Müge Oktar | Portfolio 2021 by Müge Oktar

Müge Oktar MSc. in Architecture, KU Leuven Architecture: Resilient and Sustainable Strategies B.Arch Bilkent University Portfolio mugeoktar1@gmail.com +32 470 65 07 69

curriculum vitae academic

MUGE OKTAR

2019-2021

KU Leuven. Ghent, Belgium International MSc. in Architecture: Resilient & Sustainable Strategies First Year Study Topics: Military Legacy Studio, Architecture & Territory Studio Second Year Study Topics: Architectural Details Studio, In Search of an Ecological Utopia (Master Dissertation Studio) CGPA: 75.21/100 Cum Laude

2014 - 2018

Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey Bachelor of Architecture (English) CGPA: 2.84/4.00

2004 - 2014 14.02.1996, Ankara, Turkey

Ted Ankara College Foundation Schools. Ankara, Turkey Primary & Secondary Education CGPA: 81.41/100

Ghent, Belgium

skills

+32 470 65 07 69 | +90 541 262 77 73

digital

Sketching Physical Modelling

mugeoktar1@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/mugeoktar

“I am an architect who is enthusiastic to expand my experience about learning and applying resilient and sustainable strategies in different contexts in the light of experiencing new cultures and architectural disciplines through a critical way of thinking, while trying to combine my hand skill with my skills of representation and modelling using my knowledge in multiple softwares such as Revit, Autocad, Photoshop and Rhinoceros.”

language

Autodesk Revit Autodesk AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Lumion

Adobe Illustrator Sketchup Rhinoceros Microsoft Office 3ds Max

Team Work Laser Cutting

manual

references

Turkish, Mother Tongue

English, Advanced

Dutch, Beginner (Certificaat NT2-A2 level)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mark Paul Frederickson, Bilkent University mpf@u.arizona.edu

French, Beginner

Assoc. Prof. Glenn Terry Kukkola, Bilkent University gleenn.kukkola@bilkent.edu.tr

experiences A Sustainable Urban Prototype along the Bilkent Lake | ARCH 402 - Ankara / Turkey (2018) A comprehensive studio work was carried out through the site analysis, case studies, literature review, 3-dimensional drawings, and 14 individual student projects which were collected in a book called “Urban “Urban Sustainability Node/ Sustainable Campus Extension for Bilkent University: INTER-LAKE” INTER-LAKE” (http://www.blurb.com/b/8763637-interlake-an-urban-sustainability-node). I was one of the volunteers who wanted to participate in the preparation of the book and I have specifically worked on the design of the cover page. Participant of the Exhibition Hold by the “Nevsehir Municipality”| ARCH 401 - Nevsehir / Turkey (December, 2017) Among the 4th year student works of ARCH 401 in Bilkent Universty, the project had been selected by the Nevsehir Municipality and the instructors of the University to be exhibited in an exhibition hold by the municipality. Dwelling Space | International Workshop of Architectural Construction by Politecnico di Bari - Bari / Italy (July 2016) As the volunteers from Bilkent University, we colaborated with the architecture students in “Politecnico di Bari” in a historical region in Bari, in order to revive the cultural identity of “Polignano a Mare”. As groups of 4, we worked on “Casa “Casa a Schiera Verso Il Mare” Mare” project and published a book called “Dwelling Space and the Character of Places/ Lo Spazio Domestico E I Caratteri Dei Luoghi” including our designs (https://issuu.com/yigitacar/docs/domestic-space-bilkent). Children & Architecture - TMMOB (Turkish Chamber of Architects and Engineers) - Ankara / Turkey (2016) Within a workshop hold by the Chamber of Architects, children in a kindergarten (Deniz Etüt Merkezi) were given certain materials and were observed to understand how they perceive these materials according to their perception and imagination. To change our horizon towards a new way of thinking about materials and architecture is tried to be achieved in this workshop through children’s perspective. Bilkent DAS (Design and Architecture Society) - Ankara/ Turkey (2013-2016) Actively worked on the annual event of the society, TasarımBilkent 2016 which is a two-day activity that professionals and architects come as guests and share their knowledge with the applicants.

working experiences Kayhan Mühendislik, Ankara, Turkey (April 2018- July 2018) | Voluntary Internship Four months of voluntary architectural internship, participated in all the stages including wet area details, architectural plans and sections of application project of “Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi” on AutoCAD. I-Am Associates-İstanbul, İstanbul, Turkey (July 2017- August 2017) | Voluntary Internship One month of voluntary architectural internship, contributed to all stages of interior design and material selection for residential housing projects, their architectural drawings such as sections, elevations and architectural plans, superposition of the plans of the residential projects, presentations and getting in contact with the costumers (including international costumers). YDA Holding, Ankara, Turkey (June 2017- July 2017) One month of architectural internship, various jobs including superposing all the plans including mechanical, formwork, architectural, fire alarm facility and ventilation plans of Süleyman Demirel University Student Wellness Center Project and making the necessary changes, applications and controls of the project, 3D modelling and rendering. REC ULUSLARARASI İNŞAAT YATIRIM SAN. VE TİC.A.Ş, Ankara, Turkey (June 2016- July 2016) One month of internship on the contruction site of Library and the Convention Center inside the Presidential Complex, observed all the stages of craftsmanship, drainage works, paling pile, installation techniques, excavation, anchorage and pouring concrete.

personal interests Travelling

Photography

Charcoal Drawing

Foreign Languages

Painting Architectural Drawing & Sketching

table of contents

01 | Towards a New Way of Thinking About Food and Care Homes for Wellness of Elderly: Com-Vert Garden

In Search of An Ecological Utopia: Healing the City | Master Thesis Studio, Ghent / Belgium

02 | Healing Gardens of Erasmus Hospital

03 | The Roof Project

04 | The Poet House

05 | Crossing the Borders

06 | Charcoal Drawings

Architecture & Territory 24 Studio, Vogelzangbeek / Belgium

Building Technology - Integration, Konya / Turkey

Architectural Detail Studio, Ghent /Belgium

Climate Design & Sustainability, Ghent /Belgium

Towards a New Way of Thinking About Food and Care Homes for Wellness of Elderly: Com-Vert Garden In Search of An Ecological Utopia: Healing the City Master Thesis Studio Location: Sint Denijs Westrem, Ghent / Belgium Advisor: Luc Eeckhout

The objective of this master thesis studio is to analyze the needs of the city of Ghent and to propose an ecological utopia with sustainable strategies for the year 2050. The “Com-Vert Garden” is an abbreviation for “CommunityVertical Garden”, which refers to “converting” a car-oriented neighborhood with an aging population, but without any social cohesion, into a livable neighborhood in which the elderlies have a direct relationship with food and nature. In this utopia, the local and short food system is shaping the existing urban context in which the marketplace becomes the center of the village of Sint-Denijs Westrem as a self-sufficient village regarding food. The building program is formed of two main functions: a care home and a food hub. Together with the negative environmental impacts of the traditional agricultural system such as the increase in food miles and water and food waste, the community is torn apart from the local food. Thus, the city has to be introduced with a new system with sustainable food production and transportation in which the community is reunited with food by involving in the process while minimizing the food miles.

