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Symbiosis Archive of interconnected relationships
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4th edition Selected works between 2019-2023
Tugce Topada
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symbiosis: archive of interconnected relationships
[Symbiosis] is a type of relationship in which living creatures participating in a relationship benefit. We are going to live in hybrid environments where we need to consider superpositions and neighbouring principles more than ever in the age of augmentation. Thus, figuring symbiotic relations throughout the design process reveals new possibilities and hybrid relationships within space between the material/immaterial//living agents.
Projects
2023
R&D
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Hybrid-Space:
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Spolia Botanique:
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Augustus:
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Therapeutic Landscapes
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save the quarry!
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The DataBath:
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A Heterogeneous City
Immersive Botanical Experience
An Augmented Promenade in Medieval Paris
Academic
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A Therapy Center for curing with
A Revival for an Ancient Quarry
Archive Through Water
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Other works
VIII. Weekly 3D Journals
Paris: The City of Protests Underground Occupation
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Hi! I’m Tugce. During my education, I have experienced different fields which have brought me an ability to connect science, technology, design and architecture in my practice and increased my adaptability to new areas of knowledge. I’m enthusiastic about learning, experimenting and making processes. I believe design is an action that spans the process which changes with time.
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Today, I trace two different worlds [virtual and real] which hybridizes, borders blur, and search in their endless environments. I enjoy visualisation and graphic design, I strongly believe the medium is inseparable from the thought it presents.
Personal Information
she/
Birthdate Current city Hometown
- is into Photogrammetry - likes experimenting with AR, VR, CGI - likes 3D digital space and modeling - dreams designing for hybrid reality in public space in future.
30/05/1998 Milan, Italy Marmaris, Turkey
Contact Mobile Mail Linkedln Adress
+39 379 1895626 tugcetopada@gmail.com
tuğçe-topada-8695b2141 Via Privata Bellinzona 21, 20155 Milan/
Education 2023-
Politecnico di Milano Master’s of Digital and Interactive Design
2016-23
Istanbul Technical University Bachelor’s of Architecture
GPA: 3.43/4.00 [Honours list]
2017-18
Mugla Sıtkı Kocman University Bachelor’s of Medicine
2014-16
Mugla 75. Yıl Science High School
2012-14
Mugla Anadolu Ogretmen High School
2006-12
First Ranked Student
Ahu Hetman Primary School
First Ranked Student
Experience 2023 May 2023 July
Activities Ferrier Marchetti Studio [Paris, FR]
2018
CMAS Diving
2022 Sep 2023 May
Comet Lab [Paris, FR]
2011
2022 Aug
Iki Yapıt Construction Co. Ltd. [Istanbul, TR]
Turkish National Youth Team Camp
Architecture Intern
Construction Site Intern
2022 Dec 2023 Aug 2019 May 2019 Sep
2010
Friendly Local Guides [Paris, FR]
Lifeguard & Swimming trainer
2018 Sep 2019 May
Selected Attendee
Turkish Junior Swimming Championship
4th place in 50 mt
Tourist Guide
Work and Travel Student Program [Maryland, USA] Aquasafe Pool Management, Inc.
Butterfly
2006 2012
Marmaris Swimming Club
Licensed swimmer
MSM Swimming Club
Swimming instructor
Digital Skills
2023 Nov
Modelling
Cinema4d Rhinoceros Blender Autocad
Adobe
Illustrator Photoshop Indesign Premiere After Effects Substance
Render
Octane Vray
“Unlock the Book” Workshop Participant
ARKITERA Travel Scholarship Competition Scholarship winner
2022 July
46th Yahsibey Design Workshop [Izmir, TR] Selected Attendee
2022 May
2021 Aug
Architects’ Association 1927 - “New Media” Photography Contest
Park @ parch Internship&Workshop Program [Istanbul, TR]
Selected Attendee
IELTS 7.5 A2 Native Speaker
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Languages English Italian Turkish
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Awards & Workshops
2022 Dec
2023
Architecture Intern
1 star Diver
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Hybrid-Space
A Heterogeneous City
Individual work
Competition
summer 2023
Keywords urban space, augmentation, storytelling, critical future, virtual reality, augmented reality, hybridism
Sponsored by Arkitera & GEBERIT When? Summer 2023 Where? Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid
Project Description
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Hybrid-space, is an in-between realm between physical and digital environment, offering a critical approach to the excitement of discovering the city of one’s memories or having an idea of what an upgraded city of the future will look like. In scope of the project, everyday objects, livings, and urban landscapes are scanned in three cities of Spain -Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona to imagine public space of future cities .
