Design Portfolio 2016

T o l g a UzunhasanoGlu des Äąg n P o r t f o l i o

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MSc Sustainable Environmental Design, BArch Place of Birth and Date: Istanbul, 19/10/1992 Contact Details: Rıfkı Tongsir Street 42/15 34841 Maltepe/ Istanbul - TURKEY 00905354981928 - 00447957060439 tolga.uho@gmail.com – uzunhasanoglu@aaschool.ac.uk

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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.�

Albert Einstein

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CONTENTS 8 Youth Culture and Arts Center | Architectural Design IV 14 GalataPlay, Music School | Architectural Design V 22 Social Housing in Dolapdere, Istanbul | Architectural Design VII 30 Municipality Building | Architectural Design Dissertation Project 42 Pontoon Dock Connection, Social Housing Project, London

AA Sustainable Environmental Design Graduate School | Term 2

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State Secondary Schools in Istanbul | MSc Dissertation Project

64 Personal Interest | Photograhpy

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Youth Culture and Arts Center Architectural Design IV Istiklal Street, which is one of the most attractive points of Istanbul is creating its own dynamism. Two different user profile is creating this dynamism. First group is the ones thinking that dynamism can make them too tired at least just because of perception, on the other hand, others are assuming that high density is making them comfortable and feel safe. At this project, the aim was to connect these two groups with the same architectural language. The spaces has been thought for this aim are, places that they can rest and create their own area and at the same time, spaces providing opportunities to be more attractive for young people. The existing building was causing a high density perception at the view from the street level. Moreover, it was totally opposite of the historical architectural language of Istiklal Street. Therefore, first design thoughts were all about to decrease the density and respect the environment. The area was also at the highest point of the street which was creatong a possibility to have a view of Bosphorus and the bridges at the roof floor. Although existing surrounding buildings have this possibility, none of them is using it at the moment. At the design process, one of the approaches for architecture had questioned. It was a interesting point to criticize about the ramp and separeted spaces. Its decided for users to reach where they want without interrupting other places or joining perceptions that they dont need. This was the most critical decision of the project. First, the ramp has designed and existing possibilities joined. Places attached with an idea that they seem to be hanged between the ramps. With observing the walking-cycle of people, a geometric entrance has designed also. The youth center has programmes like dancing, painting and music Studios, meeting points, Cafe’s and Restaurants.

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GalataPlay, Music School Architectural Design V The Project area which called Galata Region and it`s close neighborhood is prominent and historical for Istanbul. Galata Tower has constructed in 528 by Byzantium. In 1348 Genoeses made some changes at the tower and in 1509 Ottoman architect Hayrettin has repaired it because of the damages happened by eartquakes.

That`s why, the first decision before starting to design was, to understand, feel and respect this historical structure and it`s neighborhood. Also to increase the effect of tower to its surrounding city elements in a building scale would help in terms of history. With an awareness of past understanding the current usage of the site was crucial in order to meet the demands of the local people who live or work there. Therefore, people’s reaction when they were passing through the tower and their walk cycles has been examined. With the observations it`s decided to focus on public spaces. There should be places that people can rest, meet each other and at the same time join some activities. With this approach an open air street performance area which has wide stairs that people can sit there in free times like amphitheater in Greek culture has been designed. The design language has started with taking Galata Tower as a reference point and drawing lines to its surroundings. With approaches about walk cycles and public spaces, the places created themselves between those lines. Also the elevations are important at this project. The design suppose to be seen a part of Galata Tower. At the ground level of the project there is a Cafe, performance and conference center, exhibition area and painting walls for youth people. With a musical concept the upper floors has studios, classrooms, totally transparent restaurant with an amazing view of Istanbul and shopping areas.

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“In Pure Architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve to a purpose�

Augustus W. N. Pugin

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Social Housing in Dolapdere, Istanbul Architectural Design VII Housing Projects should always focus on inhabitants and the city culture at the same time. The project area, Dolapdere, would sound a bit scary for most of the people living in the other sides of Istanbul or even Turkey due to unlucky events happened in the past and the way they got published on the news. Depending on these people Dolapdere is a district that fear is dominating the feelings and emotions. However, the social housing projects must depend on the local people living there. It was really important to take their ideas about the site that they are living. Were they fearing too? Therefore, it was crucial to make interviews with the local people. Due to responses, it was understood that fear was just for others, they have created their own community and expect people to respect it. In general people are afraid of the things that they dont know. And to have a knowledge about something they should make research about it which most of the people are lack of this. Relating these ideas with an architectural base is intersecting with the sensation of fear. If someone is feeling fear about the space, this will decrease the perception of the space and dynamics of the space elements, which is city elements in this case. That`s why, the first decision was to respect these community spaces and if possible, try to increase the number of them.