Considering the increase in the aging population and the incidence of health problems among elderlies in Belgium, the project searches for an alternative way of living for elderlies to improve their wellbeing in the long term, in which they become a part of society while preventing the “foregone conclusion” of social isolation with a series of health problems. Thus, the project introduces a new way of thinking about elderly care while fixing the current long-chain food system in which the elderly people would be mentally, physically, and socially active as a part of the community by being involved in every step of the new local food system that is conducted within the same place, and also a new local and sustainable food system would be introduced within the city. This ecological utopia is actualized in “Com-Vert Garden”.

This master thesis studio is a research-based design studio, and the thesis can be reached via this QR Code.

Research & Site Analysis

Outer Ring, R4 (Buitenring Sint-Denijs)

Site Photos Showing the Car Dominance in the Area The project site is located in Sint-Denijs Westrem, and its proximity to N43 and the Ringvaart turns it into a car-oriented village, which led it to lose its sense of identity as a community in the last few years. Thus, to introduce urban agriculture to this village would attain a new character to the area to strengthen the social ties. The population in the area is observed to be one of the most aging population in Ghent. In the light of the investigations about elderlies in Belgium, social isolation being a vital problem for the society by 2050 is envisaged. Thus, the project aims to change the society’s horizon about elderly care with “Com-Vert Garden”.

City Center

Project Site Kortrijksesteenweg (N43) Sint Denijs-Westrem

Zwijnaarde

project site agricultural lands around Gent important mobility axis that connects the rural areas to the city center

Site Location and Agricultural Lands on Map of Ghent

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The project site of “Com-Vert Garden” is chosen to be situated next to the the Kortrijksesteenweg for an easy access from the village. Its proximity to the Maria Middelares Hospital and the care services is also considered for elderly people.

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Site Plan in Neighborhood Scale (1/6000)

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1 Project Site (Com-Vert Garden) 2 Maria Middelares Hospital 3 Parking Lot of Maria Middelares 4 Kinderdagverblijf Witje Wiebel VZW (Kindergarten) 5 Pharmacy 6 Forest 7 Flanders Expo 8 Holiday Inn 9 IKEA 10 Familiehulp (Care Services) 11 Armonia Residence Mayflower (Care Services) 12 Creative Therapy 13 Kortrijksesteenweg 14 Don Bosco School 15 Maaltebruggepark 16 R4, Buitenring-Sint-Denijs 17 Ringvaart

Village Scale Proposal

The neighborhood is designed to be a self-sufficient community regarding food, an accessible living area with slow mobility and rich in terms of bluegreen network by 2050.

4 main interventions are applied on the village scale: 2

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Proposed Site Plan in Neighborhood Scale (1/3000)

1 improving Kortrijksesteenweg for accessibility & blue-green transmission 2 food production at the backyard of residential units 3 converting the car parking lot into an orchard 4 Project Site: Com-Vert Garden (Care Home & Food Hub) trees

pedestrian circulation

fruit trees

blue network

bike circulation

green network

car circulation

First Intervention: Improving Kortrijksesteenweg for Accessibility & Blue-Green Transmission

The most significant obstacles in the area regarding the accessibility are the rigid walls under N43. A disconnection between two green patches is caused by this road, which provides accessibility for cars, but neglects the human and animal circulation and transmission of green-blue infrastructure. For providing integrity, the road is improved in both accessibility and softscape by extending the creek of Maalte Lake and introducing the presence of water to the project site. The pedestrian paths and the circulation for the bikes are arranged, sitting areas next to the extended creek are placed, and a skatepark is designed in close distance to the kindergarten in the project site. 1

Project Site

Maalte Park

Kortrijksesteenweg (N43)

Maalte Lake

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Village Scale Proposal

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Proposed Site Plan for Kortrijksesteenweg(1/1000)

Existing Situation

Proposed Section

The section shows the reinterpretation of the left-over space under N43 by enabling the transmission of the blue-green network. This is achieved by converting the rigid walls into pillars. The domination of the cars is reduced and slow mobility under the bridge is maintained. Thus, the ground level is now serving for community and nature, rather than a neglected lost space.

1 Green vs Grey Infrastructure-Bridge Level Green Infrastructure Grey Infrastructure 2 Spaces-Ground Level Community Space with Slow Mobility 3 Layers of Mobility-Bridge Level Paved Road Pedestrian Road Tramline Bike Path

Section A-A’

Village Scale Proposal Second and Third Interventions: Food Production at the Backyard of Residential Units & Converting the Car Parking Lot into an Orchard

The steps of this new local food system: Second Intervention: Food Production in Community Garden

3. Intervention: Intervention: Orchard

1 The unused spaces at the backyard of private units are converted into an interaction point for the neighbors with food production. 4

The main concept is to “convert” the neighborhood into a self-sufficient village that meets its food supply on daily basis by comprising all the stages of food system in one place to promote a shift towards a more sustainable & new food system.

2 The car parking lot is turned into an orchard and a car-free zone to discourage car usage and to increase the softscapes. It acts not only as an ecological corridor between the village and the Com-Vert Garden, but also as a sensory garden. 3 The products produced in the village (1&2) are transported to Com-Vert Garden (4) via electrocargo bikes to reduce the food miles and the negative impacts of food transportation. 4 The products are gathered in the communal food depot in Com-Vert Garden that is responsible for food distribution in the neighborhood. With the products produced by elderly people in ComVert Garden, the products are distributed to main public buildings in the village.

