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İRE M YA ĞM UR CE B ECİ
HELLO My name is Yağmur, I am an architect and I have recently received my masters degree in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. I have been highly interested in philosophical, sociological and political research and discourse for a long time. Whilst my undergraduate education taught me to express my thoughts on these matters through design, my graduate education empowered me to utilize advanced innovation tools to articulate ideas. CONTACT Location: Istanbul, Turkey
I am currently interested in learning different art and design technological mediums to experiment and express myself through. The portfolio content includes a selection of the works I have developed during my undergraduate and graduate studies with an extension of a recent research chapter that I would like to expand and build my future work on.
E-mail: iyagmurcebeci@gmail.com Phone: +90 5318928105
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U N D E R G R A D U AT E
H A L İ Ç / İ STA N B U L W I T H G U L F E M B AY R A KTA R , K U R S AT A PAY D I N , B E G U M K I S L A , S E H R A Z AT G U L S U M , M U STA FA C A N , O M E R B AY T I M U R
N E ST E D
2018
I STA N B U L D E S I G N B I E N N I A L 2 0 1 8
“Living on Water” was an Interdisciplinary Course on Designing Temporary Floating Houses in Post-Earthquake Istanbul. The studio was co-designed by three disciplines as Civil Engineering, Architecture and Sociology in two universities. The primary aim of the course has been to collaborate on designing an emergency scenario and temporary housing in post-earthquake Istanbul in an interdisciplinary manner. 17 Engineering, 10 Sociology, and 17 Architecture students worked both independently and participated in the weekly meetings of the interdisciplinary teams. The research project exhibited at Istanbul Design Biennial 2018 and various international exhibitions afterwards. “Nested” in particular is the part of the “Living on Water” and designed by 3 Architecture, 2 Civil Engineering and 2 Sociology students.
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B ÜY Ü K D E R E / İ STA N B U L 2018
S O U SV E I L L A NC E * *surveillance: from French, from ‘sur’ over + ‘veiller’ watch *sousveillance: from French, from ‘sous’ below + ‘veiller’ watch
The aim of the project is empowering “sousveillance” against the existing “surveillance” on the site by creating a parasite structure which starts at Gultepe and reaches Buyukdere by breaking through the recent project in the site: LEVENT 205.
The parasite does not belong any authoritarian power but the public users and not limited in any sense including the program and functionality as against the another authoritarian figure “architect”.
The creation of the parasite starts with the main wooden frame structure and easily mountable and combinable pieces which will be hanged by users themselves and start to interact with existing office users of Levent 205. It is financed by the owners of the skyscraper with the belief of “Surveillance brings safety.”
Ç A N /Ç A N A K K A L E 2019
T U M U LT U S * *tumultus: from Latin, an uproar; bustle, disturbance, a storm, a sudden outbreak of violence or an impending war; civil war; insurrection, riot, rebellion, sedition, disturbance, agitation; excitement, anxiety; fear, panic.
All local people in Çan are either retired from, working at or have somebody in their families who works at Kale Factory. As far as Kale supportive for individuals, individuals are valuable for Kale, since they work with a low salary even they are qualified. However with the rise of automation in the factory, Kale doesn’t need employees as much as it did before and already started to dismiss people which will become irritating for people but it is not something that Kale would want since they will lose all the promotion they have from them and decide to have more semi-public spaces than before. But it is not enough for people, then they start to live in the land of Kale while also using it as parasite. Even the structure moves around Çan and acting as parasite to different spots it keeps coming back to factory to refill its structure with hot air from the chimney of the factory. The structure needs hot air because it is what keeps Tumultus on the air since the density of the hot air is lower than the air outside and lifts up the structure.
