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PREPARED BY Ömer Faruk Agırsoy UNDERGRADUATE Middlle East Technical University BIRTH 28.01.1993 CONTACT omeragirsoy@gmail.com
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Fatih Mah. Piri Reis Cad. Gülnaz Sok. No:2 Pursaklar/ANKARA
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Undergraduate
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2014- 2018
Faculty of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture
C.GPA: 3.32/4.00 Undergraduate
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2011-2014 *Faculty of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering *After successfully completing two years of engineering education, I transferred to the Architecture Department from Electrical Engineering Department in 2014.
EXPERIENCES Internship
Sinpaş Altın Oran Construction Site, Ankara
Jun’16-Aug’16
Arch290 2nd Year Worksite Internship, 5 Weeks
Internship
YDA İnşaat Park Avenue Construction Site, Ankara
Jun’16-Aug’16
Arch290 2nd Year Worksite Internship, 4 Weeks
Internship
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Jul’15-Aug’15
Arch190 1st Year Summer Internship, 6 Weeks -Building Survey and Restoration training, 2 Week -Theoretical and Applied construction techniques, 2 Week -Computer Programs Education, 1 Week -Model Construction Workshop, 1 Week
SKILLS Language Turkish | Mother Tongue English | Fluent German| Beginner Software
Autocad |
Advanced
Revit 2016 |
Advanced
Adobe Photoshop
Advanced
Adobe InDesign| Good Adobe Illustrator | Intermediate
Rhinoceros 5.0 |
Advanced
Grasshopper | Good Keycreator 7.5.2 | Good
Keyshot 6 |
Advanced
MS Office |
Advanced
Manual Physical Modelling Amateur Photography Architectural Sketching Graphic Design Parametric Design Laser-cutting
TRAINING AND CERTIFICATES Haz’15
OTHERS
Paint production experience and education certificate Marshall, İmge Boya
Chess | Snowboarding | Wing-Tsun | Camping | Piano |
SMART LIVING FOR SMART PEOPLE A NEW WAY OF WATERFRONT DWELLING Type: residential Location: Bilkent sports Year: fall 2016 Course: ARch301 - 3rd Year fall Duration: 1 semester
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of a housing complex with the social facilities alongside a stream dealing with three interacting subjects: conceptual framework, site related information and architectural program. Conceptual framework of the project is could be drawn through applying sustainable design principles leading to a smart architecture. This project is designed for the kind of catastrophic future which will occur in 50 years or so. It is intended to be self sustaining colony like campus with multilayered program consists of residential, social, agricultural spaces together for future generations. It created to care for features of smart architecture and find out new forms of waterfront dwelling to cater for the desires of postmodern day people with differing needs and expectations.
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East Technical University westwards alongside Bilkent Boulevard. It is located next to the Ağıl Stream (Ağıl Deresi) between METU and Bilkent in Ankara.
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City from the Site
Panoramic view of the site
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*Goodbye World: We’ve Passed the Carbon Tipping Point For Good “According to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, atmospheric carbon level past 400 parts per million permanently. What are the effects? Extinction 10,000 species could become extinct every year. One fourth of Earth’s species could become extinct before 2050. Food chain disruption Inextricably tied to extinction, food chains are likely to become permanently unbalanced Rising sea levels Ancient glaciers begin to melt and coastlines will flood. By 2100, approximately 13 million people in the US are projected to lose their homes due to rising sea levels. Ocean acidification and coral bleaching The planet’s oceans are absorbing excess CO2, literally acidifying the water. It will be the end of ocean ecosystem and underwater-life. *Retrieved from motherboard.vice.com
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Urban design
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are arranged according to differential zoning. The parts that near the road are the sport areas,Middle part is the residential part Waterfront is assigned as the social part. Between the social and
Waterfront Program
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programmed with dynamic scenario of continuous social, cultural and productive spaces. For that waterfront area is analysed with different perspectives and designed with a whole process.
residential units big pedestrian alley is planned to increase relation between residential and the social areas. Ramps are also creating flexible and direct relations between the site, social areas and the residential units.
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Architectural program of this project consists of covered and uncovered spaces of dwellings, social and recreational amenities, green and sports areas, circulation patterns for vehicles and people, waterfront arrangements, agricultural and aquacultural areas for the future residents.
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MULTI PURPOSE / EXHIBITION HALL
ADMINISTRATION CAFE/RESTAURANT
OFFICES
BOOK LENDING
Housing units and the social areas are connected
Social Program of the waterfront is arranged to
via multiple levels even with the sunken spaces
necessities of an self sustaining urban program.
