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hello, My name is Foad Sarsangi. I have a Bachelors degree in Architecture from Istanbul Bilgi University. I believe the design process should be as playful as it is thoughtful and I am interested in the stories that emerge from spatial explorations. I look forward to making your acquaintance!
Curr i c ulum vitae sarsangifoad@gmail.com foad.sarsangi@bilgiedu.net Issuu.com/foadsarsangi
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Foad Sarsangi 1995 Tehran,Iran
Education 2002-2005
Sahrayicedit, Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Languages Starbanks Primary, Birmingham, United Kingdom
English Persian Turkish
2005-2012
Ghalam private school, Tehran, Iran
Skills AutoCad Rhinoceros 3D Sketchup
2012-2013
Medicine,Rajiv Ghandi School of Medicine, Bangalore, India
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe LIghtroom
2015-2019
Bachelor of Architecture, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey High Honors - First in Faculty First in Department
Revit Final Cut Pro Lumion
Professional experience 2013-2015
Photographer & Graphic designer @ Iranshahr Theatre, Tehran, Iran
2016
3D modeling & planning @ MANDRO geotechnical engineering office,Tehran, Iran
2016
Participant @ AA visiting school summer workshop, Istanbul, Turkey
2017
Participant @ NOPA , ETH Zürich summer workshop, Istanbul, Turkey
2018
Founder of BILGI ATELIER student club, based in Istanbul Bilgi university.
2018
Internship @ TECE Architecture, Istanbul, Turkey
2018
Co-founder of minusone studio
2018
Photographer @ AA visiting school summer workshop, Istanbul, Turkey
2019
Junior Architect @ TeCe Architecture, Istanbul, Turkey
2019
Teaching Assistant @ Architectural Association School of Architecture Visiting school
2019-Present
Project Supervisor/Architect @ Fibrobeton - Central Bank of Iraq by Zaha Hadid Architects
Istanbul
Competitions 2017
Participant @ “Koçtaş Açık Fikir” Competition
2018
Participant @ “Kamu Binaları tasarim fikir yarışması” Competition
2018
Participant @ “Çanakkale Seramik Bathroom Design” Competition
2018
Participant @ “48 Hours” student Competition
2018
Participant @ “Turkey Bicycle Federation Logo Design” Competition
2019
1st place @ Bilgi International Photo Competition
2020
Participant @ Theodosios Harbour Archeological Area Competition
2020
Shortlisted @ Kalebodur Archive Photography Competition
2020
Participant @ Bursa Atatürk Sports Center Competition
Selected Projects
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Atatürk Sports Center a project for Bursa
DEC 2020 “Bursa Atatürk Spor Salonu” national competition Collaboration with Banu Tomruk ,Baha Yurttaş Birtan Yılmaz
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Atatürk Sports Hall, since its opening in 1972, Hosted various sports competitions in Bursa, has enabled many athletes to be raised and is an important urban life feature. In the west of the area, Bursa Reşat Oyal Culture Park, one of the biggest parks, is located. Accordingly, the project settlement decisions aimed to create an urban vitality, social relations and sports pedestrian friendly spaces. Almost all of the pedestrian access points to the building are located in the southern part of the parcel where the Garden is located, The open space in front of the entrance facade of the building and the Millet Garden allows it to be perceived as a whole and used as the extension of the structure in an open space form . Throughout the main pedestrian path which leads to the building, many cırcular activity areas have been designed. These areas aimed on promoting sports activities and the integration of residents In these areas, seating designed with ecological principles units, playgrounds, half court basketball training units and instrumented exercise areas are designed. In line with the settlement decisions, from the southern border of the project area the main pedestrian entrance axis of the building is the same within the landscape continuity. The main entrance door and the south and west of the building. It reaches the terrace area that continues along the facade. Terrace areas are accessible to all citizens, not only to the users of the building, beyond being a viewing terrace, with its facilities, an urban foyer that allows use, encounter and interaction was fictionalized. Urban foyer, with perforated mesh panels hanging on the roof canopy provides semi-open shaded areas, cafe, bookstore with openable facade system on the south side, The internal-external relationship of the building with units such as a sports equipment store spatial transitions are supported.
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2) Seating Area
(3) Basketball court
Ping pong space
(6) Playground
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Istanbul Opera House
a project for Kadıköy
JUN 2019 Architectural Design VI Graduation Project
The Istanbul Opera House is a performing arts center located on the shore of Kadıköy, Istanbul. It overlooks the stunning Istanbul skyline, the Hagiasophia, Sultan Ahmet mosque and Haydarpaşa train station. Kadıköy has always been an important industrial and trading port in Istanbul. The Opera building intends to continue the industrial language of the port all the way upto the shore of Moda. The building also intends to create a bridge between the caotic city life and the peacefull life of the nature. Ahmet mosque and Haydarpaşa train station. Kadıköy has always been an important industrial and trading port in Istanbul. The Opera building intends to continue the industrial language of the port all the way upto the shore of Moda. The building also intends to create a bridge between the chaotic city life and the peacefull life of the nature.