hybrid space
“Hybrid-Space” project rewarded with Arkitera Travel Scholarship Competition in 2023 for covering all expenses of trip to Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid which is supported by GEBERIT. fig. 1. 01
Hybrid space 3D collage
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Digital Barcelona
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Through the synthesis of these tangible elements into spatial 3D collages, the project seeks to re-imagine spatial configurations and unveil novel city scenes that blur the boundaries between the physical and the digital world.
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3D scans reveal movement and temporal context during the scanning process, often accompanied by distortions. In areas where machine algorithms struggle to interpret data, new volumetric relationships emerge. Similar to Gordon Matta-Clark’s approach of perforating buildings to unveil new possibilities in construction, the act of scanning transcends into a realm where space, time, and bodily connections converge.
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Mercado
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hybrid space
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Spolia Botanique Immersive Botanical Experience
fall 2022-23
Keywords urban habitat, augmentation, interaction, virtual botany, archive, immersive Project Type AR Application With Comet Lab When? Fall 2022-2023 Where? Paris, France
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Project Desciription Spolia botanique seeks to explore alternative botanodigital scenarios for future urban habitats. It aims to offer online and mobile experiences to initate a global collaboration for building augmented promenades and fluorescent urbanscapes drawn by the aromatic vibrations of a chlorophyllous renaissance. My role I was responsible for scanning in the site, cleaning the data, cataloging and anchoring the models in augmented reality, preparing visualisations&animations of 3D digital models, recomposing digital gardens and experimenting immersive experience in physical environment including sounds.
*This project is supported by French Ministry of Culture and Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire and ENSAPB.
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Virtual Garden: “Echinacea Dreams”
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Process diagram of Spolia Botanique
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spolia botanique
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Augustus
An Augmented Promenade in Medieval Paris fall 2022-23
Keywords urban space, city walls, augmentation, augmented reality, interactive city Project Type AR Application With Comet Lab When? Fall 2022-2023 Where? Paris, France
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Project Description Augustus is a research project for the development of a mobile app that offers an “augmented promenade” along the life-size virtual reconstruction of the Wall of Phillippe Augustus in Paris. The app lets the users visualise in augmented reality the medieval wall, of which only a few fragments left in the dense urban fabric of the city. A hybrid urban space is formed by resuscitating and superposing in 3D fragments of medieval Paris over the contemporary space. My role I was responsible for scanning the remainant walls and placing 3D anchors on the site using Reality Capture and ARkit programs.
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AR experience of “Augustus”
augustus
Collabration with Ausser Laboratory & Éditions la Commune
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I was involved in the project in the stages of scanning and superposing. I was responsible for deploying on-site digital anchors utilizing applications ARkit and Reality Composer. I facilitated the seamless integration of digital models within the physical environment. *The images are taken from the dreampixels.com You can also reach the details from this website.
Project Augustus process diagram
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augustus
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A holistic medicine center that put users into various actions, reminding that the future is in the soil with the gardens and bostans it contains, and showing that taking care is as just much about giving care of one self’s or other.
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Therapeutic Landscapes a garden for caring: curing with
Keywords Care, urban garden, holistic medicine, critical future
spring 2021-22
Individual work
Project Type Diploma Project Studio 8 Tutors Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aslıhan Senel Assoc. Prof. Dr. Funda Uz et.al When? Spring 2021-2022 Istanbul Technical University Where? Yedikule, Istanbul
Therapeutic Landscapes
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Project Description A holistic medicine center that put users into various actions, reminding that the future is in the soil with the gardens and bostans it contains, and showing that taking care Individual is as justwork much about giving care of one self’s or other. Keywords care, urban gardening, city walls Diploma Project a garden for caring: curing with Tutors Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aslıhan Senel Assoc. Prof. Dr. Funda Uz et.al
Where? Yedikule, Istanbul
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Axonometric view of Therapeutic Landscapes
therapeutic landscapes
When? Spring 2021-2022 Istanbul Technical University
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Mapping
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spring 2021-22
The project uses miniature as a narrative tool, transitions from its 2D realm to the 3D space during the early design phase.