The first step was to change the daily routine of the locals by implementing gardening into their daily lives to uplift the local autonomy and to improve the locals’ wellness & social ties while minimizing the food miles.

With this aim, a specific part of the neighborhood is chosen in which residential and commercial zones are strictly separated from each other. This separation is caused by a rigid wall, which hampers the integrity of the village. Rigid Wall Seperating 2 Zones Commercial Zone Residential Zone Project Site of Com-Vert Garden

Aerial Views of the Second and Third Intervention Sites

Village Scale Proposal

untreated vegetation & 1 unused storages

The disconnection between commercial and residential zones is caused by the barriers (1, 2 & 3) which leads a certain part of the private gardens to become lost space. Rather than this spatial segregation, this area is evaluated as for food production and a socializing point for the neighbors to reconnect the people in the community by connecting and converting the unused parts of the private gardens into a community garden with a greenhouse.

The sun path of the area reveals that the shadows of the surrounding buildings are projected on the backyard of the residential units in the morning. Thus, food production is decided to be ensured with LED light in a greenhouse, which guarantees a high yield all year round. Besides, it would draw attention with its color, which would attract more local people to contribute in the food production. In addition to the greenhouse, the car parking lot is turned into an orchard which would also give yield.

private zone

lost space

common area with food production

commercial area

ecological corridor passing through the orchard

Sun Path Diagram of the Residential Units

Current Situation

the wall between the 2 residential and commercial zones

car parking lot

Greenhouse with LED Light

Orchard

Future Vision

Village Scale Proposal Forth Intervention: Com-Vert Garden The products coming from the greenhouse in the community garden and the orchards are collected at the communal depot in the food hub of ComVert Garden. Garden

Com-Vert Garden is not only responsible for collecting food from the neighborhood but also for incorporating food production with aquaponics, vegetable gardens, community gardens, and interior food growing.

1 IKEA 2 Holiday Inn 3 Flanders Expo 4 Familiehulp (Care Services For Elderly) 5 Armonia Residence Mayflower (Care Services For Elderly) 6 Creative Therapy (Care Services For Elderly) 7 Don Bosco School 8 Kinderdagverblijf Witje Wiebel VZW (Kindergarten) 9 Maria Middelares Hospital

The Food Team Sint-Denijs Westrem distributes a certain part of the local food by logistic cargo bikes to the main public buildings in the neighborhood, which are:

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Apart from maintaining the food flow, the building aims to engage the local community in healthy eating by providing a biomarket and a restaurant in which they can meet with the healthy and local food. Meanwhile, they can experience all the stages of the new local food system within this building.

Building Scale Site Analysis

The sun path, the optimum orientation for food production - which is South-East direction - and windrose diagram are analyzed. The prevailing South-West wind (westerlies) is the strongest in the winter times and is blocked by the existing buildings to a large extend.

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Spring (20 May) 0

The shades of the surrounding buildings project on the site in the morning and afternoon, which is visualized in the diagram for certain times. In the spring, the shades are not posing an obstacle. However, in the autumn, they cover a certain part of the site, which means almost half of it can only benefit from daylight during spring and summer.

Autumn (20 November)

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Building Scale Strategies 1 1

The site in autumn with the shadows of the surrounding buildings is tackled to analyze the area receiving daylight throughout the whole year.

The building is oriented towards South-East direction and the projection of the building is defined by fitting a 4x5m grid system in this area.

The ground level is left for the green-blue network and circulation by raising the building at certain parts. The form of the building is also enclosing the existing vegetation to have a haptic experience with a welcoming space. 4

Since the existence of water improves the mental health of the elderlies, the blue network is reintroduced to the site, the dried creek is revitalized and connected to the Maalte Lake.

The building is divided into 3 zones according to their proximity to certain services/circulation. The public zone is situated in the North direction since the food & human flows are circulating from the North. The care home is placed in the South direction, which is in touch with the existing nature and closer to the hospital and care services. The third part is a transition area in between two areas. 5

Building Programme Block 1: the Care Home (6 storey)

Block 2: the Food Hub (2 storey)

Attaining 3 zones leads the building to be formed of 2 main blocks that are linked with a platform at the 1. level which includes circulation, sitting areas, and maximum interaction of the community. The already-existing ramp connecting the hospital to the parking lot is extended at two parts (1). The platform is also accessed by stairs (2) and elevators (3). The restaurant and biomarket on the upper floor of the food hub is acessed with a ramp that circulates the aquaponics and enables the visitors to experience the food production while they are reaching to the upper floor. The food hub is also accessed by bikes for maintaining the food flow.

Maria Middelares Hospital Parking Lot Care Home (Block 1) Food Hub (Block 2)

Platform level

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First floors of the blocks 1

Vertical circulation ( ramps)

Vertical circulation (lifts & stairs)

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Connection of parking lot, hospital and the Com-Vert Garden Bike circulation Main Entrance

Building Programme

residential units

dining area

common area

terraces

vegetable gardens & terraces

terraces

aquaponics

kitchen

cafe

offices

common

flexible common

area

aquaponics

library

meditation room

training room

biomarket

storage

food depot

laundry Care Home

Food Hub

residential floors for non-care relient elderlies

common area (biomarket, restaurant & aquaponics)

residential floors for care relient elderlies with dementia

food depot

common & activity area mechanical rooms

restaurant

Tackling with the problems of elderlies, which are mainly social isolation, way-finding and confusion is a crucial part of the design process. The care home should be more than creating a care setting in which the caretakers feel like residents, rather than patients. Thus, the care home in Com-Vert Garden aims to create a livable atmosphere in which the residents feel like a part of it and embrace it as their homes. In this manner, the concept of “corridors as living streets” is integrated into the care home, by implementing color-coding to each floor to prevent any confusion about way-finding. While the common areas in Com-Vert Garden are coded with blue, each residential floor is given a different color which are yellow, red, and green. Each floor has three main “living streets”, and each is named as the food that is being produced in that corridor.

