Architecture Portfolio_Melih Tokac

Po r t folio 2011-2019

Melih Tokaรง architect

middle east technical university

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Contents

Curriculum vitae

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Professional works

DUNKER Simulation Building

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SHKES Simulation Building

7-10

KBRN Simulation Building

11-13

Lüleburgaz Yıldızları Swimming Academy

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Ritüel Ankara Mixed-Use Complex

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Boomerang Ankara Mixed-Use Complex

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Competitions

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

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Arboreal Zonguldak Rehabilition Center

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Çaycuma Science Center

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Sivas Kızılırmak River Bank Development

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Bornova Municipality Building

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UIA/The 12th International Young Architects Competition

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Autodesk Design Next Competition

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Rönesans “Sürdürülebilir Geleceği Tasarla” Competition

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Curriculum Vitae

About me I am a young architect, who was born in Eskisehir on 10th of April, 1993. I graduated from Middle East Technical University in 2016. During my undergraduate and graduate years, I tried to improve my professional skills, participated in various architectural competitions and received awards. I attended conferences and workshops and also spared my time for social activities. I worked as a lifeguard in Los Angeles for four months with work and travel exchange program.

I am highly organized and enthusiastic designer always open to self improvement and hope to contribute my work and company as well as myself. I hope to get involved with technology and sustainable solutions in my projects and integration of these subjects with design, from initial concept to construction in real life. I enjoy travelling, art and photography which are inseparable from architecture.

Education Melih Tokaç Architect, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TURKEY

2016 - 2019

Middle East Technical University| Ankara, Turkey, Master in Architecture

2018 Technical University of Braunschweig | Braunschweig, Germany Erasmus Exchange 2011 - 2016

Middle East Technical University | Ankara, Bachelor Degree

2007 - 2011

Eskişehir Fatih Fen High School | Eskişehir, Turkey

Awards

2018 Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom Design National Competition | 1st Prize | with FREA

Arboreal Zonguldak Bölüklü Highland - Rehabilition Center WA Awards |

27th Cycle Winner | with FREA

(+90) 537 971 84 51

melihtokacarch.com issuu.com/melihtokac melihtokac@gmail.com melihtokac.arch@gmail.com

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Cicekdag Street 7/15 06680 Cankaya ANKARA

2017

UIA/The 12th International Young Architects’ National Competition | Jury special prize

2016

Sivas Kızılırmak River Bank Development Competition | 3rd Prize | with ONZ

Çaycuma Science Center National Competition | 2nd Mention Award | with ONZ

2015

Bornova Municipality Building Invited Competition | 4th Mention Award |

WA Awards 22th Cycle Winner | with FREA

Autodesk Design Next National Student Competition | 3rd prize

2014

Rönesans “Sürdürülebilir Geleceği Tasarla” National Student Competition | Mention Award 1

Work Experience

Internship Experience

FREA Architects | Ankara, Turkey

Rönesans Holding | İstanbul, Turkey

March 2017 - August 2019 | 2 Years 6 Months

June 2015 - August 2015| 3 Months

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Conceptual Design, Architectural Design, Application and Shop Drawings,

Building Site Internship, Construction Surveying, Shop Drawings

3D Modelling, Competition Team, Project Coordination, BIM Architect Projects

Projects

DUNKER Simulation Building | 4.800 m² | METEKSAN Savunma | 2019 | Kocaeli

Hilton Shopping Mall and Hotel | 63.000 m² | Rönesans Holding | 2015 | İstanbul

SHKES Simulation Building | 5.000 m² | METEKSAN Savunma | 2019 | İzmir KBRN Simulation Building | 5.800 m² | METEKSAN Savunma | 2019 | Kocaeli

FREA Architects | Ankara, Turkey

Supreme Court Additional Service Buildings | 6.500 m² | Rönesans Holding | 2018 | Ankara

August 2015 - October 2015| 3 Months

Incek Housing | 10.200 m² | Yavuz Yapı | 2018 | Ankara Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom | 4.500 km² | Çanakkale Governership | 2017 | Gelibolu, Çanakkale

Responsibilities

Lüleburgaz Yıldızları Swimming Academy | 30.000 m² | Lüleburgaz Municipality | 2016 | Lüleburgaz, Kırklareli

