Ahmet Uzun Portfolio 2014 by Ahmet Uzun

ahmet uzun portfolio 2014

AHMET UZUN Ahmet Uzun is a 1989 born Istanbulite urban designer. He is a graduate of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. During his academic period, he took part of numerous national and international workshops, competitions and internships. He has participated in Erasmus IP workshops in Amsterdam and Istanbul, an Erasmus Student Placement program in Vienna for 4 months and Erasmus Life-Long Learning program in Antwerp for 6 months. In Vienna, he worked in an architecture office, Wehdorn Arkitekten. In Antwerp, He took courses from master of architecture program in University of Antwerp. Since the photography is passion for him, he has prepared his bachelor’s thesis on the subject of “Reading Urban Transition of Istanbul through Photographs: 1950 – 1990 Ara Guler’s Archive” which considers photographs as an urban reading tool to understand the past of the city of Istanbul. Additionally, he has won several awards and honors; after he was awarded second prize in a national urban design competition, a certificate of honor was given by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University senate. He also had a second prize in a photo contest about canoeing. His approach focused on rethinking and redefining models of new creative ideas to design livable and enjoyable cities. Urban issues are one of the world’s hottest topics, but the way it is taken into account and communicated is often inadequate and deficient. He strongly believes that in order to redefine physical environment that shaped with big urban projects and investments, a mental change that contains “idea environment” should be considered by the help of exciting new world of media, arts and design. In this manner, transdisciplinary design that combines various disciplines to find solutions urban issues is a thrilling subject that he wishes to work on. website email linkedin mobile skype portfolio

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EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LANGUAGE SKILLS

SOFTWARE SKILLS

WORKSHOPS

Jun 2013

Documentary Photography Workshop Vienna Architecture and Human Interactions of Today’s Vienna

Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Design Based Urban Planning

Feb 2013

Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures 2013 Antwerp Interrupte

2011

Technical University of Vienna Architecture - Erasmus Placement

Feb 2011

Erasmus IP Workshop Amsterdam Redefining the Urban Realm: Third Life of Kattenburg

2010

Middle East Technical University Software Based Summer Practice

Feb 2011

MSFAU Workshop Istanbul Land Walls of Old Istanbul

2003 - 2007

Cumhuriyet High School English Based Education

Jul 2010

Gehl Architects & EMBARQ Public Survey in Istanbul

2011 4 Months

Wehdorn Architekten Erasmus Internship / Vienna - Austria

Jul 2010

Reveries of the City Workshop Istanbul Public Spaces, Streets and Waterfronts of Heybeliada

2010 3 Months

Ministry of Environment and Urbanization of Turkey Internship / Ankara - Turkey

May 2010

MSFAU Workshop Istanbul A Conceptual Approach to Passages of Beyoglu

2009 3 Months

Istanbul Urban Design Center Internship / Istanbul - Turkey

Feb 2010

Erasmus IP Workshop Istanbul Rethinking the Urban Waterfront

Turkish

Native

Jan 2013

English

Advanced IELTS Overall Band 7.0 2013

Bachelor’s Thesis Reading Urban Transition of Istanbul Through Photographs: 1950 - 1990 Ara Güler’s Archive

French

Beginner Institut Français d’Istanbul 2012

Dec 2011

Letter to Architects Bulletin A Public Figure of Nişantaşı: The “Ringo” Legend

2009

Architectural Booklet Anatolian Shores of Bosphorus

2008

Architectural Booklet Historical Peninsula of Istanbul: Fatih Region

2013

University of Antwerp (Artesis Antwerpen) Architecture - Erasmus

2008 - 2013

PUBLICATIONS

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Microsoft Office Tools

COMPETITIONS

AutoCAD

Second Prize Urban Design Competition Taskopru Renewal of the Old Prison Area Second Prize Canoeing Photo Contest “Plash to Life!”