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Physical model
therapeutic landscapes
The physician-patient relationship, which declined after the neoliberal change in health, caused modern medicine to move away from its holism. Although the increase in suppressive drug therapy has made progress in the treatment of acute diseases, it is seen that it is insufficient in the treatment of chronic diseases that can be last for years. Therapeutic Landscapes is a holistic medicine center where people giving care to taking care.
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Therapeutic Landscapes have different parts triggering hormones of the human body. A person can rest or sleep in sweet dreamscape[secreting melatonin+] after doing sports in sports pharmacy [secreting dopamine++] and later, could go to public bath to get rid of the toxins in the body. Habitants can socialize in collective kitchens in eat well hub [endorphine+] or friendship center [endorphine++].
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therapeutic landscapes
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save the quarry!
rural and future: voices from countryside fall 2021-22
Keywords material innovation, resilience, sustainability, participatory, generative design Individual work Project Type Architectural Studio Project 7 Tutors Prof. Dr. Ayse Senturer Asst. Yesim Armagan When? Fall 2021-2022 Istanbul Technical University Where? Asagidagdere, Denizli (Turkiye)
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Project Description A school searching for new materials and provoking production without destruction built in an ancient travertine quarry by Asagidagdere village.
save the quarry!
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Axonometric view of “save the quarry!”
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Mapping
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Travertine Quarry & Protocell
When the demolition in the mines is over, the habitants of the village start to build a school for the next generations. The school is aimed for material research on regenerative material called protocell that will be grown over the years and stop abuse of natural sources.
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The travertine quarry in Asagidagdere village, which played an important role in the construction of the city of Laodekia still continues to operate and creating an articulated topography in Menderes. The travertines are continued to be removed today, affecting groundwater, and water level in the doline which decreases day by day. The marble quarry on the Kelkaya hill, which is located alongside of the village, causes stones falling down on the village by explosions during mining.
Phases
Phase 1 Villagers and children built up modular units of village institute. Against earthquake and slope slipping, the modular units were supported by a skeletal structure on feet.
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Phase 2 Protocell agents are integrated into structure. They begin to undergo mineral carbonation to form the shell fed by the vessels//pipes are attached along the structure.
Phase 3 Erosion of calcium carbonate shell formations due to changing climate conditions and movements.
Phase 4 Continuous build up and erosion happens with geometric recursion.
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The evolution of protocells
A Living Material: Protocell
fall 2021-22
Protocells are synthetic cells growed in laboratory that mimics living cells by moving independently. Pre-protocells forms populations and they can secrete solid precipitates like calcium-carbonates that constitutes limestone which is a close relative of travertine.
In 2050, regarding the high CO2 emission of the industrial zone and the concrete factory located close by, protocell agents will be articulated here to produce the limestone, by emitting CO2.
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Stages of the generation
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fig. 16. 01 The protocell infiltrates the structure in progress and travertine, providing a free and playful circulation. In some of the enhancing children to learn in a organic place.
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areas, it creates the space itself while
fig. 16. 02 The protocell structures that develop in the time, produce a play topography for children. While there are pools formed in pitted areas, tufa structures enables children to experience different sounds due to reflection.
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Exploded View
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Exploded axonometric view of the school
Canopy Protocell agents knit structure to protect it from worse climatic conditions. fall 2021-22
Mineral Tower Towers formed by layers that accumulate over the years by mineral carbonation. Protocells goes down below to the underground with the attraction of the water in the pores of the travertine. It gives the opportunity to research in the underground spaces where there is groundwater.
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Playscape Creating a new topography on a flat ground of the quarry, which giving children the experience of a semi-open playground.
Pillow
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Secreting along the surrounding the structure with mineral carbonation control the temperature of the environment.
