Vertical Lobby Circulation Space
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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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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
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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.
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
Corner Activation
Activating the Corner Ground Stratedgy
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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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Section A / From Main Staircase
Pratt GAUD ARCH 648D & B Altered Estates Summer 2021 Partnered Academic Work Studio Partner: Nicolas Schlegel Studio Instructor: David Erdman, Hart Marlow
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Speculations on Model Behavior & Fieldwork Addition to existing historial urban Singapore
Golden Mile Complex
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To emphasise on a possible programmatic arrangement, we developed a hybridized facade, a chimera of existing residential projects. The idea is, by mirroring the geometry of the alteration, gradually bring transparency inside the space object, defined as the yellow elements. This idea projects itself from the roof as a secondary intervention, into the hinge of the building. We introduce our triptych with the medium shot first, then the close and finally the far away purposely. The placement intentionally breaks the composition and engages the subject into the
center while engaging the distant image in the whole narrative. The placement of the close up view with its perspective intentionally breaks up the triptych in the middle and engages the far view with the whole narrative. The medium image is composed so that the perspectival experience of the space object is very intense. Our addition with its changing angle further creates this concavity that is produced in this space object. The color itinerary further develops our experience of this intense pressurization.
The addition to the building is designed to create a concave relationship with the road
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TEDU ARCH Spring 2020 Individual Academic Work Studio Instructor: Berin Gur / Duygu Tuntas / Heves Beseli / Evren Basbug / Aylin Alicanoglu
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ARCH 402
Architectures of Assemblages
Environmental & Urban Urgencies in Izmit The site of Izmit features a coast that is a place where the coastline is changing constantly. The waterfront of Izmit Korfezi accommodates various functions including industry, transportation, commercial, and residential. The Earth’s climate has changed several times and these changes were caused by natural factors. However today we are facing climate change which is considered to be anthropogenic. There are significant and abrupt changes occurring in the behavioral patterns of
the earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and landscapes caused by the increasing ecological footprint of individuals, buildings, cities, and industries. Changing the natural contour and geometry of the coastline, the infill areas on the coast can be considered as manmade interventions to the original coastline. Humankind’s ecological effects are transforming the Earth’s environment, making it difficult to predict and control the outcome of natural events.
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ARCH 401 Academic Individual & Partial Group Work
1st Phase Group Partners: Eylül Tombakoglu / Ece Irem Sakallı / Yasar Alp Ozturk
Eco_x
Advisors: Berin Gur / Duygu Tuntas / Heves Beseli / Evren Basbug / Aylin Alicanoglu (berin.gur@tedu.edu.tr)
Architectural Encounters of Environmental Emergencies
Environmental change and emergencies asks for previously unrecalled and designed problems to be rethought. New ways of representation of the natural and seismic landform and morphology should be analized in order to grasp the overall aspect of Climate Change which is that it is shifting through scales, places, time. The term “Hyperobject” coming from Timothy Mortons analogy is used in our understanding of the overall forces that shape the earth formation and emergencies.
We read the context of the site in communicating scales and produced this two-sided speculative study model to understand the underlysing site forces. The later stages consists of a designed program1 is also a group work; and the 2nd Phase of the Project that is an architectural solution to react to the climatic emergencies in the site, is an academic individual work. This is an on-going project right now.