Section Perspective
physical model
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history Silhouette
SHORE
park
building
BOTH?
q1. How is the shore perceived?
people
ships
animals
cars
actors
light
weather
sunlight urban light
play? background
shore
buildings
sea
street
q2. City as a performance?
TIME mobility
dynamism
changing according to usage
q3. A changing building?
KADIKÖY CULTURAL ROUTE
q4. Part of a bigger Complex?
buffer zone
bridge
silence
living
City
nature
serenity
sound
transportation
Continuity of spaces
q5. Is the building an Obstacle?
landscape urban culture
continuity of the park
water
IOH
capacious
industrial language
familiar yet different
q5. atmosphere? senses?
1- Back of House 2- Opera Hall 3- Open air Cinema 4- Cafe / Restaurant 5- Main Foyer 6- Hanging performance area 7- Water courtyard 8- Cafe / Restaurant 9- Black box foyer 10- Open air concert area
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Governer’s office building
a project for Kayseri
AUG 2018 “Kamu Binaları tasarim fikir yarışması” Competition Collaboration with Baha Yurttaş ,Birtan Yılmaz Bertuğ Vural
“Kayseri” is one of the most historically multi-cultured/multi-layered cities like many other “Anatolian” cities. It hosted the societies of Byzantines, Seljuks, Ottomans and lastly the Turks. Throughout time, each culture adds up on one another and creates the present-day urban life of “Kayseri”. The project area is located in “Cumhuriyet Square” which was always the core of the city for all of the aforementioned societies, therefore their structural traces still exists to this da in the square. The Governer’s Office Building area on “Cumhuriyet Square” is owned by the state and previously was not efficiently working with the urban life on both underground ( market place ) level and ground level in the city core. The projects main purpose is to reorganize the public space and non-public space and add up the layered cultural structure to the idea.
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Istanbul Bosphorus Museum
a project for Istinye
JAN 2019 Architectural Design V Collaboration with Jan 2017 Birtan Yılmaz Architectural Design III
Contrary to regular museums, Istanbul Bosphorus museum is not a building or a single space, IBM is a route which intends to create an experience built around the Bosphorus. The museum uses the city and the sea as elements of exhibition and tries to translate them into experiences for the visitors. The platform going through the trees and presenting information about them, the underground section of the Bosphorus illustrating a different view of the sea, the frames informing the visitors about the city and the Bosphorus cloud translating waves into a playfull matter are just some of the elements in this museum. The IBM booklet available on ISUU, intends to explain each of these elements in detail.
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1- Platform Start 2- The City as an Exhibition ( Frames ) 3- Section of the Bosphorus 4- Stairway to the Bosphorus 5- Furniture 6- TURMEPA Headquarters 7- Pier 8- Sea Bath 9- Bosphorus Cloud 10- IBM offices and Cafe 11- The Tower
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Gleditsia Triacanthos
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Liquidambar Styraciflua
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Liriodendron Tulipifera
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Robinia Pseudoacacia Parrotia Persica
Tilia Tomentosa
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Conservation & Restoration Center
a project for Balat
DEC 2018 Principles of Conservation and Restoration
Collaboration with Aylin Güler ,Birtan Yılmaz Semih Erbalcı
Because of the fact that it is located in " The Historical Peninsula, Istanbul'. "Balat holds a specific cultural identity. This identity causes the neighbourhood's street-oriented social life and the district. After the gentrification movement began to conquer the neighbourhood after mid-2010's, the historical identity that exists in Balat started to change and the cultural idenfiy started to alter as well. Balat Preservation & Restoration Center is a project that aims to protect the cultural assets of Balat. It preserves what the district holds most important and still tries to create an approach that belongs to the 21st century. The program consits of an exhibition area on the ground floor, an auditorium & workshop in the first floor, a library on the second and an office area on the third floor.
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The Capsule
a project for Kıyıköy
JAN 2016 Architectural Design II
The capsule is an accommodation unit designed to be placed on the shore of the Kazan river, Kiyikoy, Turkey. This unit holds up to two people and as its name reveals has the characteristics of capsule units commonly seen in Eastern architecture. the simplicity of this capsule gives it a convenient feature. A bath unit, a sleeping unit and the magnific ent view of the, river is all that c an be seen. The entrance is located on the t op so that anyone entering at first would not anticipate the change o f atmosphere they are the change of atmosphere they are about to encoun-ter. After going down the burnt Cherry stairs the individual slowly goes passed a dark and claustrophobic atmosphere into a space with a wide view of the nature. The bed component also looks up to a ceiling window for a sight of the night sky.