SketchUp Lumion

Mention PERSONAL SKILLS

Architecture Competition Hackney City Farm

Creativity Social Commitment Team Work Organization Communicaiton

AWARDS / HONOURS

Certificate of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Honour Isparta Education Society Honourable Contribution to School Libraries in Various Plaque Anatolian Cities

urban planning

name | IMAGE ANALYSIS OF OLD ISTANBUL school | MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY advisor | AYKUT KOKSAL - GULSEN OZAYDIN role | GROUP WORK (RESEARCH - VISUALISATION)

type | ACADEMIC year | 2009 location | ISTANBUL

- TURKEY

In the first year of Urban Planning education in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula was selected as a project area. As a part of “Planning Studio I” students were encouraged to learn Kevin Lynch’s methodology to analyze the imageability of old Istanbul. To do this, students were divided into 7 different groups to refer to 7 hills of old Istanbul. My group worked in forth hill of the old city, namely Fatih region which has remarkable examples of the buildings that belong to Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern periods. In this context, spatial and architectural texture of Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula was analyzed using Kevin Lynch’s methodology that defined in the book ‘’The Image of the City’’.

Landmarks of Fatih Region

Nodes of Fatih Region

Districts of Fatih Region

Edges of Fatih Region

Paths of Fatih Region

Image Map of Fatih Region

Urban Pattern of Fatih Region

Fatih Complex,Famous Landmark of Area

Image Map of Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula

Elements Sort by Frequency

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Urban Strategy Scheme for Central Tasköprü Area

During “Planning Studio IV”, the aim is to study the process of planning with various steps of analyze, synthesis and evaluation within the framework of current situation of a chosen city, namely Tasköprü which is located Black Sea Region in Anatolia (population approximately 25.000) First of all, a field trip was organized to survey urban elements of Tasköprü. And then GIS analysis of the area was completed. After we understood how the city works, we started to think on which kind of sustainable strategies can bring the city to the future. Following that, we designed Urban Strategy Scheme for Central Tasköprü Area to promote local eco-friendly industries and new development areas with eco-tourism potentials. As a final project, Tasköprü Environmental Plan in 1:100.000 scale and its detailed report were completed and presented.

Storey Analysis of Central Tasköprü

Building Analysis of Central Tasköprü

name | TASKÖPRÜ IMPLEMENTATION PLAN school | MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY advisor | RIFAT AKBULUT - ICLAL KAYA role | INDIVIDUAL WORK

type | ACADEMIC year | 2011 location | KASTAMONU

1:1000 Scale Implementation Plan for a Selected Area in Tasköprü

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Probable Street View

Pedestrian Path Floorings

Residence Typology

Building Types for Various Number of Inhabitants

As a continuation studio of Tasköprü, “Planning Studio V” aims to study design principles and legislative process of current planning practice in Turkey in 1:1000 scale. To do this, a small district in Northwestern Tasköprü was selected as a project area and designed with planning tools. The aim of the plan is to create walkable and accessible neigbourhood that has self-sufficient built environment, pedestrian oriented paths and well-defined open spaces. The base idea of the concept of the plan and design is influenced by Danish architect, Jan Gehl’s book; “Cities for People”. In addition to the plan, proposed parking, paths and residence typology were defined in details. Also a final report was preperad within the studio.

banyo hol

Y.O.

salon mutfak

for 1-2 person(s)

for 5-6 persons

for 3-4 persons

Parking Typology

Path Sections 2.75 m.

3.25 m.

2.75 m.

12 m.

2 m.

5 m.

3.5 m.

15 m.

3.5 m.

2 m.

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S H O P P I N G M A L L S

B AY R A M PA Ş AO R A PROPOSAL PLAN North Legend Recreation Bus Station Sport Facilities Bicycling Path