Office Internship, Conceptual Design, Architectural Design, Physical Model Making

Arboreal Zonguldak Bölüklü Highland Rehabilition Center | 2.000 m² | Zonguldak Municipality | 2016 | Zonguldak Projects Bornova Municipality Building | 67.000 m² | Bornova Municipality | 2015 | İzmir

ONZ Architects | Ankara, Turkey June 2016 - November 2016 | 6 Months

Six Flags Magic Mountain | Los Angeles, USA June 2014 - October 2014| 4 Months

Responsibilities Conceptual Design, Architectural Design,3D Modelling, Competition Team

Responsibilities Lifeguard, Operating Rides, Informing Customers about Safety Rules, Maintaining Pools’ Cleaning

Projects Ritüel Ankara | 9550 m² | Ankara Construction & Güven Construction | 2016 | Ankara

Gazi University | Ankara, Turkey

Boomerang Ankara | 12.780 m² | Ankara Construction & Güven Construction | 2016 | Ankara

June 2014 - July 2014| 2 Months

Sivas Kızılırmak River Bank Development | 6.500.000 m² | Sivas Municipality | 2016 | Sivas Çaycuma Science Center | 2.000 m² | Çaycuma Municipality | 2016 | Zonguldak

Responsibilities Workshop / Internship, Constructing Real Life Examples ef Building Elements Such as Walls, Columns etc.

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Languages Turkish

Native Language

English

Advanced

German

Beginner

Conferences Workshops 2015

International Architectural Biennial | Antalya

2016

Türkiye’de BIM Zamanı, Autodesk | İstanbul

Ideal Cities Summit | Ankara

2017

International Young Architects Meeting | Antalya

2018

Augmented Reality Lab | Workshop + Design Project | Braunschweig TU

Skills and Softwares AutoCAD

Corona

Revit

V-Ray

3ds Max

Lumion

Navisworks

Photoshop

Rhinoceros

Illustrator

Sketchup

Indesign

Unity

Premiere

Grasshopper

Microsoft Office

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PROFESSIONAL WORKS

DUNKER SIMULATION BUILDING Year:

2019

Location:

Kocaeli, Turkey

Employer:

METEKSAN

Program:

Office, Simulation Training Building

Statute:

Project Phase

Construction Area: 4800 m²

Mass positioning and orientation are considered with reference to surrounding buildings in accordance with the vehicle circulation path. The division of the architectural program into pool hangar structure and office units within itself resulted in the mass separation of the structure to be designed. However, the interconnectedness of the units in terms of operation has ensured that the integrity is not completely disrupted and that the two masses are handled in a complementary manner. Due to the technical requirements, the wide opening of the hangar structure has been proposed as steel break roof. The office structure is designed in a structure that follows the slope of this roof and captures integrity.

These two masses were separated from each other by a low-level interface, but the mass integrity was not disturbed.

DUNKER Simulation Building

DUNKER Simulator Building consists of indoor pool hangar, equipment room, classrooms; office rooms for employees, security point and other necessary rooms (locker, toilet, and shower) designed to be simulated to escape from the helicopter / compulsory landing aircraft.

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Section A-A’

Section B-B’

Simulation area

Administrative areas

Administrative areas

Training areas Resting areas

DUNKER Simulation Building

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DUNKER Simulation Building

SHKES SIMULATION BUILDING Year:

2019

Location:

Ä°zmir, Turkey

Employer:

METEKSAN

Program:

Office, Simulation Training Building

Statute:

Concept Phase

Construction Area: 5000 m²

Architectural program is divided into two as swimming pool and office spaces, because of technical necessities. Due to the requirements of the spaces under the masses, different heights were used as a potential design tool so that differentiation and harmony were achieved. In addition, the masses were placed in the design area to enclose the landscape so that the area in between can be used as an extension of the building and the program.

SHKES Simulation Building

SHKES Simulator Building is a military training building for survival training in difficult conditions in water.

