PORTFOLIO
YAGMUR ARABACI
yagmur arabaci
Msc Student in Architecture
Turin, Italy
+39 3477503875
yagmurarabaci99@gmail.com
I am currently a student nishing my Master’s Degree in Architecture, Construction and City. I attended Politecnico di Torino both for my Bachelor’s and Masters degrees. During my education, I experienced di erent areas of architecture such as construction, interior design, sustainability, and urbanism.
I am a person passionate about design, new ideas, interior and lighting design, and someone hardworking, ambitious, and good at teamwork. I believe my cultural background, ve years of living in Italy, summer schools in the USA, internships in di erent countries and my travels are the essence of my creative, active, and extrovert personality and widened my design approach and knowledge in design and architecture.
TECHNICAL SKILLS AUTOCAD
REVIT
ILLUSTRATOR
PHOTOSHOP
INDESIGN
LUMION
ARCHICAD OFFICE
RHINOCEROS
TWINMOTION
VRAY / ENSCAPE
ADOBE XD
EDUCATION
Politecnico di Torino
MSc in Architecture Construction & City 2022 - Present
Politecnico di Torino
BSc Architecture 2019 - 2022
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NOVEMBRE STUDIO
Milan, Italy
Internship
- Interior design projects : Children’s Hospital
June - Sep 2024
-Architectural Projects : Prison Renovation into Hotel, Design Museum in Langhe
-Stage Design : Sphera Milan concert
Istanbul Bilgi University
BSc Architecture 2017 - 2019
LAU ARCHITEKTUR August 2023
Bonn, Germany
Internship
St. Paul Preparatory School
High School Double Degree Program 2014 - 2015
- Improved new software skills in ARCHICAD and Twinmotion
- Contributed to residential ongoing projects around the city of Cologne
- Learned about German building regulations
LANGUAGES
SASI STUDIOS
London, Remote
Internship
- Rhinoceros 3D Modeling
- Taking part in interior design projects
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
ERGINOGLU & CALISLAR ARCHITECTURE Aug - Sep 2022
Istanbul, Turkey
Internship
- Autocad and InDesign
- Contributing to ongoing projects for different clients
- Experiencing actual client meetings
- Managing office website, using InDesign and Illustrator
COFFEE SHOP PRIVATE VILLAS
dence to be like a campus this is why in each building in the ground floor not only the amenities for the students living there but also some other functions for the people that walk throught the passages and the spaces created by the buildings using the Mat Building strategy.
STUDENT HOUSING 06 HOTEL ROOM INTERIOR
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BELVEDERE
The idea for the belvedere is to create a building in relationship with the context around it. Its architecture wants to recall the di erent shapes of the houses in the site by stacking them one on top of the other. The boxes generate areas for an exhibition of art, while climbing up to the city wall. Those boxes are covered with a variety of cladding, such as vertical or horizontal wooden elements, full panel walls, green walls, etc.
To maintain the relationship with the context, on the ground oor, the project includes di erent pergolas and benches to provide a green space where people can meet. While all the structure is very regular and orthogonal, on the top, the belvedere space is rotated to better see the Dabaoen Temple. This area also recalls the shape of a telescope, as if the structure was suggesting the main direction to look at.
The façades of the Belvedere are treated di erently from the bottom part of the building. It has many irregular windows from which it is possible to see di erent part of the skyline of the city. From the top of the city wall, it is possible to enter the building and visit the co ee shop on that level, it has both a sitting space inside and outside, on a covered terrace. The building can be seen also during the night thanks to the super cial lights placed on the full panel walls, creating a game of light coming both from inside the building and from those wall panels.
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PRIVATE VILLAS 02
This is a residential project proposal enclave of 12 luxurious and adjacent villas designed for modern living. Each villa boasts pristine white concrete exteriors adorned with warm wood panel details, seamlessly blending sophistication with nature. Residents enjoy the privacy of individual parking lots, private swimming pools, and landscaped gardens, creating an oasis of tranquility.
COFFEE SHOP
This project is an interior design proposal for a contemporary co ee shop with the seamless blend of industrial chic and cozy elegance. Some interior walla are adorned with textured stone nishes, invoking a sense of coziness and tranquility. Soft, blush pink accents punctuate the space, adding a touch of warmth and sophistication.
