2019, selected works

selected works by merve akdoÄ&#x;an

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The first idea of ​​the project was to strengthen the current relationship of Çan with water. For centuries, water has witnessed many historical events, has been transported throughout the cities and has created a memor y. In this context, the memor y of water is important in Çan and its surroundings as it is in many cities of the world. Although Kocaçay has a branch bed that is branched out, it takes the water to the surrounding towns and villages, and it is possible that the water is transformed into a common memor y that can connect people.

The second main idea that created the project was to realize that we were designing in a town. If we look at the situation of the industrialized towns and the people that are now widely spoken on the world, people migrate from the town as the technology progresses in such settlements and the need for humanity decreases and the town’s population is decreasing. If we look at the aerial photographs shown in the examples, city-based settlements are approaching more rational forms in urban planning. Therefore, the ‘habitat’, which is the subject of the project, has been considered as a temporar y, dynamic and stretchable function due to the fact that we are working in Çan.

Pedestrian paths at two different levels shape the environment and form a public texture. This publicity is based on the relationship with water, and in this system the roads always come to a meeting point. For banks housed along the coastline, energy banks create a surface that can be experienced by all kinds of people thanks to the pontoons connected to them. Artificial islands are equipped to meet the needs of electricity, water and heating, and each energy is connected to its bank so that basic needs are provided before settling in. At the same time, the pool, which is close to the living units, allows people to fuse together and provide a collective life. The area, which is almost in the center of the system, which is sometimes semi-enclosed, sometimes open to an open space, includes surfaces on the pontoons and an exhibition of an archive from the people living there. In addition, cafes, toilets and public spaces are placed in structures that are attached to an artificial island designed as a park. The self-feeding system is transformed into a new landscape method using gray water on land.

graduation project water-net

รงanakkale / รงan 2018

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marketplace & park

landscape character and variation of public areas

design with the rising water

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This type is actually the cheapest one. It includes a floating surface and a tent to live in. Once you plug your tent to the habitation power bank, you have the electricity, water and heating. Plantation is optional.

This module is equipped to meet the basic needs of a person. At the same time, its flexibility is positive in terms of being able to address many types of users at the same time.

VERTICAL LIFE

WASTE

Since most of the types are customized, this one is a custom living unit of a researcher who makes some researches about flow rate of the water.

Another unit that is customized is a unit which investigates the recyclable particles in water.

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Things are changing. Responsive, bottom-up, user-defined, self-organizing systems are preferred over top-down, centrally controlled grand organizations. Experiencing phases of festivity, desolation, depredation and instauration, the 500 year-old Château de Chambord now goes through the stage of rebirth. The rebirth, which we can justify only through today’s terms.

Globally, through the veins of the data networks, flowing are torrents of data on the accomplished, in-progress and to-be-defined. Information is everywhere. Life seems to run on a virtual layer. Yet, People value real and tangible interaction environments rather than a receiver seat facing broadcast content. Indicated is the power of being on the spot, working collectively work on site and enjoying the solid experience.

Within this scope, MEF FADA DesignLAB Team offers the rebirth as a process-based design that enables the user to be engaged in the progress. The team gains the initiative to suggest a base, a structural cloud, a ghost within the landscape that remakes the other half of the chateau.

The 3-dimensional structure is designed to be erected on the incomplete part of the chateau, continuing the contour of the existing building as if it is completed. The ontology of the chateau will be re-presented through contemporary technologies and the tension between the old and the new will challenge its existence.

The mentioned structural cloud is formed by vertical fibers, reaching up to the virtual contour of the original design of the building. The fibers are weave-erected by robotic arms that simply climb their way up to the end of the vertical element. A base ring, placed on the existing roof of the unfinished part, acts as the point of anchorage for each fiber. The material for the fibers is envisaged to be flexible, load bearing and with a high grip feature. What you get out of this system is a forest of fibers, ready to host her guests and their personal spaces.

In the suggested process, as the design of the structural cloud is completed, an open call would allow the potential residents to imagine occupying the host forest on their spots of preference. The guest residents describe their personal place of imagination to be translated into a solid architectural space. These “cabins” are designed and constructed to be placed into the designated spot, forming dots and clusters in the new biosphere of the Chateau de Chambord. A vivid environment of artistic and intellectual work, research and interaction, rising on a body of history and experience. An ever-changing cloud of visiting laboratories, a cumulation with new arrivals put up a tower of babylon-like character of a rising construct. This new body that resembles an ongoing collaborative process is thought to grow as if it finalizes the chateau -or even grow larger than it is meant to be, as the time dictates.

As each guest shall have a unique character of work and reflection, so their cabins. They form a network of nests, held in place by the gentle forest of the chateau and interconnected by a decent web of catwalks and stairs.

