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Experience Planning Team Member: AO-Päivät 2022 Newsletter Responsible: Tampere University-INTO- (August 2022- January 2023) Junior Architect: Iki Nokta Mimarlik (Ankara - January-June 2021) Erasmus+ Intern: Jasper Architects (Berlin - October-December 2019) Architectural Office Erasmus Voluntary Internship Volunteer Architect: Critical Concrete Summer School (Porto - August 2019) Intern: Gökhan Aksoy Architects (Ankara- July-August-September 2018) Architectural Office Internship Intern: Construction Site Internship at TUMAS (Ankara - July-August 2017) State Hydraulic Works Directorate New HQ Building Construction Site Internship
Awards: Teekkari-Hackathon: 1st Place Design Challenge: Neighborhood 2.0 by Sweco Group Members: Ezgi Samanci, Sebastian Mäkinen, Elena Sitrakova, Sila Kartal
Ezgi Samanci Ms. Architect Tampere | FINLAND +358 41 747 44 65 ezgi.samanci@outlook.com
Design Sprint Ratina Competition: 2nd place Group Members: Ezgi Samanci, Sebastian Mäkinen, Elena Sitrakova, Sila Kartal Poltinaho Vision Competition: Purchase Award Group Members: Sila Kartal, Elena Sitrakova
Education: -Tampere University Sustainable Architecture Masters Degree | 2021- 2023 -TED University Architecture Bachelors Degree | 2014 - 2019 -Second Field: Communication and Media Studies Skills: Revit: 3Ds Max: Corona|3DsMax Photoshop: Indesign:
AutoCAD: Sketchup: Lumion: Enscpace:
Contents master’s
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02 Re 14
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ArKoulu
bachelor’s
06 Ecolinna
Streetscape
K - House
competition
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07 MIO
House: In reference
08 Professional
01 Re 14 Thesis Project
The thesis focuses on causes of obsolescence and prevention strategies. While the causes of obsolescence is deely analyzed in the reseacrh, one example of a prevention strateties for a building to be demolished in late 2023 was demonstrated as design project. Selected case study, Aktia Building in Mannerheimintie 14 was decided to be demolished to be replaced by a building of same function. While the climate crisis and sustainability goals suggest us to refer to reuse as much as possible, the current practice still focuses on demolition rather than reuse. The design proposal for Aktia Building is only a demonstration showing how the building could have been renovated and reused, while minimizing the construction waste caused by demolition.
02 K House
Group Members: Ezgi Samanci | Sila Kartal
Sustainable housing increases its residents’ wellbeing and heals the sense of loneliness. Social infrastructure is a crucial element because relationships and bonds between residents allow them to stay happily in their current place. (Kömi, 2021, p.15) In the environmental aspect, sustainable housing is zero carbon housing that uses renewable energy sources and engages the principles of Passivhaus. Using local materials is also an important issue. In refurbishment, the leftover materials are also a for the environment. Refurbishment sustains the building’s already existing social, contextual, and cultural characteristics; besides, no new landscape areas are being used. (Drexler and Khouli, 2012, p.68)
1st floor plan
2nd floor plan
3rd floor plan
03 Streetscape
Tulli, in its current state, is quite closed to the surrounding, offering no attraction. Project “streetscape” aims to connect (or start a connection between) people in and out of the built environment. The sustainability vision of the project is based on people. To create a connection between users and non-users of the buildingand to increase connection with the surrounding, slabs are gradually retrieved. This creates room for visual connection both between users of the building on any of the floors with each other and people on the street, who are not the users of the building at the time. The first floor is planned to be open to the public; including a café and a large open area for usages such as summer market, job fair, or such activities. The second floor acts as a mezzanine floor, being the most demolished floor of the building. The third floor acts as a library, having both silent and loud (workshop) areas. The fourth and fifth floors are for student housing.
Kept area Demolished area
Site plan
1st Floor plan
Floor Demolition Diagram
04 ArKoulu
Group Members: Ezgi Samanci | Riina Hagren
During the analysis, Tampere City’s vision for 2040 inspired us for the concept of the building. Accrding to the vision, the school yard will be in an ecological link, which we wanted to benefit from. The design idea started with an enclosing form for the yard, for the kids to have a largest courtyard possible. The form further developed, in a way that classrooms are positioned in the south façade for sunlight, where accompanied by a corridor on the north of the classrooms. The angle is used to twist the building to have more façade in the south and have a separate courtyard that leads to the park. The library is central, between primary schools, which becomes an everyday element for the kids, rather then a separate function only used for studying.
05 Ecolinna
Group Members: Ezgi Samanci | Elena Sitrakova | Sila Kartal
Purchase Award
The project is aimed to serve all types of users, such as families, children, the elderly, students, local workforce. The commercial functions are distributed around the site to define an open square for residents and visitors from nearby areas and they create a neighborhood environment. The square can accommodate various activities and help to build resilient communities through public places. In the project site, existing allotments are kept without interventions to keep the soil as abundant as possible. Taking the reference from allotments, we designed a “green connection” dominating the southern part of the site. Also, the landscape has stormwater collection system. Commercial and residential functions are not separated by a clear distinction to turn the whole site into an open square for the area. With this intervention, we wanted to increase the sociability aspects of the area,provided with street life and a sense of neighborhood/community. Lastly, parking buildings are planned in a way that they could be used for other functions in the distant future when needed, such as commercial or residential.
Image by Elena Sitrakova
06 MIO
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Mediterranean Institute of Oceonagraphy, was planned within the site of Talya Hotel in Antalya. Talya Hotel has welcomed visitors for nearly 40 years, and now remeains idle. MIO’s aim was to build the Oceonagraphy, while demolishing only a limited area of Talya Hotel and injecting the program within new-coming buildings. The strategy of the building was based on the difference in the typology of the streets of old city and the new city. Disorganized streets in the old city increases the level of attraction and small scaled buildings maintain the relation between users and the sorrounding in a maximum level compared to the new city district. In the site, a balance between these situations were tried to be achieved, with the consideration of each program as an element of stripes.
07 House: In reference
The object of the course was to understand the concept of “taking a reference”. The design started with a reference from Wall House 2. The wall acts a connector and a separator. Like Esherick house, I separated spaces as served and service spaces. The wall is assigned to be the service space. Private spaces are arranged like in Azuma House’s. Using the facade as Ando did provide maximum level of privacy from the surrounding. Courtyard also acts like lightwell as in the case of M House. light and ventilation are provided through this step. For the public spaces, I used the idea of Fragmented House, in which the interior shapes the exterior. Finally, I referred Fragmented House’s site. The house was located in the corner of a street. The wall reacts not only to the house itself but it also reacts to the surrounding environment.
REFERENCES
IMPLEMENTATIONS
Wall House 2- John Hejduk
Esherick House - Louis Kahn
M House - SANAA
Azuma House - Tadao Ando
Fragmented House - AQSO Arqitectos
08 Professional works Portugal | 2019
Critical Concrete is an institution which aims to have an educational approach while rehabilitating social housing projects. Summer school in 2019 was a 3 weeks program, for the refurbisment of a house in Matosinhos, Porto. During the project, we initially planned the partial demolisment of the apartment in the first week, and started demolition within the first week. We planned the new electrical layout, plumbing system and insulation of the buiding. Later, We worked on the insulation on construction site. For the finishing, wall repairements, plastering and painting were completed by our team as well.
Photographs are taken by Critical Concrete | Porto 2019
ezgi samanci ezgi.samanci@outlook.com +358 41 7474465