YOUTH AND SOCIAL CENTER
This is an urban redevelopment project based in Turin, Italy in the abondoned tobacco factory ; “Ex Manufattura Tabacchi”. The abondened buildings and the surroundings of it were facing the city on one side and the river on the other. The project was about re-functionalizing those buildings and creating di erent yet connected spaces and functions for the public use and to cultivate the cultural and social activities for the area and the city itself. The site and buildings were individually analyzed and re-invented in the best and suitable way possible for the site. Some of the buildings were destructed in order to serve the purpose of the new functions; which are the renovated archive building, a building dedicated for music and theatre with courses, classes and a performance hall and another one turned into a cooking school. Buildings closer to the park and the river are developed into social areas for activities such as restaurants, bars and co e shops.
Pedestrian roads illustration
This part of the porject is based on a factory building which was right in the middle of the green area where in this urban project we shaped the whole site into a Youth and Social Center. This building is partially demolished and designed as a main gathering space inside the park with restaurants and bars for social acitivities.
STUDENT HOUSING
This project is based on an underdeveloped part of Turin, where the former train station used to be. The main idea is to analyse the city and its blocks and combine it with a parametric, new design approach into the area’s new urban development. Some part of the buildings in the site were transitioned into new residencial buildings while a student housing for university students were designed with the parametric design approach, as the voronoi design is interpreted into the plan of the site. While this new urban- residential site o ers the continuation of the tranquility in the neighborhood, iintroduces new social and commercial spaces with the new campus zone and the green space which was used as a bu erzone in between the new/old neighborhood and the cemetery.
FINAL DECISIONS
RELATION BETWEEN BUILDING AREA AND PUBLIC SPACES
We use a Grid 5x5 in the resulting space from the voronoi pattern, that way the buildings can be oganize.
The Mat-Building approach has its origin in idea or organization with a grid, by adapting the grid to the inmediate circunstances, then choosing the empty spaces, and extruding the towers for the apartments and nally adjusting the ground oor to the grid, that way evading uninhabitable spaces.
Mat Building
We proposed for the studnet resident portion to work with the Mat building strategy as a new approach to our knowing that we wanted to work with a grid and that we needed something a bit more playfull understanding the of the buildings and he idea of campus, that way the students can enjoy the inside and also the outside of the site.
Courtyard Block
Having the opportunity to analize not only the surroundings but also the whole city we understood as a general aspect that the most common tipology of block for residential use was the couryard building, our aproach is affected by the resulting path created by Our approach with the voronoi pattern.
Type 1
Complete Block Accessibility: Medium
CONSIDERATIONS FROM THE SITE
BUILDING AREA
COMPUTATIONAL DESING APPROACH
MAIN PEDESTRIAN PATH
RESULTING VORONOI PATTERN FOR GREEN AREAS
The combination of computational design and the site analysis led to this design choice
BUILDING PLACEMENT
Then we manage to seprate the grid from the voronoi pattern by the creation of a pedestrian path along the whole project.
STUDENT HOUSING
Student residences designed to be like a campus that’s why in each building, the ground floors are designed for common usage for students whereas some designed to have features for public use such as gym, supermarket, cafe etc.
After taht we created path in between the grid to connect the main pedestrian path and the public space with the building area and the rest of the site.
We proposed for the studnet resident portion to work with the Mat building strategy as a new approach to our site, knowing that we wanted to work with a grid and that we needed something a bit more playfull understanding the use of the buildings and he idea of campus, that way the students can enjoy the inside and also the outside of the site.
Courtyard Block
Having the opportunity to analize not only the surroundings but also the whole city we understood as a general aspect that the most common tipology of block for residential use was the couryard building, our aproach is affected by the resulting path created by Our approach with the voronoi pattern.
Type 1
Complete
Block
Accessibility: Medium
CHOSEN PART INTERIOR SPACES
As we have said before, we want our student residence to be like a campus this is why in each building in the ground floor not only the amenities for the students living there but also some other functions for the people that walk throught the passages and the spaces created by the buildings using the Mat Building strategy.
CHOSEN PART
INTERIOR SPACES
As we have said before, we want our student residence to be like a campus this is why in each building in the ground floor not only the amenities for the students living there but also some other functions for the people that walk throught the passages and the spaces created by the buildings using the Mat Building strategy.
INTERIOR SPACES
we have said before, we want our student residence to be like a campus this is why in each builin the ground floor not only the amenities for students living there but also some other funcfor the people that walk throught the passaand the spaces created by the buildings using Mat Building strategy.
HOTEL ROOM INTERIOR
This project is an interior design proposal for the rooms of a contemporary city hotel by the sea. The proposal for the hotel's rooms blends contemporary aesthetics with a soothing beige palette, creating a serene retreat. Soft hues dominate the space, complemented by minimalist furnishings and thoughtful textures. Plush bedding and smart storage solutions ensure comfort and functionality.
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