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about She was born in 10th July 1995 in Sanliurfa. She completed her Bachelor of Architecture degree at Istanbul Technical University and spent one academic year in Universidade Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal with Erasmus Scholarship. After her education, she participated in an independent research center and carried out an architectural research study for four months.
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ski-n
Ski-n is a hotel project in the Ilgaz Mountains near the border between Kastamonu and Çankırı in Turkey. National Park is well known for its wildlife and endemic features. Due to the mountain is located in central Anatolian and also black sea region, it has got a variety of vegetation except for vast forests. Ilgaz has seven special endemic plants which are only growing in here all over the world. The range of vegetation allows animals such as birds, bears, and deers. It can be a part of their nature with life observing on the site. Ski-n is in relation to National Parks’ natural, biological, geological, ecological, geomorphological sources and also incorporates sports activities; trekking tours, bicycle tours, botanical trips, and climbing and camping. On the project site, there was already a hotel but it was abandoned, old and in a very bad condition. Due to the hotel being not efficient to customers according to facilities and capacity, the hotel owner kept continuing to add outbuildings. The outbuildings were added without any concern about creating a useful space or aesthetics. That is why the owner wants to rebuild a new ski hotel.
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playground
clinic
cafe
ski rent
lockers
entrance
ice skating pist lobby
courtyard as gathering place
casual restaurant greets the skiers
business corner
casual restaurant
outdoor spa pool
kitchen
outside fireplace as gathering place sun bathing area
outside dining area
fig 01.01 The courtyard is used for gathering place and hotel activities. In winter sports, it takes a long time to wear or take off the ski equipment. That is why I designed the casual restaurant, cafe, outdoor fireplace, and sunbathing area according to taking the drinks and food without taking off the ski equipment. Daily visitors or hotel guests can rest towards ski piste on the sunbathing area while drinking their beers or hot chocolates.
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fig 01.02 Ski-n is towards the ski pistes to be able to interact with the activities, movements, and relationships around the hotel. It is designed to encourage the act of walking in the National Park, Ilgaz. It is not other hotels which are detached from the space, time, and reality, it is currently in life. It doesn’t have the conventional motto that says “you don’t understand how the time passes here because you don’t need anything else.” You will definitely need nature, the sound of the trees when the wind blows, the rear plants which are only grown in this area in the world, the migratory birds, the vast forest, the mechanical rattle of ski-lift, and the smile on the children’s faces.
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tour bus parking area
car park entrance
stage
bar&party
corridor
head officer
hotel manager
terrace
personal area
strong room archieve
accounting
luggage storage
reception
cloakroom
juniour suite floor office
dining hall
cloakroom
kitchen
double room
employee’s dining hall
storage dumpwaiters
corridor
freezers
dry warehouse
kitchen operator office
outdoor spa pool
terrace
passage to chalets
bar&party area
chalets
fig 01.04 first floor plan +4.00 cafe
technical service area
restaurant loading area
car park
fig 01.03 partial detail section
fig 01.05 second floor plan +9.00
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fig 01.06 living section of the hotel
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a school in Ayvalık
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This project is about enhance a touristic small village, Ayvalık, according to locals need in the area. As a collective studio “Kydonia” focus on the education system and as well as economic development in Ayvalık. The village is limited with touristic income and it has limited production activities in the off season. Therefore, the possible source of incomes are detected and the enhancement of the current ones are planned on site by studio group. During the site visit, insufficient and overcrowded schools have attracted my attention. Therefore, I have worked on this topic to give hopes for children who experience difficulty in their own schools and also non-environmental areas such as a fully concrete playground. After examining the close neighbourhood, it is released that the schools are squashed into a dense area in the city center. With reorganizing the shore, school areas are moved to Number 4 plot on the map due to give children an extended playground in nature. The natural playground idea comes from the topography of the site. The slope is suitable to create various playground activities that enable children to learn while they play in nature. Performing Arts Center is designed for students and also for locals to use it for events.
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a school in AyvalÄąk
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fig 02.03 diagram of design program
fig 02.02/03 Buildings are blended with nature in Ayvalık. In old Ayvalık, houses respect each other’s sun, privacy and boundaries. They are built according to the old olive trees on the area. These info leads the project by gathering schools to give a chance to be more green on ground while respecting the local trees and also use the daily light in every classroom. It questions alternative ways of learning at primary schools such as playing in the nature.
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a school in AyvalÄąk
fig 02.04 front view (northeast)
fig 02.04 the ground floor
fig 02.05 playground
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fig 02.06 early designs
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a school in AyvalÄąk
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fig 02.08 partial detail section 16
way station
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Zulfaris Synagogue had a crucial role in the past at Karakoy. It was not only a religious place also an important gathering point for Jews during the religious holidays, fests and weddings. During the time the interest towards to building begin to disappear due to decreased community of Jews. The community relocated to a newly built synagogue and put the old one to up for sale. Karakoy was one of the important finance center in Istanbul until 21st centuary. Nowadays, merchants are forced to relocate from area by goverment’s imposed sanctions. The usage of historical buildings are being changed from trading area to coffee shops. Way Station is a riot to this act, it is a public place where people can stop by without any charge. Therefore, the aim of this project is to make the building alive again by reusing the synagogue as a library. It is a small start to meet the societies benefits without profit making purpose.
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way station
fig 03.04 back view from
fig 03.02 front view from KemeraltÄą Street
fig 03.03 section model 19
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Percemli cul de sac
fig 03.06 floor plans 20
living hub
/Sogutlucesme
Sogutlucesme has an important role in transportation network in Istanbul. It has intersection points of metrobus, high-speed train (Marmaray), bus stations, and a small but yet efficient local transportation system “dolmus�. Each day millions of people use these public transportation to go between Europian and Asian side of the city, and also to Anatolia with high-speed train. However, the site is uninhabited during the nonoperating time of these transportation. Therefore, Living Hub project’s aim is to make the site liveable during day and night by designing accomodation units and a public market with teaching kitchen, tasting area, and restaurants. There is a problemetic stream which is called Kurbagalidere near the station. It has a smell problem for a long time. Therefore an another task is to integrate the stream into the park area by creating rills.