Design Proposal

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Ground Floor Plan

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34 | The Space Under the Platform with the Adjacent Parking Lot LEGEND 1 The main atrium (Activity & Meeting point) 2 Sitting areas with greenery in the atrium 3 Offices 4 Administrator office 5 Lifts for the residents/visitors 6 Cafe 7 The main entrance from the ground floor 8 Meditation Room 9 Flexible activity rooms seperated with

10 Sitting areas 11 Laundry 12 Lift for staff 13 Storage 14 WC 15 WC for staff 16 Fire escape 17 Print room & archive

The parking lot is covered by a green envelope to have a more pleasant atmosphere 18 Food production with aquaponics 19 Pedestrian entrance 20 Storage 21 Good processing/Sorting department 22 Food arrival 23 Food departure 24 Packaging department- for the food hub 25 Packaging department- for the distribution 26 Food depot

27 Service lift 28 WC 29 Fire escape 30 Lift reaching to the biomarket & restaurant 31 Fruit trees 32 Vegetable gardens 33 Community activity area 34 Playground & sitting areas under the platform 35 Sensory garden

Design Proposal

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First Floor Plan

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1 | Main Atrium with A Monumental Staircase, Designed as a Meeting & Activity Area in the Care Home LEGEND 1 The main atrium (Activity & meeting point) 2 Flexible activity rooms seperated with openable sliding panels 3 Reception 4 Extension of the ramp connected to the hospital 5 Main reception 6 Monumental staircase for easy wayfinding 7 Lift for residents/visitors

8 Library 9 Library terrace 10 Sitting area 11 Training room 12 Lift for staff 13 Storage 14 WC 15 WC for staff 16 Fire escape

17 Aquaponics 18 Ramp connected to the entrance 19 Lift 20 Biomarket 21 Restaurant 22 Bar 23 Kitchen 24 Storage 25 Service lift

26 WC 27 Fire escape 28 Ramp connecting the platform to the parking lot (2. level) and to the ground level 29 Lift connecting the platform to the parking lot (2. level) and to the ground level 30 Gardening for interaction between community and elderlies 31 Sitting areas 32 Restaurant terrace

Design Proposal

All the stages of the new food system can be experienced in the food hub by the visitors. Elderlies involve in every step (kitchen, production, food depot, biomarket, service). Complementing with the open and free space articulation, this would renormalize elderlies to be a part of the community. The steps of the food flow on the ground floor is listed: 1

Complementing with the food collected from the village, the products that are produced in the aquaponics in the "Food Production Department" are transferred to the "Food Processing Department".

The products are sorted out in “Food Processing Department”.

The products are sent to be packaged at the “Packaging Department”.

4-5 After being packed, the products are either stored in the food depot (4) to be sent to the upper floor, or sent to the next department which is responsible for boxing the packed products (5), to be distributed to the neighborhood. 6

The products are distributed to the main public buildings in the village from the “Food Departure”.

Biomarket

Aquaponics

Restaurant

Food Hub

Design Proposal Apricot Street Mandarin Street

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Second Floor Plan (Yellow Floor)

Meyer Lemon Street

LEGEND 1 Residential units (1 person) 2 Residential units (2 people) 3 Common area 4 Dining area 5 Lift for residents/visitors 6 Terrace

7 Caregiver room 8 Lift for staff 9 Common bathroom 10 WC for staff 11 Storage 12 Fire escape

The yellow floor in the care home is occupied by residents with dementia and mandarins are being raised by the residents of this street.

This is beneficial for elderlies for not only improving reminiscence by taking care of the plants but also helps the residents to create a link between the color, the food, and the location of their rooms.

Healing Gardens of Erasmus Hospital Architecture & Territory 24 Studio Location: Vogelzangbeek, Belgium Advisors: Steven Geeraert, Sis Pillen, Bart Van Gassen, Bruno Notteboom, Jolein Bergers Site Analysis: Partially Group Work Architectural Design: Individual Project

A comprehensive design starts with fulfilling human needs by respecting, experiencing, and understanding the context. An architectural intervention cannot be thought of in isolation. The studio aims to achieve this goal in the light of experimentation and linking theory and practice, and the first step was to find a problematic part of the site to do a punctual intervention. Beginning with analyzing the valley of Vogelzangbeek in Flanders, we derived from the question “What is already there?” and we found out that the accessibility of the area by both human and non-human beings is hampered by the boundaries on site. From this point of view, I observed that there is a clear cut between the Erasmus Hospital at the North of the site and the adjacent park with the ponds at the South, formed by a car road. This clear-cut blocks the potential of a rich interaction between man and nature because it minimizes the interaction between them by leading to a disconnection between different habitats. Thus, the landscape requires a transformation for the edges to increase human & non-human activities by also contributing to biodiversity.

The site is a transition space between the urban matrix of the city and the agricultural urban lands. Thus, observing the contrast between the wilderness of nature and order in the gardens would be interesting for the visitors. Starting from this point, the area is fragmented into several gardens which are well-organized spaces developed in a grid system, using the existing visionary lines of vegetation, spaces, circulation, and water elements. It consists of several vegetable gardens that enable the patients to contribute, gathering spaces for the visitors, and flower meadows that would not only increase the biodiversity but also enable patients and visitors to have a haptic experience. The design area that I mainly focus on is envisioned as a healing garden that would serve the pediatric department of Erasmus Hospital. To create a retreat space with a pavilion for the patients, a safe, flexible, and relaxing space that is blended into nature by being enclosed by flower meadows is tried to be achieved. A wooden deck is also designed to provide the visitors and patients to relax and enjoy the environment with sitting areas on the pond.

Site Analysis

highly accessible for only animals highly accessible for animals, lowly accessible for humans dirt road

During the site visit and the interviews with the local people, it is estimated that the site is lacking in terms of providing interaction between man & nature. Thus, we started to search for the reason behind this lack and it was decided to focus on the boundaries and edges through the site that is separating the two different patches of the urban matrix of the city and agricultural lands, how they affect the accessibility by human & non-humans, and their interaction, and how they limit the spaces. It was observed that two main factors were defining the limits of spaces, natural factors such as vegetation and water elements, and humanmade factors.

group work

accessible for animals and humans lowly accessible for animals, highly accessible for humans man-made fence

1 the fence leading to an unwelcoming entrance to the private farm & discouraging people to come

2 boundaries of high vegetation, gutter, bushes, and trees show the feature of wildness.

