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ARCHITECTURAL & URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO YAĞMUR KINACI

P R O F I L E

Contact & Info

Phone / +90 (505) 817 6251

e-mail / yagmurkinaci@gmail.com

Address / Izmir, Turkey

Birthday / 29. 04. 1995

Languages/ Turkish native, English B2

I am an architect who likes to take part in design projects of different scales and to produce creative solutions. I am currently completing my master’s degree in urban design at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. I am interested in ecology, physical and social sustainability issues. I like to be involved in social responsibility & volunteering projects.

Urban Design Competition

AKHİSAR OLD MUNICIPAL SQUARE & CLOSE SURROUNDINGS

''Through Traces of Urban Memory''

Professional Architectural & Landscape Design

ALBERTI GARDEN ‘‘Seclusion in the City’’

Architectural Design Studio

COMMUNITY CENTER ‘‘Space for Awareness’’

HABITAT ‘‘Productive Urban’’

Urban Design Studio

DESIGNING THREE BOSPHORUS DISTRICTS

AKHİSAR OLD MUNICIPAL SQUARE & CLOSE SURROUNDINGS

National Architecture and Urban Design Ideas Competition / 2019

Location | Akhisar, Manisa, Turkey

Team | Melis Varkal Gökhan Çelikağ, Nusret Uşun, Yağmur Kınacı, Merve Köz, Aylin Özkan, Dilek Turhan

The area surrounded by the old town hall, Yeni Gülruh Mosque, historical school building, old cinema and central park area, which constituted the most important urban focus of Akhisar until a while ago, lost its former vitality and started to lose its importance in the city. Today, this area loses its feature of being a destination center and functions more as a transit point. The region loses its identity due to vehicle-oriented planning decisions.

''THROUGH TRACES OF URBAN MEMORY''

Potential Unused Public Green Spaces

Proposed Green Belt /Cultural Interface

A green belt to the out-of-use railway

Central Park

Lack of public activity Lost the interest

1.

Pond Popular recreation focus for weekends

/ DISCONNECTED GREEN AREAS & PEDESTRIAN IMPACT AREAS

/ THE FORMATION OF THE MAIN GREEN SPINE

Proposal For a Strong Mass Transportation Ring/ Connects the old settlement of the city with the new urban foci

Vehicle Transportation Ring Around The Historical & Commercial Center/ To alleviate the traffic load, the historical city center is free from transit and pedestrianised.

Collectors/ The center is connected to the periphery ring with 2 vehicle rings in a way to receive the services of the commercial units.

With the proposed project, macro and micro scale strategies have been developed in this area. A new spatial organization was designed by taking Akhisar's existing values, spaces and the relations between these spaces into the focus of the project. In this direction, the Old Municipality Square and its surroundings with the local architectural texture of different periods, historical heritage and covered bazaars are not only for Akhisar; It is intended to be a point of attraction for visitors coming from outside the city as well.

Green Connections & New Green Spaces

/ EXTENSION OF PEDESTRIAN IMPACT AREAS WITH THE GREEN NETWORK

2.

Strategy & Relations Between Urban Focal Points

Green Infrastructure Continuity & Cultural Interface

Transportation

3. Open Space Organization & Socio-Cultural Connections

3. Open Space Design Decisions

It was aimed to increase the visibility of the park with the proposed facade interventions to the exhibition units, seating units and surrounding structures spread throughout the park.

4. Landscape Design Decisions

An approach has been adopted to increase the density of the green fabric, in order to ensure that the monumental structures infiltrating the park can establish a holistic relationship with their immediate surroundings and with each other through the new layer that will make the city's memory visible.

Trees

It was aimed to connect the space used by the tradesmen as a resting area with the central market and other acupuncture points. Seating units for tradesmen and informative exhibition units for tourists were proposed.

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connect the courtyard with other acupuncture points by giving access to the courtyard of Dağcıoğlu Office and to make the production visible with the display elements added to the courtyard.

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Floor Coating Material

Bushes

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1/500

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1/200

FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1/200

BB SECTION 1/200

AA SECTION 1/200

ALBERTI GARDEN ''SECLUSION IN THE CITY''

Professional Architectural & Landscape Design Work for İzmir

Municipality/ OfisVesaire Architecture

Office/ 2022

Location | Buca, İzmir, Turkey

Team | Melis Varkal, Gökhan Çelikağ, Yağmur Kınacı, Merve Hilal Aktaş, Mert Ergin

The project area is a farmhouse land inherited from the Levantine Alberti Family within a dense urban fabric. The land that belongs to the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality is intended to be transformed into an urban agriculture and gastronomy center by the municipality. For this purpose, Ofisvesaire architecture office was asked to develop a proposal project in line with the demands of the municipality.

