INTRODUCTION
CONCEPTIONS + WORK EXPERIENCE
THESIS
ORGANISATIONS
Relational Architecture
Collaborator as Architect Stagier
Conception Project
Internship focusing on furniture design and production
Creative Director and Conception
Diploma Thesis Undergraduate Thesis
Programme Head of the Workshop in İzmir, Turkey in collaboration with Architectural Association
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Architecte Stagiaire
- 2024 January - August
Worked as ‘architecte stagiaire’ in Brussels, experience in competitions and private projects in various scales.
Design and Creative Consultant
- 2022 September - present part time job
Programme Head
- 2022 Aug - present
Design and Conception Consultant
- 2022 Nov - 2023 Jan
Co-founder
- 2019 Dec - 2020 Jan
RIBA part II
- 2022 Jun - 2020 Sep
RIBA part I
- 2019 Jun - 2018 Sep
- 2018 Jun - 2017 Sep
Gokdeniz Apartmani, Istanbul
Currently working part time in an architectural project in historical centre of Istanbul. Responsible for creative design decisions and conception of the project.
Organised ongoing research and making workshop on preservation studies twice in August 2022 and August 2023, part of Architectural Association Visiting School. Led group of 20 local and international designers.
Arthur Sleep, London
Lead the in store conception project for Arthur Sleep, an exclusive shoe brand based in Mayfair London.
Co-founded artist initiative that supports emerging artists in Istanbul. Leaded the organisation, while communicating to numerous sponsors and partners.
Architectural Association School of Architecture
Diploma 12 with Manijeh Vergese and Inigo Minns
Architectural Association School of Architecture
Undergraduate Intermediate Programme
Intermediate 5 with Ryan Dillon and David Greene
Intermediate 3 with Riccardo De Ostos and Nannette Jackowsky
Passionate architectural designer, organiser interested in cultural production in built environment and alternative business models. Worked as a collaborator in GÉNÉRALE assemblée d’architectes in Brussels and programme head of AAVS Sirince, a summer programme looking at preservation and heritage discourse in South of Turkey.
Blender Rhino
Photogrammetry
3D Printing Revit
Autocad Sketchup
Adobe: After Effects
Premiere Pro Photoshop Illustrator
Woodwork Metalsmith Casting various materials
1:1 Prototypes
Silicon, plaster, cement, latex casting Ceramic
Fluent in English and Turkish
B2 in French
A2 in Spanish
- 2022 Jun, Fifth Year
- 2021 Dec, Fourth Year
- 2018 Jun, Second Year
- 2017 Dec, Second Year
Distinction on Thesis project called ‘Errant Heritage’
Technical Studies High pass
Trust Foundation Prize by Holloway Brother LTD
History and Theory High Pass
Worked as an Architecte Stagiaire Brussels, Belgium
I had been working on various projects in different scale and phases;
Greenbizz 2 (Competition), by Generale & BC Architects
This project involves a 3600m² extension to Greenbizz 1 in Tivoli, including the design of 36 industrial spaces, Horeca, public spaces, and a co-working area. My contributions include:
-Participating in the initial design phase of the proposal, which included a week-long workshop at BC Architects. We collaborated to understand vertical industrial spaces and explore different volumes. -Designing and arranging the public spaces and Horeca areas.
Rou Terre Neuve (Competition) by Generale & Ver-sa Architecture
This residential project in Brussels consists of 38 apartments, including 8 accessible units and landscaped areas. My roles included:
-Working on the DCE stage, collaborating between two architecture offices, modeling, and retaining technical details in BIM, as well as using BIM for metrage.
-Experimenting with the brick facade, proposing different brick layouts, and detailing the brick layout in drawings and BIM
A private house of 180m² located in the Berseel Forest in Brussels. My involvement included:
-Participating in the AP phase, designing and proposing different iterations of the project, and experimenting with volumetry and materiality.
-Assembling presentations composed of different views (plans, sections, elevations) from BIM. Occasionally attending client meetings.
