Architectural Portfolio of Dogukan Samdanci

PORTFOLIO 2019-2023

architect

Dogukan Samdanci

•In-Between Landscapes....................Campamento / Cadiz

Thematic Design Studio

AUD Master Program 3rd Semester

•Social Center ...........................Kadıköy / Istanbul

Istanbul Design Factory

Architectural Competition

•Spirala Community Home....................Northern Portugal

Istanbul Design Factory

Architectural Competition

•Collegio di Milano...........................Milano / Italy

Politecnico di Milano

AUD Master Program 1st Semester

•Cabaret Pluplush.....................Mecidiyeköy / Istanbul

Istanbul Technical University (bachelor)

Graduation project

•Analog Photography..............................dodo_graphy

In-Between Landscapes

Architecture & Urban Design Master Program

PoliMi Architecture, 2023 Fall

Thematic Design Studio, Politecnico di Milano

Regeneration Proposal for Abondoned Industrial Port

Doğukan Şamdancı, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Mapping, Model & 3d Print, Affordable Housing, Architectural Drawings

Emanuel Sanchez, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Mapping, Site Visit & Observations, Layouting, Bridge, Architectural Drawings

Carlos Arcos, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Mapping, Illustrations, High-Density Tower, Architectural Drawings

The proposal aims to develop Campamento’s economic, social, and visual integration through a multi-scalar approach. It is bounded by military, industrial, natural and municipal barriers. Although its location disconnects it from the context, it has a variety of inner elements.

Hence, the in-between landscapes are the main means of connecting the city and the port to foster the integrations that the territory requires. Therefore, the waterfront land is reclaimed in terms of the “right to the city” and “publicness

The vision of Campamento is planned in phases, allowing for diverse development scenarios.

“Yaş Alanlar” Social Center in Kadıköy

Istanbul Design Factory, 2021 May

Architectural Competition by Konkur Istanbul (Municipality)

announced as Mention Prize

Mehmet Emre Arslan, assoc.prof.dr. II chief architect

Doğukan Şamdancı, junior architect

Personal Role: Design, Archicad Model, 2d drawings, Mock up 3d Print, Render

Ceren Demirez, junior architect

Personal Role: Rendering, Illustarations, Poster

Elif Aktaş, interior architect

Personal Role: Rendering, Illustarations, Poster

Rümeysa Büyükçorak, intern

The Social Club “Yaş Alanlar”, is a social center where elderly people who are living in the Metropole, can participate in social life, be together, pursue their hobbies and share their experiences with different generations. The proposal consists social activity center (whick includes health and educational services and administration offices) with protected courthyards and accomodation unit (which includes health services and rooms). It is thought that the opportunity of different adult age groups to come together and socialize under the roof of this social center will create an important social added value for the city and its inhabitants.

Elevation From Faik Bey Street, 2d drawing from Archicad software, postpro on Adobe Photoshop

Ground Floor Plan of the Social Center (left) and Accommodation Unit (right)

Sections from Archicad model, Postpro on Adobe Photoshop

Top View of the Mock Up (left), Exploded Axonometric Functions Diagram (top)

Underground Floor Plan of the Social Center

Ground Floor Plan of the Social Center

Spiral Community Home: Int. Arc. Competition by Buildner (BeeBreeders), 2021 Spring

Integrated with the Digital Architectural Design Studio: Architectural Design Computing Graduate Program in Istanbul Technical University

Doğukan Şamdancı, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Main Grasshopper Script, Form Finding and Optimization Process, Renderings.

Elif Bahar Okuyucu, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Cladding, Landscape Organization

Fatih Erdil, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Interior Design, Landscape Organization

Hatice Melike Özbek, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Cladding, Landscape Organization

Spirala Community Home, Cork Habitat

There is a deeper meaning in the shapes & patterns of nature that neither mathematic nor physic can explain this “something more” which leads to beauty (Thompson, 1942, p.9). Causality creates the main flow of nature’s dynamics. These dynamics shapes the nature. The “Beauty” is manifested in fitness or adaptation. The form of an object reflects the forces of content. Analysis of the content starts the domino effect and stimulates the form. The opportunity of animating the form, makes us discover the “unseen potential” of the content forces. The secret behind the beauty of nature is fractal geometries. Repetitions of the order across many scales through multiple time creates the irregular (complex) geometries which still have an order (Batty, 1994, p. 17). Cork Habitat is designed based on the principle of repetition with the oppurtunities of digital tools and creates geometry of order on many scales, a geometry of organized complexity.

The Colleggio di Milano:

Architecture & Urban Design Master Program

PoliMi Architecture, 2022 Fall

Construction and Sustainability Design Studio

Politecnico di Milano

Doğukan Şamdancı, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Energy Modelling, BIM Model, Render

Emily Marie Shiga, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Illustrations, Layouting, Technologies, PostPro

Kristina Mirkovic, group member

Personal Role: Design Decisions, Structural Details, Technologies

The Collegio di Milano: Sustainablity, Parasite, Energy Modelling

The aim was to increase the thermal performance of the existing Collegio di Milano Building in Milano and to add coherent parasite modules for the new required function as social spaces. The energy model of the existing structure, has been used to guide the design phase. It was thought that understanding how the building works and discovering the potentials of the location, provide important information for improvements and developments to be made. As a result of the Dial+ simulation, the statistic of energy demands according to floor level and orientation of the rooms can be a guide during the improvement process in terms of thermal envelope performance. At the first step, the improvements on U Values (thermal transmittance) of thermal envelopes of the thermal zone has been studied. At the second phase, the insulation material decision has been studied according to factors as cost-effectiveness, sustainability, durability. Lastly improvement percentages of each thermal zones have been calculated according to sum of cooling and heating demand data. Because of the poor roof insulation at prior stage (building a) the biggest changes happened at the 2nd floor’s thermal zones (Rooms 3,6,9 and 12- approximately 65%) The average improvement has been calculated as 60% (from 165 kWh/m² to 71 kWh/m²) according to energy demand of the thermal zones.

Proposed Ground Floor Plan

The Ground Floor Plan with Interventions

Ground Floor Plan (South-East Corner) with Interventions

First Floor Plan (South-East Corner) with Interventions

Graduation Project, Mecidiyeköy / Istanbul

Bachelor of Science

Istanbul Technical University, 2020 Spring

Individual Design by Author (Dogukan Samdanci) for,

Jury E: Avant-Garde Art Factory

Nurbin Paker, assoc.prof.dr

Çiğdem Eren, dr.lecturer

Buse Özçelik, res.ast.

Dilara Demir Tunca, res.ast.

Zeynep Günay, aasoc.prof.dr.

SevgiTürkkan, res.ast.dr

Aslıhan Ünlü, prof.dr

Deniz Aslan, assoc.prof.dr

Özgür Bingöl, assoc.prof.dr