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In general, the projects I have worked on seek to be an expression of an artistic vision in an architectural medium for the enrichment of architecture and its sensitivity, materiality, and contextuality while exploring the overlap of the physical, cultural, and artistic definitions upon each other.

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2013-2018 METU Faculty of Architecture Department of Architecture B.Arch

2017

Studio Schwitalla

2015

2016

TA_ Tabanlıoğlu Architects

2016

ECARCH | Erginoğlu& Çalışlar Architects

2015

Construction Site Internship

2014

Practice in Building Construction and Surveying

January 2018 - CGPA: 3.56

Politecnico di Torino, Italy Department of Architecture

Laurea Magistrale in Architettura Costruzione Città Erasmus+ Program

2012

High School Graduation Salutatorian

contact mmervesahin7@gmail.com

Documentation of a Historic Building

2017

An | Anı | Anlatı Exhibition

2017

Aesthetization of the Invisible | Digging the Archive Out

2017

Ceramic Workshop

Exhibition Graphic Design + Installation Team

2017

Graduation Project, Faculty Chair Award

2017

Graduation Project, Nomination to Europe Architecture Medals

2017

Third Place in Photography Competition architecture that seeks its people by association of architecture ankara

2016

Tony Hall Masterclass

2017

‘STEPS’ Students Projects Exhibition

2015

Faculty Summer Exhibitions

2017

FINALIST, Rethinking Museums

2015

Post’ure News Faculty of Architecture Student Bulletin

2015

Analogue Photography

2014

Model Construction Workshop

oblique .bo

oblique .bo by faculty of architecture , METU

Selected Studio Project

everything that white box isn’t NonArchitecture Idea Competition

ArchEd Jury Special Award

Annual Architectural Student Projects Competition project: cohouse

2014

‘STEPS’ Students Projects Exhibition

English

2014

IED Madrid, Scholarship Istituto Europeo di Design

2014

Language Education Scholarship in Florence

2013

Language Education Scholarship in Florence

Istituto Italiano di Cultura B2

Documentation + Observation of Work Items

2014-2018 METU, High Honor Student

Turkish

Italian

Istanbul, architectural intern Preparation of construction drawings

wo rks ho psex periences

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IELTS 8.0

Istanbul, architectural intern Preparation of conceptual drawings, models and presentations

a chi ev emen t s

2014

native

Berlin, architectural intern Preparation of conceptual drawings, models and presentations

Selected Studio Project

Creative Diary, 2014 Design Course Scholarship

Istituto Cultura di Italiana, Ankara Istituto Cultura di Italiana, Ankara

Exhibition Graphic Design + Installation Team Producing clay-made design

International Symposium on Urban Design, METU Installation/ Film Team + Contributor Graphic Design, Events & Workshops Team

Dark Room Workshop, KA Photography Atelier Working in a Wood + Concrete Modelling Atelier

s o ftwares Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Premier Autodesk Autocad Autodesk Revit Rhino Grasshopper Keyshot Ms Office MacOs

oblique bo DIPLOMA PROJECT FACULTY CHAIR’S AWARD feb16’ june17’ individual project, designer location: Bologna, Italy type: student center

CONCEPT, PROCESS

.The project aims to design a student center on the edge of a medieval wall in the university campus.

The challenge is to form an act that enchances different time segments while proposing a new order .Bologna is perceived as a medieval city that is strictly defined by horizontal and vertical lines. However, this project handles all of the definitions in an in-between space that takes being /oblique/ into account metaphorically and physically. As a result, formally being the antithesis of the current order.

.The cultural richness of Bologna is often referenced by / intellectual lab / .This reference /intellectual lab/ is prompted by the expansion of the borders of the spaces that is causing the overlapping programs.For the inhabitants of today the idea of the spaces is formulated this way; space + program + identity overlap by time, by events, and by the structure .So despite the fact that being quite opposite of Bologna by means of the form, the spatial analysis suggests that Bologna is already living in overlapped spaces that are stratifying within themselves by time, event and structure.

CONCEPT, PROCESS

Oblique lines create a continuous flow between the spaces by continuous slabs. This spatial flow has been taken as the heart of the project for the generation of architectural intersections.