Design consists of indoor pool hangar, equipment room, classrooms, office rooms for employees, security point and other necessary rooms (locker, toilet, and shower)

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DUNKER Simulation Building

Axonometric View

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Simulation area

Training areas

Offices

Service areas

SHKES Simulation Building

Âą0.00 Plan

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Seciton A-A’

Section B-B’

Section D-D’

Simulation area

Training areas

Offices

Service areas

SHKES Simulation Building

Section C-C’

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KBRN SIMULATION BUILDING Year:

2019

Location:

Kocaeli, Turkey

Employer:

METEKSAN

Program:

Office, Simulation Training Building

Statute:

Concept Phase

KBRN simulation building is designed to provide military training against Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear circumstances may happen in war or accidental situations.

Within the scope of the project, KBRN defense create, develop and to freshen; physical protection, purification, warning and reporting, detection, diagnosis, sampling, medical first aid conditions and architectural design meets necessities of technical spaces. Since the content and the context of the design is very dense, architectural form is cubical which fills its construction site with maximum efficiency. Simulation area which is the relatively largest space placed in the middle and the rest wrapped around that space. And at the top roof skylight is introduced to get the most benefit from sunlight.

KBRN Simulation Building

Construction Area: 5800 m²

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Axonometric View

+9.00 Plan

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Simulation area

Training areas

Offices

Service areas

KBRN Simulation Building

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Section A-A’

Section B-B’

Section D-D’

Simulation area

Training areas

Offices

Service areas

KBRN Simulation Building

Section C-C’

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LÜLEBURGAZ YILDIZLARI SWIMMIG ACADEMY Year:

2016

Location:

Lüleburgaz, Kırklareli, Turkey

Employer:

Lüleburgaz Municipality

Program:

Swimming Pool Complex

Statute:

Tender Phase

LYYA Building is a design which consists of variety of indoor pools, grandstands, spas, Turkish bath, closed basketball court, office rooms for employees, open activity pools and sport areas and other technical spaces (ticket office, locker, toilet, shower) which are designed to be used by public with the purpose of increase public cultural activities and in the and developed Lüleburgaz city culturally and economically.

The starting point of the design is reaching the top level and melting giant closed pool masses in the land.

Therefore, such an architectural style that tries making strong relations with the ground is adopted. Rather than coming to the forefront, the aim of the design suggesting a simple silhouette is melting in the land and becoming closer to the ground.

LYYA Swimming Academy

Construction Area: 30.000 m²

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Current Site

Terracing For Structures And Activities

Final Layout

LYYA Swimming Academy

Building Masses

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LYYA Swimming Academy

Olympic – water ball poll and public pools are two main groups. The first group is the sportive pool which will be used to make tournaments and to arrange the course. The second group is consists of closed and open public pools that will be used for the entertainment and its surrounded entertainment units.

Entry halls are arranged as they can work together or separately. Access control to sportsmen areas and change rooms are provided but access to usage except sportsmen is limited. Changing rooms of two pools are connected behind the entry hall. Thus, sportsmen can use two pools together in case of training and warm-up before tournaments. The separate working principle of pools is important in terms of operating costs. Tribune edges are transparent as far as possible. By this way, relation with the outside is gained on the same level and visual continuity of interior exterior spaces is provided.

Activity terraces are formed in proper levels for activities around the pool by terracing of topography. Nish areas are wanted to form at dense usage with these terraces which flows each other and effect of mass usage is tried to be prevented.

Relax areas formed for users wanting silence according to the type of the activity are solved and distributed in the land. Water plays pool is placed lower levels and slides became accessible with the advantage of natural level. The open pool is solved on upper levels from the road with the privacy consideration of users.

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LYYA Swimming Academy

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LYYA Swimming Academy

Activity Diagrams

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LYYA Swimming Academy

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LYYA Swimming Academy

RITÜEL ANKARA MIXED-USE COMPLEX Year:

2016

Location:

Dikmen, Ankara, Turkey

Employer:

Ankara Construction & Güven Construction

Program:

Residential block, Shops and a Fitness center

Statute:

Concept Phase

The building program was basically including a residential block, shops and a fitness center. The complex is located in a really dense urban context. With the vertical garden concept, the building will act as an urban gesture besides its quality for the users.