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Smart living For smart people Buildings are designed with the continuous green pattern
Unit plans for the residents
bottom to the top. Most of the flats has their own green area for gardening facilities Since the building is designed with the vertical green elements. Plans are differentiated between the floors because of the alternating user types and the section.
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Housing units’ Plan typologies
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OASIS OF NOVELTIES PARADIGM OF CULTURAL SHIFT AND ARCHITECTURAL EXPANSION Type: URBAN Location: BOLOGNA, FIERA DISTRICT Year: fall 2017 Course: ARch401 - 4TH Year 1st Semester Duration: 1 semester
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Program Over a long period, city of Bologna has been one of the most significant cities of Italy and Europe with its history, culture, economy and architecture. Similarly, Fiera District of Bologna remains one of the largest fairground in Europe, with the buildings from Leonardo Benevolo, Kenzo Tange and Le
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Corbusier. However, in the last years, Bologna keep behind some of the other cities in Italy because of not compromising
ow a medieval city can also reflect the spirit of time?
the needs of cultural shift and not dealing with the emerging technologies and industries.
an experimentalism fill the gaps between the
The project aims to halt this negative cycle, fill the urban
Past and Future
gaps and rejuvenate the innovative “nature� of the city. It
Historic and Contemporary
tries to respond the contemporary needs with an alternative,
Natural and Built
responsive urban program and preserve the medieval city
Old City and New
in all scales. It will also help to regain its reformist / avant-
in a medieval City?
garde character, recreate its towers, canals, infrastructure and agriculture. In the near future, project proposes a city with aerial transportation and delivery systems. It gives a chance for creating an urban system, based on a triad of network: canals, green, and towers in the city. The reinvention of towers creates a basis for responsive infrastructural movement in the city. Calling for the Modernist dream, it leaves the ground to green and water.
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CITY OF TOWERS
CITY OF TRANSPOR
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Bologna is a City of towers but most of the towers are not functioned City of canals but canals are all underground and not visible City of green but greens are all seperated City of agriculture but out of date tech. City of exhibition but not have a spirit of innovation and experimentation City of transportation but transportation system is mostly based on conventional systems.
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// canal and green generation with the infrastructure of towers // Underground canals refunctioned for connecting towers
// real-time monitoring and controlling agircultural land and weather with integrated tower and uav system�
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monument
+water canal and green
The urban design approach through the masterplan is a good platform for the radical re-invention of what a world exhibition could be in the 21st century, Aiming to demonstrate innovative applications of architecture and engineering. It is consist of triad of program with different subgroups. It has a multi-layered network, underground, on the ground and the Upper ground. Tower is implemented in 3 stage with equal strength.
eating and cooking +gathering
Occasionally, expositions have far-reaching impacts on not only the built environment, but also the economic and cultural life of their cities. In that sense, in the project infrastructure has far meaning which also includes the infrastructure of public needs such as education, gathering and natural needs.
exhibition
+art and gathering
Tower is there as a hypothetical presence which aims to give reference to future and also to city itself. It does not have to be necessary for everywhere but its presence gives the idea and becomes the symbol of the innovation.
agriculture
+drilling and watering
construction
Public infrastructural moves in the project not just the possible in the context of showcasing the latest technology for the exhibition, but also resulted in a dramatic infrastructural improvement for the life of the city.
Histrorical understanding of architecture is not through mimicry but rather by developing a firmly contemporary reinterpretation, reflecting a more nuanced understanding. It will create an alternative typology for the old city. It is also referencing to spirit of constructing towers with its symbolic and functional meaning.
+storage and aerial pods
So emergence of tower which distributed to city creates a metaphor between the genius loci, history, spirit of time and the functions of them.
drone shipping
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CRYSTAL PALACE A GLASS ARTS CENTER FOR ESKISEHIR Type: Multi-purpose Location: eskişehir, odunpazaro Year: sprıng 2017 Course: ARch302 - 3rd Year 2nd Semester Duration: 1 semester
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glass arts center with accommodational facilities. The aim of the project is to design a contemporary piece of architecture which is to-the purpose of art glass production. Structural righteousness of design and contextual and aesthetic integrity to historic Odunpazarı of Eskişehir are the main tools for design process. Besides being frequented by enthusiasts, students and experts of glass artistry through its work-halls and classrooms, this center, with its cultural edifices like exhibition space, library, lecture hall and café, will also be a point of attraction with local and visiting communities, leading an active interaction and participation in the neighborhood. Design of accommodational spaces will help to enhance the center’s flexibility in terms for both students and visitors alike.