Speculative study model of the site
Multiple sided, multiple scaled model
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Climate Change as Hyperobject
existing site with vegetation and urban fabric
experience of the consistencies of landform
experience of the Kiraz Stream
bounded-unbounded
artificial-natural landform
water-rise
larger scale morphological experience
larger scale water-rise
System Fragment Design Library
pre-disaster
Site Plan 1/1000
The system that I designed composed of fragments that vary in different programs that have varying relations with water rise. While the Agriculture elements rise as the sea surface rises, the recreation program embraces the water rise with its voidal composition. The Laboratory is situated where the changing context is the most stable and this program is massive. The use of parts is selected in order to respond to the hypercoastline concept and somewhat designing the relationships between the elements; “discrete architecture”
recreation + communal assembly + agriculture
observation + recreation +communal assembly
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observation + recreation + communal assembly
recreation + communal assembly agriculture + communal assembly +recreation
laboratory + obseraton + recreation
recreation + agriculture
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laboratory + observation +recreation
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SPRING 2019 ARCH 302 Academic Individual & Partial Group Work Erasmus+ Poland / Krakow 1st Phase Group Partner: Yagmur Bektas
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Advisor: Piotr Gajewski
(one@piotrgajewski.pl)
DMoCA
Debica Museum of Contemporary Art & Urban Scale Revitalization
The main aim of the project is to introduce a much needed urban center for Commercial, Cultural, Iconic, Transportation, Governmental, and Residential activities. It consisted of two phases. The first phase is the Urban Transformation of a new neighborhood which was a collaboration with Yagmur Bektas; the second phase is designing a pulic building inside this urban plan such as a museum, which I designed by myself. The first approach was to locate the Debica Main Train Station, Debica Cultural Center, Debica Museum of Contemporary Art and an Office building that housed companies related to the newly reviving industrial activities of the city. The Mayor of Debica’s main aim was to transform Debica into an iconic thriving city that feeds from the reintroduction of the industrial economy from an old town with a bright past status which is very common throughout Europe in the 21st Century. This Revival may also reflect the transformation of Poland as a Global contributor to the European Union in the last century.
I have later progressed with the museum complex that become the core of the project. While there is a fluid transition between floors using the inner circulation core and the exterior plasa staircase, the repeating elements provide structure for the space to be suitable for a museum. The south facing facade of the museum is solid avoiding harsh direct sunlight in the space and the repeating linear elements are tools for controlling padestrian circulation.
Urban Plan designed with Yagmur Bektas and indication of the DMoCA hat I designed myself
Sculpture that I designed for the Plasa in front of the DMoCA
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Elevation Drawings
Main Entrance of DMoCA
FALL 2018
ARCH 301
Academic Group Work
Advisors: Bilge Imamoglu / Ziya Imren / Onur Ozkoc / Can Aker / Cagrım Kocer
Group Partners: Ecem Olgun / Ilay Aydın / Ekin Baskentli
(bilge.imamoglu@tedu.edu.tr)
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Modes of Learning
An education complex catalyzing information exchange
For my Arch301 project, we established an architecture office consisting of 4 people in which we collaborated and communicated intensively to design a learning complex consisting of a School, Dormitory, Community Library, Performance Center, Sports Complex, Accomodation for staff and a Daycare. Our main approach was to transform this historic and very steep site into an organisation where the relationship with the topography and how the different programs integrate with eachother to produce varying levels of community engagement and privacy. There are functional and flexible spaces of learning that promote spontaniety and movement through the use of spatial voids that create transitional program elements.
Section Cut Drawing of Elementary, Dormitory, Guest house
performance center
library
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prep school
dormitory
staff &guest house
Section Cut Drawing of Restaurant, Library, Pool and Learning Center
Site Plan
Threshold of Enclosure
FALL 2017
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ARCH 201
Individual Academic Work
Advisors: Derin Inan / Seray Turkay / Onur Yuncu / Melis Acar
Phoenix
Gradually experiencing enclosure A transitional area that has a changing linear level of definition that starts with the most commonly open and ends with the most isolated and defined. In this way, I can have both cases of extremes and a transition between them. To first start my journey, I produced possible paths that visitors can take towards the end. These paths were later simplified and abstracted to three paths as the definition level increased. These three paths are the one coming from the mountainside which the most of the people visit, the one coming from the
smaller hill and the one that is collected from the middle of them. They react to the topography and collide in some areas which are also taken reference from the topographic lines. They do not have a physical connection when they meet but have their character effected and fragmented. As they collide and split each time their elements become fractured and become more complex. Because I am increasing the level of the enclosure also, this fragmentation allowed me to produce more intricate and high level of complexity in the final stages.