Ritüel Ankara Mixed-Use Complex

Construction Area: 9.550 m²

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Concept Diagram

Design concept highlights three keywords which are continuity, garden and motion. Form is designed to follow these keywords therefore L shapes are used in the facade to create a continuous solid void relationship. This relationship captures a motion with attraction and in between the built elements vertical gardens serve occupants’ need of social and green area in buildings dense urban context.

RitĂźel Ankara Mixed-Use Complex

Continuity - Vertical Garden - Motion

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RitĂźel Ankara Mixed-Use Complex

BOOMERANG ANKARA MIXED-USE COMPLEX Year:

2016

Location:

Dikmen, Ankara, Turkey

Employer:

Ankara Construction & GĂźven Construction

Program:

Residential block, Shops and a Fitness center

Statute:

Concept Phase

Residential block, shops and a fitness center is the program of the building block. The complex is located in a really dense urban context. With its petal concept, the building will act as an urban gesture besides its quality for the users. In the middle core circulation connects floors and residential spaces wrapped around in the core with organic and unique way.

Boomerang Ankara Mixed-Use Complex

Construction Area: 12.780 m²

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Boomerang Ankara Mixed-Use Complex

COMPETITIONS

GALLIPOLI HISTORICAL SITE NEW MARTYRDOM Year:

2017

Location:

Gelibolu, Çanakkale, Turkey

Employer:

Çanakkale Governership

Program:

Martyrdom

Statute:

Competition (1st Prize)

“… Then so there is no need for splendid burials, nor flashy decorations - these draw attention, arouse jealousy. Our dead do not need them - they settle for less, dignified and silent now, they don’t care about honey sherbet, bayonets, empty fame. The best a simple stone and geranium flowerpot, a secret sign, or nothing. ” Yannis Ritsos, Poems: Stones, Replicas, Fences / Unbending Country / Witness Poems

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

Construction Area: ~ 4500 km²

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Current State

Wall System Details

Joint Point

Peace Path

Guidance Units

Articulation

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

Reverence

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Axonometric View

NEKROGEOGRAPHY Necro-geography, which deals with the geographical morphology of the space related to death, makes a cultural and social manifest possible in space. It opposes the irresistible erosion of time, making memories timeless between life and death. In necro-geography, martyrs cannot be separated from space. In this sense, Gallipoli Peninsula has the potential to experience the contrasts of life and death, war and peace. Geography becomes a collective identity.

COMMODITY The definition of martyrdom has been interpreted as a commemoriation space that is specialized in its cultural and historical sense. While the memorial site makes the visitor feel the past, it keeps the memory alive today, and necro-geography expresses immortality as two times live in the same place.

Site Plan 1/1000

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

Havantepe Martyrdom The Respect Strip stretches on the rocky edge of the plot to give perspective to the two burial areas on a relatively flat plot. The Respect Banner, which descends and rises at different elevations, forms a two-piece Memorial Wall.

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Axonometric View

DISSOLVE IN GEOGRAPHY Architectural approach is a guide to the dissolution of people in the geography with minimum intervention. It focuses on the concepts of walking and wandering (walking vs. wandering).

Wandering, an autonomous form of art, aesthetic and spatial knowledge, that is, experiencing space on foot, has an existential value, especially in a necro-geography. It is more succinct to be able to experience not only the martyrdom areas but also the whole geography that has lived through history. The stratification of what happened at different times in the same geography can be felt and the human dissolves in the geography. The memorial space is not fixed in a single ‘moment,, but spreads throughout the process.

Site Plan 1/1000

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

Arslantepe Martyrdom While the burial area can be seen from the Respect Strip, which is placed in the highest possible quota in the land, it is integrated with the landscape in the opposite direction.

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Axonometric View

SYOPOPATION AND SPACE ORCHESTRATION Walking in wandering is characterized by rhythm, and this rhythm provides the connection between the human body, the mind and the space fluent. The characteristics of this rhythm define space experiences. Rhythm is necessary for spatial continuity, as in music. While syncope defines the imperfect rhythm in music, syncope refers to a temporal shift with the musical effect of unexpected rhythm change. When the same concept was adapted to the fluency of space and the regulation of the rhythm in the human walk, it was interpreted as aiming to diversify a circulatory experience in space, creating what the individual would encounter and various spatial interventions.