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living hub
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fig 04.02 longitudinal section
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living hub
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fig 04.04 section
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beşiktaş fish market
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Besiktas Fish Market is a part of a final work of the “Architecture in Relation” course which tries to re-grasp its architectural production not as a finished object or representation, but in the relationships it was born, interacted with and triggered. The exhibition and discussion opens up questions about the design process and the roles, authorship, relationality and use issues and the forms of representation that trigger all these interactions, through the readings of a recent contemporary public building in Istanbul. During this course, I have worked on these questions at Besiktas Fish Market: do the spaces change after they built or do we reorganize them for ourselves while we are using them? What will happen if the desire of the architect interferes with the user of the space?
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fig 05.01 Besiktas Fish Market (project 8) method: interviewing and film making
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fig 05.02 exhibition with roundtable discussions
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beşiktaş fish market
Besiktas Fish Market is a crucial space that connects the historic market’s fishermen and local inhabitants in the heart of the commercial center. Due to the desires of local inhabitants for enhancing the surrounding, GAD Architecture designed a new form for the fish market. The form is suitable for triangle plan site, stands on three pillars and the roof cover design is inspired from a sea shell. Despite of having award from “The International Architecture Awards 2012” the design becomes a highly controversial topic in architectural society. Although the new form is internationally appreciated due to its relationship between modern structure and historic site, many people do not agree such as users of the space.
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The design is changed severally during time; the location of fish counters, the lights, later painted flowers on concrete are some of them. Also, the way that fishermen use the market is altered, the island-shaped counter plan is turned into archshaped plan. As a result, the space between the face to face counters are increased and an unused square is occurred in the middle of market.
fig 05.04 changes during the time
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fig 05.03 Besiktas fish market fig 05.04 interview with fishermen
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a peddler or a shopkeeper
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On the way to Besiktas Square, we come across the “Meşhur Simitçi Nazım”. Between the two traffic lights, just below the minibus station. There is always a crowd of people around, those who come across, those who see cold water as they pass by, and those who love ‘simit’ (bagels) ... Cengiz Abi, one of the partners of the car, is one of the peddlers who cannot move. His brother in law looks into the car from morning until noon and he takes care of it from 12.30 to 22.00. The reason I chose him among the other bagels in Besiktas is the technique of using the tray, the window display methods - stocking, stacking, shutting sth in - and hand movements resulting from its positioning in the area. Location is very important when selling bagels, for example using the advantage of being close to the pier. Besiktas sellers have modified their cars over time to make sales in a crowded place like lights. He brought out the bagel tray in the form of a console to the place where human traffic is dense and he provided it with very simple elements. Two trays come out as consoles. The metal underneath comes out parallel to the car. The wooden one on top - the relatively long one with the bagels - runs vertically. He puts 3 thin blocks of stone into the wooden one, which compensates for the weight of the bagels placed on the tray. The latest paving stone, like the keystone, is a bonus stone used to minimize damage in case the passers hit.
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fig 06.01 daily installation of the simit* stall *bagel with sesame
fig 06.04 plan of the counter
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fig 06.03 the location of the peddler
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fig 06.05 the with body mo
fig 06.06 the the design
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Dalyans Aura Istanbul Fall 2019
tutors Hakan Tüzün Şengün Boğaçhan Dündaralp
fig 07.01 the collage of the dalyan with partial detail drawings
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The concept of “techne”, which is the subject of the Aura 2019 Fall semester, was examined through a methodological study through a fishing structure, dalyan. We can clearly observe Plato’s techne explanation which is tou biou (the art of life) itself in the principles of the foundation of the dalyan. Techne is an ongoing job of learning, discovering and doing. The reflection of these concepts on the dalyan is the way the elements of the dalyan coming together and its usage. Dalyan is established with a learning style from tradition. It is a job that only those who know the essence of forming a dalyan can do. It is important that the new inputs
from Techne are consciously processed into dalyan as well as the knowledge of the techniques. Aristotle said, techne is “both a practical skill and systematic knowledge or experience” (Aristotle’s Poetics, 1998). The knowledge and skills of the person who will build a dalyan must be in the direction of the topography in the underwater, the wavelength of the sea, the severity of the currents, the direction of arrival of the traveling fish and the climatic conditions of the area. Dalyan is also a cyclical design. Additions and disassemblies are made in the design according to changes of the wavelength and intensity of the inputs.
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fig 07.02 the collage of the dalyan (feet, wooden pier nets)
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dalyans
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fig 07.03 a photograph from the open exhibition on 21.01.2020
fig 07.04 the exhibiti
In Aura, I have conducted a research based project in fishing structures. The concept of “techne”, which is the subject of the Aura 2019 Fall semester, was examined through a methodological study through a fishing structure, dalyan. In this project, I have aimed to reveal the user-design relations in the dalyan that was established with the traditional design knowledge. In a metropolitan city, which is undergoing rapid changes and transformations such as Istanbul, some ethnic groups, occupations, and activities can be marginalized and moved to the city’s border points, one of which is the situation of fishing and selling fish. Fishing activity, which is found in the dynamics of the city and has a relationship with the coast, has decreased considerably today. Structures designed as fish market cannot meet the needs of the fishermen sufficiently. On the contrary, dalyan meets the requirement of all fishing activities.
fig 07.05 model of d
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ion table
dalyan
fig 07.06 partial model of dalyan with natural tree branches
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