Seen from a distance, the impression is a delicate cloud, dotted with objects of life, and a vague traffic of residents and visitors in the air, backdropped by the beautiful countryside.

filling in the blanks MEF FADA DesignLAB, Istanbul

Team Aras Kalkan Beril Sarısakal Burcu Serdar Köknar Deniz Onat Öztürk (Video Edit) Derya Uzal Kürşad Özdemir Merve Akdoğan Nimet Değertaş Ozan Avcı Selin Bilgin Sena Üna

unfinished chambord competition and exhibition work led by Dominique Perrault

france / chambord 2018

samson y., a demolition expert and planner

filiz s., a choreographer and performer

ışık g., a botanical artist

nazlÄą e.n., a graphic designer

sean u., a climber

orรงun o., a choreographer

ke q., a computer scientist

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Al The Architect and Future Speculations of Istanbul,Büyükdere Büyükdere, a skyscraper town of Istanbul, where many skyscrapers and business centers are flowing, is the backbone of Istanbul. Until now, architects have constructed structures without thinking about future scenarios, and it has become controversial how these structures are necessary. The project is a future speculation in Istanbul.

This speculation, as in every design, has an architect, a design and a context. This time, however, the architect is not a man, but an artificial intelligence. Why is it that the person who designs and produces everything in the future shouldn’t be an artificial intelligence, while technology can see that it is progressing incredibly day by day and sometimes it is taking the place of people? Would it be that the architect’s artificial intelligence would create a perfect design?

In this project, which aims to create a possible answer to these and other such questions, the architect Al makes a series of analyzes and statistics about the fact that Büyükdere is much more concentrated and people no longer have places to live. Then he thinks that the upper side of Büyükdere Street has a high potential in producing a public space and places to live. At the top level of the design, Garden of Eden can be reached by a series of elevators on Büyükdere Street. It creates this space in the library by analyzing and reproducing the landscapes that people love. In fact, everything he produces is the best combination of the past when it comes together. There is a shopping center at the bottom level. This building is 1 km along Büyükdere Street and all the places are large enough to serve all the people around. The lower level of the garden of the paradise contains the necessary structural layers and the inner part of the volume consists of a shopping center. The swinging capsules of the structure offer a new and attractive lifestyle for people. Al creates these modules according to the economic and sociological possibilities of people. The millions of data that Al possesses are very satisfactory in providing the most suitable space for each family and every individual.

However, after the construction of the building began, people were disturbed by the size and monumentality of this building, which is unexpected for Al. In fact, he thinks that the design of the world’s best and most knowledgable architect should be challenged. People go out into the streets and rebel against this situation and say that they do not want this structure here. In this case, Al is distracted and confused. This confusion causes a number of disturbances and mutations in its algorithm, production method, library and habitat.

After that, this structure has taken its place in the history pages and its monumentalism and Al’s architect ego tell new genera- tions. Büyükdere street has been the scene of many important events throughout history. Al was able to build and fill the structure only. It is a monumental structure and a paradoxical paradise.

*IAPS Culture and Space Jury Special Award (Sonsuz bir kentsel artikülasyon mekanı olarak İstanbul)

7th term project AI the architect

istanbul / bĂźyĂźkdere street 2018

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The project aims to provide post-earthquake shelters, basic needs to be born from this shelter and a masterplan on Haliรง supported by a collective lifestyle. This urban-scale design, based on the concept of pixelation and multiplication, offers both an organic and a systematic settlement strategy. Pixelated living units form surfaces for activities that are suitable for all kinds of social life for collective life at some points.

These surfaces are not just for people. For submarine life, a pathway material has been chosen that passes the light and air that connects the floating pontoon to each other. Besides the collective life, one of the basic design decisions is the flexible and interchangeable spaces.

Since the design serves a post-earthquake scenario, it is not possible to think of a durable population.

Thus, the spaces that change into the changing population help to recruit the population over time. For example, an accomodation unit may be used as a accomodation in the first instance, but may be a unit of a market area established after a certain period of time.

At the same time, junctions that overlap at some point form a walkable roof in the upper levels. These roofs are added to the activity areas left on the pontoon to offer people a second socializing place.

If we were to place the accommodation elements side by side not on top of each other, we would not be creating such a social space, nor could spaces that support collective life. The design is generally made up of three types of pontoon joined together in different orientations. These three types of pontoon; It has dimensions of 9x9x2,6x6x2 and 3x3x2. Upper buildings of these pontoons form distinctive areas of their own, not a repeat in the living area,with different orientations and combinations. These pontoons and upper structures are produced in four types to facilitate industrial production.

These types are designed with some basic principles in mind. For example, at least 30 percent of the total pontoon area in each type must be empty. The surface must be at least as open as the open area. While these types combine to form diversity, this diversity can be made into a simple scheme for facilitating the people who will build things. Another factor that will make it easier in the production area is that the installation only takes place in the 9x9 pontoon.

The 6x6 and 3x3 pontoon connected to the 9x9 pontoon uses the wet spaces located in the 9x9 pontoon. There is also a toilet and bathroom unit and a kitchen and shelter unit that feeds all types.