The Alberti garden is an area with many trees and plants of historical and ecological value within a dense urban fabric. At the same time, there are historical buildings, wells and pools in the area. Different focuses are created by taking these historical elements into account within the design. An experience route has been designed that will take the visitors from the entrance and leave them to different focal points in the green texture. It is proposed to create a sensory garden at the entrance of the area with plant selections that stimulate the senses and are compatible with the existing green texture & identity.

Mastic Tree

The Rocks

FOCAL POINTS

The ancient element, ‘’Old Mastic Tree’’ in the north of the garden

Highlighting ‘‘Gorgeous Rocks’’ in the design

Old Barns

Maintaining the stable structure of Alberti Garden, remembering the past ‘‘Farm Identity’’, with a new function

Old Vine Roots

‘‘The Old Vine Root’’ that has witnessed everything in Alberti Garden from past to present

Old Mansion

A new ‘‘Gastronimic Focus’’ with its structure, terraces and its environment

The Wells

The continuation of the well’s functions and transformation of Wels to symbolic items in the project field

PROGRAM

Entrance

Information, Cafe & Shop

Kösk Restaurant

Olive Oil Making & Taste Workshop

Cooking Workshop

Workshop & Library

Library

Compost Workshop Area

Greenhouse

Event Place

Event Place

Event Place

Vineyard Area on The Trace of Ancient Vine Root

Eating Together at Community

Table

ENTRANCE, CAFE & FOOD SHOP

1. Entrance / As an urban interface, it invites people to Alberti Garden.

2. Digital Interface & Archive / Awesome digital interface provides users large plant inventory in Alberti Garden.

3. Cafe / Serves all seasons, turns into a meeting point for citizens

4. Food Shop / It creates a local market opportunity where the people can contact with local coperatives and make shopping.

Entrance of Aliberti Garden & Digital Interface at The Back

Garden Side of Cafe & Food Shop Spaces

the carbon and water footprint through food supply from urban hinterland

1. İZMİR FOOD NETWORK / Reducing

3. FOOD COOPERATIVES NETWORK AND COMMUNITY

2. FOOD SHOP / FOOD SAFETY OPERATION

5. PLANT PASSPORTS IN THE ALBERTI GARDEN

4. PLANT PASSPORTS OF THE FOODS IN ALBERTI GARDEN’S RESTAURANT

Cafe Area in The Entrance Building

Greenhouse Where Endemic Plant Species Are Grown

KITCHEN/COOKING WORKSHOP

1. Olive Oil Making Workshop / The olive oil obtained from the olive trees, the dominant plant in Alberti Garden.

2. Kitchen & Teaching Stage / The stage area where the chefs cook or share their experiences

3. Cooking Workshop / Learning & Experimental cooking section where students learn from masters

KITCHEN/ COOKING WORKSHOP & RESTAURANT SPACES RELATIONSHIPS

4. Equipment Storage / Storage of all required kitchen equipment

Olive oil making Workshop

Kitchen & Teaching Stage

Cooking Workshop

Equipment Storage

Dry Supply Storage

Dish Washing Area

Cold Storage

GARDENING WORKSHOPS

1. Workshops / Permaculture and agricultural education spaces

3. Library / Hosts the publication collection on agriculture and gastronomy of Alberti Garden

3. Raised Vegetable Beds / Production units where urban people can experience the gardening applications

4. Semi-open Workshop Area / Semi-open area where various workshops on agriculture and permaculture can be made

Gardening Workshop Area

Semi-open Meeting & Resting Amphi of Workshop Areas

Kitchen/ Cooking Workshop Area & Restaurant

Raised Vegetable Beds Semi-open Workshop Area

COMMUNITY CENTER ''SPACE FOR AWARENESS''

Architectural Design Studio Work/ Yasar University/ 2018

Location | Karantina, İzmir, Turkey

The project in the Karantina region, which has an important place in the history of the city, aims to create a social and cultural awareness amoung city people by taking role of physical and social threshold in the context. While it creates the social threshold by revitalizing the collective city memory and connecting the city people to each other, it provides the physical threshold by connecting the defined urban areas.

THRESHOLD IS ...

'' The in-between space that connects or separates different characters. A threshold may cause positive or negative effects to the environment. ''

Karantina District defines a threshold at urban scale with the streets - attached to the main artery (İnönü Avenue)connect upper part of the city directly to the coastline.

