Ecem Karabay
architectural portfolio
Ecem Karabay Junior Architect
Education & Experience Istanbul
About me
1996 2002
Elazığ Harput Private Elementary School
2005
I’m a 23 year-old junior architect that recently graduated from METU Department of
MEV Ankara Private Elementary School
Architecture. Although I live in Turkey, I’ve travelled to many countries and
2010
Mehmet Emin Resulzade Anatolian Highschool - Diploma Grade : 92.35 (High Honour)
2014
experienced various cultures meanwhile connecting with their people.
Middle East Technical University Department of Architecture Throughout my school life and
2017
Construction Site Intern - Tepe İnşaat Sanayi A. Ş. Construction Site Intern - Akay İnşaat A. Ş.
internship periods, I’ve not only studied on many group projects where I often acted as the leading role but also worked in prestigious companies and offices that displayed different aspects of
Architectural Intern - Lejant Mimarlık 2018 2018 2019
architectural projects.
Exchange Student - Universidade de Lisboa
Bachelor of Architecture - CGPA : 3.07 (Honour)
Contact linkedin.com/in/karabayecem karabayecem@gmail.com +90 505 806 26 89 Ankara, Turkey
Languages Turkish English German Korean Portuguese
onSET - 64 - B1 King Sejong Institute - 2B FLUL - A1.1
Software Skills
Organization Skills & Abilities
AutoCAD
Group Leadership
Revit
Predisposition to Group Work
Rhino
Communication with the People from Other Cultures
Grasshopper
(Attended to ERASMUS exchange program, took parts in international projects such as AFS, AIESEC)
Photoshop Illustrator macOS Microsoft OfďŹ ce
Social Skills & Abilities Digital Art Charcoal Drawing &Watercolor Vocal Music Playing Flute Playing Volleyball
Contents of the portfolio
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2017-2018 Spring
2017-2018 Fall
Berth of Creativity
an urban creative pole in Bayraklı | İzmir
Uprise Sinop! Counter Parliament
Pontus Euxinus: Sinopale Along the Wall
AFF II : TOKI - Away
Along the Banks of Bent Deresi: Forest Farm and Housing
2016-2017 Spring
2017-2018 Spring
2018-2019 Spring
Scholars’ Library & Chemistry Research Center
erudite | Scientific Research Center
Linurb
Escher Problem| Maths in Architecture
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2018-2019 Spring
Berth of Creativity an urban creative pole in Bayraklı | İzmir Architectural Design Studio VI Instructor Team: Cânâ Bilsel, Eren Başak, Koray Pekeriçli, Duygu Simser, Merve Öztürk Site Location:
Bayraklı, İZMİR/TURKEY
Grand Total of Designed Area: 22.000 m²
Individual Work
“An Urban Creative Pole” is a center for creative arts, design and innovation. It is expected to be a center of artistic production and design, and an urban node of interaction between artists, designers and the citizens of all ages. The Urban Creative Pole is based on a sustainable social and economic model of management that aims to support artists and designers, by providing them the following: - the physical setting for production, workshops and co-working spaces, - the possibility to meet with people, to exhibit their works, to organize symposia and biennales,
- educational facilities to offer life long learning (LLL) opportunities to all, - spatial facilities for a management that supports the young artists and designers through means of self supporting themselves financially.
The design program is constituted of: 1. Spaces of Production Workshops and Shared Working 2. Spaces of Interaction and Education Spaces for Exhibitions, Symposiums, Conferences, Café, Open-Air Event Space 3. Galleries and other related commercial facilities 4. Administration
Site Plan
There are many arts &crafts masters who live unnoticed with their intelligence. The design aims to bring those people and their knowledge into use by collecting them under one roof to fuel the 21st century’s biggest interests:
Music videos and short films.
Since audiovisuals became more popular among the youth, the amount of need for creative work in that area has increased. Including technologically advanced multimedia, there are many artificial and natural elements used in those productions. Local arts &crafts can also be beneficial in these cases. To avoid the cultural heritage fade away and to put back in use by showing them off in such popular environments are the concept ideas of the design.
The site has a naturally warm climate and is close to the water flow. Thus, the site would be hot and humid at the same time. The buildings and outdoor areas should be kept cool and habitable in such conditions. This is also crucial in case of the storage of the materials produced in the ateliers. So the sections of the buildings are designed to obtain a natural ventilation inside the buildings and the water flow is taken inside, creating a journey within the site boundaries with the trees accompanying. By these means, a cool climate is tried to be created in site.