Considering the general architectural language, the site has a very important historical church which can lead the design and have potential to create public spaces on a major scale. Moreover, the main axe has been designed considering this location and then buildings followed it.

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Unfortunately, most of the social housing projects constructed and the ones still under development has not been following these approaches. They have their own gated communities which can be defined as stolen lands from a city that no one can enter or exit without sufficient documents or permission. On the other hand, the scale of these projects are negatively influencing the relations of neighbourhoods and the people living there. To make this connection between house and a home, an architect should care about these approaches. At this project, the scale was carefully chosen to respect the human physiology. Depending on the architectural language, the number of storeys are changing between one and four. Considering the architectural language, current building stock and the way of different people living in Istanbul has been carefully observed. And it won`t be difficult to mention that Istanbul is a cosmpolitan city, which can be described as a mosaic of whole Turkey in other words. Therefore, this cosmopolitan structure had been also adapted to this design. Different scaled public spaces, different heights of buildings and depending on the interior design even different facades are all combined to represent this cosmopolitan City.

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Municipality Building in LĂźleburgaz, TekirdaÄ&#x; Architectural Design Dissertation Project The main approach was to question the perception of municipality building in terms of the feeling created at people`s minds. As a personal opinion, municipality has been critized to understand the real meaning of it. Basically, a municipality building, like every other governmental building had been constructed to serve and meet the expectations of people. Although this approach supposed to be followed by architectural language too, during the past years and nowadays, every governmental building is not representing this idea. Even most of them are seen as scary and cold spaces to enter. That`s why, it was really important to remind people that municipality buildings are actually a publich house which they are the real owners.

Luckly, the project area had a park space next to it and it was considered to start designing with the topographic lines at this area. The building complex including service areas, restaurants and conference center suppose to represent the same architectural language with the whole site. The main entrance was carefully designed in order to welcome people with a human scale and at the same time easy to find with the building form. On the other hand, considering the glass facade and high amount of solar radiation, vertical shading devices has been attached to help thermal and visual comfort of the occupants.

Considering the interior design, open office spaces, small/ large meeting rooms, places which can allow flexibility to serve people`s expectations and allow them to create their own areas, a galleria to increase the usage of natural daylighting and balconies in every floor to allow people to take fresh air or rest during the day time have been developed.

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“A Developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, its where the rich use Public Transportation�

Gustava Petro

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Pontoon Dock Connection, Social Housing Project, London AA Sustainable Environmental Design Graduate School | Term 2 TOLGA UZUNHASANOĞLU | VICTORIA EUGENIA SOTO MAGÁN | JULIA TORRUBIA AZNÁREZ

As an architectural power and responsibility, to avoid the problems which have been observed during site visits, would just let to decrease the importance of architecture itself. An architect should always observe, look except see, question and criticize about the environment within every scale. Carrying these kinds of general approaches for early designing process is answering the reason for selection of the project area. Since the first moment, the diversion in London Docklands was clear to understand. Moreover, as every beginning of the design cycle, to point a problem is one of the most critical topics. Because of the redevelopment of the whole Docklands appearing for decades of years and which will continue in the close future, that part of the city were also re-functioning. Starting from the Ports, Industrial Warehouses were leaving their places to new business centres, mixed use developments and modern residential quarters. However, because of the wrong planning and massive infrastructures like DLR Line, Docklands seems to be divided into parcels.

This separation could be understood in building typologies, urban functions and human psychology for space usage.

During the first site visit, the problematic diversion between the two sides of DLR line was taking a significant attention.

The general scheme of this project had begun with the possible solutions to improve the environmental quality of these transitional spaces. This was the first decision in the designing process and it was critical to build liveable environments instead of just proposing a single development. One of the most important criteria for people to continue living in the specified area is the environment itself. This can include public activities, city furniture and also neighbourhoods.

After proposals to improve the environmental quality in terms of usage, safety and accessibility, second approach for early designing process was the climate change adaptation. While Docklands itself were changing with every element, it would be impossible to not to consider climate change.

This design project is focusing on indoor and outdoor environmental qualities and making the relation with future climate scenarios. As it is affecting every city in the world, climate change will affect London in a significant way, even more than other UK cities on the north side. To find the answer to how the design is going to perform or adapt in the future scenario was another primary consideration for the design process.

The Project is dealing with environmental aspects in three different scales; neighbourhood, building and dwelling.