Logos for ORA

Residence

3D View of ORA Shopping Mall

Hospital Center for World Languages

Center for Modern Art

Museum of Arabesque Culture

2001

Additional Metro Station

Existing Metro Station

2005

2007

2009

2010

2011 Proposal Plan for ORA Shopping Mall and Its Environment

Development of Project Area

Since the city of Istanbul is considered as one of the great examples of rapidly growing cities in the world, urban sprawl and growth becomes notable issue for this archaic city. Can massive urban growth be taken under control with planning and design principles? In order to find answers, “Planning Studio VII” chose a theme: Urban Sprawl: Supervising the Growth in Metropolitan Cities. Teams in the studio were created according to this theme. Sub-themes such as, shopping malls, informal housing areas, industrial areas, social infrastructure areas, formal housing areas, transportation investments determined context of the studio. My group worked on shopping mall sub-theme during the studio. In this context, shopping mall “ORA” and its environment were selected as a project area. ORA shopping mall is located in geographically disjointed area with accessibility problems in an outer district of Istanbul, namely Bayrampasa. The aim of the project was to redefine the function of ORA shopping mall and to connect the mall to its urban environment. The project area contains International Bus Station, warehouses, a big urban park, high-rise residential areas, another shopping mall, sport facilities and metro stations. In our proposal plan, ORA had a new function as a university and a cultural center and also an additional light tram line linked our new center to the north, where Modern Arts and World Languages Centers established instead of old warehouses. Due to Forum Istanbul, the other shopping mall in the area, is located on the existing metro line and already had reasonable number of visitors, we decided to maintain its function as a shopping mall. In this way, we tried to create a self-sufficient urban area that includes university, civic center, parks, sport facilities, hospital, mall and art and language centers surrounded by residential areas.

name | IMAGE ANALYSIS OF DEN BRANDT AREA school | UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP advisor | MARIEKE JAENEN - PHILIPPE LEMINEUR role | GROUP WORK (URBAN ANALYSIS - VISUALISATION)

1/7500 Scale Image Analysıs Map of Den Brandt Area

Notable Landmarks of the Project Area

type | ACADEMIC year | 2013 location | ANTWERP

- BELGIUM

Development of the Area

Den Brandt Castle and Its Frontage

During the Erasmus Exchange period in Architecture Department of University of Antwerp, there was an interdisciplinary studio named “Project 2”. The first objective of the studio was working in an interdisciplinary way around an historical building or landscape and the second was an interdisciplinary study with an urban, historical and architectural analysis that becomes the foundation for the valuation and finally the reconversion and restoration proposal. And interdisciplinary groups were created to make out scientific study of a building or landscape. In this context, my group worked on a castle and its landscape, namely Den Brandt, which is located suburbs of Southern Antwerp. We made comprehensive research, historical and contemporary analysis for the the project area.

urban design

name | RENEWAL OF PERSEMBE PAZARI PARK school | MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY advisor | MUGE OZKAN OZBEK role | INDIVIDUAL WORK

type | ACADEMIC year | 2010 location | ISTANBUL

- TURKEY

As an extension to "Applications in Architecture" unit, “Spatial Analysis Techniques” course aims to study spatial analysis in urban space and residential areas. The unit aims to help identifying issues related to housing and urban spaces, to develop understanding of scale and a vision concept. In this context, one of the Istanbul’s historically intertwined districts; Karakoy was selected as a project area. Firstly, urban pattern of the area was analyzed; monumental key buildings were determined and categorized according to their architectural period. After that the focus was on a nearly idle park, namely Persembe Pazarı Park which has a beautiful shoreline along Golden Horn. As a final design, Persembe Pazarı Park reorganized as a public park which perfectly overlaps the urban character of the project area.

Notable Buildings in Karaköy sorted by Their Architectural Era

Urban Pattern of Karaköy

3D Images of Persembe Pazarı Park

First Part of the Proposal

3D Images of First Part

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Second Part of the Proposal

3D Image and Section of Second Part of the Proposal

Whole Project Area and its 3D Image

Section of First Part of the Proposal

Third Part of the Proposal

Kadıköy is one of the key districts of Anatolian side of Istanbul. It has satisfactory urban quality compared to other districts of the city. But the shoreline of the area consists of separated spaces; it was occupied by huge bus and minibus stations, numerous piers and construction works. So the project area was chosen from a historic landmark, Haydarpasa Train Station to Moda Park in the south to define a whole design approach. The aim of our project was to gain accessible and enjoyable open space to Kadıköy’s urban life. During the “Urban Design” course our group designed the shoreline in a three part. In the first part, an abandoned building was converted into a modern art museum and a public library. Second part of our design area contains a frequently used open space because of the pier and a big theater building. And third part of our project aims to connect new park to the south, Moda Park.