The /oblique.bo/ takes what Bologna defines spatially + programmatically and converts them to a spatial action

sketch model exploring the converging lines

sketch model exploring the flux of spaces

SITE PLAN ELEVATIONS

AA’ elevation from outside of the wall A’

B

elevation collage illustrating the design creating its own topography the continous flow and the interaction between the spaces B’

A

N

BB’ elevation from the university campus

PLAN +2.00 PLAN SECTION SLICES

plan slices

A’

plan +2.00 N A

section slices

section AA’

PLAN -2.00 PERSPECTIVE RENDER, OVERALL SPACES PROGRAM

resting spaces

plan -2.00

quite rooms imagination lab imagination lab bar emeroteca

exchange, imagination, production

second hand bookstore arts lab idea lab

accomodation botanic garden bridge

botanic garden bridge

exhibition ramp

sports area

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imagination lab student council rooms

mensa

open performance space auditorium exchange platform

open performance space

historic artefacts display

auditorium + city bridge exhibition, preservation

exhibition space conservation lab historic artefacts display

audiotorium tech spaces lounge

DETAILS

the shell

space frame

facade structure

double facade glass + mesh

continous slabs transformable separations

botanic garden + wall bridge

underground spaces

DETAILS

roof

slabs

bridges

LIFE

transparent, transformable, flowing spaces and events imagination, learning production

LIFE

transparent, transformable, flowing spaces and events discussing, gathering, exhibiting

expanded threshold ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO V fourth year sept16’ feb17’ individual project, designer location: ankara castle mural terrain, turkey type: sustainable landscape

CONCEPT, PROCESS

.Expanded Threshold is a landscape project that aims to sustain the historic area of central Ankara ecologically, socially and culturally. .The name stems from the theoretical and spatial analysis of the site. In the Ankara Castle region, it is seen that physical architectural elements are expanded in their scale.The main example is the castle wall. The wall creates its own landscape by duplicating, scaling and expanding itself(mural terrain). This is how the wall secures and creates the life inside.

overlapping map

collage- castle wall forming a terrain

the threshold, design area

.Historically, this area was conquered by many civilizations, however, this mountainside had never been spatially active, thus it has stayed as an untamed threshold.

The idea is to expand this threshold as the wall does to itself and design the life of today and tomorrow. .As an outcome, the design envisions this area to be an educational and cultural center while being the focus of ecologic production. In addition, the design values the cultural richness and layers of the area by linking them all together. .Thus, the idea of expansion is not only physical but also metaphorical by creating links between cultural, technological and ecological factors.

CONCEPT, PROCESS

wall remnants on the site

expansion lines

areas to be occupied without touching the walls

CONCEPT, PROCESS

areas to be occupied

wall remnants on site

expansion lines

mural terrain

exploded design diagram

ANALYSIS

ecologic& social flows the main aim is the cultivation of the land & society by crossing social and ecological flows to form a productive, sustainable landscape while taking advantage of the hill, wind, sun exposure, and natural water source

daily ecologic instances wind, rain, sun

daily ecologic patterns wind, rain, sun

yearly ecologic instances wind, rain, sun

creating a mutual relation between the design area + surrounding cultural zones social program diagrams schedule day/night + daily/yearly

yearly ecologic patterns wind, rain, sun

ANALYSIS

everchanging landscape through the site section, the change of ecological, social and natural flows changes the functional distribution and the scale of spaces

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section analysis according to the inclination and embodyment of wall remains

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b

c

d e f

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d

b

c

e

f

DETAILS LIFE

expanded fields hybrid landscape in which the biological, artificial, technological and cultural are merged to enhance and celebrate the existing ecologic and social conditions

photovoltaics, solar array productive units 12 v one day of production wind belts can produce energy from the lightest wind

scheme of gridal organization of the units which harnest solar and kinetic energy of wind

GENERAL VIEWS

bird eye views from expanded threshold

detailed views of units representing the activities, events and productive events that will be held

li vi ng i n mass ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO IV third year sept15’ feb16’ individual project, designer location: ankara, turkey type: housing

CONCEPT, PROCESS

.The housing project is located in a part of the city where new urban transformation process is negatively affecting the living habits. Urban transformation interventions that increase the density uncontrollably, threaten the former living habits and lifestyles. .The idea is to keep the complexity of mass housing design while offering individuality to the units so that living in mass, wouldn’t mean the loss of individuality.

bridges

programmatic stripes

housing strip

all layers juxtaposed

.The proposed housing project employs a strip strategy. The strips exhibit character variation from the public to private functions while embodying landscape, commercial activities, and housing. They are connected to each other and with the neighborhood via pedestrian bridges. .The focus is on the housing strip: linear blocks which have a maximum of 7 storeys. For the first 3 storeys, can also be accesses by a ramp that carries the movement from street to the housing units, creating an exterior circulation.