3 boundary formed by high & middle-high vegetation

highly accessible for humans paved road natural fence

creek / gutter pond / canal trees

4 boundary between road and nature reserve: rigid bushes & fences

5 gate at the entrance of the nature reserve, and the earth path surrounded by bushes acting as boundaries 6 small creek that is polluted and not lively, running through the nature reserve separates the reserve into two areas

individual work 1

farmlands

Erasmus Hospital

pond 1

pond 2

The site is located between the Erasmus Hospital and agricultural lands, and it is accessible with the earth / paved roads between the hospital and natural area, but rather than connecting patches, the roads act as a rigid boundary between them leading to a decrease in the movement, since they cut the area.

It is not a pleasant habitat for animals to exist, thus the interaction between different organisms is really low. The water quality is not good and even if the water elements are connected to each other, the interaction is limited. The agricultural lands are isolated by wild vegetation. Overall, changing the mosaic of the area by creating a more rich transitional space in between the Erasmus Hospital and the creek would lead to a more rich area for both human and non-human beings.

Site Analysis

Current Site Plan

individual work

Buildings Paved Road Earth Road

Earth Surface Water Car Parking Area

Existing Vegetation Lawns Agricultural Urban Lands

Design Strategies

individual work

In this manner, the car parking lots which are “ill-defined spaces” are involved into the healing gardens. Since there is an emergency entrance of the hospital, the paved road is still kept, and shifted in North. In this way, it would not interrupt the area anymore. Besides, North-South connections are strenghtened with east-west trajectories. existing paved car road circulation in car parking lot new paved car road

accessibility in current situation

earth pedestrian road new main pedestrian roads

accessibility in the proposal

Steps of intervention:

1. Connecting the water system by adding extra wetlands in between the ponds and by building ecologically valuable connections 2. Creating convoluted edges in the hospital area and green area. 3. Providing two complementary east west trajectories 4. Healing gardens working with the Erasmus Hospital, in combination with the perpendicular north south lines

Design Proposal

Intervention 2 Intervention 1

Proposed Site Plan

Buildings Paved Road Earth Road Earth Surface Water New High Vegetation

Wetlands/Riparian Areas Vegetable Gardens Informal Path Car parking areas Existing Vegetation

Meadow Agricultural Urban Lands Hay Field Wooden Deck Soft Soil Flower Meadow

individual work

A’

Current Situation of the Selected Area

Design Proposal A

B’

Proposed Site Plan of the Selected Area

A’

1 Design Proposal 1: Wooden Pavillion 2 Design Proposal 2: Wooden Deck with Resting Points

individual work

Design Strategies of the First Design Proposal: Wooden Pavillion

relation with pediatric department of Erasmus Hospital

easy access with ramps and stairs 4

level differences for children to play

5 “enclosure” effect for retreat with flower meadows & curvilinear shapes

green roof to attract birds and butterflies 6

The healing garden is designed to work together with the pediatric department of Erasmus Hospital. To create a retreat space for the patients, a safe, flexible and relaxing space that is blended into nature by being enclosed by flower meadows is tried to be achieved.

slope for rainflow

1/250 Proposed Site Plan of the Wooden Deck

Design Proposal

Side Mounted Steel Balustrade

Perforated Metal Sheet

Pavillion Section B-B’

CLT Wood Structure

individual work

“Enclosing the existing vegetation”

Site Image

Green Roof Detail 1 support panel 2 vapor control 3 steel sheeting 4 waterproof membrane 5 membrane protection 6 drainage layer 7 root barier 8 soil & vegetation 9 timber stopper 10 fascia board 11 gravel

Montage of the Pavillion

Design Proposal

While the pavillion is a retreat space to rest, the wooden deck has a more dynamic circulation. The wooden deck passing through the pond is designed for the visitors to have a break and enjoy the view while resting during their tour between the gardens.

Wooden Deck Plan

Montage of the Pavillion

individual work

Site Image

Connection of Wooden Deck and Perforated Metal Bridge

Design Proposal

Section A-A’ | Current Situation Car Parking Lot

Section A-A’ | Design Proposal

Paved Car Road

Earth Road

Low Incline to Enable Animal Movement

Pond

individual work

Lawn

Creek

Farmlands

Wood Structure Detail

The Roof Project Building Technology - Integration Location: Konya, Turkey Advisors: Glenn Kukkola (Bilkent University), Luyten Laurens, Blasco Marcelo (KU Leuven) Architectural Design: Individual Work | 3rd Year Design Studio in Bilkent University Technical Drawings: Group Project

This project was initially designed during my bachelor in Bilkent University, and then detailed as a group project during the masters programme in KU Leuven. Urban greening has long been promoted as an easy and effective strategy for beautifying the built environment and increasing investment opportunity. From this point of view, the project is designed by taking the strategies related to building technology into account, such as the quality of comfort and sustainability, fire safety, ventilation and other factors in constructional physics. The challange of this course is to work on an alreadydesigned project, which means that the project can be detailed or changed within the limits of the initial design.

The project is a 4-storey office building with a simple floor plan and an additional underground parking. The green roof is the most characteristic aspect of the design, with the triangle-shaped inclines that provides direct sunlight inside the building and stock the technical rooms, airgroups and the storages under them. It is also accessible by the staff of the building with gardens, recreational spaces and sitting areas. Stormwater management, high insulation, fire retardation, reduction in noise and heat island effect, improving the air quality, increasing amenity and green space with high biodiversity were the main concerns while using the green roof as a design strategy. All the technical details are hand-drawn.

