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C O N T E N T S
CV inter-section | improving urban commons, regenerating Etiler Vocational School excavation | city museum VERTYadatepe | public building for a type of production the backyard and the public void | public pool Bornova EVKA 3 Social Center and Transfer Station upward | shelter in nature W O O D L E | urban furniture Detectives of the Daily Life | research OUT OF ORDER | video visualization
GİZEM ASICI
Architecture Student I İstanbul, Turkey
+905346137785 I gizemsuasici@gmail.com gizemasici.tumblr.com Acıbadem mah. Umut sok. No:10/3 Kadıköy /Istanbul/TR
Personal Informations
Date of birth: 23.01.1995 Place of birth: Eskisehir
education 2014 - ...
Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Architecure, Architecture Bachelor, w/Full Scholarship
2009 - 2014
Kadikoy Anatolian High School
2001 - 2009
Atakoy Emlak Kredi Bankası Primary School
English and German Language Education
experiences July 2017 - September 2017 February 2017
selected courses Intern Architect
SO? Architecture and Ideas
Assistant
Bornova Evka 3 Social Center and Transfer Station Architectural Project Competition
September 2016
Video Shooting and Editing
September 2016
Exhibition Installation Officer
Izmir Design Village I in collaboration with Atakan Gür IKSV 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul
June 2016 - July 2016
Construction Intern
June 2015 - July 2015
Promotion Officer
General Directorate of Highways, Istanbul Istanbul Bilgi University, Promotion days, Istanbul
2017-2018 Fall 2016-2017 Spring
Watercolor as a Medium of Visual Communication I Fulya Akipek
2016-2017 Spring
Architecture and Art Monographs I İhsan Bilgin
2016-2017 Fall 2015-2016 Spring 2015-2016 Fall
December 2017
Turkish
German
February 2017
Jury Special Prize
produced collabortively w/ Emrah Altinok and other participants of “Studies on Differential Space” workshop
June 2015
IX. National Symposium on Digital Design in Architecture Exhibition w/ the final project of 1st academic year | Woodle
workshops April 2017 December 2016
Participant I KMKM
Bademlik Design Festival, Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Participant I Studies on Differential Space
Differential Space Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
September 2016
Participant I Detectives of Daily Life
May 2016
Participant I Temporary Immigrant
May 2016
Participant I Animation Therapy
August 2015
Spanish
MimED 2017 Student Competition, 3rd Category w/ the final project of 3rd academic year | inter-section
“A Manifesto Experiment Against the Boulevard / Sideways the Boulevard” published in Arredamento Culture of Design Journal
CUP ‘Critical Urban Practice’ Workshops, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey Bademlik Design Festival, Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey “Açıkalan” Student Collective, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Participant I Wearable Technologies
Karya Academy - Design Foundation, Bodrum Design Village, Muğla, Turkey
Keywords of Modern Architecture I Tansel Korkmaz History of the Urban Image I Isıl Cokugras Urban Interiors I Can Altay
languages
English
achievements
Eastern Metropolises: Modernity, Architecture, Popular Culture | Uğur Tanyeli
skills Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects Rhino AutoCAD SketchUp MS Office
native language level C1 level B1 level A1
3rd Academic Year II Architectural Design Studio IV
i n t er - s ection improving urban commons | regenerting Etiler Vovational School Location I Etiler, Ä°stanbul, Turkey Tutor I Emre AltĂźrk, Can Tamirci
Jury Special Prize MimED 2017
Like many public schools with relatively large plots in the city center, Etiler Vocational School is under pressure. It potentially runs the risk of being relocated to a less central and less valuable land. Yet the school and its hotel is well suited to this site and the proposal is to improve and keep these functions, albeit in new buildings. Levent, one of the Istanbul’s most dense areas, is formed of dense residential zones. As well as the spaces between the housing zones are not well-connected with each other, they are lack of possibilities provide them to contribute to the city life. The density of structures is positioned on the periphery of the site so that the void can be transformed into open spaces that on different elevations and scale and have different characteristics that can serve the entire city. To question the extend of the boundary between private and public it has been considered that the hotel and the school should be equipped with the public functions, especially the ground floors, and that the open spaces, which should be a little more privatized, still participate in the project in relation to the area at different elevations.
EXISTING URBAN CONDITION typology, public transportation, commercial texture
The building trace on the periphery has a continuous track in the east side and ascends in front of the Koรง Bridge. While the structures separated from each other on the west side allow passages, they offer various niches and transitions with more dynamic articulations on the Nisbetiye side.
In order to maintain the continuity of the existing commercial axis, there are shops on the Nisbetiye Street side of the structures and cafes on the side facing the inside. This can be regarded as a starting point, and as the continuation of this beginning to the north, the program in the east and west provides a continuity that is social reinforcements.
While the layout at the start point is more intense as the program, user density, and structure, it begins to dissolve into the north by including the green texture.