name | NEW OPEN SPACE IN KARAKÖY school | MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY advisor | NURGÜL ERDEM - DEMET SEHER KAP role | INDIVIDUAL WORK

type | ACADEMIC year | 2011 location | ISTANBUL

- TURKEY

Map and Images of Gumruk Street

New Design for Gumruk Street

In the “Landscape II” course, objective of students is to choose a street which has a connection to the sea and to design as a pedestrian path and an open space for the city. As a part of this course, Gumruk Street in Karaköy was selected as a project area. An old mosque, a big multilevel parking garage, commercial and administrative buildings were on the street. So the aim of the project was to define an open space that people can meet and enjoy together beautiful view of Bosporus. An open-air exhibition area in the beginning of the street, wooden docks on Bosporus, sitting stairs and café facilities were shaped the new open space in Gumruk Street.

Concept Sketch of Project Area and A Reference from Gehl Architects’ Perth Project

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Design Zones of Sirkeci Terminal Area

The Erasmus IP workshop, held in Istanbul, aims to make international students to rethink the urban waterfronts and to redefine a new identity for Sirkeci Terminal Area. Mixed student groups were constituted and they tried to make a new design for the area. In this context, our group focused on redefining the area around the terminal building with new constructions, squares and parks. The area was separated in six different zones forming a gradient from a more urban part through a sub-urban one towards a natural park at the peak of the historical peninsula. Our proposal aims to transform the Sirkeci site to be a vibrant public area to scale and providing a versatile waterfront while respecting and underlining its great historical values. This formed the core of our concept; a patchwork orange.

Urban Zone

Design Concept; A Patchwork Orange

Recreational Urban Park Zone

Museum Park Zone

Infrastructural Zone

Natural Zone

Final Sketch of the Project Area

Historical Semi-Rural Zone

Urban Pattern of the Area

Change of Facades

- NETHERLANDS

New Kattenburgstraat and Its Section

3D Images of New Kattenburg

The Second Erasmus IP workshop, held in Amsterdam, was a comparative study of traditional and modernist approaches to the concept of the street as the characteristic of urban life. In the workshop, one of the oldest docks of the former harbour of Amsterdam, Kattenburg was selected as a project area as an example for the modern city. International students from three universities, namely Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and Fachhochschule Bielefeld, were divided into groups and worked together to define third life of Kattenburg. The goal of our team was to create a desirable urban point. The concept of our design was inspired by symbol of Amsterdam, three cross. Three green cross strips on the area define a new urban fabric for Kattenburg and Amsterdam in a bigger scale. The aim of our work was to create lively place to live in Kattenburg with making the island an “island”. To do this, we protected the existing green and created green strips through buildings. Then we opened-up the plinths and added new facades to the buildings to break the monotony. Finally, a small daycare facility and a landmark were placed in the area.

Design Phases of the Project

Sections of the Project Area

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Walking Routes and 1:1000 Scale Plan of Old Prison Area

Typograph: Values of Tasköprü

Tasköprü Renewal of Old Prison Area Architecture and Urban Design Competition aims to encourage students to redefine an old prison area with a new function and to connect it to city’s urban life. Our team tried to design a vibrant public point which will be a mixture of a library, a recognition point, cultural places, museums, squares, meeting points and cafes. To do this, we approached to project area as a whole from the beginning of old Tasköprü (Stone Bridge) in northwest to the old prison area in southeast. A green pedestrian axis was defined to connect the bridge, the historical core of the city and the design area to create more attractive and accessible public space for the city. Our team was awarded second prize in this competition and afterwards, we were awarded a certificate of honor by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University senate.

1:200 Scale Plan of the Project Area

architecture

name | PASSAGES OF BEYOGLU school | MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY advisor | ÖZLEM LAMONTRE BERK - FRANÇOIS TRAN role | INDIVIDUAL WORK

type | WORKSHOP year | 2010 location | ISTANBUL

- TURKEY

Development Scheme for Central Tasköprü Area

“Being ‘in between’ in Beyoglu” is a conceptual architecture workshop, held in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, in cooperation with Ecole National Superiore d’Architecture de Lyon (ENSAL). The workshop aims to investigate how passages and arcades effect on the Beyoglu’s urban fabric and life. Every passage and arcade in Beyoglu has its own identity. They become small public spaces with different feel and scale. In this manner, my proposal for the area aims to analyze feelings and perceptions of various passages and then to define an alternative route with connecting passages to each other. In this way, an enjoyable and surprising urban adventure game will be emerged passage by passage.

