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PINAR ARACI

résumé Pınar Aracı birthday: e-mail: phone:

13.07.1994 pinararaci5@gmail.com +1 9293101797

education 2019 -

M.Arch (advanced standing) third year student at Pratt Institute

2013 - 2017

B.A. Architecture at the Technical University of Munich - the best architecture school in Germany and among the best 30 worldwide)* GPA: 1.6 (1.0 - 5.0, ranking: 13 / 119 students

2015-2016

Erasmus student (junior) at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics for two semesters, GPA: 5 (5 - 1)

honors 2020

finalist in the Reviving Mines competition* organized by nonarchitecture with “Rediscovery Travel: Chasing the Anthropocentric Paths”

2020

finalist in the “9th Natural Stones Design Competition” 2020 that took place in Turkey

2019 -

Fulbright grantee

2017

among the best B.A. Architecture students of the 2017 WS, issued by the Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Architecture

2015

artwork „Pallete on the Road Again“ exhibithed in the Gallery Robert Weber, Munich, 2015 SS, facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/palletontheroadagain/?fref=nf

2014

among the best B.A. Architecture students of the 2014 WS, issued by the Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Architecture

selected activities 2020 -

volunteer at the IEL Equality and Solidarity Platform

2017

Project Workshop Curatorial Studies by Andres Lepik - director of the Architecture Museum in Munich: Ephemeral Urbanism

2008 - 2012

competitive volleyball player

*according to QS World University Ranking by Subject 2018 *https://www.nonarchitecture.eu/2021/01/15/rediscovery-travel-chasing-the-anthropocentric-paths/

experiences 2021 Feb -

intern at Selldorf Architects

2019 Dec -

assisting the founder of Art Advisory Services Judith Selkowitz

2018 Apr 2019 Jun

architectural designer at Staab Architekten, Berlin assisting with the design planning and implementation planning of the extension building for the Bauhaus Archive Museum in Berlin

2017 (Jan-Jul)

part-time trainee architect at hirner & riehl architekten, Munich mainly supporting the design process of a school extension via producing 3D visualizations, physical models, detail drawings and doing concept studies for facade design; also supporting the urban planning competitions

2016 (Jul-Oct)

intern architect at RMJM Istanbul, planning of a high-rise residential, 3D modeling of ongoing projects, design for the transformation of an old factory into a wedding hall, developing a magazine advertisement

2016 (Jan-Feb)

intern architect at Superpool, Istanbul developing preliminary project concepts and site analysis for the NewAarch competition - new campus design for the Aarhus School of Architecture-, research on Mimar Sinan’s -the chief Ottoman architect- works

2014 Oct 2015 Jul

student research assistant at the Chair of Structural Design at the TUM for two semesters

language skills Turkish

native

computer skills ArchiCAD AutoCAD SketchUp Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Revit Rhino Vray Keyshot

German

fluent

English

fluent

Scarred Earth Architecture in the Age of the Great Acceleration

2020 Fall teamwork of 3 students Advanced Architectural Design Studio Ferda Kolatan

FINALIST Reviving Mines Competition organized by non architecture

The Zichuan district in Zibo, China was once a rural agricultural place but became heavily industrialized after mining operations for coal.

Today, all excavations have been terminated, leaving behind scarred landscapes characterized by quarries, terracing, and other interventions within the geological and biological strata. In the example of Zibo mining site, “Scarred Earth” examined architecture’s potential in transforming large-scale defunct industrial areas into newly potent environments.

In our design, we embraced the hybridity of landscapes that emerged as a result of dissolving boundaries between natural and artificial processes, as opposed to the traditional design approach, which clearly separates the humanmade from the natural.

We looked at the site through the lens of a traveller, who was exposed to postcard advertisements in the past, and is subject to Instagram posts today. Both the postcards and Instagram served to deepen the human vs. nature dichotomy.

We propose the postcard of today in our renderings, which aim to

abandon this anthropocentric worldview. We plan to revitalize and repurpose the mining site with the inclusion of new functions such as a water filtration facility and a nuclear plant. However, it isn‘t the introduction of new functions at the focus of our design, but rather how we challenged ourselves to design spaces that embrace the inextricable processes of artificial and natural agencies. The strange aesthetic emerging from hybridizing the natural and the synthetic will be the source of enchanting the travellers to the newly envisioned sites of our current epoch.

