ipek kuzu PORTFOLIO_2014 Architectural & Design Works
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personal information_CV e-mail :kuzuipek@gmail.com MArch Graduate Architectural Design The Bartlett School of Architecture_UCL
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BArch Faculty of Architecture, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
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Architectural Works
Interstitial Iterations___2014
The Bartlett School of Architecture_UCL M.Arch Graduate Architectural Design Research Cluster 5
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Park Orman___2013
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(academic)
arkiZON Mimarlik
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Compact Campus___2013 arkiZON Mimarlik
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Amburan Shopping Mall___2013 arkiZON Mimarlik
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Antalya Train Station___2012 Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Diploma Project
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Kusdili Meadow___2011
S.O.S İstanbul Kuşdili Meadow and Around Alternative Solutions for the Process of Re-functioning’
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(competition)
Time Consideration Centre___2010 Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University 3rd year project
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(academic)
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Other Works
Integumentary Structures-Architectural Skin__2014 The Bartlett School of Architecture_UCL M.Arch Graduate Architectural Design Research Cluster 5
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(thesis)
Mask__2014
The Bartlett School of Architecture_UCL M.Arch Graduate Architectural Design Research Cluster 6
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(workshop)
Eco-Museum Zavot-The story of Cheese__2011 Architectural Assistant,Graphic Design of the boards,Historical Research,Collecting Data,Preparing the museum text
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(volunteer)
Mardin Houses Building Survey__2009 UNESCO Cultural Heritage Mardin Houses Building Survey Study
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(volunteer)
This edition contains my academic works-master degree studies at Bartlett School of Architecure_UCL and bachelor degree studies at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.It also includes examples from my professional experience,competitions and other works such as workshops or volunteer experience.My intension was to present works from every year of my studies chronologically since 2009 in order to reveal my improvement and the essential information that gives a representative idea of my works.
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ipek kuzu Adress: Telephone: E-mail: Date of Birth: Nationality:
Flat 2,299 Old Street, London EC1V 9LA +44 (0) 7472464531 kuzuipek@gmail.com 21 October 1988 Turkish
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 2013-2014 ;
MARCH; Graduate Architectural Design(GAD) The Bartlett School of Architecture University College of London (Scholarship from ISMD-Istanbul Serbest Mimarlar Dernegi)
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2007-2012 ;
MSC; Architectural Design-Istanbul Technical University BARCH; Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University-Faculty of Architecture (Diploma Project selected for archiprix 2012)
2009-2010 ;
Erasmus Exchange Program Hogeschool van Amsterdam Lighting
2002-2006 ;
Antalya Anadolian High School
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 02/2013-09/2013 ;
arkiZON MIMARLIK,Istanbul Architect design,design research,3d modelling,rendering, cataloging and graphic works,cad drawing,application drawings Contact Emin Balkis (Owner) emin@arkizon.com 0090 216 550 23 58 web address:www.arkizon.com
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02/2011-02/2012 ;
Eco-Museum ZAVOT-The story of Cheese,Kars Architectural Assistant of Nevzat Sayin,(NSMH) Architectural survey,drawing,rendering,Graphic Design, Historical Research,Collecting data and objects.
