İREM YAĞMUR CEBECİ - february 2019 - “people, technology and interventing”
SOUSVEILLANCE* *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 which starts at Gultepe and reaches Buyukdere by breaking through the recent project of the site: LEVENT 205.
228 meters high
The created parasite does not belong to any external power including Levent 205. Therefore the usage of the parasite is not limited in any sense. The thing that convinces owners and the existing users of 205 is the “safety” that the crowded would bring while it is coming.
The first step of the creation of the parasite is the wooden frames that creates the main structure. After that, the users decides its organization and the functions by making different combinations with the mountable modules in different sizes and hanging them wherever they want in the wooden parasite and interact with the existing users of the offices of 205.
A certain program is not defined for the parasite to not create another dictation since the project itself is against it. People can easily move and intersect the modules, they can decide what will they use the modules for and they can change the program over and over again. This is also a critique for the term “architect” and the “dictation” it creates in today’s meaning.
All modules have different sizes but they all have same details and in same size on 4 sides of them where they can be combined with other modules so different combinations for different programs are achievable.
NESTED “Nested” is a part of the collaborative project between MEF University (Architecture students) and Bogazici University (Civil Engineering and Sociology students). The project has started with a research process about the expected Istanbul Earthquake and possible solutions, then each of 6 groups as mixed of 3 different professions made their own proposal for a floating living system on Golden Horn, Istanbul to accommodate people in short term. *with: Gülfem Bayraktar, Kürşat Apaydın (architecture) Ömer Baytimur, Mustafa Can (civil engineering) Şehrazat Gülsüm, Begüm Kışla (sociology)
The outcomes of this collaborative project exhibited at 4th Istanbul Biennale 2019. photo: Kerem Kaygusuz
There will be 6 hexagon units on hexagon concrete pontoons and concrete type anchorage with dead weights will be used. The material for the upper structure is fiberglass. In the short run, the energy need will be provided by two industrial generators on both sides. In the long term, when the electricity network of Istanbul is in operation again the necessary infrastructure will be available in the units and the overall structure. ISKI will be used for water as well. The after life of the units are planned as recycling or for different purposes since their material has potential the long term usage and they are self sufficient in terms of infrastructure and energy with their septic tanks and solar panels.
The Golden Horn region is the region that will get the most damage after the earthquake. We were inspired by the hexagonal form in nature when designing living units. The units are designed as hexagons each of them with the capacity of accommodating 6 people and their distribution across the water is dispersed as branches. The reason for choosing the hexagon shape over others is because it provided the opportunity of a freer placement arrangement. This freer placement allows to protect both the life under-water by ensuring the circulation of water and the life on the water by ensuring the inclusiveness and connectedness of social life and spaces.
UNPLUG The mass production has started with the increase of machinery in the world. Although it brought positive changes with it, actually caused people to be able to choose products only within the limits given to them, which in time caused people to lose their active roles in life and became passive. Movements such as “do it yourself”, which are becoming widespread in the world, have also emerged so that they can take control of the person against this passivation. Such movements have also became widespread in Turkey in recent years but people’s access to equipment needed to make production above a certain level is very difficult. Although there are places established for this purpose in Istanbul, considering the lack of numbers, timelessness and transportation problems, it is debatable how much people can benefit from such places. Unplug is a project that I fully developed on this situation. I aimed to take the production area to people in order not to spend the limited leisure time of the people who are eager for production to reach the production area.
The project is based on the circulation which containers that are filled with equipment needed for one of the different workshops such as wood, computers, robotics, etc. built between different points in the city with free use at the places where they go for a certain time and main building. It is thought that the students of Boğaziçi University will contribute to the production of the users so the main building is located in Hisaürstü Neighborhood which is close to the campus.
With this battery system, during their circulation containers doesn’t need any other electric source also with the support of the solar panels on them and thus frees the containers in the sense of accommodation.
Production is continued in the workshops in the main building in the console volumes in central part of the structure and connected to core which also used for circulation. These terraces also have charging stations to charge battery system added to the containers.
The battery system is in the same system with electric cars of TESLA, containers can be charged in the main building as well as at the stations where electric cars can be charged. With the rise of the electric car stations in Turkey, this project will functionalize further.
FLOW The installation of “Flow” was made by spraying fiber reinforced concrete onto the hollow structure, which was transferred to the fabric mold after the design process with digital form-finding methods. *with: Ceren İlayda Kaya Eren Hatice Gedik Aleyna Vardar
@NOUMENA (BCN) & @Urban Atolye (IST)
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ICI DISI BIR The Project “İçi Dışı Bir” is designed and built at Türkan Şoray Primary School by the students from MEF University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at July, 2017. As demanded by the school, one of the existing classes is transformed into a “Foreign Languages Class.” The list of the requirements which was defined by the teachers of the primary school was consisting spaces which allows using alternative learning methods for language learning such as role-playing. The idea of the folding curtain which is the center of the design has been occured as a respond to that need.
The sitting units and the tables are designed with the flexibility for different usage scenarios. Since “inculcating the idea of recycle and reuse into the children” was an important decision of the design, all of the architectural elements in the class reproduced with reused materials.