This Portofolio includes some of my Academic Work done and learnt throughout the years of my education. BIO Sara Mandou (b. 1998) I graduated from Bilkent University, located in Ankara,Turkey, from Faculty of Art, Architecture, and Design. I earned B.A of Architecture with ‘Honors’ in 2020. I am excited to start my professional career by looking for opportunities in Architecture and applying the knowledge I have learnt in Bilkent. I have interned in several companies that are multinational in the Middle East. Such experiences have helped me learning the tiny details all coming up to a successful project everyone aims to see.
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I have interned in both architectural companies and administrations as my second interest; such as, Almnaber Co. in Riyadh, KSA, Amr Hasan Atelier in Cairo, Egypt, and King Faisal Schools in Riyadh, KSA. I am passionate at learning and improving the medium I will be put in. My goal is to grow my resume to attain the maximum knowledge and experience in all fields of Architecture. I am currently registering for both Architectural Competitions and LEED Certification.
SARA MOHAMMED SAMIR MANDOU Tel. +966 53 809 5068 Email: sarahsameer98@gmail.com Address: Al Malaz, Al Siteen Street
2016
- Looked through applicants and chose according to their aim of attending the event - Guided Attendees and aided organizing the event - Contacted different companies for sponsors and speakers in the event - Always tried to seize and manage solving any obstacle that might face the team
Education 2020
2016
2019
• Bachelor of Architecture, Bilkent University in Ankara Turkey, June 2020. - Majors in Architecture - GPA: 3.03/4.00, Cumulative GPA: 2.82/4.00
2018
2017
• Organizer in OIS Media Center in Al Oruba Schools, Riyadh, KSA in May 2012-May 2016
• American Diploma Highschool, Al Oruba International School in Riyadh KSA, June 2016. - GPA: 4.00/4.00, ‘High Honors’
Professional Experience
NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
• Office Intern in Amr Hasan Atelier, Cairo, Egypt in June 2019-July 2019.
2019
• Nominated in Architectural Design Studio ARCH401, December 2019 in YAKTAŞ (Student Competition in Turkey) by Jury Members.
2019
• Best Student Works published in Bilkent Architecture webpage (http://arch.bilkent.edu.tr/works/1908_arch401. html)
• Site Intern in Almnaber Company, Riyadh, KSA in July 2018-August 2018. - Attend Weekly Meetings and write daily reports about them. - Roam around the site and jut down the notes learnt. - Fixed some plans and revised it.
2017
2016
- Organized Parents/Teachers Meeting in the School - Helped in Main School Events (Breast Cancer Awareness, International Day, School Talent Shows etc…) - Participated in AdvancED (Educational Department) Global Conference March 2013 as a main guide to the Team throughout their visit in Riyadh and School Tour.
- Attend Weekly Meetings and write daily reports about them. - Involved through interior design and preparing design schemes. - Involved through landscape design phase. - Fixed some plans and revised it. 2018
• Admission Coordinator in TEDxOrubaSchools Riyadh, KSA in March 2016-May 2016
• HR Intern in King Faisal Schools, Riyadh, KSA in May 2017-July 2017.
Software Skills • Autodesk
- Search and Filtered the C. Vs - Coordinate the interviews with the candidates. - Arrange booking hotels and flight tickets for the employees for training. - Follow up with selected candidates for the hiring process. - Prepared Midyear and Diploma students’ schedules with guidance from the IB Coordinator and MYP/DP Vice Principal.
- AutoCAD - Revit - Infraworks - Civil3D - Maya
EXTRACIRRCULAR ACTIVIES
HOBBIES
• Subcoordinator in UYP (Umudun Yurttaşları Projesi), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in October 2017-May 2018
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- Translator Arabic to English. - Coordinate and Organize the family visits to the poor and the refugeed families in Ankara. - Choose the members based on criteria that suits the group. - Involve the foreigners of my group to interact and communicate with families.