These spaces are the places that use the same wall by giving back to back so that water pipes can be installed on the same line. At the same time, 9x9 pontoon on large scale are aligned with each other so that a straight line is drawn from the land and all types are easily reached. The top-detail detail solutions provide a flexible design and flexible spaces. The structure consists of a collapsible and shrinkable steel frame system so that the building can be easily stacked and logistics can be easily achieved. After this frame is set up, there are 8 types of panels in which the furniture in the interior is located.

These panels create spaces that can be transformed into flexible and different functions intended for the first stage of design. Panels are designed by layering in isolation. Thus, there is no need for a specialist to design a construction process. People can contribute to the construction of their own homes and change their spaces over time as they wish. With this way, the design works in a timeline and has its own dynamics.

* The book and the design proposals are exhibited at 4th Istanbul Design Biennial and Luma Arles.

6th term project Living on water - Post-Earthquake

istanbul / haliรง 2017

Ayvansaray Neigborhood Balat Park & Sports Area 3 state school 1 private hospital 2 family health center

Balat Neighborhood coastal path

hasköy pier

kasımpaşa-sütlüce tunnel sports field

Police center 2 state school 1 knowledge house

balat hospital old galata bridge and remains

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Population

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Ayvansaray Keçeci Piri Cami Kebir Balat

Kulaksız

Kulaksız

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Keçeci Piri Neighborhood Aynalıkavak kindergarten Aynalıkavak family health center Aynalıkavak training classes 1 state school

Kulaksız Neighborhood 1 state highschool 1 police center

Cami Kebir Neighborhood Aynalıkavak Kasrı 1 children police center Taşkızak Shipyard

Woman 20.475 (%48)

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Children 2.980 (%7)

Security

Elderly (+55) 6.385 (%15)

2 police offices

Health

Disabled 2.554 (%6) Primary School Level 29.286 (%68.8)

health centers for 500 people balat pier

cemetery

School

capacity for 2500 children taşkızak shipyard municipality facilities and sports field

Settlement suitable land area

594.36 m2

Settlement suitable water area

115.74 m2

Green Field ( tent population )

113.000

Number of the tents needed

10.322

Number of the houses on water

2419

Number of the houses on land

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Inhabitance unit in m2

9 m2

Capacity

7257

Number of inhabitants ( after one year )

8423

Land -Basic Needs=Tents, Toilets, Food Supply Units -Childcare= child care units

Sea Basic Needs= Dwellings, Toilets Safety = Security Unit

-Medical and Psychological Aid (Health Center,Pscycological Help Desk

Coordination and Need

-Education =Study Hall

Childcare= 0-6 years old education unit

-Hygiene = Laundaries

Assessment =Suppy Unit

-Waste Removal =Garbage Bins -Employment Opportunities= Women Recreation Units -Pyschological and Social Needs= Meeting&Eating Units

What were the engineering limitations on section ?

In 4th region of Haliç, there is soft clay layer There are; about 35-40 cm. * sandstone The surface of the clay layer is almost horizontal and clay layer’s thickness is about

30-50 meter.

Settlements should start with 1.5m depth for housing.

* siltstone * mudstone

beneath the clay layer which composes the rock layer.

Toki-like order would be placed but we choose a different way!

Seperation of the pontoons in order to provide semi-transparent pathways to provide sea to breath

Placed some of the cubes to the upper parts in order to provide usable roof tops and quality spaces

Type A Design Principles Minimum %30 of the spaces should be open public area Housing Kitchen & Storage Toilets

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We will use small ships to obtain supplies to our residential area. These ships has dimensions as “Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 12m × 4m” and its draught will be 1.2m.

In order to obtain enough turning area for these supply ship we will have 36m width navigation channel at least. Since our area have approximately 5m depth at least we can place the channel according these restrictions and use ships that have these dimensions.

How will we prepare our material before earthquake?

How will we prepare our material before earthquake?

Average number of worker in one workplace

*At least 1

Fatih : 2.85 BeyoÄ&#x;lu : 4.62

This number will be even higher for our region. They are mostly the businesses in highly damaged neighborhoods.

(this number is very small for our region, small businesses)

Spaces are appropriate to create job opportunities : Marketplaces

in 4 businesses will not re-open after disaster.

Plantation-existence of open areas for required personal development and activity involment.

This kind of landscape method will provide us to eliminite grey water.

Education units for 0-6 age children creates children friendly and safe places.

Kitchens are serving for both cooking and storage area for all types. It’s flexibility allow to create additional communal spaces.

Isolation requirements Wheather proof Soundproof

Usage of easily found and recycled materials Building, housing, quickly and economicly Environmentally friendly

Easier modification of units Creates additional spaces Personalization Sense of belonging

“The furniture is designed to be adaptable especially in bedrooms and living room.”

(Yüksel, Hasırcı, 2012) “The furniture should not be haderdouz to health in any way, be durable and provide ease of installation and replacement” (Aytöre,2005)

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redrawing venice Venice Biennial - vardiya - the shift #11

italy / venice 2018