4th Academic Year II Architectural Design Studio V
exca vation
city museum Location I Tepebası, Istanbul, Turkey Tutor I Kutay Karabağ, Nilüfer Kozikoğlu
City museum, as an answer to city and dwellers’ search for identity in the changing world Pera, place for encountering strangers in the process of encountering modernity superficial ground surface covering the indoor spaces where the border between up-down, in-out vansihes a space that is offered to the city a space where you can watch outdoor shows where to play enjoy time together where just watching daily life of the city or view of the city
2nd Academic Year | Architectural Design Studio II
V ERTYadatepe public building for a type of production Location I Adatepe Village, Çanakkale, Turkey Tutor I Elif Simge Fettahoğlu
Almost every inhabitant of Adatepe [locals and latecomers] has their own vegetable gardens. These gardens hide behind the stone walls. VERTYadatepe will make visible this production process in the most dynamic space [the square] of the village. Program is based on producing daily-needed organic products and selling them. It will be a collaborative platform for inhabitants and incomings. It is constructed as a gridal system that is both horizontal and vertical with light wooden structure and the stone masses positioned between these structures. The light wooden structres is also functioned as a displaying platform for daily life of the Adatepe.
workshops and main production area accomodation area
While square terrain is spread over a very large area, in everyday life it is only defined by a plane tree. VERTYadatepe predicts defining the square by larger area with the main structure which includes workshop, main production spaces and marketplace.
workshop
storage workshop
accomodation unit
The “Backyard” is the one of the two viods in the site that have the potential to be the backyard of the surrounding housing. It takes care of this situation and establishes haptic and optical relations with the pool.
3rd Academic Year | Architectural Design Studio III
the backyard and the public void public pool Location I Moda, Istanbul, Turkey Tutor I Banu Tomruk - Eylem Erdinc
The selected site is located in Moda, a waterfront district on the Anatolian side of the city. Moda has retained its residential urban character for years, due to its relatively secluded position within Kadıköy. Recently, the number of people from outside Moda who spend time in cafes, bars, restaurants, and parks of the neighborhood have dramatically increased, especially during the weekends. This poplarity resulted in the raise in the number of businesses, but not necessarily in the public amenities. On the contrary, increased pedestrian and vehicular traffic strained the infrastructure and made locals’ life harder. It became vital to offer public amenities that primarily target the locals.
The “Public void” emphasises the accessibility and flexibility of unused urban void. It provides free and total public void when it is in recommended festival layout.
One of the most important emphasises of the project is the availability of accesibility from steert and differential potentials. Two void defined by user and function variations between Moda Street and Hacı Izzet Street and the buffer zone strengthens the passage between them are the basis of the open-space relations. While, functions such as workshop, library and reading room, cafe located at ground floor feed “public void”, the pool is in both visual and physical relation with “backyard” and it revives the passage between the existing housing and the building.
When it is in marketplace and fair layout, intersecting paths provides circulation variety.
architectural program
section bb
southeast elevation
section aa
northeast elevation
Architectural Project Competition 2017
Bornova EVKA 3 Social Center and Transfer Station Location I Bornova, Izmir, Turkey in collaboration with Can Tamirci, Zeliha Ozturk, Seray Nergiz, Ozge Uzunyayla, Omer Faruk Onel, Fuat ArabacÄą, Huseyin Aslan
Visualization by Gizem Asıcı
Visualization by Gizem Asıcı
Visualization by Gizem Asıcı
2nd Academic Year | Architectural Design Studio I
u p w ard path and a shelter Location I Rumelifeneri, Istanbul, Turkey Tutors I Ceren BalkÄąr - Elif Kendir
The most distinctive characteristic feature of Rumelifeneri is being formed of high cliffs. How would it be to experience height from the bottom level? Upward is a path that emerges from the experience of high cliffs.It gets around at the foot of high cliffs and at the end it turns into the shelter. Through the path, there is a concrete wall that follows you and it tur e path you are in a relation with the cliffs both phisically and visually. Likely the path itself the shelter is also linear shaped. It has in height of 4.5 meters walls. Entrance of the shelter is indirect. Design of the shelter has a fiction which provides a space that makes you look at higher walls from inside the high walls.
1st Academic Year | Basic Design Studio II
WOODL E urban furniture Location I SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey Tutors I Şebnem Yalınay Çinici, Aslı Aydın, Caner Bilgin in collaboration with Zeliha Öztürk, Seray Nergiz, Özge Uzunyayla, Kaan Hiçyılmaz, Elif Aydınlı
Woodle is an urban furniture that available for multiple sitting positions. It designed considering human postures. The macroform, allows various possibilities of gathering. The sunshade decreases straight sunlight for either sitting or reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwTGZSueRJY&t=27s
We focused on how to bench could have been built with a structural balance while sunshade provides shade in anyway with its curve. Thus as a join method we used waflle desing technique. By editing waffle technique to be angled we provided a more comfortable sitting area.
3rd Academic Year | CUP Critical Urban Practice Workshops
Detectives of the Daily Life daily life of a street with handdrawing Location I Kurtuluş, Istanbul, Turkey Tutor I Oğul Öztunç
Detectives of the Daily Life is a site-specific workshop, a collaborative process of handdrawing, focusing on a street of a neighborhood in Istanbul. Detectives uses photographs as a tool to investigate something and they looks them more carefully. Drawing instead of taking photographs is a process in which you can observe instant changes.
Bademlik Design Festival ‘17
O U T O F O RDE R video visualization Location I Odunpazarı, Eskişehir, Turkey Tutor I Arzu İl, Melih Emre Acar, Hakan Keleş, Gökçe Önal ve Eşref Taner İlerde
The video, produced with the technique of multiple image placement on the architectural plan drawing, was created with the videos shot in a “ruinâ€? building that is abandoned during the urban transformation process in the Odunpazari region of EskiĹ&#x;ehir. According to Lefebvre, the space is a social matter, including the relations of production and social relations of reproduction. So that new spaces created in the production process of the space form new social relations. This definition, which we are accustomed to thinking through the public space, also manifests itself in private spaces. In contrast to isotopic spaces, which are repetitive, life practices and daily-life relationships can produce heterotopias that has opening the bedroom to the courtyard with a single door. https://vimeo.com/253530566