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sITE Eskisehir Odunpazarı is a district, which is located on the west of Middle Anatolia, on an important junction point of railway and motorway routes, constitute a common example of transformation of a historic city center. Odunpazarı is a district mainly composed of Ottoman residential fabric, and monuments from Early Republican Period. Odunpazarı became the subject of conservation activities after 1981.
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Main the aim of the project is trial to understand what is the border between open and closed, upper and lower, transparent and opaque, interior and exterior, public and private. So, project is designed for blurring distinctions between them and glass is used in the project with that sense.
Project is designed around a public courtyard which is connected with peripheral streets. Master plan of the project is designed according to environmental relations and scale.
Main glass hall is referenced from the mosque. Fragmented residential parts referenced from the historic urban fabric. So, project tries to balance with two different character in the structures and courtyard.
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A locus of cultivation CULTIVATION OF KNOWLEDGE Type: Multi-purpose Location: Ankara, eymir Year: fall 2015 Course: ARch201 - 2nd Year 1st Semester Duration: 1 semester
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through spaces for accommodating a lively program related to multifaceted topic’s fluid, inconstant and changeable events/functions. At the beginning, the topographical context defined as an hypothetical presence. An imaginary maps given to understand potentials on an empty plot and search for new type of space creations through the series of progressive tasks. Then for the final process they are evolved into ‘a locus of cultivation’. Topic of the project is the cultivation of knowledge. Main idea of the project is creating a structure that exhibits the time-line of the Eymir lake which accommodates the
The topographical context previously
professionals for analysing, examining and exhibiting the
defined as an hypothetical presence.
defects of the constructions around the Eymir area.
SERIES OF PROGRESSIVE TASKS
The aim of the project is to create a spatial narrative
TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITION_ STRUCTURE SPATIAL DEFINITION DIAGRAMMATIC STATEMENT_ SPATIAL DIALOG SPATIAL MOVEMENT A LOCUS OF CULTIVATION_ SPATIAL NARRATIVE
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Lake shore. Eymir is a small lake at the Southern border of the Ankara. The exact place of the site located at the middle of the Eymir. It is located on the sloppy area and because of the dominant rock existing at the site, the site is named as “The Rock�. // The site has a good view of both side of the Eymir. // It allows to make observations on site.
Site and The Rock from the Bottom
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Initial concept And design process
In the initial stages of the project my examinations on the topography shows that there was a golden ratio in the plan of topography. If the golden rectangle is created by using half of the border rectangle the rock fits in the inner golden rectangle. This idea is used to tame the topography and create references for placing spaces and structures. Important factors of the placement are the light, sun, vista and topographical conditions. The structures are also perpendicular to the main axis of golden
GOLDEN RECTANGLE IN RELATION WITH SITE AND THE ROCK
rectangles which looking towards the rock.
The circulation of golden rectangle which starts from the rock creates a metaphor between the place of the project which is genius loci, concept of time and the function of the building.
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timeline of the Eymir observation and research change time protection argue and decide about The future of Eymir
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Linear quality of the elements used to create flow of spaces and continuous circulation. By doing that keeping the balance between spaces, structure and topography; also, in the plan and the section of the project caused some broad considerations. While differentiating the spaces main idea of it is the creating different spaces for different purposes and functions in a relation of relevant subjects and the context.
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The buildings central area is designed as multifunctional area for various events. Ä°t is also used continuously for the exhibitions of Eymir People can easily come and see this exhibition which shows the time-line of the Eymir lake changes and differentiations by time such as some lost animals and plants.
And at that area the view of Eymir also becomes a one part of that exhibition. So it creates an indirect contact between the visitors, the exhibition and the beauty of the Eymir.
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HABITAT/SOCIAL CONDENSER Urban [vocational] institute colloboratıon: Type: Location: Year: Course: Duration:
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//Habitat - natural home or environment of an animal, plant or another organism
//Central to the idea of the social condenser is the premise that architecture has the ability to influence social behaviour.
//The intention of the social condenser was to influence the design of public spaces, with a goal of breaking down perceived social hierarchies in an effort to create socially equitable spaces.
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A TRIAD OF PROGRAM • TECTONICS
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Main aim of the project is understanding the essential aspects of architectural design: program [–spatial strategy], site [–an urban condition] and tectonics [-art of construction and expression]; it emphasizes a creative architectural design thinking through the dynamic interplay of these aspects. Project topic concentrates on architect’s responsibility on environmental, cultural and socioeconomic sustainability. Having firmly committed to this responsibility, it explores current possibilities, modes and qualities of spatial production.
Program The Intention of the project is design of an urban [vocational] institute bounding with a new social program including atelier culture, social clubs/hubs and housing commune, which could bring different layers of everyday life cycles.
