architectural
PORTFOLIO 2016-2020 IREM YILMAZER
EDUCATION: Bahcesehir University Faculty of Atchitecture and Design 2015 - 2020, Honor Student: 3.17 Harvard GSD Program July 2018 - August 2018, Boston Intensive course on design Mentora College 2015 - 2016, Washington D.C ELS Language School Notre Dame De Sion 2010 - 2015, the French Highschool
IREM YILMAZER | architect I recently graduated with honor as an architect. My work follow themes of reinvention and experimentation. I look for concepts that are challenging with the goal to translate them into buildings and environments that work and inspire people.
SKILLS: Language:Turkish (native) English (advanced) French (B1) Personal:Leadership qualities, time management, sociable, quick learner, enthusiastic
instagram/irem.analogue
PERSONAL INFORMATION: Adress: Huseyin Husnu Pasa Sk. no: 11 Kat 2 daire 4 Feneryolu / Istanbul GSM: +90 (532) 457 58 22 Mail: irem.yilmazr@gmail.com Birth: 03/10/1996 Greencard Holder
REFERENCES: Gulcin Demir
Project Manager at
YAPICON Architecture
SOFTWARE: AutoCAD Sketchup Rhinoceros Twinmotion Lumion Vray Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator MS Office
WORK EXPERIENCE: YAPICON Architecture Solutions, Istanbul / Turkey Construction Site Internship | 29 July 2019 - 11 September 2019 -Dogus Tourism HQ, Maslak -Worked with electrical, mechanical and civil engineers -Assist to interior detail construction MRT INT’L LLC, Florida / USA Office Internship | 10 January 2019 - 13 February 2019 -Renovation on a 1950 single family house in Sarasota -Assist with the plans and detail drawing Arzum Elektrikli Ev Aletleri, Istanbul / Turkey Research and Development Depertmant Intership | July 2016 -Assist with marketing survey
PARTICIPATIONS: AA Visiting School, Istanbul / Turkey Robotic Mediations | 8 July 2019 - 19 July 2019 -Designed an urban furniture based in different parameters and assist with the construction of urban furninture. Cuhardaroglu Architecture Competition - Duzensiz Mekanlar Participant | September 2020 Buyukyali Workshop and Competition Participant | December 2019 48 Hour Architecture Competition Participant | October 2019 Cuhardaroglu Architecture Competition - Islik Tasarimi Participant | September 2019 SGS Architecture - Steel Structural Systems Sports Hall Project | October 2018 -Designed a sports hall with working civil engineers based on steel structural system. Memorial Design for Pamuk Ana Last 6 | January 2018
WRITINGS: The Influence of Hagia Sofia, a comparative Analysis March 2020 With the help of Ass. Prof. Dr. Velika Ivkovska Effects of Urban Transformation on Children Spaces December 2019 With the help of Dr. Goksun Akyurek Alturk Analysing the Zoo Story as an Absurd Play April 2019 Gehl Analysis on Ortakoy Square April 2018 With the help of Dr. Maan Chibli
CERTIFICATIONS: Buyukyali Workshop and Competition Participant | December 2019 AA Visiting School, Istanbul / Turkey Robotic Mediations | 8 July 2019 - 19 July 2019 The Paradigmic city / Transforming Cities Inter-disciplinary Conference | March 2019 Harvard GSD Program July 2018 - August 2018, Boston Memorial Design for Pamuk Ana Last 6 | January 2019
HOBIES AND INTERESTS: -Photograph taking with analog cameras -Painting and art history -Playing team games (voleyball, basketball) -Travelling -Reading
C O N TE NTS Student Housing
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Science Museum
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Fill In Building
28 - 37
Threshhold
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Metamorphosis
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Robotic Mediations
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Renovation Project
56 - 59
Housing for university students in Istanbul / Turkey
Technology and Science Museum in Istanbul / Turkey
A fill in multi-function building in Istanbul / Turkey
From abstract thinking to modelling
A housing proposal for new living spaces in Istanbul / Turkey
Project of an urban furniture based on different parameters
Renovation project for a single family house
Student Housing Albers paper study, 1927 - 1928, shape’s structure evolves from a flat sheet of paper. The speacial feature of the form is its mobility. It gives the feeling of contuinity which connects all the surfaces with each other.
The project is located in Besiktas, due to its location the site is exposed to an intense circulation in daily life. The aim is to ease this circulation while protecting the surrounding green area and create transition between this green and residential buildings. To do that a landscape is created which connects different levels and make out a new path ways. The aim of the building is to merge private and public. To do that the path ways surrounds the building. The dorms cretaed under this path to protect privacy. Public ares appear in the ground and the left sided block.