Design Proposal 7330 835 40

785

790

240

1110

510

404

364

404

364

810

776

810 767

180

587

810 770

590

400

590

810 770

785

384

386

745

835

235

510

424

795

115

660

16 40

295

115

335

*Winter Garden +0.11 -0.15

340

40 298

298

810

510

*Winter Garden

840

558

+0.11 -0.15

S 05

75 x 18.00/30

S 01

S 02

25 x 18.00/30

19 20

23 24

G-07 HALL 3.19m² G-04 WC 8.19m²

G-03 WC HALL 6.82m²

G-06 WC 6.58m²

+0.11 -0.15

+0.11 ±0.00

G-01 ENTRANCE 119.68m²

G-12 WC HALL 6.82m²

S 03

11 10

06 07

G-15 WC 6.58m²

25 x 18.00/30

G-02 CORRIDOR 11.17m²

G-16 HALL 3.19m²

G-13 WC 8.19m²

2661

05 04

24 25

+0.11 ±0.00

G-08 MULTI-FUNCTIONAL HALL 281.37m²

G-11 CORRIDOR 11.40m²

G-09 OFFICE 222.04m²

1215

16 17

13 14

110

08 07

G-14 WC 10.36m²

G-05 WC 10.36m²

+2.27 +2.16

13 14

760

+2.27 +2.16

910

25 x 18.00/30

%10

550

+0.11 -0.15

1/200 Ground Floor Plan

1 Winter Garden & Reception 2 Main Entrance 3 Technical Room (Water Tank)

4 Multi-functional hall 5 Office 6 Archive

245

205

G-17 TECHNICAL ROOM (WATER TANK) 58.26m²

G-10 ARCHIVE 84.80m²

7330 835 40

790

785 240

510

1110

510

387.5

810

380 420

180

587

776

810

776

587

810 180

810

590

400

386

785

384

386

590

510

835

510

424

1110

858

40 298

298

810 387.5

*Winter Garden +0.11 -0.15

558

+0.11 -0.15

840

558

*Winter Garden

S 05

75 x 18.00/30

S 01

25 x 18.00/30

S 03

1-18 WC 6.58m²

25 x 18.00/30

+4.61 +4.50

1-01 OFFICE 810.89m²

+4.61 +4.50

686

198

401

400

686

198

401

15 95

400

835

785

25 x 18.00/30

05 10

06 07

1423 590 810

793 40

810

S 04

1-08 LOUNGE 52.47m²

1-13 PRINT ROOM 24.37m²

1-09 PRINT ROOM 18.68m²

1-12 MEETING ROOM 40.17m²

198

511

400

511

198

511

198

511

400

585

198

511

400

511

198

511

198

511

400

585

810

785

835

1 Winter Garden

2 Meeting Room

3 Manager Room

4 Print Room

40 40 15

7320

1/200 First Floor Plan

2661

+4.61 +4.50

1-14 CORRIDOR 12.29m²

6 3

1215

+4.61 +4.50

1-10 MANAGER ROOM 32.17m²

245

1-02 CORRIDOR 11.18m²

1-11 MEETING ROOM 65.20m²

1-16 WC 8.19m²

1-15 WC HALL 6.82m²

1-06 WC 6.58m²

+4.61 +4.50

80 70

1-03 WC HALL 6.82m²

61 71

910

1-04 WC 8.19m²

910

1-19 HALL 3.37m²

303

233

19 20

233

1-07 HALL 3.19m²

205

05 04

205

16 17

08 07

1-17 WC 10.36m²

1-05 WC 10.36m²

+6.77 +6.66

13 14

303

+6.77 +6.66

S 02

25 x 18.00/30

5 Lounge

6 Offices

Design Proposal

7330 835 40

790

785 240

510

1110

510

810

380

387.5

180

587

776

810

776

420

587

810 180

810

590

400

386

590

785

384

386

510

235

510

424

835

795

1110

40 858

298

810 387.5

1 25

*Winter Garden

558

+0.11 -0.15

840

+0.11 -0.15

558

*Winter Garden

S 05

75 x 18.00/30

S 01

25 x 18.00/30

+11.27 +11.16

2-07 HALL 3.19m²

2-16 HALL 3.19m²

2-06 WC 6.58m²

2-15 WC 6.58m²

30 20

2-11 CORRIDOR 11.18m²

+9.11 +9.00

17 16

2-08 KITCHEN 84.96m²

S 04

25 x 18.00/30

2-10 LIBRARY 65.81m²

06 09

686

835

198

401

198

401 785

400

15 95

400

1423 590 810

198 793

810

198

511

400

511

400

810 7320

1/500 Second Floor Plan

810

511

198

511

198 810

511

198

511

400

511

198

511

400

785

205

03 245

205

+9.11 +9.00

2-01 CAFETERIA 858.77m²

2-09 STORAGE 26.66m²

2-13 WC 8.19m²

303

2-02 CORRIDOR 11.17m²

2-12 WC HALL 6.82m²

+9.11 +9.00

02 12

2-03 WC HALL 6.82m²

2-04 WC 8.19m²

1215

303

21 22

18 19

04 03

2661

06 05

21 11

910

2-14 WC 10.36m²

2-05 WC 10.36m²

233

15 16

233

13 14

09 08

11 10

910

+11.27 +11.16

S 02

25 x 18.00/30

585 585 835

40 40 15

1 Winter Garden & Reception 2 Storage 3 Kitchen 4 Cafeteria 5 Library

1/500 Second Floor | Ceiling Plan

11.5

810

785

835

785

01 240

130

630

215

110 30

270

240

Down

240

1215

385

Down

Column 40 x 40

55 dp x 40

465

215

385

235

30 110

465

270

235

842.75

340

838.5

240

55 dp x 40

260

Column 40 x 40

835

785

810

785

835

1/500 Second Floor | Structural Scheme

Design Proposal

835

785

810

785

835

810

01 100 dp x 40

100 dp x 40

1650

100 dp x 40

2055

200

375

1100

380

420

1260

380 20

380

1260

420

20 20

1215

270

420

380

11030

385

1790

630

Connection of the Curtainwall and Eave

215

465

235

1330

375

420

200

374,79

515

420

200

840

2030 1020

concrete beam PIR Isolation16cm concrete beam PIR Isolation - 16 cm Water Barrier Foil water barrier foil nature stone slab - 3 cm Nature Stone Slab

gravel gravel

650

25 cm - soil 25 cm-soil filter foil - drainage 16 cm - PIR isolation drainage - vapor screen - slope concrete roofing - precast concrete panel PIR Isolation-16 cm vapor screen slope concrete precast concrete panel

edge profile

A A

OSB plate`plate OSB roof edge profile

soil+pots-9cm soil + pots - 9 cm tensioned wire tensioned wire drainage steel frame drainage PIR isolation - 16 cm steel frame vapor screen concrete pressure layer - 8 cm roofing steeldeck - 10 cm PIR isolation-16 cm capor screen concrete pressure layer- 8 cm steeldeck-10 cm T-profile-18 cm