View of Odakule Passage

View of Hacopulo Passage

View of Cicek Passage

View of Tunnel Passage

View of Halep Passage

View of Avrupa Passage

name | A NEW USE FOR HACKINGERSTEG organisation | WEHDORN ARCHITEKTEN advisor | CRISTIAN ABRIHAN role | INTERN ARCHITECT (VISUALISATION - RESEARCH - PHOTOGRAPH)

Aerial Image of Hackingersteg Project Area

Location and Images of Hackingersteg Project Area

Within the Erasmus Student Placement program, Wehdorn Architekten was the office that I worked as an intern architect. During the this period, inventarisation of parts of protected zones in the city of Vienna, namely "8. Wiener Gemeindebezirk", including spatial analysis by photographing and text documentation was completed. Feasibility studies for adaptive reuse on the field of industrial archaeology and interactive visualization for maintaning architectural projects within the office were done. One of these projects was located in suburbs of Vienna. Hackingersteg, a river ground along the city, was designed as a recreation line for inhabitants.

type | PROFESSIONAL year | 2011 location | VIENNA - AUSTRIA

Sketches for New Use of Hackingersteg

name | ARCHITECTURE ON THE FARM organisation | HACKNEY CITY FARM role | GROUP WORK (RESEARCH - VISUALISATION)

Hackney City Farm on Google Maps

Images from Inside of the Farm

type | COMPETITION year | 2012 location | LONDON - BRITAIN

Images of Project Area

New Information and Sale Point for Hackney City Farm

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture on the Farmâ&#x20AC;? competition was organized by Hackney City Farm in London. The aim of the competition is to improve farm shop and information point at the entrance of the farm. To do this, our team analyzed what city farms mean for the metropolitan cities firstly, and then we tried to understand the importance of this farm within the scale of London. This gave a shape to our design idea for a building that can be located in a city farm. Our design consists of two frontages and a showcase linking between them. There will be shopping from the first narrow frontage. Information point and showcase will be located on the other side of the building. In this way, a representing sale and information point for the values of Hackney City Farm was established. Values of Hackney City Farm on Their Logo

name | ANTWERP INTERRUPTED school | UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP advisor | SALLY STONE role | INDIVIDUAL WORK & EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPH Preston Bus Station in Sint-Jansplein Square

type | WORKSHOP year | 2013 location | ANTWERP

- BELGIUM

View from the Square

View from Corner of the Square

The Antwerp Design Seminars & Lectures – ADSL is an international event that takes place each year at the Department of Design Sciences at the University of Antwerp. Its aim is to stimulate cross-boundary thinking in design and to familiarize students with an interdisciplinary approach towards design problems. The ADSL workshops explore the references on the theme of “Dissolution” and aim to investigate the ‘power’ of a variety of images and through in landscape, architecture, design, interior design and monument care. During this workshop, international students were divided into groups in various sub-themes. Our group’s objective is about a major cultural landmark located in the UK, Preston Bus Station, voted ‘in principle’ to demolish in December 2012, was our key building to be preserved and creatively adapted to serve the city. The aim of our group was to explore the nature of the fragment within an historic city, will bring the Bus Station to Antwerp, it will occupy a definite place within the urban environment and it will “interrupt” the city. Every student in the group chose a place in Antwerp to place Preston Bus Station. So in this context, one of the public spaces in Antwerp, Sint-Jansplein is selected as the project area.