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The DataBath
Archive as an intellectual commons
Keywords archive, entropy, energy exchange, symbiosis, data center, water
fall 2020-21
Individual work
Project Type Architectural Studio Project 5 Tutors: Assoc. Prof. Meltem Aksoy When? Fall 2020-2021 Istanbul Technical University Where? Cibali, İstanbul
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Project Description The storage memory of intertwined network in Cibali turns into a symbiotic synthesis between a bath where people gather and a data center archiving collective memory of the internet.
the databath
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Axonometric view of “save the quarry!”
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Mapping
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A Data Center & A Bath
- Rem Koolhaas What and how could be archived in Cibali, Haliç where warehouses and storage are prominent in the time of 21st century? Thus, not only to remember the forgotten, but also to create new organic relations in urban area, a new public bath, which is in the place of demolished Ottoman Bath [Bostan Hamamı] would create a symbiosis with data center by using water.
the databath
“At a moment, when our collective history is digital, the data center is becoming one of our most significant cultural typologies.”
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Symbiosis
Transmission
The DataBath joins the infrastructure of the city by establishing a symbiotic relationship between the data center and a public bath.
The traditional data centers are generally located outside of the cities, placing its racks to large widths horizontally in order to lower the heat energy by volume. Although, DataBath does not need that high volumes due to heat circulation via water and new layout proposed for data racks; vertical stacking instead of horizontal which results in better integration in the future cities through its symbiosm.
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Space
fall 2020-21
Cold water from the bath comes to the data center, it goes up through the pipes on the façade and passes down through the veins of hot tube which chills the data circuits while it is warming up. Soon after, heated water is transmitted back to the bath through the underground pipes for public use.
fig. 20. 01 Circulation is made through bridges with spiral stairs for technicians in data center. There are air conditioning at the end of each corridor. Hot tubes hold the data racks. The cables coming out of the racks are clustered together in the tubes. These clusters are sealed with waterproof material. 20 the databath
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fig. 21. 01 The circulation is designed like a snail shell spiral in order to protect the privacy until one reach the last part. “Göbektasi” [central platform] and “Kurna” [basins of a bath] which are important parts of the Ottoman bath culture, kept alive as an idea and reinterpreted.
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Exploded view of The DataBath
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Public Space Series - The City of Protests - Underground Occupation 2023
Keywords Photogrammetry, virtual memory, 3d collage Project Type Immersive experience Project Description “Can someone venture into my dreams, see what I see in life?” I ventured into public spaces throughout Paris, collecting scans and documenting my experiences in weekly journals presented as 3D collages. The purpose was to provide others with a means to explore the city through my perspective or imaginative lens. This endeavor raises inquiries into the implications of city ‘augmentation,’ examining which elements will be accentuated and which might be omitted.
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Paris: Underground Occupation
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Paris: The City of Protests A strange week. Universities are closed. Transportation continues to be disrupted. The garbage collector's union has organized and stopped cleaning the streets, so the streets are full of trash islands. I just saw two mice running into the dumpster. Walking the streets is like living in an apocalyptic world. People are going on strike for weeks for their future. (...) I wanted to rent a bike today, but some stations were closed due to the protests, people were racing each other to take a bike. (...) Pigeons walk more than fly in this city. Fortunately, digital pigeons do not die. (Paris, 20.03-26.03.2023)
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Paris: Underground Occupation
(Paris, 31.03-7.04.2023)
public space series
It has been a week that I use the subway more, I realized that I did not miss the smell of it. And the train continues to not move. Finally, I gave up and got off the subway. An unexpected bike ride around the Seine on a cold day started to picture the map of the city in my head. This week, someone important to me came to visit me. Seeing the city with her is something else. (…) Truly, I don’t like the combination of cherry blossoms and rain. We pass through the underground labyrinths and get on the subway again. After considerable time spent underground, I want to teleport home from the subway. (…) It is lovely to see my plant growing wildly at home. One day it will grow big enough to envelop the whole city.
symbiosis: archive of interconnected relationships
Selected works between 2019 - 2023
Created with fun by Tugce Topada
For contact tugcetopada@gmail.com