Students Ambassador in Bilkent University, Riyadh, KSA in December 2016-February 2017
- Held the name of the University throughout Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. - Visited 5 Schools (Pakistan International School, King Khaled International School, King Abdul-Aziz School (Choueifat SABIS), Al Oruba International Schools, Al Sahafa International Schools) and introduced the University to Grades 10,11, and 12). - Reported bullet lines and details to the International Office of Bilkent. - Responded to all students concerns and inquires about the University.
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• Adobe - Photoshop - Lightoom - InDesgin
• Rendering - Lumion - Arnold
• Modeling - Sketchup - Rhinocerous - Grasshopper
Event Planning Reading Literature Resarching Managing and Directing
Languages • • • •
Arabic English Turkish French
Native Fluent Good Good
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ARCHITECTURE
portofolio + Design CONTENT
RESTORATION REVITALIZATION
Sinop Redevelopment: Adaptive Reuse for Culture and Learning: University Campus Social Sciences’ Faculty. The Revitalization of Homs, Syria: Post-Traumatic War Rehabilitation Complex and Residential Revitalization.
NATURE EXPERIENCE
Vocational School of Tourism and Hotel Managment in Alanya: The Nature Experience.
URBAN ARCHITECTURE EMPOWERING THE CORE
ACADEMIC WORKS ARCHITECTUAL WORKS
Redevelopment Plan for Coherent Urban System in Konyaaltı Antalya: Empowering the Core
RESTORATION
Sinop Redevelopment: Adaptive Reuse for Culture and Learning: University Campus Social Sciences’ Faculty. Fall Semester of 2019-2020 ARCH 401 Location: Sinop, Turkey Instructor: Prof. Glenn Terry Kukkola
Sinop Redevelopment: Adaptive Reuse for Culture and Learning: University Campus Social Sciences’ Faculty.
Transforming the prision of thoughts to a university of freedom The target that was aimed to be achieved is attracting Students around Turkey to Study History, Social Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature by restoring Sinop’s Ottoman Prison to a Social Sciences’ Campus with respecting the historical content and context and making use of the richness of this old site. The metaphor used was transforming a prison that held poets because of their expressions of opinions in Ottoman times to a Social Science campus where students have the freedom of speech.
3D View of the Site
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MASTERPLAN
Interior View of the Campus
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SOCIAL
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SCIENCE
FACULTY
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SINOP’S
OTTOMAN
PRISON
Brief The site given to us was located i inside the prison itself; Sinop, northern Turkey and one of the cold cities in Turkey, has been underrated; however, rich in historical content. The municipality has decided to renovate and restore the site to a restaurant and parks. Our faculty has decided to meet with the municipality to propose to renovate it to a university campus for several advantages: financially, it shall attract students and this would give a good income for the city, historically, the metaphor that poets and other people where imprisoned in there because of there beliefs and thoughts; therefore, transforming it to a Social Sciences campus would metaphorically symbolize the 11 Fall’19 University Campus
freedom of thoughts in the prison as a famous poet who was imprisoned there: Saba Hattin Ali who is famously related in Turkish Literature, would give a rich contextual meaning, and educational tourism interest too. Maintaining, protecting, and referring to the historical walls and buttresses was the most significant key tool for this project. The figures above illustrate the main massing procedure: massive structure was placed and spanned based on the buttresses, elevated 8 meters from the historical walls below, next slabs were added in-between the structures, and lastly the masses were inserted in the spaces provided.
In the masterplan phase, we explored the possibility to enhance the area and made it inhabitable for the function itself. Initially we created a continuous promenade from the beginning of the whole site ending with the historical prison. New Vehicular roads were substituted to ease the pedestrianization in and out of the campus. The black masses were proposed harbor and cafes near the introduced marine activities. Lastly the red nodes are the connecting points in the city itself. The next step was organizing both the circulation and the new zoning areas. After creating the promenade along the sea. Easing the vehicular roads from the beginning of the city till the end near the prison was important. The new boats circulation are introduced too. The current zoning is shown in the left diagram. Mostly the commercial and residential zones are one the east side of the site. However the west part are mostly governmental institutions.
The environmental analysis in the figure shows the prevailing winds that comes from the Northeast Black Sea and the summer winds comes from the Southeast. As shown too, the red linings are all the historical walls that runs in the whole city but centered mostly in the prison, the site itself.