Site Plan
In the final stage, the three paths are destined to meet in reaction to the barrier which stimulates the higher level which also allows me to make people overcome the obstacle of the barrier. At the end, the enclosure level is so high that the only light source is the path Therefore through the experience, the visitor is encouraged to follow to the end by following the light path. But there are always exits and other possible breakpoints that give the freedom to go away from one path and enter to another.
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ARCH 202
Individual Academic Work
Advisors: Derin Inan / Seray Turkay / Onur Yuncu / Melis Acar
(derin.inan@tedu.edu.tr)
Housing a Reference
Designing a single house on a hill with a view, humid & hot climate and a lake while referencing
The Project is focused towards housing a reference which is mainly the stratedgy of producing spaces in the Ktima House which is located on a very hot and humid climate in Greece. Housing a reference can be thought similar to a literature reference in an essay. Thoughout the process; the analysis, merging of references, qouting, an introduction of the topographical formation, introduction of the lake and the desert climate came consequently while also transforming the overall understanding of the references that are being housed. The folding plane allowed for intermediary spaces to occur between served spaces. In order to reference Ktima House designed by Camilo Rebelo and Suzana Martins, I anaysed the house and designed this project where the program, the site information and the climate is fixed by our instructors. There are two bedroom units are on each side and shared functions are located at the center.
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Sketch of Design Intent
Entrance Level Plan
Pratt GAUD
ARCH 612 MEDIUMS 2: ADVANCED MODELING & DRAWING Spring 2021 Individual Academic Work Studio Instructor: Joseph Giampietro
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Mediums 2
Exploring a Spatial Experience of Transition
Bifurcation
the division of something into two branches or parts My scheme would utilize Matte/Gloss duality to convey spatial differentiation between the faces of elements, consequently producing sequences. Rough/ Smooth comes into play in relation to the reflectiveness of the surfaces.
The Bifurcation operates between these dualities where it is combined, it is smooth but as it goes away from the center of bifurcation they become rougher. My massing is divergent from one large scale space to a smaller scale space.
Application of color with the operation of project and wrap, produces locatized moments of relationships within elements that do not relate with a hinge.
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.
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
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.
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.
CNC Output of the Object
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.
Pratt GAUD
ARCH753 HISTORY THEORY 3: MATERIALITY & CITIES Fall 2021 Individual Academic Paper Instructors: Manuel DeLanda & Gokhan Kodalak
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History and Theory 3 Paper Transformation of Social Assemblage of Istanbul by Transportation Routes Railways that catalyze change To say that a social assemblage of a city is transformed by the effects of labor power of machines tied to infrastructure, specifically, railways in the cultural urban hub Istanbul from the 1870s to the 1880s; we need to start with why that change occurred. The Ottoman Empire went through drastic changes throughout its history and Istanbul always played a large role. The purpose of this paper is to first understand the city of Istanbul as an urban network then, how the city generates a social assemblage that is
transformed by the transportation network of railways. Before the introduction of the railways to Istanbul, approaching the city for a European was through the waterway transportation networks. Approaching from the sea was a momentous and sequential experience. When the railway system was introduced, the conception of space and time became highly altered. As Tozoglu explains, now the travelers are passing through the outskirts of the city, a gradual transition, and transformation of
a vibrant historical city center as opposed to approaching from far away from the Marmara Sea. This effort of the railway was a drastic addition to the transportation routes of Istanbul completed during the period 1870s and 1880s.2 Why do railways make such a big difference to this specific city? How does a subjective experience of a traveler contribute to constructing the emergent social assemblage? It is because Istanbul, as a very specific cultural node, has a strong identifiable character defined by the environment and the geographical tolerances it gives.