Site Plan 1/1000

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

Küçük Anafarta Martyrdom The memorial wall and the Respect Banner are located at a point dominating the most rocky area and burial area of the land.

It gives perspective to the burial area in front of it in the same direction as the landscape and connects with the residue on the back side.

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Axonometric View

DISCOVERING - FOCUSING - SENSITIVITY From the beginning to the end of the martyrdom visit, Contemplation - Sensation is composed respectively. Detection of martyrdoms from long distances is provided by thin long bronze bars called as niches. The starting points in the circulatory paths leading to martyrdom are transformed into natural insignia with tree or perennial plant groups that can attract attention in the existing plant tissue.

The Memorial Wall establishes temporary distances between the visitor and the martyrs as a singular element of respect.

In each plot, the walls that keep up with the topography are varied in itself. The main principle is to establish a Ribbon of Respect in the field of contemplation. The names of the martyrs are written in series (on the opposite side of the burial area) on the smooth and smooth inner surface of the wall. The portions of the walls facing the burial area are designed as coarse surfaces. In each plot, vistas are given to the buried areas with cuts or breaks on the walls with diversified positioning.

Site Plan 1/1000

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

Kılıçdere 1 ve 2 Martyrdoms In the Kılıçdere 2 Martyrdom on the side of the road, access to the Respect Banner and the Memorial Wall, placed perpendicular to the road, is provided by a pathway surrounding the burial area.

The Respect Line extends to the hillside landscape at the southeast end of the land and connects visitors and geography.

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Axonometric View

KURGAN, MONUMENTALITY FROM NATURE The burial area was designed as an image of necro-photography in culture. Kurgan is a term for nomadic cultural archeology, but it refers to the sacred tomb in Turkish-Altaic culture. The buried dead is covered with stone, earth or rubble, stones are laid around and the memorial place of the dead is clarified, in other words, it is monumentalized. Martyrs are symbolized as a part of this geography with rock fragments rising to the sky as if revived from nature. With the use of natural materials and minimal intervention in nature, it is realized that the geography of Gallipoli cannot be considered separate from the martyrs.

Site Plan 1/1000

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

Abanoz ve Ä°smailoÄ&#x;lu Deresi Martyrdoms For the burial areas which are located in opposite directions of the two creek beds which are close to each other, two separate Memorial Walls are located in the land in the middle of the creek beds.

Access to the walls positioned parallel to the river beds by opening is provided from a single respect lane, the two martyrdoms are integrated with each other.

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Axonometric View

HERBAL LANDSCAPE The proposed vegetative landscape is constructed with endemic plants as far as possible, given the prime value of the geography. In the design, the starting points on the path skeleton, which experiences the geography in linear directions and the breathings defined by the fractures, are characterized by the atmosphere of the groups of shrubs or trees separated by their appearance and / or smell in the existing texture.

Site Plan 1/1000

Gallipoli Historical Site New Martyrdom

Eroğlusırtı Martyrdom The burial area with many martyrs is defined by two Memorial Walls, one long and one short.

The positioning of the walls is thought to give perspective to the Kurgan, which is located at the higher elevation, while walking on the Respect Strip..

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ARBOREAL REHABILITION CENTER Year:

2016

Location:

Zonguldak, Turkey

Employer:

Zonguldak Municipality

Program:

Rehabilitation Center, Accommodation, Restaurant

Statute:

Competition (World Architecture 27th Cycle Winner)

Construction Area: 2000 m²

The relationship between the natural texture and poetic landscape of the site, and the proposed structures is main determinant in design process. Therefore, interfering minimum number of trees and if possible locating the site without cutting any trees, and seek of a structural language accordingly are main approach to the site. In addition, another priority about the site is protecting the natural surface of the land..