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Figure 4 3D View of the Site
Structural Process
3D ANALYSIS The strategies our group depicted were focused mostly on the environmental and sustainable approached as the city is windy and rainy, one can make a perfect use of vegetation and kinetic wind
Figure 5
turbines as shown above. The promenade material usage is shown above too. Moreover, the canopies depict both sustainable elements, such as rainwater collector columns, and historical
element, the patterns inspired from old constructions of Sinop. Figures 5 and 6 show the shadow studies conducted in the equinox, 21 March and 23 December, respectively.
as the color blend with the historical walls color scheme. Massive structural truss system was used to hold the force; double tapered beams, up and down, and HSS frame as the truss elements. Moreover, slanted steel columns were added too to withhold the forces coming from the sides (Figures 6 and 7).
Figure 6
The final masterplan is shown here. As seen, facutlies were distributed around the site. As the target was to put arts and sciences faculties, we had built from scratch some masses with references to the city and axis lines. On the other hand, we restored the children prison (D) to a Children Education Faculty and (E) which was the prison itself to the Psychology and Literature Faculty.
Figure 7
Masterplan
The interior section shown here is the interior view of the campus on the left lies the prison building, now the Psychology and Literature Faculty whilst on the right, one can see the historical walls and the masses above which will be supported by huge structural systems; the structural design is one of the most important aspects of the whole project/design.
SIte pLan Site Plan is shown on the right. The landscape is carefully designed with respect to the structural elements as they are the major design elements in the whole project. Moreover, the landscape is also designed with reference to the city axis and the historical references.
Interior Campus Section
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One of the most important elements in this design was the structure; as it will support the whole buildings to be elevated from the historical walls while respected too. Initially, laminated timber frame glued with steel profile were used in the vertical manner while timber was referred
Site Plan
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Kiosks
Figure 8
Figure 9
+0.00 m Plan (Ground Level)
Green Houses Area
Plans and Analysis As the entrance level is 8 meters below the slabs the ground level was so important for several reasons: one public entrance to the site was located on the right. Since there are two verticals historical walls, the narrower area on the right, shown above, is set to be a semi-public line where there are kiosks partitioned with the guide of the structural systems. Those kiosks are libraries, educational hub, newspaper selling area etc, shown in the render above.
+8.00 m Plan (Level One)
PV Solar Tubes Illumination System
circulation and environmental systems On the wider area lies the Dark Plants Green Houses both on the left side of the historical wall and on the right too. Those plants are set to live in the dark and needs less light to grow. With stone catwalk like pavement, this area is interesting as a gathering hub and for student to take care of the plants. At night, PV Solar Tubes are used to lighten the below area. Moreover, the
The first level contains the whole functions of the faculties. The circulation starts from the public spaces to the most private. Lying near the circulation tube is an open air and closed area restaurant. Moreover, workshop-based halls and lecture-based halls are shown above too. Auditorium Hall, Seminar Hall, and Studying Rooms are located beside each other as they lean to the public/semi-public zones. The reception on the NW has the +8.00-level entrance too. The
entrance from the ground level to the first is located here, a circulation tube that includes elevator and stairs.
roof placement helped in depicting environmental systems usage as shown in Figures 8 and 9; As Sinop is both rainy and windy, rainwater collector system is used by pipes carried by the roof while controlled cross ventilation occurs inside the building. The glass part of the facade contains Terracotta Baguettes with curtain wall system whilst the opaque parts of the facades are 3 different sized terracotta panels with color scheme inspired from the historical surrounding.
Figure 10
In City Elevation (East Elevation)
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In Site Elevation (West Elevation)
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Figure 11
+12.00 m Plan (Second Level)
Night View
Figure 12
roof system and exploded projection For the Slabs day light to hit, the roof has a transparent skylight slits and partial translucent glass. The whole roof system is angled with respect to the sun and wind for preventing strong winds and strong sun while emitting cool breezes and good daylight. The roof system shown in Figure 11 is rich layered with daylight emission, interior wood cladding ceiling to give warmth, etc...