08/2010-09/2010;
IDC MIMARLIK,Istanbul Intern Interior Design,cad drawing,rendering,application drawings
06/2009-07/2009 ;
UNESCO CULTURAL HERITAGE Survey Study,Mardin Survey drawings,detail drawings
07/2008-09/2008 ;
POLAT INSAAT SANAYI VE TICARET A.Ĺž,Istanbul Intern Caddebostan Houses Construction site OTHER
05/2011;
Istanbul Kusdili Meadow Alternative Solutions of Re-Functioning Student compitition Entry
02/2010 ;
Rethinking the Urban Waterfronts-Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Urban Planing Department,Workshop
12/2009 ;
IGUZZINI Chevetogne (Belgium) Lighting Event Part of Erasmus Programme-Lighting
SOFTWARE AutoDESK AutoCAD Softimage Maya Rhino
Grasshopper Kangaroo Millipede
Adobe Photoshop Indesign Illustrator After Effects Premier
Processing Eclipse Real Flow Sketch Up Microsoft Office
LANGUAGE Turkish Native English Advanced
INTERESTS Photography, Illustration,Traveling,Cinema ipekkuzu@tumblr.com, sheeinjapan@tumblr.com
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INTERSTITIAL ITERATIONS The Bartlett School of Architecture_UCL M.Arch Graduate Architectural Design Research Cluster 5, 2014 In collaboration with Chiara Zaccagnini,Sandra Sifakis Tutors:Phillippe Morel Thibault Schwartz,Kwang Guan Lee
Architecture itself provides shelter from capricious environment. The built structure mediates between the environmental conditions of inside and outside. This makes the build structure a connector-interstitial space. The project means to investigate the role of shell in architecture through the new direction of contemporary architecture that is adaptive, autonomous, dynamic and responsive. For the making of architecture, when we come to know that built structure (the shell) is a connector, then our effort to design that connector should be how to make a better connection. The aim of the project is to challenge the perception of concrete shell structures as a flat thin surface without any openings, as well as their basic forms and the idea of covering big spaces without subdivisions. It seeks to investigate a new methodology that replaces the limited conception of the traditional shell structures in light of the potentials of natural structures.It proposes to create a 3D perforated ‘thick concrete shell’ that generates a system and can cover functional, structural and formal needs.
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image 10 - Polymer foam (http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/238nm/techprogram/P1273327.HTM)
interstitial investigation on the relationship of insdide and outside space
thin shell
openings
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subdivisions
cellular foam structures
The research started investigating the potentials of natural cellular structures as a strategy for design. In particular have been investigated the Foam Structures. All of those structures have different characteristics that could be used for creating 3D perforated structures on a wide range of design scales. The analysis on thin concrete shell structures, which began to appear in the 1920s helps to designate the thick concrete shell concept.A thin shell concrete structure, is a structure composed of a relatively thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses. The shells are most commonly flat plates and domes, but may also take the form of ellipsoids or cylindrical sections. Inserting the problematic of defining in-between space in thin concrete shell conception brings the possibility to make more than a thin concrete shell, a skin of concrete. Design a three - dimensional concrete lattice that challenges the perception of concrete shells as large scale objects used for spanning large areas. It inspires the design of a structure that creates openings, space subdivisions and perforations.
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interstitial investigation on the relationship of insdide and outside space
It is intented to create a three-dimensional lattice shell that is a densely interconnected architectural structure, which responds to the material and architectural scale as well as the spatial organization. A recursive system is required in order to achieve this desired scale variation.
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experimenting on the creation of void in concrete
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Understanding the cellular structure of the foam allowed us to explore the relation between the solid and void spaces. Designing the voids can lead the way to designate the form that is the by-products of voids themselves. Thus the areas left outside the voids define the negative space which forms the spatiality. Initial studies on the reticulation of volumes investigating the potential creation of the inspiring geometry. The reverse conceptual method of creating geometry through the organization of voids is used. The first physical models for the understanding of reticulation of concrete where based on empirical experiments. Gradually the control of the methodology was acquired.
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experimenting on the creation of void in concrete foam balls -4.5cm
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comparison between mixed size foam balls and balloons
deformation between the balloons comparison between same size foam balls and balloons
At the beginning polystyrene balls where used inspired from the EPS concrete, scaling up the idea of creating a closed cellular structure in the volume. The void was not easily achieve with the foam balls so balloons where used for the creation of the required perforation. Air cells - balloons are easily removed and their deformation brings to the reticulation an interesting result. Deformation studies where conducted comparing the foam balls and the balloons on a 2D and 3D grid
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reverse conceptual methodology - design space through voids geometrical arrangement s of spheres
Sphere packing studies are essential to the understanding of the intricate organizational behavior of the spheres. The two main characteristics of a sphere packing is the geometrical configuration and the packing density. The creation of the optimum packing has long been an issue for mathematicians. The optimum packing of spheres is of immediate interest with the research on the organization of spheres as it provides the smaller negative space and therefore the minimal volume.
