Burcu Kรถken Portfolio MArch Applicant
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Pedestrian Rhetoric Urban Academy in Alsancak, Izmir 4th year, Spring 2010 - 2011
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Tetris House Housing Project in Alsancak, Izmir 3rd year, Fall 2009 - 2010
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Winery House Winery House in Urla, Izmir 2nd year, Spring 2008 -2009
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Selcuk Train Station Train Station in Selcuk, Izmir 2nd year, Fall 2008-2009
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Infobox Tourist Information Center, Izmir 1st year, Spring 2007 - 2008
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Katsura Villa Architectural History and Theory Class 3rd year, Spring 2009 - 2010
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Pedestrian Rhetoric
Graduation Project | 2011 Izmir | Urban Academy
“... Walking defines a ‘space of enunciation’.” From ‘Practices of Daily Life’, Michel De Certau
“... de Certeau sees a daily substitution ‘for technologic system of a coherent and totalizing space’ by a ‘pedestrian rhetoric’.” From ‘The State of Postmodernism’, David Harvey
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Problem/Approach Today`s education system is in a box that we call as school or university. The knowledge is not accesible for everyone. The project aims more accesible education complex in one of the most crowded district in Izmir.
"I am an ephemeral And a not too DISCONTENTED CITIZEN Of a METROPOLIS considered modern Because all known taste Has been evaded in the furnishing Sand the exterior of the houses As well as in the layout of the CITY. Here you will fail to detect the least trace Of any monument of superstition. Morals and language Are reduced to their simplest expression, At last! The way these MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, Who do not even need to know each other, Manage their EDUCATION, business, And old age is so identical That the course of their lives Must be several times less long Than that which a MAD STATISTICS Calculates for the people of the continent.� Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
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Systematic / Organic
Site While the neighbour land which is historical center of the city, had ogranically grew with time; the site is in a planned context due to the dramatic developments in city. The site is facing one of the most imporant traffic axis. It is also located in a context that we may call academic site. Site is nearby two historical highschools, one of them is Bruno Taut’s, other is the oldest highschool in Izmir and French Institute.
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systematized city context
Motherboard / Izmir
Problem/Approach The modern city is based on a systematic structure. It forms the city’s outline; the relationships between buildings, spaces, the traffic. This structure operates very similar to a computer’s motherboard. Every part is related to another and they work together for a single purpose. In this process, the system works in one way, there is an absolute solution, there is no possibility for a concidence; which seperates from the city because of the most important ingredient of people / pedestrian. If we consider people, this absolute - single solution is not in question. People talks with their steps in the city, they create pathways, shortcuts. Every individual forms it’s own system, which leads to a ‘pedestrian rhetoric’.
systematized education
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Suggested Space Integration Considering the systematic order of the city, the space organization is also does not response alternative spatial needs. The typical relation between spaces provided by a corridor and it is closed to outside. Therefore, my suggestion is, removing doors and corridors and creating spaces without door. This way, spaces will integrate with each other inside and with pedestrian at outside. step 1
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Tetris House
Third Year Project | 2010 Izmir | Residential
Considering housing potentials in the dense metropol citiess are extremely important nowadays. This project focuses on Izmir’s most pedestrian active district and designing a housing building combining in the dense city context.
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Alsancak
The site was located in the most preferred pedestrian area of the city of Izmir. Working young people who prefer to rent a house close to their work in order to avoid the traffic jam compose the general dweller profile of this site. To support the urban life, I preferred to design the living units of my residential complex as small as possible so that they would be used mostly for sleeping while the dwellers would spend the rest of their days out in the neighborhood.
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Section Process I examined the relations between flats and possible alternative spaces with city through section. First level and the garden between blocks were designed for public use. I aimed to create dynamic relation between flats, and because of the desity of the flats, gardens between floors were formed in order to create a breathing space in building.
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Living Units In the project there are five different living unit types which combine with each other like in a Tetris game. But in this game, while some parts of the units fit to each other, some parts do not and create alternative spaces which I figured out as extensions of urban life within the residential complex.
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03 Winery House
Second Year Project | 2009 Izmir | Public
The task was creating a w�inery house and a hotel with ten rooms. The site was in a small populated village on Izmir which their income is from vinegrowing. The project area is in between two hills, one of them faces the village, and the other one faces the forest.
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Problem/Approach The open, semi - open, closed area relationship provides living space different than inside the building. The program units are base on two different components: wine production and hotel. In first two levels here are wine production, sale and tasting units and administration. A person who just interests in wine is able to deal with own works without stopping at the other parts. In third and forth floor visitor units; such as hotel and restaurant, are located. traffic
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Selçuk Train Station
Second Year | 2008 Izmir | Public
Selçuk is a little town of Izmir with huge historical background. Ephesus, House of Virgin Mary, Basilica of St. John and Isa Bey Mosque is in the territory of the town. So, Selçuk welcomes great amount of tourists every year. But the town center is not suitable for the town’s own character. The train station and the town square facing the station is designed considering the current situation of Selçuk.
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Problem/Approach The project’s aim is to connect the square to the station and overpass with walls. The train station located at the intersection point of two main axis; rail way axis and square axis. The walls which gives the main form of building, organized according to the pedestrian flow and main references from site.
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pedestrian flow from square
pedestrian flow from city center
pedestrian flow from square
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Infobox
First Year Project | 2008 Izmir | Public
The Location of the infobox is based on the strategic condition and let my design to interpret this place according to the tropisms depending on two axis which have important pedestiran uses in area. The first axis greets ferry and the gulf. The second axis placed parallel of YKM and greets to the stations, bus stops and Kemeralti. Spaces are linearly organised and program set up in two elevations. In the ground level first spatial uses for visitors were located and continues with Exhibition Space.
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Katsura Villa
Third Year | 2010 | Theory and History of Architecture Class
Katsura Imperial Villa is beeing considered as one of the most important influences on modernist architects such as Bruno Taut and Wlater Groupious due to its minimalistic style. In addition to this, its strong relation with nature also effected these architects. When a visitor enters the villa, the pedestrian journey starts. During the walk, pedestrian always encounters spesific scenery from garden, which is sometimes a tree, sometimes a bridge. My model interpretation is based on this scenery, vista feature of the Villa. The box is sized proportional to a tatami mat. The plan at the base shows the direction of a pedestrian route and the slides shows the vistas during this pedestrian journey.
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e-mail: kokenburcu@gmail.com
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