Site Plan 1: Common Area 2: Dormitory 3: Cafe
Studio Rooms
3+1 Rooms
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-3.00 Level Plan 1: Main Entrance Hall 2: Staff Room 3: Restaurant 4: Conference Room 5: Street Food
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+4.00 Level Plan 1: Dorms 2: Common area for dormitory 3: Open common area
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2+1 Rooms
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+8.00 Level Plan 1: Dorms 2: Common area for dormitory 3: Open common area
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+12.00 Level Plan 1: Dorms 2: Commonn area for dormitory
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Student entrance hall
Common hall for dormitory
Technology and Experience Museum Mesrutiyet Street, is one of the symbolic axis in the heart of Istanbul, back street of Istiklal, witnessed lots of events and changes through years.The surrounded buildings provided those different events. One of the siginificant features of Mesrutiyet Street is there is a empty area just next to it and connects Kasimpasa and Beyoglu visually. So, Tepebasi which is the empty area next to Mesrutiyet Street is the project site. The aim is to keep the identity of this emptiness while giving it a new urban value.
To protect the emptiness of the area, proposed an urban stage by using the blind wall of historical building. Created a landscape which connects different levels. This creates different spaces for urban life. The aim of the building is to bring contrast with surrounding buildings. To do that museum has a glass skin and inner spaces is supported with columns that creates different open and closed spaces. For open spaces, the museum experience and urban life starts from outside and continuous to inside. To create the open spaces, analysised the surrounding buildings to avoid blocking their view. For the museum, it aims to explore technologies effects inn human life. Technology and experience museum strives to explain how technology work and affects the way people work, live and play.
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Site Plan 1: Research Center 2: Museum
Proposal Diagram
Site Analysis Diagram
Landscape Circulation Diagram
Function Diagram
Observation terrace
Open exhibition
Planetarium and exhibition Library
Main entrance for Museum Library
Offices and gift shop
Lecture Rooms
Research Center Circulation Diagram
Experience exhbition room with VRs.
Open and closed exhibition rooms.
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-5.00 Level Plan 1: Otopark 2: Research Center Entrance 3: Labs 4: 3D Cinema 5: Conference Hall
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Urban square alternatives, concerts
Urban square alternatives, festival films
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+4.00 Level Plan 1: Library 2: Museum Main Entrance 3: Motion Simulator 4: Open exhibition area
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+8.00 Level Plan 1: Library 2: Closed Exhibition Rooms 3: Planetarium
Triangular glass frames form larger frames
Steel structure of facade
Column support glass facade and blocks
Glasses supported with steel frame
Structure Diagram
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+12.00 Level Plan 1: Open Exhibition Rooms 2: Planetarium
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+16.00 Level Plan 1: Closed Exhibition Rooms 2: Open Exhibition Room 3: Observation Terrace
Fill In Project Istiklal Street, one of the symbolic axis in the heart of Istanbul, is a dynamic pedestrian street that witnessed lots of changes in the urban fabric throughout the years. One of the significant features of Istiklal Street is its passageways and arcades which connect the streets behind, forming a net to accommodate functions like street performers, street foodbars and street vendors. With the increase of tourism and commercial expansion in recent decades, people choose to spend time here rather than a passing way so it becomes a public space.
One of the modern examples of ISTIKLAL arcades is the Fitas Passage, dating back to the 1960s. Merging many new and unique functions, it gained an important place in collective urban memory while adapting itself to the ever-changing identity of the street. Fitas Passage accommodated one of the biggest cinemas in Beyoglu, a bar and even a concert hall where important bands of the ‘70s took stage. The Fitas fill in project emphasizes on eliminating the surrounding buildings which don’t have historical value. While the major goal of the project is to preserve the urban memory of Fitas arcade, it also focuses to create a passage that reveals the isolated texture of Kurabiye Street. The passage creates a pocket park to relieve the dense structure, as well. All Fitas functions are preserved; concert hall, bar, restaurant and theatre. In addition, there are workshops and study halls in different levels. The project creates both a horizontal passage and a vertical street with its different functions.