The social assemblage of Istanbul is transformed by its urban transportation infrastructure catalyzed by the advances in increased labor power of machines during the periods; the 1870s to 1880s. Machines have the power to carry out repeated tasks that generate immense amounts of productivity for society. Our relationship with machines is continuously referring to each other. But there are other reasons why Istanbul was transformed by this new machine power: availability of land. The giant fires that continuously happened during this period paved the way for drastic changes in Istanbul’s character throughout history.⁵
While an individual is crucial from the subjective experience determined by the qualities of the overall system of the urban network, the emergent behavior occurs with the collective sometimes smaller scale, sometimes larger scale - relationships among these individuals. Therefore, we should understand Istanbul, a specific city at the intersection of vast variables acting upon it in intermediate-scales at all times, as an urban network defined by the assemblage of its parts. How this field of endless actors flows along and produces these nodes where individual identities are constructed is related to the infrastructure of movement- specifically, the introduction of railways to Istanbul during the period 1870s to 1880s. The Infrastructure of the city is both physical as transportation routes and as symbolic or informative as the social and cultural assemblage.
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ARCH 652 HISTORY THEORY 2: KNOWLEDGE, DESIGN & CONTEXTS Spring 2021 Individual Academic Paper Instructors: Sanford Kwinter & Matthew Allen
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Organism’s Aggregation of Smaller Distributed Parts of Nature, Machines, Neurology and Built Environment Earth as a closed feedback loop that has multiple agents ehaving in sometimes cognisant sometimes unrecognizable ways generate one thing: Vivisystems produce complicated systems. The notion of control and autonomy of thought structures and behaviours are widely thought of as in the hands of the human species. But, our relationship with our environment is that we are one and the same. Our cognitive biology is influenced by the nvironment conditions stemming from a hypercomplex system of relationships.
These interrelationships facilitate behavioural patterns that emerge out of positive and negative feedback loops. Evolutionary biology and nature is composed of such patterns that biology always wins.1 Even a drastic change in the system will produce consequences that may seem counterintuitive or a crucial error in the system. But with the sequential relationships between parts that communicate through scale and time, organisms and thought structures that thrive on that very change will emerge.
These interrelationships facilitate behavioural patterns that emerge out of positive and negative feedback loops. Evolutionary biology and nature is composed of such patterns that biology always wins.1 Even a drastic change in the system will produce consequences that may seem counterintuitive or a crucial error in the system. But with the sequential relationships between parts that communicate through scale and time, organisms and thought structures that thrive on that very change will emerge.
Consistent fantasy is reality. The personalized experiences that are being generated by the complex system that convey individualized information to the parts that create their own closed feedback loops are sub fragmented parts. Every user in this international network of information exchange is experiencing unique fragments if there is a generative evolutionary algorithm involved in the system. This argument is supported by information by Kelly in Out of Control. Nature always evolves. When a drastic change or shift in environmental conditions occurs, evolution and the system will generate organisms that thrive on that new environmental condition. Any system that is complex enough will harbor parasites that rely on the characteristics of the system.
I will first explore the connection between the ultimate environment - the complex system that occiliate through change- and the origin of our evolutionary journey that is seen through the lens of the system of rainforest biology in reference to Readers’s influential book Africa. Then, the argument of complex systems - our environment - behaviorally produces discretely individualized agent organisms where their interrelationships get intensified as the network of small, distributed parts behave in exponentially more hyperdense ways are engaged with the influential book, Out of Control by Kevin Kelly to understand the machines and the built environment as part of our ecology and biology in reference to Cognitive Architecture.
Pratt GAUD ARCH 651 HISTORY / THEORY I: CONNECTIVE HISTORIES Fall 2020 Individual Academic Paper Instructors: Masha Panteleyeva , Clelia Pozzi
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History and Theory 2 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
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.
Ersan ILKTAN Pratt Institute GAUD M. ARCH Year 2 TEDU ARCH B. ARCH
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