B B

835

C C

785

D D

810

E E

810

F F

810

480

1/500 Roof | Structural Scheme

G G

H H

810

I I

785

J J

835

165

01 02

842.75

650

805

165

850

1650 28

380

400

380

B 20

I profile sandwich panel sandwich panel

1215

Eave elevation

480

385

wild vegetation on inclined roofs

vegetable gardens

1/500 Roof Plan

vegetation A

Design Proposal

+13.61 +13.50

2-14 WC

2-01 CAFETERIA

soil + pots - 9 cm cm soil+pots-9 tensioned wire tensioned drainage -wire steel frame drainage isolation - 16 cm steel PIR frame vapor screen concrete pressure layer - 8 cm roofing steeldeck - 10 cm PIR isolation-16cm vapor screen concrete pressure layer- 8cm steeldeck-10cm T-profile-18 cm

concrete-18 cm PIR isolation-16 cm OSP plate-2cm water barrier foil grouting kit green facade-8cm

18 cm - concrete 16 cm - PIR isolation 2 cm - OSB plaat - water barrier foil 8 cm - green facade

grouting kit

S 02

25 x 18.00/30

joint joint +9.00

+9.11

25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13

+9.00

+9.11

+9.00

+9.11

1 1-17 *Air GroupWC

outdoor pavement outdoor pavement pressurelayer layer pressure bubble wrap foil water barrier foil bubble wrap foil XPS isolation - 12 cm waterslope barrier concretefoil pressure concrete layer - 5cm XPS isolation-12cm slope concrete pressure concrete layer-5cm channel plate floor32 cm

castfloor-2cm screed with underfloor - water barier foil 16 cm - XPS isolation heating -7cm water barrier foil XPS isolation-16cm aerated concrete

1-01 OFFICE

S 02

25 x 18.00/30 +13.61 +13.50

+4.50

+4.61

S 02

+13.61 +13.50

25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13

+4.50

+13.61 +13.50

+4.61

+4.50

2-14 WC G-14 WC

25 x 18.00/30

+4.61

2-01 CAFETERIA G-09 OFFICE

+0.11

S 02

25 24 23 22 21 25 20 24 19 23 18 22 17 21 16 20 15 19 14 18 13 17 16 15 14 13

25 x 18.00/30

+4.50

+4.61

-4.50

25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13

+9.00

±0.00

+9.11

+9.00

+0.11

±0.00

airtight foil airtight foil

+4.50

-4.50

+0.11

+4.61

-4.39

G-14 WC

+4.50

-4.50

1/100 Section A-A’

±0.00

*Ventilation Shaft

25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13

+0.11

-4.39

G-09 OFFICE

±0.00

B-08

tile tile airtight foil foil airtight

+4.61

S 02

+0.11

+9.11

25 x 18.00/30

±0.00

floor tiles-4cm - water barrier foil water barrier12foil cm - XPS isolation 30 cm - concrete slab XPS isolation-12 cm 12 cm - XPS isolation - watercm barrier foil concrete slab-30 XPS isolation-12 cm water barrier foil

1-01 OFFICE B-01 PARKING

1-17 WC B-08 TECHNICAL ROOM

*Elevator Shaft

±0.00

+9.11

*Ventilation Shaft

+9.00

terrace pawn terrace pawn concrete aeratedaerated concrete airtight foil airtight foil

S 02

25 x 18.00/30

concrete beam concrete beam PIR isolation-16 cm - 16 cm PIR Isolation water barrier water foil barrier foil nature stone slab - 3 cm nature stone slab-3 cm

+0.11

- nature stone nature stone

concrete cm concrete beam-18 beam - 18 cm PIR isolation - 16 cm PIR isolation-16 cm OSB plate - 2 cm water baier foil OSBgreen plate-2 facade - 8cm cm water barrier foil green facade-8 cm

airtight foil

6 joint - joint

B-01

castfloor-2cm screed with underfloor heating-7cm water barrier foil water barier foil precast concrete panel-32 cm precast concrete panel - 32 cm

airtight foil

soil - soil - water barrier foil water barrier foil 40 cm - concrete 12 cm - XPS isolation concrete-40 cm - water barrier foil - bubble wrapcm foil PS isolation-12 - gravel water barrier foil,bubble wrap foil gravel

1/100 Section B-B’

The Poet House Architectural Detail Studio Location: Sassekaai, Ghent, Belgium Advisors: Jo Van Den Berghe, Louise De Brabander Site Sections: Group Work Architectural Design & Details: Individual Project

Architectural drawing and detailing by hand occupy the centre of the method of this studio. The project was designed as a room for a lonely and melancholic poet to have retreat next to the ship lock - the sluice - in Sassekaai, Ghent. It is aimed to be a place where the poet can gaze and enjoy the details. The project revolves around full scale 1/1 drawings of architectural details, connected with drawing fragments of the human body, in dialogues with scale 1/10 drawings.The details are designed according to the concept and needs of the poet.

The poet in this scenario is keen on presence of nature and plants, light and water, and wants to be alone and hidden, away from the crowd. Thus, her room is designed to be embedded to the underground, in direct relationship with the canal. Her love of stones and admire to the “Dandelion House (Tampopo House)” by Terunobi Fujimori led the design to be evolved around nature implemented in carved stones as the main structure of the room. All the drawings and details are hand-drawn.

Site Analysis

Main goal while selecting the project site in Sassekaai was to find the best location where the poet can have a retreat space and the location next to the lock on the North direction of the site is chosen since it is more silent and away from the main car road.