Alongside, Figure 12 illustrates clearly the unity of the systems individually in an exploded axonometric view of the whole design to help show clearly how the whole design works cooperatively. The second-floor plan mostly contains storage and mechanical rooms along with the second floors of both the library and the staff rooms for instructors and administrators.
Panoramic Corridors In the Southern Elevation shown below the extreme left and right, two corridors popped out. Those are the main circulation cores in the horizontal manner.
the see a clear 360 view from the north to the south. Inspired by this, those corridors were created to give the campus, city, sea, street view all at once.
Daylight andSun Reflective System of the Roof
Frontal Elevation (Northern Elevation)
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Moreover, they symbolize the cosmic relationship that was depicted in the site visit. Once one goes higher in the site,
Sea-side Elevation (Southern Elevation)
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Longitudinal Section
The Longitudinal Section provides a clearer view of the interior views of the building. The Lecture-Based Hall view below shows
the integration of the massiveness of the structure within’ the rooms themselves and the facade works too. A Panoramic View of the sea is viewed
from the restaurant that is cantilevered from the historical walls and supported by huge columns out of the site.
Interior View between the two Buildings
Interior views and sections The interior view upwards shows the open spaces in the building itself.
It shows the combination of the structure, roof and the ground level of the green house seen from
below. The transversal section shows this relationship in a clearer manner. Classroom View
Transversal Section
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Restaurant View
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REVITALIZATION
tHE REVIALIZATION OF homs, syria: post-traumatic war rehabilitation complex and residential revitalization. Spring Semester of 2019-2020 ARCH 402 Location: Homs, Syria Instructor: Prof. Zeynep Öktem
tHE REVIALIZATION OF homs, syria: post-traumatic war rehabilitation complex and residential revitalization. CREATING
HOPE
FOR
A
BETTER
TOMORROW
For a better tomorrow, the torned city in Syria, Homs, lost more than 85 percent of the city itself and people. People who lived those 10 years of war and the corrupted generations that came during the war, having a better future would be impossible and unstable with people who lived abnormally; therefore, the target is revitalizing the city by creating a rehabilitation complex and new residentials for encouraging people to come back and motivating them for a hope for a safer tomorrow.
Aerial View of the Site
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CITY ANALYSIS
Figure 2
Aerial View of the Site
REHABILITATION
COMPLEX
IN
HOMS,
Those nodes will be either rehabilitation center, social development center, or social center (community center).The functions of those will be assigned based on how destructive the area is; in this case the rehabilitation center to the dark red spots. After locating the nodes and assigning their function. Figures 2,3, and 4 show some of those nodes located and analyzed.
Figure 3
Noise Control Tree Buffer
INTERACTIVE
The Plan Strategy of working the project was to start looking into the city scale; that is not only revitalizing an area, but the whole city as an initial strategy. First, a study was made, as shown in the Figure 1, about the destroyed areas. Second, based on the level of destruction, a center will be placed in an area that combines 2-3 districts; the nodes are encircled in green in the previous figure.
SYRIA
BRIEF After the Syrian Civil War, Homs, a city in the Mid-region of Syria, has been nearly demolished. Thirty-Five to Forty percent of the city has been destroyed and 1 million civilians had fled the city. The Proposal is to revitalize a region and distribute nodes around the whole city for re-developing the social psychology of the people who have experienced war. As a result, there will be the main site that will contain several facilities/functions such as the main Rehabilitation
Complex that shall include: Aquatic Rehabilitation Centre, Psychological Centre, Natural Meditation Centre, Animal Aided Therapy and Interactive Rehabilitation Centre. Social Development Center, Data Center, and residential Revitalization with interaction of urban farming are the strategies used. Homs’ geographical location makes it important as it is the intersection of the trade route.
It is located between the outlines of the coastal range and of the side of the Mediterranean Sea; it has a famous River known as the Orontes River (Assi Nehir). Homs had an estimate 1,767,000 inhabitants; today 1 million flew giving an approximate of 760,000.
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Figure 5
Figure 5 and 6 illustrate the zoning before and after the war with the current figure-ground relationship. As seen it contains mostly 80 percent a residential zone whilst 20 percent commercial area. Moreover, the national hospital lies on the midregion. Not to mention that there lies the Orontes River that runs from Turkey till Lebanon.