SITE
Ankara, Kazıkiçi Bostanları //Average temperatures: Winter: -2 Summer: 22 //Predominant wind direction: North-East to South-West //Slope: 0-2% //Vegetation: Not existing //Vista of Ankara Castle //Easy access to the majority of Ankara
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//Aims Creating a natural axis to transfer users from urban to rural Socialize disabled people. Attracting point for public with common areas and social opportunities Sheltering with indoor-outdoor related spaces while Respecting privacy and public Create equal living opportunities for all of the people Create intermediate space between urban and rural. Connecting urban and rural possibilities
//Common Rules Social hubs are located on ground floors. Emphasized spaces which perceptible from outside Create a green courtyard between the bostan and site Functional ramp system and circulation cores for vertical transfer.
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iomedical technology is a broad term that combines engineering and technology to solve biological
or medical problems involving humans, especially the design and use of medical equipment used to diagnose and treat various diseases.�
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Atelier and welcoming spaces which are public characteristics located in industrial side and through the BOSTAN privacy became more important so residential units and social hubs organized in that part with green areas. All these structures are supported by ramps between upper and lower levels to be able to use by people who have special needs with providing visual and experimental connections. Ramps and galleries are continuous in both indoor and outdoor spaces to create spatial continuity. In the meantime, while designing master-plan solid and void spaces are balanced by taking into consideration of harmony between open, semi-open, and closed spaces. The contextuality was provided with the language of structures with focusing on planarity and consistency with its surrounding. Besides angular axis, similar elements to pedestrian ways in different levels are used to show an alternative way to monotonous buildings around the site. HABITAT - SOCIAL CONDENSER I
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Atelier A
telier is one of the three main programs
of the site. Atelier is created for both the site residents and the city residents of Ankara. Atelier is created for biomedical technology production. Its circulation system is created living equalities to both disable and the elder workers. Atelier is produced with the 2 parts which are divided with the main entrance of the site. In the plan is angled to main orientation to create welcoming square at the industrial part.
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Left part of the atelier is administrative part which is 6 storey height , it is combined with the offices meeting rooms and the classrooms. However the right part is the production part with 3 storeys. This area is reserved for the ateliers amphitheatre, trial areas, classroom and the canteen. Circulation of the production part is supported with the continuous ramp related with the continuous gallery to the upper floors. With the help of section differentiation this ramp is works within half floors and this half floor organization is used to connect and create the amphitheatres section. These two different parts of the atelier are connected at the 3rd floor and it is served as a connection and also creates a trial track for biomedical products.
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Housing commune and social hub H
ousing commune of this project is a trial to enhance residential quality of the
users and create equal living opportunities for the different parts of the society. The intention is to break down individualism promote communal living, at the same time dealing with the contradictions of site and the location. This contrast and contradictions are used in the design with inventive ways of space production. Different layers of the building is connected via ramps and half floors. Building
creates both open and closed spaces continuously.
Breaking down individualism promote commun Dealing with contradiction
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SOCIAL PROGRAM CARE AND REPAIR: National, Charitable, Independent organization which aims to improve disabled and older peoples living quality. /Handy person service /Home improvement service /Small repairs service /Trade referral Service
Ground Floor Plan Care and Repair Office/Workshop
Second Floor Plan with Book Lending Area
BOOK LENDING: Borrow and lend books for free. /Library and reading areas. /Self development
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Unit plans Ground Floor Two different 10 people dwelling units are connected in the section
10 People Housing Unit Plan for Novices
to increase the quality of living with the double and triple height spaces.
10 person bedrooms are designed together to respect the project program but beds are separated
First Floor
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One Person units are places on the upper level to protect privacy.
1 Person Living Unit Plan for Educators/Tutors
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multifunctional spring 2014 ARch102- 1st Year 2nd Semester 2 months
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LAndspace // LANDSPACE is a continuous environment resulted from an expansion of topographies by the forces of bodily attraction.
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spatial object to explore interaction between body and architectural space. Yet, LANDSPACE should be considered neither as a spatial object nor as a landscape but rather as a constructed environment within which landscapes and architectural spaces merge and emerge as a single homogeneous formation for bodily interactions.
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or the project seeking possibilities of bodily
interactions and different ways of space production through and within architectural space; LANDSPACE creates an experimental environment that offers a survey of bodily topographies. Design and production is applied with the help of following production methods/ systems:
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Different patterns are superposed on the grids and created a shifted double layer tessellation which covers the whole geometry. This tessellation has the potential of creating and connecting the groups together.
