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01 THE SENIOR CENTER
Academic Work, Parsons the New School of Design Individual, Fall 2015
The design intent is to build a space that adequately serves both young and old generations by creating a richer bodily experience through the adaptation of new and old materials, light, and sensory stimuli. One of the main ideas was to create volumed ceiling openings for each space, which turns the ceiling into a light fixture when the sun is streaming through. Since the multi-purpose spaces are the base points, the lighting is a diffuse blanket of light designed to accommodate any furniture orientation. There are modular furniture that can be changed, stored easily and allow many different program activities in the same space. The main material for the furniture is laminated bamboo, which is lightweight, meeting the multifunctional criteria. Also, it’s a uniform material that allows for treatment in different ways to meet different needs. The staircase is placed independently and made out of a different material, steel, to promote circulation through the sound of people walking up and down the stairs. Also, another idea behind using steel is that, steel weathers when being walked on, as the human life cycle. The limited material palette was a distinct design decision to avoid visual clutter caused by too many different materials while also keeping uniformity throughout the space.
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02 CONTAINER SHELTER
Academic Work, Parsons the New School of Design Individual, Spring 2015
The shelter, located in Williamsburg New York, is to help the young homeless population between the ages 18 and 24, to get back on their feet by supporting them with comprehensive development services and helping them to prepare for employment. It is a low-cost complex made out of 36 shipping containers stacked on top of one another. The advantage of using the shipping containers is threefold: their affordability, their sustainability, and their mobility. All of the furniture in the building is designed with affordability, sustainability, and modularity in mind. The main materials for the furniture are OSB and steel, which are chosen because they meet the previous criteria. Also, the materials give the sense of non-permanence, which the shipping containers also imply. Some parts of the building, like the group therapy room and the library, where the main classes and workshops will be held, is not only going to be used by the residents but also by the visitors and volunteers. On the upper level, there are the sleeping units, which are individual shipping containers converted into single occupancy units. The residents have their respective rooms with private bathrooms. The rooms also have private balconies facing the garden.
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03 DISABILITY TO ABILITY
Academic Work, Parsons the New School of Design Individual, Fall 2014
The concepts used in this project are simplicity, usage and solid-void. The entrance displays these three concepts with its high ceilinged white cube-like form. The entrance wall is lowered down to the height of a person sitting on a wheelchair, resulting on the visitors that are not children or disabled to bend down in order to pass through. This would make the visitors to recognize the difficulties that the disabled people are experiencing every day. The company was in need of an open space, an exhibition area, classroom and more storage. In order to provide all, a modular space that can serve as multipurpose room is designed. In the cavities along the side walls, the cubical units that can be used as a table, chair, shelf, or an exhibition platform are stored. This system offers the chance to transform the space into a classroom or an exhibition area when they are pulled out and all packed in the walls. Also, the negative space when the units are pulled out from the wall can also be used as exhibition space. The second floor is divided into two parts; the workshop area and the office area, in order to prevent the noise problem. To sustain a limited visual access and integrity through the second floor, the lower parts of walls of some rooms are made out of glass, also referring to the wall at the entrance.
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1 Entrance 2 Multipurpose Area 3 WC 4 Storage 5 Workshop Area 6 Laser Cutter Room 7 Storage 8 Kitchen 9 WC 10 Office 11 Meeting Room 12 Manager’s Office 13 Archive Room
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04 WATER TOWER 360o
Academic Work, Istanbul Bilgi University Individual, Spring 2014
This is a renovation project of an old water tower into a restaurant/bar while preserving its rounded and continuous form. Using the elevator, visitors enter the building directly up into the winery located on the first floor. In the circular shaped winery, the wine bottles are penetrated into the diffused lightened plexi glass walls. The visitors choose their wines in this area to enjoy them at the panoramic terrace with Istanbul’s view on the second floor. On the third floor there is a restaurant that serves experimental food. The lights and shadows were the main focus while designing the restaurant floor. The sunlight penetrates into the double heighted restaurant space, creating a light show on the surfaces during the daytime. During the night time, the light that penetrates out of the building creates a dynamic appearance from outside. Continuity was one of the most important design concepts of the project based on the circular and continuous form of the original structure. Thus, the interior elements such as interior walls, dining tables, and other furniture were designed accordingly. Also the building is aimed to have a very plain language so that the multi-sensorial elements could be in the forefront.