Photos from Exhibition

Development Scheme

design

name | ABSTRACTIONS school | MIMAR SINAN FINE advisor | KEVSER ÜSTÜNDAG role | INDIVIDUAL WORK

ARTS UNIVERSITY

Abstraction of A Mussel Shell

type | ACADEMIC year | 2008 location | ISTANBUL

Abstraction of A Mussel Shell

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Abstraction of A Block in Berlin

Final Project: Abstraction of Ravel’s Bolero

Abstraction of the Leaf of A Palm Tree

Sketch for the Final Project

“Basic Design Studio” course aims to develop a common design language and methods for understanding and interpreting the city through concepts and social and physical facts. Within the studio, students were encouraged to create a base for exposition techniques of expressing creative ideas freely. Also developing a thought system for understanding, perceiving and expressing the city through concepts and facts and transforming this thought system into a language, which can be used in every level of urban planning, architecture and design were main goals of the studio. In this manner, the chosen theme for the studio that includes lectures and drawings was “abstraction” and students were responsible to do an abstract drawing every week. Final project for this studio was to make an abstract drawing and model of Ravel’s Bolero song.

name | SCAN-ART PROJECT role | INDIVIDUAL WORK location | ISTANBUL - TURKEY

type | PERSONAL year | 2011

Scanned Stamps

Since collecting antique and unique objects is some sort of passion for me, I decided to make this project by scanning different pieces of my personal collection. So scan-art project includes scanned images of various nearly two-dimensional materials such as public transport tickets, stamps, coins and scarves from all around Europe, Russia and Turkey. Scanned Coins

Scanned Public Transport Tickets

Scanned Scarves

name | ARKITERA TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP organisation | ARKITERA ARCHITECTURE CENTER role | INDIVIDUAL WORK result | FINALIST

Prezi Presentation of “Aylak Gezgin”

Pages from Presentation

Planned Itinerary of the Travel

type | COMPETITION year | 2012 location | ISTANBUL - TURKEY

Carbon Emission Values and Distance of the Route

Arkitera Travel Scholarship competition, the first travel scholarship competition in the field of architecture in Turkey, was organized by Arkitera Architecture Center Istanbul. It aims to emphasize architecture values of Turkey, to contribute young people to travel and to raise awareness in physical environment. In Arkitera Travel Scholarship 2012, participants were expected to create a route with the lowest carbon emissions. In this manner I defined a theme inspired by the idea of “flâneur” which means stroller or the urban explorer as having a key role in understanding, participating in and portraying the city. Then I combined this idea with the theme of competition and created my presentation; “Aylak Gezgin”. This presentation and more could be found on following link: prezi.com/user/ahmetuzundesign

name | N’OLUR PROJECT role | INDIVIDUAL WORK location | ISTANBUL - TURKEY

type | PERSONAL year | 2012

Stickers on the walls around gated communities located in Istanbul

Prepared Stickers that Call People Back to Mahalle

“Mahalle”, means neighborhood in Turkish, is the vital part of traditional Turkish urban life throughout the past. According to Wikipedia, the “mahalle” is generally perceived to play an important role in identity formation, with the local mosque and the local coffee house as the main social institutions. Mahalle lies at the intersection of private family life and the public sphere. Important community-level management functions are performed through mahalle solidarity, such as religious ceremonies, life-cycle rituals, resource management, conflict resolution, and the like. However during the past 20 years, Istanbul was surrounded by gated communities and restricted residential areas that were mostly located around the edge of the city. And they also threatened traditional pattern of “Mahalle” in some centers of Istanbul. To attract attention to pressure of these gated communities in traditional neighborhoods, I made this personal project; “N’olur”. The project aims to reach people that are currently living in gated communities but used to live in a mahalle. In this manner, stickers, calling people back to the mahalle in a sincere way, were designed and sticked on streets around these gated communities.

name | LOGOS FOR KÖPRÜ organisation | METU KÖPRÜ ASSOCIATION location | ANKARA - TURKEY

type | PERSONAL year | 2012

KÖPRÜ is a social responsibility group of Middle East Technical University Alumni Association Istanbul. The group organized various social projects such as, library project, orphanage project, community centers and talking book projects. Additionally, the group participates in some projects within EU and one of the famous NGO’s in Turkey against leukemia, named LOSEV. They were looking for a new logo, so I tried to emphasize their values and designed three logos for them.

research

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Bali Pasha Mosque, a Sixteenth-century Ottoman Mosque

Everyday Life in An Ottoman City

SSK Zeyrek Complex, Built by Sedad Hakki Eldem in 1960s

During the “Planning Studio I”, Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula was chosen as a case study area. The objectives of the studio were to create image maps of old Istanbul and also to make an architecture guide which includes remarkable examples of the buildings that belong to Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern periods. The aim of this research within the studio is to provide students architectural insight and knowledge about Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula. In this manner, an art history and architecture research of landmarks and examples of civil architecture in Fatih district was completed and published as a final architecture guide.