The project is starts with the Euclidean grid. On that Euclidean geometries, modulation of big and small elements becomes together with an hierarchical order. For the seeking possibilities of the space creation, Euclidean grid is distorted with the help of two vanishing points. It creates
Design and production is applied with the help of
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Vertical Elements also emerged with the groups, they are aligned through the vanishing points to emphasize directionality and increase the stability of the project. Also they are used to separate spaces to create public and individual spaces Within the project horizontal elements arranged to separate but also connect each layer to the neighbour one. Close transitions between the layers increases the relation and accessibility of spaces in a fluent way. Therefore the project becomes a formation of both land and space, form and the structure with the
This integrated system of design creates a coherency of form and structure in the LANDSPACE.
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THE PLANT CIRCLE LANDSCAPE DESIGN STRATEGIES TO ATAKULE Type: Landscape Place: botanık park,Atakule / Ankara Size: 2.6 hectares Year: fall 2015 Class: ARch291- 2nd Year 1st Semester Duration: 2 MONTHS COLLABORATION: TAHA AKBULUT, GİZEM GÖRGÜN, İPEK EROL, BÜŞRA ÖNER
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Reprogramming an Urban Field: Landscape Design Strategies to “Atakule”
“People tended to think of path destinations and origin points: they liked to know where paths come from and where they led. Paths with clear and well-known origins and destinations had stronger identities…” (Lynch, Kevin, «The Image of the City», p.54)
“Views can, by turns, be concealed and revealed, unfolding or unrolling, creating anticipation, surprise, and a setting for a thrilling arrival. The landscape is dynamic, cinematic and panoramic.” (Waterman 2009, 94)
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andscape Design course invites student to experience landscape design
process to reprogram an urban land in the city of Ankara. Within the scope of the project, each group is expected to expose their own program, concepts and design ideas that will originate from their site analysis and synthesis, rather than dealing with an assigned program. Given Topic is:
SITE & GREEN HABITAT . Landscape in Green System
Surrounding parks and green patches, their spatial characteristics, their
user groups, their relation & interaction with the project site...
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takule is one of the most important landmarks of the city. It is a 125 m high
tower located in the district of Çankaya. It has a great importance in the image of the city, because it is identifiable from almost anywhere in the city. Given site is the Botanik Park which is located nearby the Atakule. Botanik Park was established between Çankaya Caddesi and Cinnah Caddesi on an area of 65000 m² in 1970. There are various embassy buildings and 4-6 storey buildings for residential and business purposes around the park.
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Site Analysis & Synthesis The intention of the site analysis is to examine the alternating
Botanik Park
space qualities of the different parks which are near the Atakule
Isolated | Sloping| Dense Plantation | Variety
area. Anayasa Park and Portakal Çiçeği Valley are all parts of the huge green area with the Botanik Park. Although the all
Anayasa Park
parks sharing the same green area, every park has their own
Monumental | Flat | Transition | Less Plantation
identity and value. We examined and considered to synthesize for this differentiations of park for our site. Therefore the parks
Portakal Çiçeği Valley
are examined in various headings such as:
Enclosed | Valley | Dense Plantation | Linear
/ Section analysis
/ Spatial characteristics
Seğmenler Park
/ Vegetation types and diversity
Cultural | Inclined | Collective | Dense Plant
/ User groups
/ Time-line.
BOTANIK PARK
PORTAKAL ÇİÇEĞİ PARK
ANAYASA PARK
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General approach // TO EXHIBIT THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTATION IN A CINEMATIC LANDSCAPE // TO CREATE PUBLIC ATTRACTION AROUND THE ATAKULE // TO MAINTAIN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BOTANIK PARK
//Usage of radial grid system for arrangements of plants //Circulating path between the different type of trees //Hierarchy between different paths //From the top the path resembles tree.
//Exhibit the all kinds of plantations which can grow in Ankara. //Greenhouses for exhibiting plantation of different climates //Create a circular continuous path around the plants and green houses //Different experiences with the help of dynamic path and landscape
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//Destination for Botanik Park //Isolated areas by the help of functional trees //Creating scenes at the corners //Platforms for resting and gathering
“Paths are the channels along which the observer customarily, occasionally, or potentially moves. They may be streets, walkways, transit lines, canals, railroads. For many people, these are the predominant elements in their image. People observe the city while moving through it and along these paths the other environmental elements are arranged and related.” (Lynch, Kevin, «The Image of the City», p.47) 92
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//Experiencing plantations from all over the world // Tropical and Equatorial climate houses //Examples of Botanik Park’s habitat
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…In order to make sense of our surroundings we need to be able to separate each constituent part and then to identify it and to relate it back to the whole scene. (Bell, Simon, “Elements of visual design in the landscape”,p.36)
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OMER FARUK AGIRSOY