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reverse conceptual methodology - design space through voids geometrical arrangement s of spheres
geometrical arrangement of child cells around the parent through a recurcive procedure.
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highly controlled arrangement of child cells around parent cell with various rotations on x, y and z axis. axonometric view
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Iteration 04 147 spheres total Cumulative sphere Volume = 3.5 m3
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Apollonian Gasket arrangement
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packing simulations-self -arrangement
The geometrical definition though is not viable for the arrangement of ballons.Therefore a stochastic,more random distribution is preferable. Adding to this complex reasoning the behavior that the materiality of the spheres introduces an additional element to the process. Finally through physics simulation various packing configurations can be investigated using different proportions and size of spheres. sphere proportions
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Liquid Simulations-Understanding of liquid (concrete) behaviour
Many packing options were tested to reveal variety of lattice configurations that they could produce. First it was tested a series of same size spheres packing and later mixed sizes sphere packing. A series of sections were used to visualise the lattice internal structure and to identify where it was continuous or broken..
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Thick Concrete Shell-4 layers of Organization Formfinding-Membranes
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The thick concrete shell is the result of the combination different size layers of organisation. Membranes shape the space configuration according to variable architectural requirements, defining the size and geometry through a parametric highly controlled procedure. Elastic spheres formulate the void, carving away material from the concrete volume, resulting in a new material topology this of a reticulated three - dimensional concrete lattice. The two inflated membranes are designed through a highly controlled digital simulation. Membranes are simulated as a grid of springs with specific strength and elasticity. They are inflated with a certain pressure in order to obtain the desired form. Springs characteristics can be modified according to the required result. Same with the controlling points of the membranes that can be used with various ways.
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Thick Concrete Shell-4 layers of Organization Deterministic & Stochastic Level
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The deterministic level of organisation of the spheres is placed following the functions and requirements that are reflected on the lower membrane. Subdivisions, openings, water tanks and vegetation capsules are created from accurately placed ballons. The stochastic level is responsible for the principal reticulation of the concrete lattice. The packing is simulated with soft - bodies interacting between them and the colliding objects of membranes and stable balloons.
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pouring concrete on shell-pouring points
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Liquid simulation is used in order to predict and understand the results of the organisation of the components. The pouring points are chosen according to the curvature of the inflated membranes and the packing configurations. The liquid should reach the lower membranes in approximately the same time lapse so the weight of the concrete is evenly distributed during casting.
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fabrication proposal
1. inflatable structure as a formwork
2. cell agglomeration
3. inflatable structure with cell agglomeration
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After the experiments of form finding on the membranes and positioning the balloons on the agglomeration, the combination of the results give a viable proposal for the fabrication of thick concrete shells. Digital simulations as well contributed to the better comprehension of the behaviour of the elastic components, spheres and membranes, that interact with each other.
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2. stables and stochastic level of agglomeration
3. inflating the emembranes with balloons inside
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B-PRO Show-The Bartlett School of Architecture The exhibition showcases speculative research from students completing their studies on The Bartlett’s MArch Graduate Architectural Design and Urban Design programmes. See work exploring the latest approaches to robotics, 3D printing, supercomputing and interactivity,
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PARK ORMAN arkiZON Mimarlik Park Orman Project (Meeting Area of the Park (Food & Beverage and Multifuctional Hall ),2013 Design Team:Emin Balkis,Elvan Caliskan (Owners) Volkan Taskin,Ali Onalp,Frederik De Smedt,Elvan Ariker
The project is located in Fatih Forest in Istanbul,Fatih Forest is a large natural area that is in the middle of Istanbul which is an uncommon metropol paradise.Inside the forest,the area called Park Orman is a concert,festival and activity space out of city routines.Every year lots of festivals and concerts take place in the area.The capasity of the Concert Area is 10.000 people and a perceft choice for summer events with its big pool and beautiful forest sight. The Project locates inside Park Orman Activity Area. Food & Beverage Units are on the road to concert arena and Multifunctional Hall is located in the entrance of the Natural Park. The concept and settlement of the F&B Units are designated by the location of the trees in area.The goal of the project is not to cut down any three and designing temporary structures that can be removed or replaced. Multifunctional Hall is designed for the need of a closed car park and events that especially take place in winter time.