Figure 6
ZONING
The post war zoning will include the revitalization of the residential areas and the commercial too. The Orontes River will undergo several new strategies to revitalize it and make it more sustainable and used by the people.
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Rate of Destruction in Homs
Figure 1
Figure 7
New Residential Revitalization
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The new residential building contains more floors than the usual; it is to increase the capacity of the residential. The building works through the old traditional typology. Restored Buildings
Usage of the terraces as a small green house that can be folded with glass partition in the harsh weather. In the middle will be an access from the terrace to the harvest core for the irrigation and the users own use. New Residential Buildings
residential revitalization
Green Fingers New Cultivation Buildings
In a bigger scale, the area around the site, residential will be restored and revitalized all around. Figure 7 shows the strategy which keeps the existing grid and distribute the new buildings, restored, and greeneries around the districts.
Greeneries distribution aims to revitalize the ecosystem, sustain the environment, and create economic use for sustainability of the user to harvest his own vegetation.
Some of the restored residential were almost in the ground, as a result, terraced farming building is being introduced in The Restored Residential strategy.
The Greenery strategy illustrates the movement between the neighborhoods using the different methods. The outcome of it is for people to harvest their own food, for the new buildings there will be a harvest core and green house.
The cultivation building is connected to a restored residential through bridges. Aquaponics system is used to harvest the vegetables.
Both Green House and the Park benefit in human sustainability as a gathering point for the next generation, social sustainability as a social meeting zone, and greenery node in the neighborhood.
River revitalization The River Revitalization includes a schematic strategy that adds several facilities (Figure 8). An Infographic of the river revitalization strategy is shown. It starts by having the river banks for bio-system, in the middle is an infill land for kiosks use.
The wooden deck lane is for walking with addition of greenery strips and beside is the greenery lane for children to play while adults are walking beside.
Bicycle Lane
River Lanes Revitialization
New Green House
Next lane is the stairs promenade for seating. The upcoming lane is the kinetic bicycle lane that will use the kinetic energy to lighten the lightning rods on the next lane.
Ferry Parking
New Parks
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River Commerical Revitialization
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Environmental Analysis As shown the Prevailing Winds come mostly from the West and minor winds Southwest. The Noise is an issue in such a function; they come in the middle of the road and on the left too.
Figure 9
Functions Functions are distributed in the manner of the most public to the most private (Figure 12); each Rehabilitation center is located based on its function and space it needs and the accessibility of entrance based on its privacy (Figure 11).
Aerial View of the Masterplan
Masterplan The masterplan collected all the revitalization strategies and the new river reshaping. The masses are both the Rehabilitation Centers and the Social and Data Center alongside with the Library. The Landscape is designed with reference to the city axis and circulation axis too.
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Figure 10
AeriMasterplan
Figure 11
Figure 12
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CIRCULATION Figure 13 is the proposed Vertical Circulation in the masses.
Figure 13
Noises and height control
INTERACTIVE REHABILITATION CENTER
The overall Circulation diagram shows the vitality that occurred after the river and ferry Revitalization and the vehicular Organization to help a better Pedestrianization walkways.
The interactive rehabilitation Center is located on the south part of the site, near one of the river banks; as a result, the Open-Air Amphitheater is done to let the patients inside perform arts outwards and for the public watch.
The Noise Problems mentioned before is solved by proposing higher parts of masses (Figure 15) to act as a barrier to the noise outwards. Controlling the circulation in the very left near to the streets is another way to provide a calmer atmosphere. Tree buffer zone is another method used to prevent noises to go inwards (Figure 16).
Aerial View of the Masterplan
It also helps them to get more outgoing. The controlled public and private zone are shown in Figure 17.
Figure 17
The Green Finger concept is depicted in the buildings themselves as used in the bigger scale of the city strategy. The Green Corridor gives a nice view to the users inwards the building and gives the feeling of being outside while protected inside the building .
Figure 14
Figure 18
The Public and Private Zoning in the Interactive Rehabilitation is carefully placed as it is a space for sensitive and high-needed care people.