Traditional Turkish House

Monastery of Christ Pantepoptes, an Eleventh-century Byzantine Church

Zeyrek District in Pervititch Maps

An Old Map of Istanbul and Bosphorus

Photos of Ethem Pertev Yali in Kanlica

Beykoz Dictrict in Old Ottoman Map

Sebah & Joaillier’s Beykoz Pavilion Photo, 1990s

Istanbul Metropolitan Planning and Urban Design Center is a governmental company that develops urban projects, consultancy and engineering services, including laboratory testing and analyses, for any and all projects related to city planning and urbanization about metropolitan city of Istanbul. Within “Summer Practice” program, IMP Urban Design Center was the company that I worked as a short-term intern. During the practice, I had a chance to work with urban planners, architects, restorers, archeologist in various teams; inventarisation of maintaining Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula project and a research for styles of tombstones in Ottoman period were completed. Also one of the oldest industrial heritage complex in Istanbul, Beykoz Leather and Shomaking Factory, was visited. This huge factory complex inspired me to prepare a arhitecture booklet about architectural values of Anatolian Shores of Bosphorus. So in the end of the internship, an architecture guide for Anatolian Shores of Bosphorus was completed and accepted to publish by Uskudar Municipality.

name | PUBLIC LIFE IN ISTANBUL organisation | GEHL ARCHITECTS & EMBARQ advisor | LIN SKAUFEL - SIBEL BULAY role | SURVEYOR (PEDESTRIAN ANALYSIS) Cover Page of the Presentation

Lin Skaufel, Presenting Gehl Architectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Methodology in Istanbul

type | PROFESSIONAL year | 2010 location | ISTANBUL - TURKEY

Comparison of Pedestrian Activity in Various Cities

In June 2010 Gehl Architects was invited to conduct a Public space and public life survey in Istanbul. In collaboration with EMBARQ, Fatih Municipality with assistance among others by students from the Istanbul Technical University and Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, the Public Spaces & Public Life Survey was completed. The survey includes mapping of the major potentials and challenges that the historic peninsula experiences in its present state and a survey of the public life taking place in selected areas. Gehl Architects has developed the Public space and public life survey methodology as a working tool, which can be adapted to several contexts. The survey aims to make people more visible and bring public life into focus in order to form a basis for developing strategies and policies and initiate a process to improve the urban quality. So one of the selected areas in historic peninsula, KumkapÄą district, was analyzed by using the methodology that Gehl Architects presented to surveyors beforehand. Then the area was photographed in different periods of a day. After that, a final report and presentation was prepared and presented in the end of survey.

Pedestrian Counts in Kumkapi District

name | LEATHER AND SHOEMAKING IN OTTOMAN school | MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY advisor | ÖNDER KÜÇÜKERMAN role | INDIVIDUAL WORK (DESIGN RESEARCH)

PERIOD

type | ACADEMIC year | 2010 location | ISTANBUL

Ottoman Leather Shoes for Men and Women

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An Ottoman Bag Made from Red Leather

Photo of Repairing Unit in Beykoz Factory

Photos from Beykoz Leather and Shoemaking Factory

A Flask Cover from1550s

A War Shoe from 1900s

“Yemeni” Shoe from 1920s

“Turkish Design Heritage” is a design course within Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University that deals with the importance of the Ottoman and Anatolian culture in the contemporary Turkish Product Design and it categorizes these early industrially produced products in the light of their era and production methods. In this manner, the course aims to study various early industrial heritages, including Yıldız Tile Imperial Factory, Fez Textile Factory and Beykoz Leather and Shoemaking Factory and to encourage students to do a comprehensive research about one of different industrial activities in Istanbul. So leather and shoemaking in Ottoman period was chosen as the study subject and a detailed final report presented within the course.