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Multifunctional Hall
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Food and Beverage Units
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COMPACT CAMPUS arkiZON Mimarlik Mugla-Milas High School Campus National Architectural Competition,2013 Design Team:Emin Balkis,Elvan Caliskan (Owners) Volkan Taskin,Ali Onalp,Ipek Glaister,Elvan Ariker, Batu Kepekcioglu
Campus life envisages building up a new educational network which encourages the mobility between different classrooms for different courses,which is not common in the formal Turkish educational system. As the slopy topography of the given land and the hot climate of the region obstruct the pedestrian movement,the units of the campus should be joined to each other within encouraging proximities and through comfortable connections. Accordingly, the main aim has been to organize all the units COMPACTLY enabling the MAXIMUM ACCESSIBILITY WITH MINIMUM CIRCULATION, which would assure maximum interaction in-between units rather than spreading them evenly through the site. Compared to the scattered systems, a compact organization would be economical due to the efficiency in running costs,ecological due to the low base area, safer as it would be easily controllable and comfortable as it provides closer proximities. In addition, it has been found useful as a fundamental notion which could create the density and diversity that the urbanlife proposes.Settlement decisions has been made assuming that the students would be using shuttles for transportation. COMPACT CAMPUS has been located closer to the top of the hill to be in maximum relation with the flat areas on the terrain paying attention to its harmony with the topography.
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Program ruler
Settlement on side by distrubuting the program
Settlement on side by making a compact
public usage private usage (inside school)
pedesterian axes pavement circulation landscape axes
Service-Drop onn and off car circulation for visiting
classes dorms sport &health conferance hall Scince labs library art and activities
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City Center Relation with ci ty Public Areas
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teachers’ room
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natural light galleries
wc 24m2 in every core
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Considering Milas’ climate,there is a cooling problem instead of heating.Sunblinds have been used on the facades of classes (which are exposed to direct summer sunlight ) depending on tacticity of the sun. Sun blinding systems are differ from every facade depending on sun directions.Terraces has used on south facade which has the sun with right angle. Sunblinds that can open and close have been offered on east and west facades which have the sunlight horizontally.
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AMBURAN SHOPPING MALL arkiZON Mimarlik Amburan Shopping Mall,Baku,Azerbaijan,2013 Design Team:Emin Balkis,Elvan Caliskan (Owners) Volkan Taskin,Ali Onalp,Frederik De Smedh,Elvan Ariker
The Shopping Mall is located in Baku,Azerbaijan.Mediterranian Architectural components has been used in design such as Jerkin Head roof,natural stone lining etc.Amburan Shopping Mall becomes prominent among its kind with the characteristic of its human scale design and open recreation areas.It has 4 floors and 2 basement floor.Membranes have been used in inside open areas in order to provide shadow because of the hot climate.Levelling of the site is one of the main design criteria of the settlement. Traditional Jerkin Head Roof elements have been used and wooden structure prefered for supporting . Jerkinhead roof provides more space and the pitch offers more living space, while providing better reinforcement.
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ANTALYA TRAIN STATION Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Diploma Project,2012 Jury:Doc.Dr. Haydar Karabey ,Doc.Dr. Oğuz Ozer Doc.Dr. Kayahan Turkantoz ,Yrd.Doc.Dr. Suat Cakır Yrd.Doc.Dr. Gulşen Gulmez An interchange station that provides the interaction between the passanger and city
The area is located on the Ankara route, situated north of Antalya. This road not only works as an axis which connects the city to the shore, but it also has many important boulevards. The land is located outside of Antalya’s urban areas, this is imperative because it is not possible to build the station in the city center due to the strict urbanisation. The land is surrounded by industrial sites, slums and shanty house settlements, this gives it the atmosphere of a station that has become intergrated to the city much later on. Besides, because of its location, the project is on the contrary of the known usual stations,that is not inside of the busy urban movement area,so it also gains the attribute of an interchange station which provides the interaction between the commuters who use the train,city center and other types of transport. Antalya has a typical mediterranean climate. The summers are hot and dry, the winters are mild and rainy. Heat is a major problem for Antalya. The average heat is 18.7 C. The main wind direction is north/northwest. Research has been done in context of the problems and gathered data. Design approach has derived by the problematic of hot climate,interaction of different types of transportation and pedesterian circulation. ‘Formation on the spaces leftover of the movement areas ‘ is aimed thus the building would be behaved like an element to designate the circulation.