Site Plan

Project Location

Isometric Section of the Lock (hand-drawn in 1/10 scale)

SASSEKAAI | 1:10 SECTION

Design Proposal

The building is embedded to the ground, and an opening is carved at the North direction to enable sunlight penetrating inside the space. The roof is designed as an inclined green roof implemented on interlocking stone structure, and it is above the eye level which lead the room to be a hidden space. Section A-A’ (drawn in 1/10 scale) INDIVIDUAL WORK

Design Proposal Detail 1: Interlocking Stones

Detail 1: Stone Bracket Detail Mounted to Carved Bluestone (hand-drawn in 1/1 scale)

1/50 Site Plan (hand-drawn in 1/10 scale)

Detail 1: Interlocking Stone Detail (hand-drawn in 1/10 scale)

Detail 2: Skylight The main structure of the room is designed to be formed of carved stones, which are interlocking with each other, forming interesting details for the poet to gaze. Plants are implemented into these hollows in the interior to increase the prescence of natural elements inside. To maximise the sunlight inside, an inclined skylight is designed on the roof. A nodge for the rain to be collected in is provided at the lower edge of the skylight to attract birds. Detail 2: Skylight Profile Connection Detail (hand-drawn in 1/1 scale)

Detail 1: Interlocking Stone Sketch

Detail 2: Skylight Detail

Detail 2: Skylight Profile Connection Detail

(hand-drawn in 1/1 scale)

Design Proposal Detail 3: Openable Glass Floor

An openable glass floor is designed for the poet to feed the fish in the canal. The spring system is inspired from the door spring in De Grote Post in Oostende, designed by Gaston Eysselinck, which was investigated as a part of the design studio.

Detail 3: Openable Glass Floor Detail

Detail 3: Handle Detail of the Openable Glass

(hand-drawn in 1/1 scale)

SASSEKAAI | 1:10 SECTION

Section B-B’ (drawn in 1/10 scale)

Design Proposal Detail 4: Door Detail

SECTION

Section B-B’ (drawn in 1/10 scale)

Detail 4: Door Detail (hand-drawn in 1/1 scale)

Detail 5: Carved-Stone Chair

To provide more privacy, the accessibility of the room is only provided via the canal. Thus, a wooden door is designed that works with a door gas strut. It has a stone door handle and a hook that can be tied to each other to lock the door, and the handle can also be used to tie a boat.

Since the poet is keen on details of stones, her chair is designed to be made of comfortable carved stones to maintain the integrity with the structure of the room. The carved stones take their shape from the shape of human body and the chair is shaped according to different sitting positions.

Carved Stone Sketches (hand-drawn in 1/10 scale)

Crossing the Borders Climate Design & Sustainability Location: de Porre, Ghent, Belgium Advisors: Luc Eeckhout Site Analysis and Architectural Design: Group Project

Today in Ghent, 80% of the population owns a car, which most of the time stand still. Moreover, 62% of the inhabitants of de Porre use their cars to get to their work. Just as it is for de Porre, most of the CO2 emission in the city is mainly caused by mobility. While there is a smooth decline in the usage of cars due to car sharing and bike usage, there are still only a few sharing spots which are not enough.

The aim is to encourage slow mobility which is environmentally sustainable, and to provide an agreeable walking area between two neighborhood, Flora and Moscou; which are disconnected because of a railway that cuts the region into two parts. Thus, the main aim of the project is to “cross the borders” in Mellestraat, which is currently isolatd because of the train tracks and N9 highway.

Taking these into account, we, as the mobility team, worked in cooperation with seven other teams, each is dealing with a different topic (energy, space, water, accessibility, nature, materials and urban) investigated the site from different perspectives. We worked in four different scales; city, village, building and details. A bridge with a modular multifunctional building implemented on it is designed to improve the mobility in the region by 2050. The project aims to lead a reduction in car usage and CO2 emission, to promote public transportation, and an increase in the number of car-sharing spots.

In the light of these goals in city scale, instead of one small pedestrian bridge, we tried to create a way for pedestrians and bikes to cross these neighborhoods in a safe, fast, green and easy way and a bridge is designed to connect two neighborhoods in an agreeable, green and safe environment. In combination with the building in the middle of the bridge we designed, the design holds multiple functions: trainstation ticket points, bike parking spots both on top and in the legs of the bridge, car sharing points, 40 car charging points, shops, offices, 17 housing units and parks.

Site Analysis in City Scale

Diagram 1: current car sharing spots in Ghent

Diagram 2: 2050 proposal for Ghent with car sharing spots

Diagram 3: 2050 proposal for Ghent with green axis

Considering that only 5% of the citizens use carsharing, the project aims to maximise the carsharing spots in Ghent and turn the city center into a carfree area by 2050, 2050, by minimizing the walking distance between public transport and car sharing spots (diagram 2). The car-sharing spots become a ten-minute walk from each point to promote car-sharing and to reduce the car usage (diagram 4).

10 min by walk(center) 10 min by walk (car sharing)

Furthermore, green axes are designed to be implemented through the city (diagram 3) that connect the parks and serve as “living streets” to uplift the urban ecology.

Design Strategies in Village Scale

In the current situation, the Neighbourhoods of Moskou Vogelhoek and Flora are completely seperated from each other by a big border, the NMBS-site. To connect them, a bridge is designed above the train station connecting four different streets, which is not just a passing point but also an interaction point providing meeting and resting points with a lot of green space. In the middle of the bridge a multi-functional building is implemented, that functions as a train station, cohousing and offices. The bridge, with the ecological parks, bicycle paths and gathering spaces on it, is accessible for everyone by 4 ramps and elevators. The open space around and under the bridge is given back to nature.

Design Proposal in Village Scale

Aerial View of the Bridge connecting Moscou and de Porre

Site Plan

Design Proposal in Building Scale B

B 1 2

3 5 A

A’ 4

2 4 2 5 4

B’

1/1000 -2. Floor Plan

1 Laundry 2 Toilet 3 Offices 4 Resting Points 5 Cafe & Restaurant

1/1000 Ground Floor Plan

B’

The ground floor serves as a public space with shops, gathering spaces and cafes. It was designed considering the slow mobility. Thus, passage ways are connecting the east & west part by also creating an open space for the visitors. The ground floor is covered by kinetic pavement to generate energy for the building.

Design Proposal B

The wooden structure building in the middle of the bridge serves as a connecting element to the station. The building is made out of a wooden CLT grid of 4 by 5 metres. This way the building can be filled with flexible modules so that functions and spaces can change in the future. On the fourth housing modules. These housing modules are compact and share kitchen gardens. For example a module for a family of 4 people can be replaced by two modules for a couple or a single resident in future.

A’

B’

1/1000 First Floor Plan (Office Floor)

A’

B’

1/1000 Second Floor Plan (Residential Floor)

A’

B’

1/1000 Roof Plan

beekeepers

Design Proposal

DETAIL 1

DETAIL 2

Detail 1 DETAIL 3+4

Section A-A’ Climate Design

Detail 2

Detail 3

Detail 4

Section B-B’

charcoal drawings

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