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ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO Merve ÖZGÜR
* The cover photo is the mock-up of the first project I made in the design studio.
Master’s Degree-Erasmus Wasted Void
Fall 2019-2020
Upgrading by Occupation-Master’s Degree-Erasmus Fall 2019-2020
GWG International Summer School Productive Re-Connection
September 2019
Period: 2019-2020
Selected Academic Projects
Wasted Void In the scope of the studio students of the Design Studio entitled “CIRCULAR BXL” were challenged to develop a three-fold, research. The aim is to: (1) Explore the inputs of a Circular Economy 1 approach by (2) analysing the city of Brussels and its availability of materials and resources, concluding with (3) propositions for the TIR Building - current logistics facility located at the “Tour and Taxis” site in Molenbeek - having in mind a timespan of 100 years.
Brussels, Tour&Taxis Design Studio-1 CIRCULAR BXL Craftsmanship Engagement
Tutors: Catherine Mengé Laurens Bekemans
Team: Anamaria Lazar Merve Özgür Vitor Breder
KU Leuven International Master of Architecture Brussels, Belgium Ersmus Exchange
Fall 2019-2020
SOCIETAL CONTEXT The context of the TIR site is an intersection of industrial, housing, and public service (school, library) areas. Thus, the connection of the building with the street and the other public areas are extremely critical in virtue of the heavy vehicle traffic and pedestrian junctions.
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Relationship with school areas
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Relationship with housing areas
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Parc Tour & Taxis
Parc Tour & Taxis is part of the Canal Plan that is still in process that plans to link different nodes through the canal. The connection of the park with other nodes also has importance such as detachment of the Rue Dieudonné Lefèvre and the park by TIR Center. However, there is a path extending from the park unto the fences of the site, which constitutes a very important potential and shows the current need to link the park with the street. The park is an important green open space surviving in the middle of the urban (scar) city. A muddy, informal, user-oriented path reveals the necessity of people, to connect and be connected with the other side. Having such context in mind, the necessity to address, first of all, the façade of the C building which is facing BE-HERE and the relationship with its immediate surroundings seems quite inherent.
INTERVENTIONS ON THE EXISTING How to treat the materials that are claimed from the building is a focal point. According to the materials, the act of ‘taking’ can be either demounting or demolishing. Components like doors, windows, panels, insulation or other kinds of materials can be demounted. After being demounted these materials can be reused and repurposed as they are or reinterpreted by merging with new materials and techniques. When a material is not able to be dismounted like slabs, pillars, beams, solid surfaces, or tiles, Different kinds of demolishing techniques can be implemented such as cutting to reinterpret, crushing to recycle.
EXISTING AS A SOURCE This way B building and the C building can be seen as resources to claim materials but also a platform to reuse, reinterpret and repurpose at the same time. Another important point is seeing designing by demolishing as a process of taking (demounting and demo-
lition), leaving, and also adding new materials, techniques, and spaces. Leaving is also an important part of demolishing because it relinquishes the traces of the demolished or demounted elements/compounds to indicate the existing situation before which also refers to the memory.
Machines
Lift-out Machine
Diamond Cutter
Treatment
As Is
Treating Existing Slabs
Cutting
Slicer
Telehandler
Cherry Picker
Machines
Diamond Saw
Telehandler
Treatment
Cutting
Treating Existing Viaduct Surface
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Park Entrance Pavillion & Reception Bar Auditorium Public Workshop Spaces Adminstration Storage Restroom Storage for Materials Existing Use Bike Park
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Upgrading by Occupation Informal settlements and their transformations are the focus within the scope of the course which is carried out by the research group with the same name as the course. The project team worked remotely in the El Cisne II neighborhood in Guayaqil City as part of the elective course associated with the research of three doctoral students.