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1)Main road access to the station
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Because the crossroad before and after the station is far away, it is hard to access the collector road next to the station. It will be hard to reach the train station for the passengers who gets off the existing tram stop,but also it is necessary to get access to tram and bus for the people who live around the train station area.
The current axis of the train and tram were kept. The mass was wanted to be constructed by the transportation units’ approach axis. Also the north west axis’s perpendicular axis was added to the design, in order to create natural ventilation by using the north west winds. The green large refuge (traffic island )next to the area was wanted to be added to the site, so that the entrance for cars and buses could be diverted from the general traffic to ensure circulation within site. It was decided that all vehicles should use only one side, thus the areas where transportation types encountered each other were designated.
canopy formation diagram Canopy formation is based on the direction of the wind.
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KUSDILI MEADOW
In collaboration with Altan Basik & Yigit Babacan Convertion of the side from a concrete carpark to a recreation area that people can meet,take a breath,have fun and do activities.
The world today is based on heavy urbanization, rather than the beautiful nature it was once adorned with.The nature notion that based on threes,earth,sky,green turns into a notion which based on roads, traffic and commercial space. It wouldn’t be wrong to explain this situation with the heavy consumerist attitude of our modern era. All kind of social and economic relations change from production to consumption.So as a result of this environment has changed. The days that Kuşdili was a meadow were the days that the people of Istanbul’s habitat were not only streets or buildings but also in a relationship with nature. The meadow used to be an important gathering place for the citizens of Istanbul, where people came together to have a good time. Today, this functions are satisfied in shopping malls or similar buildings.This accumulation areas that based to consumption determines the city life with their artificial children parks,funfair and big masses.Therefore it is logical to plan to construct shopping malls, or use Kuşdili as a parking lot as it is now. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that the people of Istanbul, especially the people of Kadıköy need peaceful areas where they can relax. Not the shopping malls which is the intersection of the people’s movements or carparks which is the storage of movements.Therefore the project takes shape for that needs, it is aimed to renovate of the meadow, but of course with overlooking the modern needs of people which can not ignore.
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An empty space exists between the big mass of Fenerbahçe Stadium, the E5 highway and heavy urbanized housing and commercial areas called “Eski Salı Pazarı”, formerly known as Kuşdili Çayırı. A wide road passes through this area, also a very dirty river whom existence is only verified by its smell, that flows right beside it. This is a big empty space which supplies with the big need and big problem of Istanbul..
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Except for the old houses, the 5-10 floor buildings and single floor car washes have been demolished. The road that passes right through the meadow has been removed too, the traffic now runs around the area. Walking and Bike roads are formed to try to integrate Yogurtcu park axes into the side and to expose an isolated active open green area,with circular subdivide.This subdivide also defines the functions.
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The meadow is an important pedestrian route. Since the area is used as a parking lot, it inhibits the pedestrian pathways. Because the underpass that connects the sea shore to Moda via train opens up to the meadow, and that Moda’s shore and the Boğa is directly connected to it, the meadow is an important transit area. To the east of the meadow is the Fenerbahçe Stadium, so it is important to find solutions to the temporary crowds in the area before football games. Our conceptional goal forms on this needs.The aim is to create a place that people can stop but the need of transportation from side is obvious,so the transportation is provided exactly inside of the side and it is accepted as it is. The transformation of Kuş Dili into a parking lot from a meadow, and back to an open green area space that meets modern needs, doesn’t mean that it can’t meet today’s needs and obtain its old structure in the same time. Keeping this principle in mind, the current need for transformation is provided with a clear willpover.Two is determined.That lines cleave the land and form the rifts.Thus this daily life need ‘movement notion’ is separated from the area but still remains the connection.Again,keeping this principle in mind, on the intersection points of walking paths and transportation axes,walking paths are bridged.The cross sections of transportation axes are determined by this breakpoints.