Figure 19
A Bubble Diagram is quickly designed for proper function and privacy distribution.
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Figure 16
Figure 20
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Green Corridor Interior Exhibition View
PLan
Structure
The Functions used here and the methods of the Interactive Rehabilitation are chosen based on the cultural activities known. The Center exhibits all ages. Studios, Workshops, Culinary Arts, Group Workshops are all included as a interactive rehabilitation method.
The Structure Diagram shown illustrates the material usage and space distribution; it shows the layering of the roof and green corridor unity.
Axonometric Plan View Exploded Axonometric View
The combination of structure systems used are timber tree columns with the roof, timber quad grid system, LVL Timber Roof to maintain heat inside.
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Outdoor Green Corridor Activities
Figure 21
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Environmental systems Several methods were used to promote natural uses and Sustainability. In Figure 23, Photo-voltaic Panels are used both
as canopies and ceiling for the green corridor. The facade system shown in Figure 22 is used in all opaque facades in the building.
Figure 22
Stack effect method was achieved with the help of green corridors.
Figure 23
Inside the green corridor there are some empty graveled areas that are used as seasonal ponds connected to the river. This system is helpful for the cleanness of the corridor and less water waste (Figure 25). The Rainwater collecting system is used with the aid of the slopped roofs shown in Figure 26.
PV Panels Night View
Interiors The culinary workshop view shows one a full view of the spaces generated inwards the warm colors and the daylight entering inwards has prepared the user/ patient to a better atmosphere and a calmer one to rehabilitate.
Figure 24
Culinary Workshop Interior View
Figure 25
Street View Elevation (West Elevation)
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The QR Code contains the detailed Graduation Thesis Report.
Group Therapy Room View
Sections The Group Therapy View shows the variety of communication and social interaction, factors the users over there need.
https://sarahsameer98.wixsite.com/mysite The website includes all of my work, sketches, and details
The Transversal Section gives a better illustration about the combination of the green corridors, structure, and workshops.
Longitudinal Section
Transversal Section
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Nature experience
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGMENT IN ALANYA
Spring Semester of 2017-2018 ARCH 202 Location: Alanya, Turkey Instructor: Prof. Bülent Tokman
vocational school of tourism and hotel Management in Alanya
the Nature Experience within’ the Walls
Alanya, a calm city with great views, is located in the South. As it is a affordable touristic city; however, underrated, locals and students mostly go there. It has a combination of history, touristic activities, and a clean beach. The aim is to create a hotel served by students in an area that intersects in all Alanya’s attraction features.
Night and Day 3D Views
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Site Plan
SITE PLAN AND DESIGN CONCEPT Sea View Aerial View
BRIEF The site is located in Damlataş; near the sea shore where it is a tourist attraction. Such an area is so favorable for tourists to spend their vacation in this calm city.
Around the area are parks, restaurant, Alanya’s Teleferic, and Anlanya’s Historical Castle. With those views, the concept assigned to the Vocational Hotel would be mostly an Open Corridors
hotel experience. Rather having a prototypical hotel design, the idea of making it an experience rather than a two-day stay was the goal that was achieved.
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The Site Plan shown above illustrates both the concept and the surrounding area around. The concept was inspired by Syrian exterior old houses. As having a bit of the weather, having the same idea on a bigger scale was thought. The functions as built
masses and the circulation from one to the other would be exterior and covered by wooden decks. Giving the user the views all around and the nature experience aimed to be reached. As the function is a vocational hotel, students work, learn, and live there
too, on the Southeast are both the Institute and the Dormitory of the student. Whilst, on the Southwest is the Hotel Rooms with the castle view on the right and sea view on the south the user gets the full historical and nature experience and view.
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Figure 1
Figure 3
First Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
Plans and environmental system The Ground Level includes almost all of the facilities. The functions run from public to private as the privacy and the serenity the user aims (Figure 1). One can see the experience lived when looking at the plan. The user, even while in the hotel rooms’ building itself, has the feeling of the outgoing nature as the corridors are open from the top, with vegetation inside and an artificial pond. The theme of Nature is well expressed there.