I NT E R N S H I P / WO R K S H O P
U R B A N ATO LY E ( I ST ) / N O U M E N A ( BC N )
G R A D U AT E
W I T H E L E N A J A R A M A Z OV I C , G J E O R G J J I A L I L O
W I T H A B D E L R A H M A N K O U R A , E L E N A J A R A M A Z OV I C
2019
2019
L I G H T PA I NT I N G
R E D UC E - R E U S E - F O L D
As a first attempt to use arm tools and toolpaths
Performance is the main criteria to start
with ABB robots and arduino skills, this project
searching for facade design ideas, In our case,
focuses on combining them to create 3D light
we choose indoor thermal and light control
sculptures with long exposure photographs.
to be our main aim for the facade design. To demonstrate this process we set up a system to
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implement this idea over leftovers of Aluminium Composite panels (ACP). Therefore, We extract the information by Material behavior testing. Using a robotic arm for shaping and assemblage the material through pick and place process. Details: Link
W I T H M A N S O O R AWA I S , L U I S B U E R B A
W I T H E L E N A J A R A M A Z OV I C , G J E O R G J J I A L I L O
2019
2020
T W I ST
COLLECT & PROJECT
From a course aims to provide an
The project aims to analyse human activities
understanding of computational design as both
within a defined space for collecting and
paradigm and attitude in architecture, focusing
storing data of these activities by using
on its inextricable relationship with construction:
detection and tracking algorithms and utilizing
a matter of geometry and forces within an
the collected data to implement it in processes
inherently behavioral process, “Twist� explores
of space optimization.
the aggregation of a simple component with the changes in its simple geometric features. Details: Link
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W I T H A N N A B ATA L L E , M AT T G O R D O N , R O B E RTO VA R G A S
W I T H A N N A B ATA L L E , G J E O R G J J I A L I L O , M AT T G O R D O N
2020
2020
FLUXSIGHT
URBAN JUNGLE
FluxSight is a design tool in augmented reality
In Bangladesh, for months at a time, monsoon
that helps architects and designers to create
season brings heavy rainfall to the country.
objects in a wide variety of scales using
In fact, approximately 80% of Bangladesh’s
reclaimed resources. This process explores
yearly rainfall will occur from June to October,
freeform modelling from hand tracking and
and by the end of monsoon season, almost
gesture detection in the early design stage,
one third of the country is underwater. Dhaka
taking into account resources availability and
(Bangladesh) is the ninth-largest and sixth-
combining it with performance criteria like
most densely populated city in the world with
solar radiation. The main objective of this tool
23,234 people per square kilometer. The a
is to promote and create awareness of the
population of 21,006,000 people will increase
importance of material reusability, potentially
to 28.080.000 by 2030. So by that time, there
reducing the environmental and economical
will be the lack of empty spaces for people
impact of our constructed environment.
to accommodate since the city will be mostly underwater. The project “Urban Jungle” aims
Due to the inaccessibility to the required tools
to create a possiblity to let people design their
during the development of this research a non-
accommodations and public spaces with the
Augmented reality version has been used: the
help of drone and VR technology under these
computer screen allows for design visualization;
circumstances.
a camera is implemented to hand track the gestures; and the pone works as the remote controller. Details: Link
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W I T H A N N A B ATA L L E , M AT T G O R D O N , R O B E RTO VA R G A S 2020
P O ST C O L L AT I O N F I N A L R E S E A R C H P R O J E C T AWA R D
The objective of “Localize, Collate and Design� is to showcase how matching algorithms along with generative design can be used to integrate materials retrieved from pre demolition sites to develop new structures, while minimizing waste and maximizing efficiency. We inspect the demolition site; then we use the gathered data to do a geometric reconstruction; we perform classification and location of the materials; And finally, we process the information and using it to both present it in a user interface and to showcase the possible design process with these materials. Details: Link
RESEARCH
WITH ANDREEA BUNICA 2020
ECHONESS The paper stands as a first step towards questioning ecological thinking, in a continuous explorative process towards pushing the boundaries of cross-disciplinary science towards incorporating philosophical, “largerthan-life�, larger-than-human paradigms; towards pushing architecture out of its architecture-ness and more towards becoming an open-source hyper-entity, with as many ways of access as its number of users. We treat ec(h)0-ness as the first thought-brick, the first intention-object, never-finishedscaffold in the process of laying our own philosophical foundations of representing, building, constructing and interacting with the hyper-space; the space of all others, the space that we may may never humanly be able to perceive. Details: Link