Digital Sketch of Northeast side of classrooms
The arrangement of the buildings are based on the footprint of the old pasta factory. The biggest and the most iconic part of the factory is preserved and turned into a collaborative work center within its old skeleton. To make a salute to the ancient history of the site, a strong axis that’s taken from Smyrna Mound passes through the site and gives life to it with its 4 features: green areas, walkways, gazebos and trees. These features diffuse into the site, hugging it and at the same time inviting people to the path where an uninterrupted vision towards the moun exists.
Plans and Sections
-1 Floor Plan
Ground Plan
ThirdSpace
by M.A. Türkfiliz
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2017-2018 Spring
Uprise Sinop! Counter Parliament
Pontus Euxinus: Sinopale Along the Wall Architectural Design Studio IV Instructor Team: Aydan Balamir, Kadri Atabaş, Marco Bruno, Saliha Aslan Site Location:
Central, Sinop/TURKEY
Grand Total of Designed Area: 1.500 m²
Team Work with N. Yawer, M. A. Türkfiliz & Z. Zaka Individual Work
Master Plan as Group Work Counter Parliament by E. Karabay
Memory Museum by N. Yawer
Creative Hub by Z. Zaka
Section AA’
The design concept rooted from the idea of
“Sinoplugiller”, which meant the city acted as a whole like a family. As a group our aim was to create a home environment for this big family so that they could again find a space to get together &act together.............................................................. As a part of the home environment, people needed a public space -composed of big and small scale spaces- apart from the commercial ones where they can gather and discuss all they wanted.............................................................. The expected result would be a strong public realm. What is more beneficial than to use this public realm to fuel the NGO acts? Therefore, some NGO offices are located right next to the public meeting areas.................................................. We determined the space between 2 disconnected ends of the wall as a large square which would coexist with the city scape and feed SINOPALE
events. This square would also rejuvenate the hidden historical buildings too..................................
Affected by the square settlement and a breathing space between the design area &the wall, the design is shaped among Kibris Street. This enabled covering the newly built, visually unpleasant buildings. 2 pedestrian ways are penetration the linear settlement to create access to the square. The big meeting space is elevated on the existing wall ruins in the site to emphasize the historic value and the allied act of Sinop’s ancestors.............................................................. Based on these:........................................................... 1. We are proposing a counter-parliment for the community in which the citizens can gather with the NGOs and make decisions about the future of the city and implement them..................... 2. Based on Edward Sojas concept of “ThirdSpace”, we are aiming to create a building which acts as the main meeting point of the citizens. It hosts many different functions which bring people together and encourage them to spend time collectively.............................................................. 3. A creative hub which is the main space used for the festivals for both the preperation phases and during the events. It accomodates the spaces of creative production for the artists and spaces to “exhibit” the outcomes................................................ 4. A memory museum to preserve and exhibit the collective memory of the city by creating a narrative of the history of Sinop based on the events, characters and intangible values which take place in the collective memory of the city.
Ground Plan
Upper Floors’ Plan
1. Great Hall of the Community (a) 2. NGO Offices (e) 3. Wall Ruins 4. Walkway 5. Cafe (c) 6. Public Meeting Rooms (a) 7. Alle 8. NGO Offices (e) 9. Stepped Green Area
Materials Weather Proof Precast Concrete Panels for exterior cladding Double Glass Aluminum Façade for exterior curtain walls Steel Stud System with Gypsium Board for interior walls &finishes Ceramic Tile Finish for interior slabs
a. Gathering Spaces -Single big scale space: Great Hall of Community: 450 m2
-Multiple small scale spaces
Public Meeting Rooms: 30 m2, 40 m2
b. Foyer &Information Boards - 100 m2 c. Cafes &Lounges - 200 m2 d. Service Areas -Lavatories -Kitchenettes -Technical Rooms e. NGO Offices - 200 m2 (20 m2 each)
Structure: RC Slab with Post Tension Cables RC Shear Walls &Steel Columns
Plans and Sections
System Detail
East Elevation
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2017-2018 Fall
AFF II : TOKI - Away Along the Banks of Bent Deresi: Forest Farm and Housing Architectural Design Studio III Instructor Team: Aydan Balamir, Kadri Atabaş, Marco Bruno, Saliha Aslan Site Location:
Altındağ, Ankara/TURKEY
Grand Total of Designed Area: 120.000 m²
Team Work with E. Durmaz &B. Üstün
Citadel of Ankara is an old settlement, the effects of this huge historical background has affected the site in many ways. Talking in architectural &urban aspects, the crooked urbanization can be observed in high rates. Many squatters are located around the old walls of Ankara Castle. The squatters are forming their own narrow streets. Those streets are threatening the old tissue of the castle since they are turning into less visited ghettos. Many historic buildings are abandoned and left to decay. Hıdırlık Hill
On the other hand, once completing the other half of the castle, Hıdırlık Hill is mostly used for residential purposes today. With the residences, the hill is contrasting the citadel hill in means of sociality. Then comes the recently built TOKI buildings in the site which also presents a great contrast with existing urban tissue. TOKI
Considering these, as a group, we raised the idea of combining the privacy of the residential areas and the public understanding of “AFF” (”Atatürk Farm Forest”) to connect the lack of integrity in the site, to give a meaning to very distinguished characteristics.