Arboreal Rehabilition Center

The design aims to offer an experience different than accustomed ones. Rather than a luxury and comfort, new accommodation units and social infrastructures offer an experience mechanism that let the users fell the spirit of the site. In this context Arboreal means living in or among trees, relating to trees; treelike

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Topography settlement principle

Form finding

Form optimization

Climate conditions

Climate conditions

Vista

Vista

Arboreal Rehabilition Center

Existing surface texture

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First Floor Plan

Arboreal Rehabilition Center

Second Floor Plan

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Arboreal Rehabilition Center

ÇAYCUMA SCIENCE CENTER Year:

2016

Location:

Zonguldak, Turkey

Employer:

Çaycuma Municipality

Program:

Museum

Statute:

Competition (2nd Honorable Mention)

With the dream of a science center where people of all ages, but especially children can learn while having fun, question things and get excited in their search for answers, where they can explore new horizons while experimenting and sharing with others, as a starting point, the project aims to reflect this enthusiasm and excitement architecturally.

In Caycuma Science Center project, the flow of indoors and outdoors, and relationship with nature have been prioritized. By flowing onto each other the lower square, urban platform and outdoor exhibition areas constitute a dynamic experience for the visitors.

Çaycuma Science Center

Construction Area: 2000 m²

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Exhibition Halls

Visitors Center Education Units Common Square Urban Platform

Visitor Center

City Connection Education Units Exhibition Hall

Education Units

Urban Platform

Program Distribution

Axonometric View

3D Section B

Çaycuma Science Center

3D Section A

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Section A-A’

Section B-B’

Çaycuma Science Center

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Çaycuma Science Center

SIVAS KIZILIRMAK RIVER BANK DEVELOPMENT Year:

2016

Location:

Sivas, Turkey

Employer:

Sivas Municipality

Program:

Urban Development

Statute:

Competition (3rd Prize)

The project area is approximately 6.5 million square meters, where the closest distance to the city center is 3.5 kilometers. An important input that affects the design desicions is to be bounded by the dense urban tissue and the peripheral road on the north while being surrounded by the high speed rail line, the urban tissue and the university campus on the south.

The project site developed a public space that serves the entirety of the urban space, brings a new identity to the city’s brand value, as weaving the nature-water relation with the citizens, with all the reference codes of the social development and the protect – use balance on a sustainable ecological corridor.

Sivas Kizilirmak River Bank Development

Construction Area: 6.500.000 m²

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Focus Area 1: Sivas Library

One of the important activities and cultural areas in the east of the area is the structure of the city library and the event and festival area in front of it. With its location and structure, the City Library has been designed with a structure and understanding that will serve both Sivas people, primary school and Cumhuriyet University students.

Surrounded by books and nature, this place designed to be integrated with outdoor activity areas such as reading gardens, sitting and relaxation areas, reading grove.

Sivas Kizilirmak River Bank Development

City - Children Relationship

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Urban Furniture

Sivas City Museum is one of the important buildings in the area that will host the historical identity of the city and tell the history of Sivas to its visitors. It has been handled as a holistic way to transform it into an art center throughout the city. The open air exhibition areas, the installation area and the sculpture garden around it are designed to host the works of urban artists and students and faculty of Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Fine Arts.

Sivas Kizilirmak River Bank Development

Focal Area 2: Sivas City Museum

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Urban Furniture

The area where the high-speed train station is located is described as the city gate in the design and the station square and city terraces where the high-speed train line coming to Sivas are opened to the city and seating and resting places have been created for the users.

Transportation structures are one of the first points of access to the city where they are located. Therefore, they should have symbolic value as well as functionality and be original and memorable. It is aimed to provide a station structure that will serve this purpose in design.

Sivas Kizilirmak River Bank Development

Focus Area 3: High Speed Train Station

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Focus Area 4: Indoor Gym and Indoor Pool

One of the important functions of the design in the southern part of the design area is the sports zone. From the coast, along the river and inland, many outdoor and indoor sports areas serve the citizens. The aim in this region is to support and promote amateur sports and to create spaces that can meet the needs of amateur sportsmen.

One of the suggested sports activities for the area is the outdoor and indoor swimming pool and the area that will be associated with this function is the aqua park area.

Sivas Kizilirmak River Bank Development

Cultural Elements

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Focus Area 5: Recreation Areas

Recreation areas spread throughout the area have been designed in a way to enable the citizens to reach many uses. In these areas, apart from the structural units that will serve general needs, (such as restaurants, cafes, tea gardens, buffet, toilets) markets for workshops, handicraft sales units and bazaars for local products have been established.