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The architecture of the structure was established on a modular system and it is a simple in terms of creating multi-purposed divisible and addible areas. The fire station that is the only structure in the region which is reminiscent of the past, was divided into its architectural units and its moduls, thus the size of the unit is determined from it. In this area, three different structural units are for shutting and prevention, and again inspired by the fire station, the shutting off is reinforced with ivy.
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TIME CONSIDERATION CENTER Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University 3rd year Project,2010 Tutor:Prof.Halit Yasa Ersoy The project propeses an alternative consideration of time unit.
The project, was initiated with a desire to create an alternative space to spend time in. When the present-day human needs, complaints and actions are taken into consideration, it can be said that a ‘NEW HUMAN’ model has started to form. In the new world, time passes by very quickly, people are in a constant rush and they live in a world w here everything comes their feet, without stopping and thinking for a minute.In their spare time they throw themselves into shopping malls and they prefer to live in residences that they can find everything in one big place. Instead of running out and the riding their bikes, they prefer to use their treadmills in their basements.Even though,they have all these forms of technology and lifestyles,they complain about something,even which they dont know themsleves. The reason of the complaint is ‘restlessness’ which is caused by this life-cycle, because when people move away from human nature with every step, they become restless.This chronic restlessness begins with the minimizing the use of their senses. There is so much visual and sensory confusion that is created by themselves, they can not even detect anything which is pure and clean. For the purpose of creating an awareness and irony, the project is located in Ortakoy where the visual and sensory pollution is felt very intensely, perhaps the most widely felt in Istanbul. The project is a center that aims to show people what man has done to nature and environment, to question the new world, to devote time to himself.
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The project is located in the area of a pharmaceutical factory in Ortakoy. The natural topography of the land was completely changed and flattened. The factory is surrounded by high supporting walls.
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Mass distribution, and the spaces of the project, were inspired from the principle of a clock. The project was designed as a self activating system. The working principles of the clock (in other words the logical connection of how the cogs work together) were adapted to the intertwined relations between the functions and the area through different layers and elevations. The construction was hid under the earth by the light of the idea that ‘’pure perception and inner peace can be protected by nature’’. So,a simple green space which preserves the natural slope is wanted to create. The project is designed in such a way that people can also feel the construction beneath them while laying down, running and playing, spending time as they wish.BASIC FORMS’ were selected on the basis of the plan and form. Because the building is beneath the surface, to carry on the sand load, exposed concrete is used. Also it supports the minimalist approach.
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mass diagram The corridor connects the exhibition area with three different elevations and two triangular aperture that connect with the land . Each exhibition area has its own mezzanine floor which has access to the corridor. The big aperture at the end of the corridor is connected the movie theater, cinema lounge and the topography. The two apertures are not only the circulation areas that connect the floors each other, there is also an entrance hall. Emerging from the earth as a single form the cafĂŠ and restaurant will be built with terraces on top, the site will be a combination of green, grey* cement* and earth. The cinema exits function as emergency exits, they also create a transparent showroom above the ground. The apertures above the exhibition spaces are accompanied by two main rectangular apertures provide to have natural light in the underground mass.