Moreover, the environmental systems of natural daylight and cross ventilation is reached as the open spaces give such potential.
Figure 2
Figure 4 shows the circulation diagram that occurs in the Complex itself.
City Elevation (North North East Elevation) (NNE)
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In the second-floor plan, the hotel rooms gets less and bigger. It Covers some part in the front to act as a wind vestibule shown in Figure 2.
Figure 4
Park Elevation (North West Elevation)
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Interior View of Hotel
3D View of Hotel
3d Views and sections The 3D views make one visualize the open spaces and the nature experience aimed to be reached. Elevations shows the whole view from sea to city and the tropical calm atmosphere felt by the user.
Section 4 Section 2
Section 2 shows a clear view of the open and closed spaces in the Hotel Rooms’ building and the terraced corridor.
Restaurant/ Teleferic Elevation (South East Elevation)
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Section 4 gives a clear view of the whole complex working in harmony; it shows the
exterior circulation with the city view from the entrance to the staff crew
building; most public to most private.
Sea Elevation (South West Elevation)
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City View Aerial Shot
Section 1
Section 1 shows a longitudinal view of the Hotel rooms from the Park View.
Whilst Section 3 is from the same view cut; however
shows the whole complex with the rooms as well.
Section 3
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eMPOWERING THE CORE
redevelopment plan for coherent urban system in KONYAALTI, ANTALYA: masterplan
Spring Semester of 2018-2019 ARCH 302 In Partnership with: Batuhan Baş, İdil Dursun, Eylül İçgören, Beyza Kurtulmuş, Sara Mandou Location: Antalya, Turkey Instructor: Prof. Giorgio Gasco
REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR COHERENT URBAN SYSTEM IN KONYAALTI, ANTALYA: MASTERPLAN
experiencing the sea with the city
Antalya, a high touristic city, lies on the south of Turkey. Antalya is divided into two zones. One is highly touristic while the other, having historical zones and sea too, is less touristic. With a steep cliff and a distorted commercial residential organization, the goal is uniting the promenade, frontal commercial views by integrating public spaces and making the whole site an experience rather than just crossing the user’s way.
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ZONING AND FUNCTION
EMPOWERING
THE
CORE
IN
ANTALYA:
The zoning in the site includes the new functions with respect to the existing urban fabric.
MASTERPLAN
BRIEF The site starts from Antalya’s Museum ending to the river, on the west. The typology is residential in addition to commercial shops in the street level, such as: supermarkets, art ateliers, and galleries. The parking lots of the building’s cars are either behind, backyard parking, building raised on pilots having a parking for the cars, or on the street’s lane. The river flows from the upper part of Antalya and reaches its end in
Functions were placed in accordance of the previous fabric. They are also located with reference to the Museum, the promenade, and the p r e f e r a b l e functions to the citizens.
site.
design concept The approach was defined by several factors: circulation, not demolishing, renewal, serving people’s instinctive approach, and facilitating the living environment in all terms. Briefly, greenery lines emerging from the city and ending in cliff, organization of building based on the courtyard’s articulation, favoring the entrances suitable from each circulatory access – pedestrian favors, bicycle 55 SPring’19 MASTERPLAN IN ANTALYA
favors, vehicular favor, and providing healthier environment for sustainability; that is avoiding vehicular road into the narrow neighborhoods in a strategy that doesn’t override or gives a condensed circulation.
Mainly, the design’s approach was to give the experience to the users with maintaining both the site’s fabric and the urban fabric.
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greenery Zoning The greenery is always maintained as what has existed; however defined clearly in courtyards and gathering areas for reaching both leisure area and a social zone for users to interact.
Circulation accesses Going throughout the redesigning the site and its transportation issues; a movement access diagram was important to see the new vacant possibilities to roam around, either in Vehicular, Pedestrian, and Bicycle Route.
Preliminary building function assignment
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Next Stage was assigning the functions to each zone as a Preliminary method yet defined with areas and heights. The functions in here shows how variable spaces are and their Initial accessibility and layering. Figure 7
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Aerial Shot of the Site Cliff View
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Environmental systems and platform design One of the key elements to achieve the masterplan in an executable manner was the Environmental System consideration. As a result, a detail work-through to some of the buildings (Previous page) were done in an environmental aspect as shown (Figure 9).