The project area has a strategic importance due to having a potential of connecting these streets and huge greenery to the hist.orical area and main commercial axis (Mithatpaşa Avenue)

The existing situation a negative threshold that high rundown apartment buildings seperate the public green & historical zone and interrupt accessibility between upper and lower levels.

The proposed situation; the land is expropriated as a community center and the negative threshold is transformed into the positive threshold by providing accessibility between the levels.

1. Karantina District as Urban Threshold

2. Transforming The ''Negative Threshold'' to ''Positive Threshold''

Existing Site Section / Obstacle Effect

Proposed Site Section / Connector

3. Physical & Social Threshold

M. Yüce Sonkurt Public Park

Huge public greenery in high density urban settlement

Threshold Space

Transformed into a connector space in between the public park and historical area & city square

Historical Area

Historical buildings reminding the city history

Mithatpaşa City Square Public space includes recreational areas, sports fields etc.

I-Discontinuites & Boundaries

II-Continuous Pedestrian Access

Approach by the upper city

Approach by the coastline

III-Green Continuity & Green Terraces exhibition space

IV-Framing the City View -Visual Connectivity

The building terraces are formed as a continuation of the green park at the upper level and connected to the lower green.

The spaces are shaped according to functional requirements and sunlight needs.

The exhibition space located on the top of the building has a panorama view through Karantina district.

This continuous mass at the top, allows to display the city as an exhibition object.

Community Center

SITE PLAN 1/500

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1/500

Governorship

The connectivity idea reflects in the function of the building. The decrease in neighborhood relations in today’s city, isolation amoung the city people and the disappearance of the collective city memory form the basis of ‘‘Awareness’’ idea. The function of building aims to connect citizens to each other, provide communication and sharing environment to make people aware of each other and the city they live in. The social connectivity mission of the building provides a social threshold.

‘’ The space that seeks public profit ’’

Fire Stairs & Elevators

Exterior Circulation

Interior Circulation

Mithatpaşa Vocational High School

Mithatpaşa City Square

Mehmet Yüce Sonkurt Public Park

Gulf of İzmir

Karantina Turkish Bath

Hamidiye Mosque

The large volumes are placed at the bottom of the building. Thus, the form which gains freedom of movement in the upper elevations can become more fragmented and dynamic. The exhibition area as a continous mass is placed on the top of the building which also exhibits the city as an exhibition object.

Section CC

HABITAT / URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT

''PRODUCTIVE URBAN''

Exhibition Award/ MimED Competition

Architectural Design Studio Work/ Yasar University/ 2018

Location | Üçyol, İzmir, Turkey

Team | Aslı Yavaş, Sinem Kocabaş, Yağmur Kınacı

The project aims to create a living environment with a productive urban green. Habitat scenario is created by a fiction through production & consumption cycle. Active green with the production creates an urban identity and helps the community building. The term ‘’Habitat’’ is not reduced to only housing and it is defined as an integrated space includes set of functions and elements that human beings need for life. The public welfare is considered by satisfying the inadequate public space and greenery need in the high density urban environment.

IS AN ALTERNATIVE URBAN SCENERIO POSSIBLE ?

''PRODUCTIVE URBAN''

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

As a macro scale decision, it is proposed a scenario of green identity to Yağhaneler region, trapped between the 3 main arteries in the city. It is foreseen to connect these three axes with each other through this urban green in the future. Productive Habitat is considered as the first step of this fiction.

PRODUCTION - CONSUMPTION CYCLE

The order based on consumer action in urban habitats leads people to individualization and competition. The production action emerges as a powerful concept provides cooperation between people and build a community in the alternative habitat scenerio. In more sustainable habitat model , production consumption cycle is achieved thanks to the active green areas with production.

URBAN

EXISTING SITUATION

Problems / Discontinuities & Interruption on urban floor

Unbalanced distribution of functions

Zoning & Lack of interaction between functions

Impermeable urban areas

Lack of social interaction

Consumption edicted habitat

PROJECT FOCUSES & ROUTES

Platform Route

Commercial Route

Project’s focal points are defined around the green spine.

PROPOSED PROGRAM

/ Ground Floor Uses

Educational Bazaar

Sport Cultural Housing

Commercial

Responses / Continuities on urban floor

Balanced distribution of functions

Interactive functions

Permeable urban areas

Diversity of social interaction

Ensuring production - consumption cycle

RE-ORGANIZED PROGRAM & MASS

The program elements are integrated to the platform.

The platforms,

As the positive spaces around green spine, generates the enclosed spaces and connects the functions.

The platforms

Creates the social, performance and observation areas.

Commercial spaces

Shops are located under the platforms at urban ground level and spread homogenously to the site while balancing the pedestrian density.