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1 90mm fiber reinf. concrete 2mm bituminous membrane 100mm EPS insulation 2mm bituminous membrane 60mm leveling screed 120mm reinf. concrete + corrugated steel sheet 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 2 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 2mm TYVEK 50mm EPS insulation 10mm OSB panel 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 3 90mm concrete + surface hardener 10mm cork sheet 100mm EPS insulation 60mm leveling screed 120mm reinf. concrete + corrugated steel sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 4 90mm concrete + surface hardener 10mm cork sheet 100mm EPS insulation 60mm leveling screed 120mm reinf. concrete + corrugated steel shet 10mm OSB panel 100mm EPS insulation 2mm bituminous membrane 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 5 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 2mm bituminous membrane 50mm EPS insulation 10mm OSB plane 10mm OSB plane
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50mm EPS insulation 2mm bituminous membrane 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 90mm concrete + surface hardener 10mm cork sheet 60mm leveling screed 120mm reinf. concrete + corrugated steel sheet 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 90mm concrete + surface protector silicone 2mm bituminous membrane 100mm EPS insulation 60mm leveling screed 120mm reinf. concrete + corrugated steel sheet 10mm OSB panel 100mm EPS insulation 2mm bituminous membrane 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 2mm bituminous membrane 50mm EPS insulation 10mm OSB panel 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 90mm concrete + surface hardener 10mm cork sheet 100mm EPS insulation 60mm leveling screed 120mm reinf. concrete + corrugated steel sheet 10mm OSB panel 100mm EPS insulation 2mm bituminous membrane 12mm fiber-cement sheeting 12mm fiber-cement sheeting
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05 EMBEDDED HOTEL
Academic Work, Istanbul Bilgi University Individual, Fall 2013
This is a hospitality design intended for long-term accommodation envisaged to be located on the hills of Alacati, Turkey. The rock formations which are partly embedded within slopes and the inclined topography have been considered as forming the main principle of the design. Accordingly, level differences in the hotel rooms are created. This approach has also helped forming the central sunken living room areas. At the same time, the stairs inside the room, while not distorting the design’s contiguity have composed an alternative sitting/reading unit.
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06 THE KINDERGARTEN
Academic Work, Istanbul Bilgi University Individual, Fall 2011
The designs, which commenced with a cubical form and a square grid structures, are made for an already existing kindergarten. The playground structure that sits on this grid system is designed using the cubes as a base point, forming a labyrinth like structure that allows kids to play and climb. One half of the playground is orderly, while the other half is chaotic and has a rising slope at the end: thereby providing kids with a diverse surrounding which aims to stimulate their imagination. Moreover, the classrooms were in need of more storage space, desks and playing space; in order to solve this space problem, a cubical desk/locker element was designed. Some of the cubes in between the lockers could be pulled out and used as desks and chairs.
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Stretching the main form
Adding a surface on top to form the desk
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Adding surfaces to all sides of the cube to form storage
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07 ELEVATOR OF LIGHTS
Academic Work, Istanbul Bilgi University Individual, Spring 2013
This design emphasizes the usage of a single material by placing stripes of wood first against the walls then as if perpendicular to them. Therefore, the vertical boards protrude through the horizontal ones on the ceiling, leaving gaps in between. This placement on all surfaces without ceasing the pattern at the edges highlights the continuousness of the design. The gaps at the joints generate various effects by emitting beams of light, thereby creating an atmosphere in line with the spa center for which the elevator was designed.
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1 2x50x250cm timber board 2 Aluminum joint elements 3 2x2x250cm timber board 4 45x10x2cm timber board 5 Led lighting 6 10x2x250cm timber board 7 2,2cm mdf panel 8 Steel elevator structure
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09 THE PLANAR CHAIR
Academic Work, Istanbul Bilgi University Individual, Spring 2013
The design principle solid void, introduces a form where side views give one the sense of a section cut of the chair. The design is composed of two doweled elements where sliding hollows serves as seat and backrest, the plates become armrests. The structure also introduces a sectional sense from the side view. The material chosen on the seat and the backrest is galvanized iron, which is not comfortable, on purpose, to point out the dilemma of aesthetics surpassing functionality.
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09 THE COILING STORE
Academic Work, Istanbul Bilgi University Individual, Spring 2012
The shop was designed as a representation of the product it sells, a ball, meaning that the shop is designed to give it a sense of the ball. Therefore, considering the continuous, never ending rounded shape of the ball, four curved paths were integrated to the interior structure for rolling the ball. Each path had a distinct shape providing different trajectories for the ball. The path which are used for demonstration and trial purposes, take the walls, the window and the door as references.
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10 INSTRUMENTALIZING ISTANBUL
Academic Work, Istanbul Bilgi University Workshop collaborated with Cardiff University, UK Group, Spring 2011
A pattern on a bridge across the Golden Horn is used to create the main component. By multiplying one main unit, three different sized 3D components are formed. They are placed so as to lead the viewer by looking through each of the gaps to the larger one until they reach a particular view, ultimately framing the Golden Horn.
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THE STAGE OF BURDEN
Academic Work, Istanbul Bilgi University Individual, Fall 2011
In the given scenario, three people are trapped in a nearly ruined room that floats away due to a severe flood. Based on this storyline, a theatre stage was designed as the damaged room without its walls and ceiling, only with the wireframe of its basic structure remaining as if tied together with ropes. The worming people, dancers, who seem to carry the stage from beneath, like the water of the flood, represent the guilt of humanity carrying the weight of the damage they have done to the environment that caused the flood.
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The initial room form that took place in the play.
The collapse of the essentials.
The distortion of the essentials.
The final form.
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