Neighbourhood studies are focusing on master plan decisions, building scale is researching about the morphology with responding the climate and dwelling scale is trying to find a new approach for accommodation typologies in London.

All of the studies for each scale have considered simultaneously with backwards and questioning every part.

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Annual Sun Path

Annual Climate Analysis

Building Form depending on the Solar Axes

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Summer time Solar Radiation Simulation

Annual Wind Flow Rate on XY axes

Ground Floor Plan, street Level

First Floor Plan, Platform Level +5.00m

Fifth Floor Plan, Dwelling Level +14.00m

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Solar Angles for Design Process

Montly heating cost comparison with the current Project under development which is Royal Wharf

Typical Summer Week Free Running Royal Wharf & Proposed Design Comparison

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EMERGENT FOR FUTURE Environmentally Responsive & Inhabitant Centered State Secondary Schools in Istanbul | MSc Dissertation Project Among all of the architectural programs, educational buildings have significant differences and characteristics that separate them from the others. Mainly, this difference comes from the occupancy. Occupant density, activity and even schedule are subdivisions of occupancy about educational buildings. Each of them can influence the environmental performance in a strong way. As a starting point, this dissertation project is trying to combine energy performance and occupant comfort at the same time which drives the sustainable environmental quality of the building. Additionally, the study is having observations about the educational buildings in terms of pedagogical differences and conclude them by considering the local culture and economy. The main hypothesis of the dissertation project is that environmental awareness cannot be separated from new pedagogies. The two terms supposed to be concerned together and have proposals depending on both of them. As a summary, the project concludes the main parameters affect environmental quality about educational buildings are ventilation requirements and daylighting performance depending on the occupancy and occupant schedule. These two parameters are critically discussed and tested with analytic work to understand the possible proposals for improvement of the environmental quality of Istanbul State Secondary Schools.

The dissertation is a refurbishment project for Maltepe State Secondary School in Istanbul, Turkey. During the last days of the academic semester, several fieldwork studies including both quantitative and qualitative data have been included. For the environmental problems observed during fieldwork, analytic studies have been done. As general topics, the analytic work separated into three groups depending on their scale. These are classroom scale, storey scale and additionally faรงade scale. Because of the fact that the project focuses on state secondary schools, there are limitations due to economic status for these buildings.

The project aims to be a design guideline for state secondary schools with combining the environmental awareness and new pedagogies. It has been thought that before educating people about this particular issue, the future will just bring new problems, and there will not be any solutions left.

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Annual Temperature with School Schedule

Simulation showing luxes of Existing Corridor

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Daylight Factor of Existing Corridor

Daylight Factor Existing Classroom

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CO2 Data Logger Results

CO2 Results after Refurbishment Strategies

Refurbishment strategies were involving several proposals to improve the thermal comfort, air quality, visual comfort and energy performance with different scales of the building structure. The reason to divide these proposals was mainly due to consideration of economics for the Building Management. This approach also has relation with the decision of choosing the passive way strategies.

Although it is better explained in the dissertation, during the cold period, thermal comfort and energy performance is mainly driven by the fresh air requirement and the infiltration, which causes the heat losses. Warm period thermal comfort is also related to the occupancy density and inefficient ventilation techniques. For the whole academic period for the state secondary school, visual comfort was not being considered due to having artificial lighting always on.

One of the main lessons this dissertation is aiming that people should adapt to their environment instead of trying to change it. Considering the annual climate context, the necessities and expectations of the School Buildings are changing. Therefore, schools should adapt their environment too and the first way to accomplish this is to teach the inhabitants. Pupils should feel that they are in their second home, and they are responsible for it. However, at the beginning of this equation, architects, educators and building management should come together and decide a road map for the building services and how to introduce them to the pupils.

Basically, pupils should be responsible for their classrooms and also building management should be responsible for the shared areas, like corridors. The proposed School Environment has 2 settings depending on the cold and warm period. Teachers should lead this adaptation to have a better learning-teaching environment and consider the energy performance. The cold period setting is including to close the louvres in the roof for the stack effect ventilation and if it has deemed to be applied, closing the operable double faรงade glazing. Double faรงade glazing and shading devices thought to be on a ray which should be manually operated. These settings should be mainly done by the building management. On the other hand, pupils are responsible for the classroom scale. This means, during the cold period, they should close the night shutter before going out from the school.

Effect of Best Refurbishment Strategies on Heating Loads

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Effect of Infiltration ratios on Heating Losses

Cooling Loads after Refurbishment Strategies

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PERSONAL INTEREST | Photography

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