Sivas Kizilirmak River Bank Development

Recreation Areas

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Indoor Sports Hall

Water Sports Center

High Speed Train Station

Sivas City Museum

Cafe, Restaurant

Open Air Stage

Festival Area

Sivas Kizilirmak River Bank Development

Sivas Library

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BORNOVA MUNICIPALITY BUILDING Year:

2015

Location:

İzmir, Turkey

Employer:

Bornova Municipality

Program:

Office, Afministration

Statute:

Competition (4th Mention)

The starting point for the project is looking for a spacious response by questioning openness concept. Basic motivations are the public square, the interaction of urban and local governance preeminently and taking urban dynamics to interior spaces.

Emphasized “transparent municipals” is questioned with an open office offering carrying openness, transparency, accessibility and participation terms into a third dimension. It is aimed that open office will be carried to the third dimension and increase interaction and transparency. The relation between citizen and workers of the municipality are handled like the relation between workers.

Traditional Offices|Walls Define Boundaries

Open Office Organisation | Removing Boundaries

Open Office Moved To The 3rd Dimension | Increasingteraction

Bornova Municipality Building

Construction Area: 46.000 m²

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Detail Drawings

Bornova Municipality Building

Axonometric View

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Bornova Municipality Building

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Sextion B-B’

Bornova Municipality Building

Section A-A’

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Bornova Municipality Building

UIA/THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ARCHITECTS COMPETITION Year:

2017

Location:

Bologna, Italy

Employer:

Chamber of Architects of Turkey Antalya

Program:

Street Library

Statute:

Competition (Jury Special Prize)

Construction Area: -

For this project concept was to design a street library where augmented reality is considered as an alternative for futures library against conventional libraries. Innovative libraries can foster many face-to-face encounters that the internet does not currently provide. Libraries can bring together the best of both worlds: The “every-where-ness” of the internet plus the “face-to-face-ness” of a community center.

Existing Conditions (Piazza Maggiore, Italy)

Street Furniture

Sensory Items

Virtual Space

Augmented Elements

Future Library

In the end, innovative virtual libraries would redefine how visitors study, interact, explore and learn — all key ingredients to what makes a good library design.

Uia/The 12Th International Young Architects

If libraries had offered a good alternative – an integrated search and discovery tool that enabled fast, easy access to popular content, scientific research, and scholarly sources . We might have moved forward, not back. (Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library)

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“Programming the void” instead of “Designing the solid” evolving of a void into a solid,does not require it to exist in the threedimensionalspaceandtime.Togetherwiththedevelopingtechnology, space and occupancy are constantly losing their known meaning.

Every designed void can be designed as variety of opensourced entity and named as interactive library and edutainment (education+entertainment) spaces. Every corner of the city can be designed as different data centers specialized on different subjects as libraries. There could be some pop-up events designed by opensource designers throughout the city shown in gps. So that the city turns into constantly changing city with different spaces. Moreover permanent events can stand in main squares or piazzas in cities.

These spaces are supported with sensory items such as sound sensors, light sensors and hot and cold air pumps and lightweight shading structures to create an atmosphere of that library and event.

Site 1 Proposa

Site 4 Proposal

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By the technological breakthroughs such as augmented and mixed reality, space can experience itself in two dimensions and can be solid at the same time. This invalidates the permanent construction technique of architecture as well. The important thing is how people perceive the environment. So that, this new opportunities give architects to program the void instead of designing the solid, as it has been up to now throughout the history. By these new devices all the city and its voids can be designed as a library.

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AUTODESK DESIGN NEXT COMPETITION Year:

2015

Location:

Antalya, Turkey

Employer:

Autodesk

Program:

Public design and manufacturing center

Statute:

Competition (3rd Prize)

Construction Area: 8000 m²

Another issue we emphasized when starting the design was that the design center to be created could bring together people from different ages and professions. When we think that the basis of the concept of fablabs’ open-source, open-coded and openequipped approaches, we realized the potential of self-replication that can be developed by users of this center within the framework of predetermined lines. Thus, we decided that three-dimensional building production technology will be the target of this project for a design center that can produce itself with minimum waste and environmentally friendly systems as we want, adding the flexibility of the center to develop and adapt to the time by developing the center while realizing the ideas of all participants.Therefore we thought that the design elements would be produced with special 3D printers.