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+10.00 Level Plan 1:Information Office 2:Workshops 3:Theatre
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Concrete Plate Mortar Protector Screed Waterproof Insulation Thermal Innsulation Slope Screed Composit Floor Plaster
Epoxy Screed Leveling Screed Water Insulation Reinforced Concrete Floor Sand Filling Raft Foundation
Threshold Harvard GSD
The threshold project’s concept comes from the Escher’s paradox. The project have been done with the feedbacks of instructors and 3 different juries. The aim of the project is to understand the scale of the objects, thinking abstract and combine this to an architectural way. First phase of the project was the understand the technnical drawings and convert them to abstract drawings. In this way it gave, the abstract thinking metadologies. After the one of abstract drawing was selected the second phase of the project started. The aim was to convert abstract drawing to 3D models which provided architectural thinking. The goal of the model is with the Escher’s paradox it should work in 2 differennt directions with 2 different threshold.
Small Scale Drawing
To abstract drawing
Medium Scale Drawing
To abstract drawing
Large Scale Drawing
To abstract drawing
After technnical drawings have been converted to abstract drawings, first two steps have been completed. Instructors give feedbacks to the abstract drawings and finally chose one of them. The selected drawing was the third one. Then, the abstract drawing converted to the model which should have 2 threshold in different directions. The concnept of the projects comes from the paradox of Escher. The model should work in two differennt directions. So the final propaosal has been prepared according to these instructions.
Circulation Diagram
Sun Light Diagram
Metamorphosis
collaboration with Beste Erman
Due to its location, Besiktas is exposed to an intense circulation outside its own population in daily life. The slopy topography of the region with dense circulation annd housing as well as commercial enterprises create a tight tissue. While adjacent structuring creates a neighborhood culture inn the site streets, security and living space needs remain limited. With the design, the liivnng areas where space and people work together are targeted in order to meet these needs. The proposed designn creates irregular spaces by combining the “ safe shelter” task, which is the most important nneed of people, with the “vertical street” concept that it creayes within itself. Addressing safe housing, street culture and socialization in a single structure. It cann survive social life with its public and green spaces while it is possible to be isolated i the moment of crisis. In adittion to the natural crisis moments, in the evennt of economic crises that designnned to provide diferent functions and benefit to the residetns of the building.
Site Plan
Axis through existed topographgy to create different modules.
Different levels to create public space.
Creating gifferent levels for private and public entrance.
Alternatives to combine modules.
Final proposal
+15.00 & +17.00 Level Modul 1 & Modul 4
+9.00, +11.00 and +13.00 Level Modul 1, modul 2 and modul 3
+5.00 & +7.00 Level Modul 1 and 2
+3.00 Level Main circulation to all floors
Mezzanine spaces are used to create common areas and the circulations provided by stairs.
Modul 1: 1+1 36 square meter
Modul 2: 2+1 36 square meter
Modul 3 1+1 48 square meter
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Robotic Mediations AA Visiting School
AA Istannbul Visiting school experties on generative design methadologies and large-scale prototyping techniques which investigates the inherent associations between form, material and structure through the rigorous implementation of innovative design and fabrication techniques. Throughout the dsign and fabrication precesses, the participants establish correlations between form-finding, material, computation structural performance. The aim of the project is the design and fabrication of 1:1 scale prototype realised by the use of robotic fabricaiton techniques. Participants gain an insaight of material process, computational methods ans various fabricationn techniques, culminating with core concepts related to complexity in design practice. Also they propose design interventions based on the skills and knowledge gained. Finally followed by the robotic fabrication and assembly of a full scale working prototype which unifeies the design goals of the programme.
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Different combinations and alternatives
Final proposal for discussions. Created a frame according to human propotions to sit comfortably and create diferent alternatives by merging the frame in different ways. With different height, lenght and angles.
After the final discussion of design, there were 4 different groups to create urban furniture. Computation group used wallecie and caramba to solve structural problems and create the model with the bending angles and hand it to robotics group. Robotics group worked with KUKA to bend the rods. To have better accurancy, they 3D printed clamps and grips customized for the rods. Thus, they ensured that the rods will be bent with the optimum precission.
Assembled rods and bent in place
Wrapped with glass fiber mesh
Renovation Project assistance to MRT Int’l
1956 model single family house was completely remodelled down to the studs. It has been transformed from a 4 bedroom to a 3 bedroom to give a modern look with spacious open concept. 3 main walls have been removed and a steel beam has been installed to carry the roof. Remaining walls give the house a compilitly open area for living room, dining room and kitchen. Windows, doors and flooring have been replaced to give a stylish look. The house has been rewired and repiped. To give a modern look a granit conter top semi island with waterfall has been installed in the kitchen. The house has been listed as a new construction.
Sun Room
Bedroom
Bedroom
Dining Room
Living Room Kitchen
Garage
Bedroom
Existing Layout
Bedroom
Bedroom
Open Area
Bedroom
Garage
Proposed Layout
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