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Project Lightline
a new year lantern project
JAN 2015 Basic Design I
Collaboration with Aylin Güler ,Birtan Yılmaz İbrahim Şahan,Huseyin Yıldız
The project light line is the fallout of multiple systems and ideas bundled into the form of a lantern. This project is the conclusion of various intersecting grid systems forming a soft and rigid shape, despite the angular grids. The idea was lucid. Designing a lantern to reflect the spirit and joy of the new year. When we say lantern, the first thing that emerges in our mind is a form around a lightbulb with distinct colors and materials. This project has leaped into an unorthodox part of lantern designing creating a whole new level in this field.
Other Works
Urcembilitism NOV 2017 Production of space and the Urban condition
Collaboration with Selcen Fidan, Muhammet Ali Atmaca, Onurcan Oktay
Are cemeteries urban stables? Cemeteries being traced back to ancient times, are places where groups of the same ethnic are buried. These grounds ( Necropolis ) morphologically point out to cities and demand a order whithin thmselves. In the first steps of being built, cemeteries, which represent a different dimention of living were placed outside the cities and has almost been able to protect that feature. Being kept far from humans, cemeteries created a symbol of fright and horror especially in night times. Cities and the humans after going through many developments and adding many urban elements and changing definitions, the cemeteries have found new positions. Nowadays the cemeteries can be seen inside the city. What does this represent? How does having a surrounding affect it? And what does the communication between the cemetery and its surrounding define? These were the main questions that started this project. At first the contradiction between the answers we expected and the answers we got were a clear sign that a city is not predictable and has many changing factor. An important finding was that the sense of what we had about a cemetery was nothing like the result that we got. Cemeteries despite what is thought by people has a planning and is somewhat a city simulation whithin itself. In this exhibition elements of the city and the cemetery are shown to illustrate the similarity between the two. These elements are grouped by words that define that exact situation.
NonOrthogonal Planar Assemblies ETH Zurich JUN 2017
Tutors: Selen Ercan, Cemal Koray Bingöl, Gamze Gündüz, David Jenny, Luka Piskorec
NOPA was a 10 day workshop on robotıc fabrication held by ETH Zurich at İstanbul Bilgi University for graduate students and acceptance for undergraduate students were done by scholarship. The first stage of the workshop was an introduction to robotic fabrication with lectures by Selen Ercan, Orkun Kasap, Ralph Bartschi and Hannes Mayer. After the first stage, the designing started. The objective was to use pieces of wood in an orthogonal matter to create an unorthogonal structure. After deciding on the design the fabrication started. The team used the KUKA robot for cutting the wood and for assembling them. The code for the robot was written in Grasshopper. The result was a pavillion exhibited in the front yard of the faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Architectural Association School of Architecture Visiting School JUL 2016
Tutors: Elif Erdine, Cemal Koray Bingöl, Gamze Gündüz, Alexandros Kallegias, Efe Gözen
The workshop under the name of Tectonic Symbiosis was a workshop with the intention of investigating the design and fabrication of a self-standing structure through the integration of computational and robotic process’. The main aim was to focus on a combination of structural, morphological and contextual factors that the design would be able to respond to so to differentiate the material and geometrical organization. The final design was a self supporting structure made out of foam. The design was made of smaller units which were cut by the robot. The KUKA was a mechanical arm which had a hot wire cutter attached. The codes were written using the KUKA PRC plugin in Grasshopper.
Personal Photography Experience Since 2014
Publications Since 2015
I s t a n b u l B o s p h o r u s M u s u e m
I m p r o v i n g t h e p u b l i c r e a l m
JAN 2019 Istanbul Bosphorus Museum Handbook Collaboration with Birtan Yılmaz
JUN 2018 Improving the public realm Collaboration with Aylin Güler, Emre Çincaner
SEP 2017 Gündelik Hayat Çalışmaları Published book
NOV 2017 Architecture of Resistance Collaboration with Birtan Yılmaz
ISBN 978-605-399-490-9 Collaboration with Oğul Öztunç, Cansu Curgen, Avşar Gürpınar
JAN 2019 Urcembilitism comic book Collaboration with Selcen Fidan, Muhammet Ali Atmaca, Onurcan Oktay
AUG 2016-2019 Curves of IRAN Travel journal on Persian Architecture
JAN 2018 Cemetery Handbook Collaboration with Selcen Fidan, Muhammet Ali Atmaca, Onurcan Oktay
JAN 2018 Urcembilitism Handbook Collaboration with Selcen Fidan, Muhammet Ali Atmaca, Onurcan Oktay
Poster Design Production of Space & the Urban condition Film Series 2018
OCT 2018 Play Time
NOV 2018 Wild wild country
NOV 2018 Neighbouring sounds
DEC 2018 Ekümenopolis
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