HOUSING STRIP IN DETAIL FLOOR PLANS SITE ELEVATION

_single loaded, 7th floor plan

units + corridor

_single loaded, 3rd floor plan

program organization permeability changes within the building

_single loaded, 1st floor plan

units + corridor + void

units + corridor + void

ramps + voids

the ramp _double loaded, trough the ramp

site elevation +28.00

+38.00 +30.00

+5.00

+5.00

HOUSING STRIP IN DETAIL UNIT PLANS SECTION

space organization principle

80 m2

80 m2

120 m2

120 m2

unit plans

diagrams explaning the permeability, public/private definitions, continuum of greenery, the inhabitant’s perception and visual relations

240 m2

square meters + distribution

THE GRID OF LIFE

“...keeping the complexity of mass housing while offering an individuality to the units so that living in mass, wouldn’t mean the loss of individuality.”

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BUILDING DETAIL STUDIO third year sept15 feb16

individual studio project, designer location: ankara, turkey type: housing

CONCEPT, PROCESS

.The main aim of this exploration is to design a weekend house in the given context; the three concrete shear walls are given and can’t be changed. The requirement is to design the facade, roof, flooring, mezzanine floor, staircase and necessary railings for this cubic volume. The components are to be designed incoherence in various scales and to be thought to the detail of assembly.

.Questions to be considered are followed as... .definition of the particular detail problem that is targeted, .global functional requirements for the given detail item that is planned to solve .material alternatives for the components and parts that determined .fastening techniques that can be employed to construct the detail

PLAN, SECTION ELEVATION DRAWINGS (originally prepared 1/50 in REVIT)

site plan

south elevation

ground floor plan

first floor plan

section I

section II

roof layers

existing concrete walls

staircase & railings

mezzanine floor

glass & structure

mesh facad structure

mesh facade

EXPLODED ELEMENTS OF DESIGN ASSEMBLY DETAILS

floor roof & glass facade

mesh facade wall & mezzanine floor

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO II ArchED JURY SPECIAL AWARD second year feb15’ june15’ individual project, designer location: eskisehir, turkey type: community house

CONCEPT, PROCESS

exploring the process, the forces and the formation

.During the formation of the Co-House, the given site has been analyzed as the continuum of the public realm, namely: the river, pedestrian and commercial streets. .These elements have given the keywords such as permeability, transparency, flow, production and community that shaped the overall geometry, functional distribution of spaces and materiality.

.The given plot to be designed is a corner plot that has facades to water, pedestrian road, and commercial street. This corner is followed by series of row houses in front of the river. .The challenge is to create a building with public character while keeping a certain balance between the public and private realm in a city that has certain traditions and material culture.

site model justaposed with sketches and diagrams

DESIGN ELEMENTS PLANS, ECTIONS, DETAILS .On a larger scale, the existence of water is prioritized and a pedestrian alley is formed to establish a flow between two sides. .On a smaller scale, the city already employs certain construction techniques which is a hybrid of metal, brick, and concrete. As the program, the city gives references in terms of the communal usage of spaces and production culture in ateliers and workshops

looking in detail the roof, glass + metal facade

plan +1.50 bakery, shop, coffee-corner, info wall

BB section

looking in detail the roof, glass + metal facade

plan +6.50 transformable workshop area CC section

.Together with external (site analysis: movement, speed, density, existence of water) and internal forces (analysis of neighbourhood) the given volume cracks, creates void and become permeable for the designed program to includes as bakery, coffee corners, infowalls and ateliers/workshops.

AA section

LIFE

perspective from workshop area upper floor

LIFE

birdeye view to the alley

terrano

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO I first year feb14 june14 individual project, designer location: non-location type:landscape fabrication - exploration

CONCEPT, PROCESS

.The system explores topics such as movement, speed, and density of movement, event spaces, forces on form, temporality, expansion, and flexibility. The idea is to express the production of spaces in different sizes and functions through a dynamic and multi-layered abstraction.The physical model expresses the one frozen instance in time.