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exhibitions interior renders
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INTEGUMENTARY STRUCTURES-ARCHITECTURAL SKIN The Bartlett School of Architecture_UCL M.Arch Graduate Architectural Design Architectural Report, 2014 Tutor : Mollie Claypool
Inhabitable materiality In nature’s way of design, separation of structure, form and function is quite blurred. These notions in nature, which have been regularly discussed in architectural theory for years, are the results of the interaction and cooperation between material parameters and their environment. Architecture itself provides shelter from capricious environment. The built structure mediates between the environmental conditions of inside and outside. This makes the build structure (the skin or the body) a connector-interstitial space. Building upon previous explanation, the research proposes models and processes for designing three-dimensional perforated concrete shell, concerning the denotation of skin and body in architecture. Inspired by the integumentary structures in nature, it proposes a new approach and process that generates the design by supporting the integration of form, material and structure in variable scales. In this approach, environmental conditions play the major role to constitute the form finding procedures and the system of the project. The framework means to investigate and interpret the role of skin in architecture through the new direction of contemporary architecture that is adaptive, autonomous, dynamic and responsive. For the making of architecture, when we come to know that built structure (the skin or the body) is a connector, then our effort to design that connector should be about how to make a better connection. Architecture has frequently drawn inspirations from nature; its forms and structures, and most recently, from the inner logic of its morphological process. Emergent architectural designs provide a superior architectural response to programmatic, technical, structural, environmental and spatial requirements that conventional unit based architectural forms are too inflexible to fully address. Architecture has reached a stage in its development, where structures are attempting to behave more like nature, as a complex grouping of interdependent processes that are constantly evolving to adapt to environmental changes.
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The interest of research started from thinking the meaning of skin in architecture. The fundamental function of architecture is to provide shelter from changeable environment. The built structure mediates between the environmental conditions of outside and inside. Thus, as Dana Bixby mentions, we simply can say that, skin in architecture can be seen as a connector of inside and outside. However the denotation of the ‘skin’ in architecture is commonly used to define walls and façades that are flat and slender. The formal, structural, functional and spatial properties of the skin itself have been overlooked. Thus the purpose of this framework is to question the “skin” in architecture through the understanding of integumentary structures in multiple scales. The research starts to investigate the cell membrane structure in order to interpret the proposal of the project in micro (material) scale. Zooming out, it intends to look at human skin’s tissue-layered structure to be able to understand how cells and tissues forgather and organize for constituting a system to perform the largest organ of the human body (skin). These investigations help us to designate the intention of creating three-dimensional concrete shell that responds to the material scale through the architectural scale. Considering the points mentioned above, the aim of the project is to challenge the perception of concrete shell structures as a flat thin surface without any openings, as well as their basic forms and the idea of covering big spaces without subdivisions. It seeks to investigate a new methodology that replaces the limited meaning of the traditional linear façade or skin in light of the potentials of natural design strategies. It proposes to create a 3D perforated ‘thick concrete shell’ that generates a system and can cover functional, structural and formal needs. Perhaps the most significant observation from the integumentary structures is that: Skin itself has its own structural, formal and functional properties, that cannot be thought, separated than the structure it covers. It can be elucidated as an “extendable interface” , an intermediary structure rather than the common idea of border of distinction or separation. Skin, which is one of architecture’s most fundamental metaphors, fulfills its meaning without its own thickness. It has been always understood as a separator not a connector. On the other hand, the skin’s ability of giving a form to the object has been characterized it as a figure which is not directly connected neither outside nor inside environment. In considering nature’s way of design it is imposed to distinguish between structure and skin since so many of nature’s forms assimilate between varied functions and their related materials and properties. Marcus Cruz proposed ‘Flesh’ as a concept that extends the meaning of skin in his book of ‘The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture’. He argues that “(…) while a lot of contemporary buildings expose an evident fetish with the outer ‘skin’, reducing the interior to a simple juxtaposition of repetitive floor plates, the use of digital technologies is also helping flattening the ‘skin’, disembodying it ever more, and thus depriving it from its human and material content.” His research stresses the urgency of a Thick Embodied Flesh that encompasses new corporeal qualities in architecture. Consequently, this framework means to investigate and interpret the role of skin or ‘flesh’ in architecture through the new direction of contemporary architecture that is adaptive, autonomous, dynamic and responsive. It challenges the flattened skin consideration that conjointly affects the perception of concrete shell structures as a flat thin surface. James Elkins proposes flesh as a kind of ‘fluid’ a concept “that refuses the distinction between skin and viscera, inside and outside, hard and soft, in favor of (...) viscous matter.” 12 Inspired by the integumentary structures, the project proposes the processes that are explained above and a methodology for design, which means to eliminate the borders between structure, form and function. Peter Wood argues that “skin is not a surface but a primary architectural state” In order to extend the potential of skin as a ‘primary architectural state’. The framework intended to explore a “new materiality that is truly inhabitable.”