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water filtration facility

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water filtration facility

Bauhaus Archiv Staab Architekten

designed by the first Director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’ founding in 2019, the BauhausArchiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin will be expanding. Staab Architekten won the first prize in the competition with the design above, the implementation planning of which I have supported.

Waste to Energy 2020 Spring teamwork of 2 students Integrated Contexts & Mediums Alexandra Barker To localize waste managament and reduce pollution and cost from regional transportation networks, this studio examined the potential of a waste-toenergy facility at Pier 36, Manhattan.

Our design porposal aims to increase awareness of waste issues by layering recreational programs onto infrastructural programs.

Different spaces varying from small studios for rent, to sports facilities and to large exhibition spaces are housed by a building complex. The scattered modules create a porous landscape on the ground level and allow the river water to penetrate into the site. This modularity allow for spaces, where WTE processes are exposed to public eye while people have a river-side walk or visit one of the amenities housed by our complex.

ground floor

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cross section I 3rd floor plan

Brooklyn Tower 2019 WS individual work Urban Qualities and Material Kutan Ayata

The evolving demographics and life-styles in urban centers demand new modes of living. During this studio I explored a Shared Live-Work Hybrid Tower project in Downtown Brooklyn, incorporating variations of micro units.

The Tower has units for single/group of individuals and small families.

The „pushed in“ volumes, so called „pegs“ characterize the tower and offer an unusual experience as common spaces or shared amenities. New potentials of adjacencies are thus offered within the tower‘s various parts that are connected via the „pegs“.

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17th floor

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26th floor

chunk model around the square “peg”

east elevation I cross section

Filmhaus Berlin Bachelor Thesis

2017 SS team work of 2 students Chair of Urban Architecture Prof. Dietrich Fink

A new film world for Berlin.

In order to attract wide audiences, the scattered institutions and event locations of the city need to be united under one roof.

The main stakeholders are the Film Museum, the Film Academy and the Berlinale.

The idea of building Filmhaus in Berlin has been confirmed and the project location is chosen as the neighbour plot of the Gropius-Bau. The program for the space consisted of cinema halls, exhibition spaces, offices, teaching areas and flexible spaces for the Berlinale offices.

cross section

longitudinal atrium

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4th floor

danube apartments 2016 SS team work of 2 students Budapest Unıversity of Technology and Economics Department of Construction Technology and Management

The Danube bank in Budapest is in its most parts free from buildings and as a challenge to this situation an experimental design for a temporary housing / hostel concept by the Danube was required. Considering the historical and touristic value of the project site strong affects on the overall image of the site were to be avoided. In order to preserve pedestrian circulation on the Danube bank, the bank has been extended over the river and transformed into a major public space. The apartments placed below this public space can be reached by glass elevators or stairs digging into the hostel.

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hanging houses 2015/16 WS individual work Budapest Unıversity of Technology and Economics, Department of Public Building Design

exemplary combination of units The project place is the Gellert Hill in Budapest, which is one of the few high points of the city and has an overview over Danube and many historical sites. The project requirement was to develop a concept for a hotel.

The idea behind the project is to create a temporary and modular steel structure on the cliff of the hill, which will host the hotel rooms. The hotel rooms are created by the addition of the modules to each other in varied directions. The purple boxes in the volume model above show the different variations for combining the modules.

vertical unit

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floor plan of an exemplary horizontal unit

protohaus 2014/15 WS team work of 4 students Chair of Building Construction and Material Science Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Florian Musso

The task was to design a prototypical residential house with two accommodation units, the reproduction of which should be demonstrated through the density and the spatial quality.

One of the units was to be designed for a family of four and the other one for a couple.

In addition to that those units should have the possibility of interconnection in case they were to be used by a bigger family. The aspects of building material science and structural design were involved in the project task.

The Protohaus has two storeys. The whole first floor and half of the second floor belong to the bigger unit, which consists of an entrance area, dining room, kitchen, living room, the big bathroom and children’s rooms.

The small unit is accessed through the outer stairs.

In the floor plan, there are the entrance area, kitchen, living room, bedroom with a dressing room next to it.

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floor plan concept

floor plans / section

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