Citadel of Ankara
Terrace Farms
Hobby Gardens
Initial Model according to the design idea
Housings
Upper Floor with Gardens Upper Floor with Autopark &Stores Ground Floor with Autopark &Stores
Settlement Plan with 4 TOKI Buildings This proposal was an attempt to connect the disintegrated tissues of citadel by redesigning the TOKIs. As TOKIs have 12 floors , we didn’t place units on all of these floors. Upper floors of the highrises are designed to work as small green houses & workshop areas. The inner core of the buildings will work as the circulation of the whole settlement. Thus, this idea can be adapted to the other 23 TOKI buildings if needed.
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5 Rooms Double Floors
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To make a truss between the land and TOKIs, we designed our units climbing on the highrises in an attached manner. The orthogonal units complimented the TOKI design.
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Housing Plans and Sections
Scholars’ Library X’
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The design is based on the main axis of the site and is developed according to that. It is located at the lower part of the site and it acts as a bridge between the two sides of the site. In other words, it embraces the two different characters of the site: The Reseach Centers and the open green area at west. The given site provides us a natural curvature since it is a valley, out design uses that to create a void underneath and visual continuity across the site. At the same time, water cascades underline the axis. The library has a greenroof which people can climb, walk on &enjoy the view of the site.
Plans,Sections &Elevations
The design uses different usual qualities of spaces as internal design principle and is graded according to that. While the ground floor consists of mainly social areas such as main hall, multi-purpose hall and café, 1st and 2nd floor are composed of study areas, bookshelves and copy center.
Second Floor Plan
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East Elevation
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First Floor Plan
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North Elevation
Ground Plan
Site Plan
Scholars’ Library 1.500 m² Group Work
Physics Research Center 1.000 m² by H.B. Aydın
Biology Research Center 1.000 m² by İ.G. Özer
Chemistry Research Center 1.000 m² by E. Karabay
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2016-2017 Spring
Scholars’ Library & Chemistry Research Center erudite | Scientific Research Center Architectural Design Studio II Instructor Team: Güven Sargın, Fatih Öz, Ela A. Aral, Marco Bruno, İnci Basa, Barış Yağlı Site Location:
Gölbaşı, Ankara/TURKEY
Grand Total of Designed Area: 5.300 m²
Team Work with İ.G. Özer &H.B. Aydın Individual Work
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2017-2018 Spring
Linurb
Escher Problem | Maths in Architecture Maths in Architecture Instructor: Arzu G. Sorguรง
Individual Work
In this project, each student was given a tesselation of Maurits Cornelis Escher. The challenge was to place the tesselation on the 3D curvilinear object with minimum distortion in shapes. A 3D model of each application of tesselations would be made afterwards so students needed to consider also model making process while reflecting the pattern on the object.
Pattern
I was given Escher’s Seahorse pattern. The tesselation was made by glide reflection. When the patern is repeated several times, the patern’s kernel could be seen. It is a large square which contains 23 seahorses.
Geometry
To match the large square kernel of the tesselation, turning torso’s geometry was an ideal choice so that the kernel won’t get distorted too much.
End Result
The problem of creating a curvilinear surface with linear elements was a difficult challenge. The best result can be obtained by increasing the amount of fragmentation on the surface. However, it makes it harder for the pattern to not get distorted towards the ends.
Thank you.
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