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MASK The Bartlett School of Architecture_UCL M.Arch Graduate Architectural Design Workshop, 2014 In collaboration with Jaejing Jang Tutor : Daniel Widrig
A mask is an obtject normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise performance or entertainment. Masks hide identification, at the same time, they reveal identification.
Process starts with getting the mould of different person’s face topology. A cloth plane which is rectangulated covers the face, different angles of cloth simulation has been done to experiment the variations .In order to reveal curves different angle variantions has been overlaped.
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Overlapped curves has been cut in order to settle on face for final result.
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ECO-MUSEUM ZAVOT-THE STORY OF CHEESE Architectural Assistant,Graphic Design of the boards,Historical Research,Collecting Data, Preparing the museum text,2011 Project Architect:Nevzat Sayın
What is an Eco-Museum ? Ecomuseums try to protect the cultural,social and ecological heritage adopting a new approach based on people and their immediate environment rather than being mere collections of objects.Economuseums are undertaken by local initiatives in order to simulate recovery and development of regions which are in recessions or in decline.They use the space for communicative and educational purposes.Instead of planning a targeted transformation ahead they try to fulfill the mission of awareness raising in order to transform the region.
From Zavot to Ecological Museum In Kars region population has been formed according to cheese making culture and migrations After the war called “the War of ’93” between 1877 and 1878, for 40 years the region was under the rule of the Tsarist Russia. During this period various different ethnic groups were settled in the region. Among them Molokans, a Russian speaking population, were member of Russian Orthodox Chruch, but they had some different religious practices. Molokans improved the agriculture and husbandry in the region.Due to its rich and diverse vegetation favourable for milk and gruyere production the region was the most appropriate place for dairy farming. After 1850’s in Caucasus and after 1880’s in ten villages of Kars, gruyere (Swiss cheese) factories (‘zavot’s)had been built by Swiss entrepreneurs.After the developments in 1880s the region started to be inhabited and it was called ‘Zavot’ after the Russian word for factory. Soon, Zavot became one of the most advanced villages in cheese production. After the Revolution of 1917, Molokons started to leave Kars, whereas the Swiss cheese producers moved to Tbilisi. Between 1917 and 1920 groups of Turkmens, Tarakamas, Qarapapgs, Georgians and Kurds immigrated to the village.The farmers who settled in Zavot in 1920’s founded two co-operatives and started to produce gruyère in factories left from Russians. Today there are two separate villages as ‘big’ - and ‘small Boğatepe’. On the other hand, the word Zovat entered into Turkish vocabulary as the name of the place mastered in high quality cheese production and husbandry. 76
The Project building had been used for gruyere production by Molokans and Swiss cheesemakers until 1918 and then by cooperatives in BoÄ&#x;atepe until 1976. In 1880 it was built by Swiss cheesemakers.The upper floor has been built as a factory and the ground floor for the maturation and storage of gruyere. In the second half of 1970s, after the cooperatives were shot down and the members had began to produce gruyere in private properties, the dairy farm became idle and the second floor collapsed due to lack of care. In 2011 the ground floor has been restored collaboratively by the Association and the administrations of Small and Big BoÄ&#x;atepe to serve as an ecological museum. The project is supported by Millenium Development Goals Fund (MDGF) financially.
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MARDIN HOUSES BUILDING SURVEY UNESCO Cultural Heritage Mardin Houses Building Survey Study,Mardin,2009 In collaboration with Sena Karahan, Elvan Ar覺ker,Merve Taspatlatan
Mardin is a city in a rocky region in southeastern Anatolia. The city is mainly medieval in origin and is situated on the slopes of a rocky hill, crowned by o fortress built on its citadel. The city as a whole with its traditional stone, religious and vernacular architecture and its terraced urban pattern is the best preserved example of Anatolian soil.
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