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Passive and active systems. Letting the buildings by design to cool and heat itself through usage of passive systems was essential as the weather in Antalya helps in achieving the effects needed. Figure 11 shows how the process
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occurs. On the other hand, Figures 12 and 13 show the passive Cooling systems in winter and Summer respectively. Whilst, Figure 13 illustrates how Stack effect is established by using the double heights method.
Figure 15 shows the main Elementary reason of the choice of Tower design in the whole project. It facilitates cooling system by itself.
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ACADEMIC WORKS
selected Academic works + WORKSHOPS ATTENDED + RESEARCHES DONE
ACADEMIC WORKS
workshops and lectures attended CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS (2017/2018)
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Includes Detailed Shop Drawings of a Co-working and Living House Complex.
ARCHITECTURE LIGHTING & ACOUSTICS(2018/2019) Includes Auditorium Design with Acoustical Calculations and Measures.
CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY (2019/2020)
Researches done
A Reasearch-Presentation based course that covers all world’s Problems that can relate directly with 5 elements of Architectural Sustainability.
MEDEVIAL ARCHITECTURE IN EASTERN mediterranean (2019/2020)
Includes a design of an Imaginary Monastery with an architectural Vision of a life of a Nun.
Conservation of historical environment (2019/2020)
Portofolio Lectures by Prof. Mark Paul Frederickson. Co-working Mixed Used Design, History of Built Environment, and Case Study Lectures by Prof. Giorgio Gasco. Syrian Refugee Housing Project in Reyhanlı by Prof. Chen-Yu Chiu. “Action or Action-less” by Hsien-Ying Chan. “Light” by Juha Leviska. The Conservation of Memory by Axel Nielsen. “Unifying Layers” by Prof. Yiğit Acar. “Archaeological Heritage Places: A Tension Zone between Scientific Research and Tourism-Based Benefit” by Associate Prof. Dr. Guliz Bilgin Altınyoz. “Reconciling with Layers in Multi-layered Historic Cities” by Dr. Leyla Eteymez Çıplak. Ministry of Environment and Urbanization Lecture by Arch. Esra Tombak. ASArchitect CEO Ayşin Sevgi Macit. BREEAM Assessor and Design Management Ph.D Arch. Özge Selen Duran. Urban Scale Architecture by Prof. Yiğit Acar. Environmental Technology, Construction and Materials, and Lighting and Acoustics Lectures by Prof. Glenn Terry Kukkola and Prof. Jesus Espinoza Alvarez.
ARCHITECTURE VISUALIZATION STUDIO (2019/2020) Practicing designing with Autodesk Maya and Rendering with Arnold and Lumion.
Includes a detailed research on Gentrification.
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Professional Practice (2019/2020)
The Church of Holy Sepulchre - 2018. AFAD Research Analysis -2018. Gherkin Tower and Diagrid Structure - 2018. Japanese Vernacular Architecture - 2018. Villa Savoye Case Study - 2018. KAPSARC - 2019. Case Studies: Beijing Parkview Green and Siemens Middle Eastern HQ in Masdar City - 2019. Gentrification in East Harlem, Manhattan, NY - 2019. The Column of Julian and Roman Baths in Ankara, Turkey - 2019. Byzantine Monument: In War-Torn Syria’s Qalb Lozeh Village inspired Notre Dame Cathedral - 2019.
The Epic of Gigglemesh The Three Theaban Plays Iliad Plato: The Republic
Includes a detailed Project Proposal on a Brief assigned to us.
INTRODUCTION TO CERAMICS (2019/2020) Designing, Molding, and using the Kill in Ceramic.
63 Academic works
64 workshops and researches
To all of my instructors and tutors, I owe you all of my gratitude. I have fallen and almost gave up, but I stood and worked because of your belief in me. I owe you a Thank You for provoking me to work and/or making me love the subject you teach. To my Family, Thank you for making me who I am Today, I could have never made this without your support and prayers.
2020/2021 Sara Mandou