The public bazaar

Contributes to the production & consumption cycle with the kermis area, active green spaces and food-bevarage commercials beneath the platforms.

HOUSING DESIGN

The housing layout scheme is designed perpendicularly to the green spine to maximize the green areas instead of a parallel scheme and completely permeable to allow access to the urban garden.

The housing units are connected with a social platform that serves to the apartment residents with social facilities and gives a possibility to observing green areas.

Street Continuity & Permeability/ Streets open to the urban gardens.

Street References

NEIGBOURHOOD

HOUSING UNITS

URBAN GARDEN

Habitat

Active Greenery & Commercial Spaces Underneath the Urban Platforms GROUND PLAN 1/500

THREE

BOSPHORUS DISTRICTS: DESIGNING KUZGUNCUK, BEYLERBEYİ & ÇENGELKÖY

''IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN RHYTHM''

Urban Design Studio Work / Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University/ 2021

Location | İstanbul, Turkey

The main theme of the Urban Design Studio course is the concept of "rhythm". The book titled "Rhythmanalysis Space, Time and daily Life" compiled from the writings of Henri Lefébvre, a French sociologist, intellectual and philosopher, are based on. Deep readings and discussions were made on rhythms in daily life & urban space and it was tried to discover how these rhythms can guide urban design.

Cities, which are a complex structure, contain many rhythm layers. In this respect, cities are polyrhythmic spaces. According to Lefébvre, daily life rhythms and spatial rhythms differ according to the local framework, and these rhythm layers together shape daily life in the city and determine its identity.

By overlapping the rhythm and transportation maps, it is seen that there is a strong connection between the rhythm centers and the transportation system. The areas where socio-cultural & spatial rhythms are concentrated show parallelism with each other. The areas where all the rhythms are most intense are the coastal regions. This proved that the sea (a natural rhythm) has a strong effect on the rhythms in Istanbul.

İstanbul Socio-Cultural Rhythm Analysis/

Lefébvre's Rhythm Formation;

Repetition, Motion/Feel of Motion & Measure

According to this; The concept of rhythm can be defined as sth. that creates a sense of motion, repeats cyclically or linearly in a noticeable measure.

Motion/ Feel of Motion

Repetition (cyclically or linearly) Measure

Urban Rhythm Layers

Social Rhythms

Events, activities, actions that occur in a certain pattern and time period.

İstanbul Spatial Rhythm Analysis/

- Tourist groups standing in the same spot, mothers dropping off children to school, skaters meeting at certain times, shops opening and closing at certain times, weekly shows, etc.

Cultural Rhythms

Gestures, codes, rituals, customs-traditions practiced by a particular group.

- Students wearing school uniforms, people wearing suits, walking community dressed in religious/ethnic clothes, religious rituals, festivals, political rituals, ceremonies etc.

Natural / Cyclic Rhythms

It is the cyclical changes of nature.

- Day-night formation, seasons, weather, etc.

Dynamic Spatial Rhythms

Objects or bodies that move at a certain speed and pattern in space.

- The flow, speed, trajectory, density, etc. of cars or people in the space.

Static Spatial Rhythms

A repetitive or harmonious arrangement of objects and surfaces in a space. (Rhythm is perceived from the eye of the moving observer)

- Repetition of colors or elements on building facades and floors

- Repetition of shops, houses or restaurants

Settlement

- Morphological

Change of Socio-Cultural and Spatial Rhythms in the Coastline

Static Spatial Rhythm

Dynamic Spatial Rhythm

Socio-cultural Rhythm

Social Rhythms

Cultural

Static Spatial Rhythms

Marine Oriented

Natural Rhythm

Green Oriented

Natural Rhythm

Neighbourhood

Active Greenery

Passive Greenery

Cemetery Greenery

Greenery Oriented

Natural Rhythm Focus

Marine Oriented

Natural Rhythm Focus

CONCEPT DECISIONS

1) Increasing Accessibility Between Rhythm Focal Points // Continuous and safe sidewalk & bike path along the coastal road by regulating rhythm contradiction areas and removing obstacles that interrupt the paths

2) Strengthening Relationships with Natural Rhythms // Strengthening the relations of Bosphorus districts with natural rhythms by intervening in physical conditions such as making floating walking/watch platforms, efficient use of existing green and transformation of parking areas into recreational green areas.

DEFINITIONS//

Rhythm Contraction: Excessive concentration of rhythms and occurrence of rhythm conflicts & overlaps

Rhythm Relief: Decreased rhythm intensity/speed, no rhythm conflicts, and relaxation in the experiencer's perception

Rhythm Interruption: The interruption of rhythms and almost non-existence. This interruption may be due to physical disconnection, a spatial condition, or dysfunction.