Three-dimensional technology, which can adapt itself to time and improve itself, introduced us to the concept of 4D. It is expected that 4-dimensional structures, which are still under development, will adapt to future conditions by expanding and narrowing the products produced with 3D printing technology.

Autodesk Design Next Competition

Today, the most costly part of the constructions and the most burden on the environment is the physical construction of the building. Therefore, we wanted the design and manufacturing center to bring a new perspective to this issue and produce itself with the minimum possible waste material.

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Autodesk Design Next Competition

At the present time, the attempts of three dimensional printing technologies to use structural wastes as raw materials on the building scale are being carried out simultaneously in many parts of the world. This technology is thought to have great benefits for the future of the planet in terms of sustainability and energy costs. In the proposed project, a development process with the participation of the public is envisaged for the Weaving Factory, where we chose as a design site since it is an abandoned factory needs to be transformed to be used again. It is thought to be used for the benefit of the public with the decision of the public. With the help of a fab lab approach, it is aimed to develop a technology that can produce building parts by using waste materials with the participation and support of the public in order to develop the building for public benefit. The activities to be carried out in the fab lab here will ultimately be on developing technology to make the whole factory available to the people of Antalya.

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While constructing spatial relations, a certain zoning was made; In order to maximize the participation of people in the space, the first reached areas are exhibitions, seminars and cafes, while production workshops were partially kept in the background for users to easily focus on their work. In the buffer zone there are joint workshops and inner courtyards.

Autodesk Design Next Competition

The factory building, which was taken as the starting point for the design, was reinterpreted. The structural system was kept but walls and roof were lifted in order to maintain the flexibility of the future design During the planning phase, the areas between the columns were mechanized and a main circulation axis and a north-south axis for possible development proposal were determined. Transparent and opaque folding panels were used for interior and exterior walls.

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- The solar panels placed on the sloping roofs of the southern facades of the building located on the north-south axis generate energy, thus preventing overheating.

- Roof slopes also collect rainwater.

- The wide openings on the north facade provide natural shadowing without shadow.

- Natural ventilation is provided as a result of the stack effect obtained through the openings in the roofs.

- Courtyards are placed inside to create a cool climate in mind.

- The 3D printer technology uses construction waste and gives minimum harm to the environment.

- The technology to be developed within the design center proposed in the project aims for the public to create their own public spaces in a way that brings minimum burden to the environment at minimum cost; therefore, it offers sensitivity in the context of social sustainability.

Autodesk Design Next Competition

Sustainable Design Criteria:

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RÖNESANS “SÜRDÜRÜLEBILIR GELECEĞI TASARLA” Year:

2014

Location:

İstanbul, Turkey

Employer:

Rönesans Holding

Program:

Library

Statute:

Competition (Honorable Mention)

Taking its initial mass form from the building site, we have divided the mass we have extruded into units with references from the surrounding building masses. We have created an area where people can spend time by freeing part of the intersections of references. We also reduced the height of the mass gradually to create an urban gesture to the city.

Between the south and west facade of the building we have placed glass and brick walls with some space and we have controlled the sun rays in this space and we have provided air circulation with the grills opening from the lower and top of the wall.

That system we used is called thrombe wall, and through this system we have provided the interior heating and cooling without energy.

Rönesans “Sürdürülebilir Geleceği Tasarla”

Construction Area: 4000 m²

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As we have seen in the light analysis we have made, we observed that the light on the southern front at noon had the highest level, while in the afternoon the western front received better light. As a result of these observations, we placed thrombe walls on the south and west facades of our building.

Sun Analysis 1

Energy Analysis With Thrombe Wall

Sun Analysis 2

Energy Analysis Without Thrombe Wall

Rönesans “Sürdürülebilir Geleceği Tasarla”

Energy analysis graphs show the annual energy, fuel and ventilation loads of the untreated wall. According to the results of the graphs, electricity, fuel and ventilation costs are higher in the structure without thrombe wall. Thanks to the thrombe wall system, we have achieved energy efficiency in the building.

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