name | BACHELOR’S THESIS school | MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS advisor | FATMA ÜNSAL role | INDIVIDUAL WORK

UNIVERSITY

type | ACADEMIC year | 2013 location | ISTANBUL

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Cover of Final Prezi Presentation of the Thesis

The aim of this graduation project is to define a multidisciplinary subject that includes various references from different disciplines such as photography, design, architecture and urban history. The study was prepared upon reading the conjuncture between the years 1950 and 1990 as a period when urban and communal changes undergone by as well as daily life practices of city of Istanbul have been transformed by means of photograph. In this respect, a city and community reading was performed over the Istanbul photos of Ara Güler who is known as “Eye of Istanbul” and considered one of the main actors of Turkish and world photograph history.

Street Seller in Merter, 1970

A Street in Tarlabasi, 1965

Suleymaniye Mosque and Boats on Golden Horn, 1962

Countrymen in Karakoy, 1956

A Schoolgirl in Eyup, 1975

The period between 1950 and 1990 were the years when Istanbul’s urban location and communal structure underwent change in every respect. Immigration, which began in 1950s and showed upward trend in the forthcoming years, infrastructure and accommodation problems which were brought along with immigration, “gecekondu” case, political practices and urban interventions resulted in the fast and unplanned urbanization of Istanbul. In 1980s, on the other hand, changing economy policies and managerial structure also showed themselves in the urban environment, and the change undergone by Istanbul gained and other dimension and continued as from these dates. The view, look, people and daily life practices of the city have differentiated. This process of change and the effect of this process on the “human being” were recorded by means of Ara Güler’s Istanbul photographs. Photograph, as an urban reading tool, was regarded a documenting and archiving means which “never tells lies” due to the relation it establishes with the reality. This power of photograph makes photograph a means which can be used in the architectural and urban field and a contribute to the formation of the communal memory. This becomes clearer with Ara Güler’s perspective of photograph and the city of Istanbul. In fact, all urban memories and true life experiences recorded by the artist in Istanbul made the ordinary human beings and “little men” of daily life become visible and also recorded how these human beings who struggled for their own lives were affected by the continuous peevish change in the city. Therefore, the research issue of this study constitutes the view of the city of Istanbul in Ara Güler’s photographs.

photograph

name | CITY AND CULTURE PHOTO CONTEST organisation | CHAMBER OF ARCHITECTS ISTANBUL location | ISTANBUL - TURKEY

type | COMPETITION year | 2011

A View from Beykoz Leather and Shoemaking Factory in Istanbul, Istanbul 2009

name | WHERE IS YOUR MIND organisation | GENÇTUR location | ISTANBUL - TURKEY result | FINALIST

PHOTO CONTEST

type | COMPETITION year | 2011

An Absurd View to Prague City, Prague 2011

name | PLASH TO LIFE! PHOTO organisation | KANO DIYARI location | IZMIR - TURKEY result | SECOND PRIZE

CONTEST

type | COMPETITION year | 2013

Canoe覺ng on Amstel River, Amsterdam 2011

name | DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY WORKHSHOP school | MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY location | VIENNA - AUSTRIA role | GROUP WORK (PHOTOGRAPH - PRESENTATION - REPORT) Interior View of Café Prückel

View from Fleamarket in Naschmarkt

View from University of Vienna

Interior View of Café Leopold Hawelka

type | WORKSHOP year | 2013

View from Karlsplatz

What is the effect of architecture on human life? How does this effect change through different period of time? How can this effect become visible? This workshop tried to answer these questions through photographs of Vienna. To be able to see these effects, Vienna’s notable buildings and urban areas such as Graben, Augarten, Donau, Wienzeile Houses, Naschmarkt and Karlsplatz were observed and photographed. Inspired by Henri Cartier Branson’s works, we took a close look at how people of Vienna experience those urban spaces and buildings today. The aim of this workshop is to make the interaction between architecture and human life visible by the means of photography.