.The main aim of this exploration is to produce a terrain with the method of aggregation of a modular unit. The final product is to accommodate a series of events and to have its own tectonic quality.

sketches exploring flexible fields

instances

process diagram raising questions about spatial relations, their production, temporality, various forces on site, and so on

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GENERATIVE DESIGN STUDIO fourth year sep17 jan 18 individual project, designer location: METU Architecture Faculty type:installation

CONCEPT, PROCESS

.Interlacing the elements of space (light, material quality, and grid) to each other, the design appreciates space metaphorically and visually. The main organizational idea is to collect light during the day to enhance the abstract quality of the space to enlighten the space during night. .This is important in case of architecture building to be active especially during the night given that the faculty is a production space all hours of the day. Stating this quality with a sculptural work in faculty building is one of the key points of the design.

.METU Architecture Faculty building is a modern masterpiece. The main aim is to produce an installation in this remarkable building by interpreting the gridal organization of the architectural elements with the contemporary design tools so that the building will act as an input to the design. The weave takes formal references from its context, transforms the space.

the process of form finding with 3D printed mass model and the mesh & line work model

GRID DECONTSTRUCTION SKETCHING PROCESS

analysis of floors plans solid void relations

a

solid/void relations and the distances affecting the overall form and the grid from elevation

solid/void relations and the distances affecting the overall form and the grid from top view

0.00 |+4.00 planes

b

+4.00 |+4.70 planes

c

+4.70|+8.80 planes

d

+10.25 |+11.75 planes

GRID DECONTSTRUCTION GRASSHOPPER PROCESS

analysis of forces and their relative forces

the grids on wall, light, the existence of the gobektasi sculpture are main forces on the points

deconstructed curves give the main profiles of the form, creating a flowing appearance

a perspective view from a studio to ‘the weave’

LIFE

perspective from the entrance of building and the interaction of the ‘the weave’ with the space

LIFE

a perspective view from a studio to ‘the weave’

aestheti zati on of the i nvi si ble advanced architectural design research studio course group work location: METU type: exhibition design

‘The transparent quality of the superimpositions often suggest transparency of context as well, revealing unnoticed structural qualities in the object’

Archive I is the first exhibition of DOME | The new archive of METU Faculty of Architecture is to be main reminiscent of the accumulation of the environment of the faculty.

LászlóMoholy-Nagy ...

Archive, by nature, is opaque that obscures the fragments of time. It is spatiality that stands between the diffusion and accumulation of the knowledge it stores. As Foucault says, “...it emerges in the fragments, regions, and levels more fully, no doubt, and with greater sharpness, the greater the time that separates us from it...”

The aim of the exhibition is to display and aestheticize the presence of the archive. The concept of transparency is not only the apertures in the process of diffusion, but also it is a tool for the representation of archive. Aestheticization of the invisible is through the ‘transparency’ that is both the material and the concept of the exhibition. Hereby, with the ‘phenomenal’ and ‘literal’ transparency, the archive is aimed to be carved out to be visible.

“If one sees two or more figures partly overlapping one another, and each of them claims for itself the common overlapped part, then one is confronted with a contradiction of spatial dimensions. To resolve this contradiction, one must assume the presence of a new optical quality...Transparency, however, implied more than an optical characteristic, it implies a broader spatial order. Transparency means a simultaneous perception of different spatial locations...The position of the transparent figures has equivocal meaning as one sees each figure now as the closer, now as the further one.”

Gyorgy Kepes

exhibition poster design inspired by the exhibition venue design

a view from the exhibition using transparency as the theme and tool

selected works of drawing & p h o t o g r a p h y,

present the sense of aesthetics and commonly occurring themes in various disciplines and techniques that I explore, such as layering, abstraction, and juxtaposition

digital collage diptych, I, II finalist, rethinking museum competition,2017

mixed technique drawing collage

‘abstracting the city’ mixed technique,drawing collage

aquarelle form finding sketches

mixed technique drawing collage

3D printed parametric design body accessory

concrete modeling workshop

cappadocia, 2015 double exposure bw film photograph ilford pan400- lomo la sardina

ankara, 2015 bw film photograph ilford pan400- minolta xg-m

berlin, 2017 bw film photograph ilford pan400- minolta xg-m architectural association ankara competition award-third place

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