Guayaqil, Equador Elective Urban Projects, Collective Spaces, Local Identities Tutors: Jacob Lutta Muhammad Mashhood Arif Xavier Méndez
KU Leuven Team: Merve Özgür Anamaria Lazar Evangelia Papaspyrou Thierry Nicolas
International Master of Architecture Brussels, Belgium Ersmus Exchange
Fall 2019-2020
Mobility and Connectivity Bus stops and lines, informal boat stops and lines (from the island)
Width of Streets Differenting from 5m to 35m
Uses Formal and informal
Strategy 1- Exploring Self-Design Potential
El Cisne II
(Urban Furniture Level)
Geography of Guayaqil shaped by the river Guayaquil is located at the delta of the river Guayas. Guayaquil grew to be the main port from Ecuador and its largest city in terms of population.
FORMAL USES
religious structures police schooling medical services cultural social services
INFORMAL USES restaurants snacks & drinks to go services groceries entertainment ateliers not defined
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Designed vs Occupied Some improvements implemented by the municipality. Though they made and impact it is seen that inhabitants still feel the need to occupy public spaces in order to: extend their private spaces, meet, play and so on.
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Catalouge of Occupation by Inhabitants Shows the design potential of inhabitants and urge to occupy public spaces to use for their needs. Occupation is concieved as a design tool of inhabitants that needs to be promote Roofing from wood pillars and plastic cover
Urban furniture from concrete pieces
Mobile food kiosks on the streets
Plastic pool
Plastic chair, table and umbrella on the street
Football goalposts when they are not used
Plastic sheets to dry food
Stones as a seperator
Hand-drawn football field
Designed Spaces
Occupied (Self-Designed) Spaces
With all the analyses that are done in the neighborhood, co-existence of the informal and formal, self designed and designed spaces are spotted. The spaces that created with this contradiction is occured by the the overlapping of public and private spaces. Being trapped in the private (houses) that lack of enough space, pushes the poeple to interviene to the intersection of public and private which creates semi-private transition space. This space enables different kinds of uses or actions such as informal commerces in the ground floor and and the front of the house, sitting areas covered with shedding.
Current Situation Wide streets with car priorty
1st Phase Prediction of the occupation of the proposed design of the street by the inhabitants
2nd Phase Prediction of the occupation of the proposed design of the street by the inhabitants
Detail
Productive Re-Connection Within the scope of the summer school organized as the first stage of the Green With Gray project initiated by the Flemish Government, depaving strategies with productive solutions were developed in the industrial production area in Vilvoorde. Focusing on manufacturing industrial structures, the team investigated the adaptation times of environmental actors and determined strategies for reconciliation between actors. For the depaving strategies of the buildings and their plots, the team proposed a process design compatible with the adaptation times. Team: Gill Lauvyck
Brussels, Vilvoorde Act 1: Asiat Depave. Claim Industrial Surfaces Organisers: Latitude Platform, KU Leuven, UCLouvain
Green with Grey International Summer School Brussels, Belgium
Lisa Debeer Merve Özgür Sigrid Vangeneugden Vincent Van Praet
September 2019
Context
Context and Strategies Vilvoorde - the study site in the Maalbeek Basin - is located at the intersection of urban, ecological and industrial layers. The structures of manufacturing companies at the intersection of these layers are either in isolated plots blocking ecological corridors, infiltrated into the urban fabric, or on platforms where other companies are located together.
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purifying running enhancing local Urban Urban Platform
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extending social and sharing common productive Context network socializing spaces
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networksocial and extending productive network
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Strategies have been developed based on the actors and potentials in their contexts within the scope of the ‘depaving’ of three plot types selected from the industrial building typologies formed according to the different contexts. network
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Practicing Tactics on Asiat Site
Process Design Collobration manufacturer
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local people
Depaving
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Depaving
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Collaboration
1. phase observing pedestrian paths 2. phase depaving the path for pedestrian 3. phase depaving park are for local garden 4. phase gradually depaving car park area
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Strategies are customized for each type in steps over time. Regarding the persuasion of the companies to depave, a two-way benefit process is designed by cooperating with the actors who are most affected by the depaving steps. The most important point of the project is to make a process design by investigating the adaptation time of the actors to the steps.
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Within the scope of the Green With Gray Project, strategies and tactics for transforming industrial areas are tested in the Asiat Site (former military base), where the summer school is located, by turning it into an artwork to be exhibited at the upcoming Horst Festival.