Hard Rhythm Transition: A sudden transition between areas where the rhythms are very intense and lacking rhythms

Smooth Rhythm Transition: Gradual and slow transition between rhythms of different intensity and nature

SYNTHESIS

// Zone 3 is selected for further detailed work.

3) Arrangement of Rhythm Interruption Areas // Restarting rhythm cycles through physical interventions and redefining functions in places such as parking lots and dysfunctional streets in historic centers

4) Balancing Areas with Rhythm Contraction // Regulating rhythms with physical interventions such as facade & street arrangements, spreading rhythms to interior areas with traffic arrangements where rhythms are over-condensed and contracted.

5) Arrangement of Rhythm Transitions // Protection and increase of rhythm relief axes. Conversion of hard rhythm transitions to smooth transitions

6) Providing Function and Use Diversity // Creating function and usage diversity in rhythm focal areas by using modular or temporary structures, shading units, urban furniture and installations.

CONCEPT

Socio-cultural Rhythms

Static Spatial Rhythms

Dynamic Spatial Rhythms

Neighborhood Boundaries

Active Green Spaces

Passive Green Spaces

Cemetery Green Fields

Greenery Oriented Natural Rhythm

Marine Oriented Natural Rhythm

Rhythm Contraction Zone

Rhythm Relief Zone

Rhythm Interruption Area

Hard Rhythm Transition Area

High-Paced Rhythm

Continuity Axis

Rhythm Relief Axis

Break in Rhythm Transition/ Interruption Axle

Soft Rhythm Transition Axis

Marine Oriented Natural Rhythm Intervention Area

Greenery Oriented Natural Rhythm Intervention Area

The Region to Create Rhythm Relief

Rhythm Interruption

Intervention Area

Continuous Pedestrian & Bike Path

Rhythm Contraction Zone to Reduce Rhythm

Region to Increase Rhythm

Axis to Create Rhythm Harmony

Presevation and enhancement of rhythm relief axes

Preserved High Rhythm

Continuity Axis

Preserved and Added Smooth Rhythm Transition Axis

Rhythm Focuses to Create Function Diversity

SITE PLAN 1/1000

Integral Flooring Around the Pier Square

Observation Deck and Walkable Floating Platform

Semi-Open Parts of Cafes & Restaurants

Preserved Floor Tiles

Parklets

Pedestrian Crossings

Passive Greenery (No Public Access)

Public Greenery

Car Park

Vehicle Roads

Bus & Car Pocket

Bike Path

Car Park

Entrances

Bus Stops

Bicycle Parking Area

Vehicle - Bike Shared Road

Shading Elements and Urban Furniture Designs

SITE PLAN 1/500

Integral Flooring Around the Pier Square

Observation Deck and Walkable Floating Platform

Semi-Open Parts of Cafes & Restaurants

Preserved Floor Tiles

Parklets

Pedestrian Crossings

Passive Greenery (No Public Access)

Public Greenery

Car Park Vehicle Roads

Bus & Car Pocket

Bike Path

Street interventions

Car Park

Entrances

Bus Stops

Bicycle Parking Area

Shading Elements and Urban Furniture Designs

The Current Situation

Beylerbeyi Pier Square

Commercial Areas Associated with the Main Street

Cafes & Restaurants Associated with Side Streets and Coast

Proposal

Light Structures Of The Cafe That Cuts The Connection With The Sea

Eating and Drinking Places Unrelated & Isolated with the Street

Religious & Cultural Facility

Rhythm-Maintained Streets / No intervention required.

Areas Targeted to Increase the Rhythm and Usage Value

Street Entrances Currently Used to Access the Pier Square

Entries Targeted to Activate in Access to Pier Square

Beylerbeyi Pier Square & It's Surrounding

Urban Furnitures

Diversified Urban Furniture Units Different combination of urban furniture units and their use in different ways

Shading Units and Floor Tiles

Shading Elements Water Harvesting and Irrigation Scheme

Hamid-i Evvel Mosque

Boat Pier

Pier Square Shading Units of Cafes

Street Arrangements

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Due to the lack of rhythm in the street with deaf walls, it was aimed to increase the rhythm of the street by suggesting urban

furniture designs, urban installation and exhibition at the entrance and exit of the street.

Reducing the vehicle road and parking lot lanes and using them as a bicycle path and parklet.

Current Situation Yalıboyu Avenue Section

// Proposal Yalıboyu Avenue Section

Facade arrangements and street interventions