Image above: 3D view of final design
Image on the left : Site model and structural representation
Image on the right: Site plan with the final design and landscape
PASSAGE PIETON & ACCES POMPIERS
ESPACES COLLECTIFS USAGERS
Image above: Paysage and organisation of the Urban farm; the space is divided to host 4 different floors that follows the slope on the site
AIRE DE JEUX MOBILIERS LUDIQUES ET PEDAGOGIQUES ISSUS DE REEMPLOI
Image above: Technical sheet explaining the brick layout Image on the left : Perspective view from the common entrance Image on the right: Facade collage for testing materiality in progress
Conception project of a bespoke shoe store
London, Mayfair
Arthur Sleep project is an attempt to stitch tradition and innovation; from the long lived craftsmanship history of Savile Row to new world technology that offers bespoke and unique experiences to every customer. Design decisions are made to manifest this engagement of the two, where innovative production and retail is embodied within each other through transitional spaces.
Originally having the lower ground as production and ground floor as retail, a subtle transition is introduced by blending these programmes; bits of production taking place within retail, retail taking space within the production area. This mix is then manifested within material choices. Mid century fine wood and tones of green define the exclusive retail area, while polished steel indicates production units and technology, a laboratory like environment.
Internship focusing on design and production of Furniture
Brussels, Belgium
Gilbard is a design collective based in Brussels that specializes in gathering and recycling materials from the local area. With a team of 17 employees, they have built an extensive archive of salvaged materials, which they repurpose through collaborations with various art institutions and organizations. Their design practice revolves around exploring the potential of these materials, transforming them into furniture or functional objects that breathe new life into discarded resources.
Within 3 months of internship, I performed in designing and production of 2 different furniture scale projects: Atelier Libelco were designed as movable storage units which is now used for storing games for children.
Bac-a-sable was an additional sandbox built by multiple joinery techniques for a newly built residential unit in Brussels.
Dimensions générales
Creative Director and Conception
Istanbul, Turkey
Gokdeniz Apt. is an apartment renovation and development project located next to Bosphorus in the historic centre of Istanbul. The project started September 2022 and still ongoing. Consisting of 12 apartment units, Gokdeniz Apt. is designed as reinterpretation of ‘salonmanje’ concept derived in 1960s Istanbul. Additional choices such as pastel materials, local marble and fame stone coloured exterior aims to respect its modernist heritage.
I have been working as creative director, actively taking in conception of the project. Additionally I took place in reinforcement scheme, planning of the units and mechanical project. The project aims to be completed in March 2024.
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b o c k : D I Ş Ü N İ T E ( 4 )
block:KLİMA (4)
GİRİŞ HOLÜ
5.11 m²
Image above: Floor plan from 1st to 4th floor
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b o c k : D I Ş Ü N İ T E ( 2 )
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Existing concrete structure
Steel extension
Pre-cast cladding
Image on the left: Structural section and elevation of the proposal
Image on the right: Structural detail; extension of concrete structure with steel frame
Steel extension to garden
Errant Heritage
5th Year Thesis Project with Distinction
Errant heritage is an organisation, centre of research and alternative space of making. It tackles the idea of profanation; the disruptive approach to refined heritage objects through gathering, assemblage and re-enactment , altering the existing musicological narratives in today’s radical context. It operates by making constructive speculations: by introducing different experts to unpack other realities of heritage objects, Uses methods of assemblage as a way of creative transformation and re-enacts it in and around existing institutions, through carefully constructed scenarios. It unleashes the speculative potential of heritage objects through collaborative effort of different stakeholders across London, from institutional experts to errants of the high street, a cake makers that imitates intricate forms to a Latin tailor who makes costumes for parades each year. Errant Heritage makes an ever growing network of creative practitioners, expanding the circle of experts from their autonomous positions to multidisciplinary relationships in the city.
Image on the right: Center is located in Bloomsbury, in the hearth of many institutions of London. Facade is covered with LED panels that communicates different activities to outside Image above: Altar of Now, reinterpreting problematic monuments link to Colonial narratives in London Image bellow: The new Knight, image of Knight, which carries values around aristocracy in the UK altered by inventing new forms and ornaments influenced from the streetscape today.
Image above: Experts brings their knowledge and resources in prior to altering the narratives. These stages are recorded by RFID readers and made accessible to researchers on the internet.
‘Past, now, future Post?
In a year of transmission from global pandemic, where we are slowly cleansing from our sorrows, comfort, lack of passion and getting used to human proximity, it is time to reflect on the moments of gathering that gives the Architectural Association its transgressive soul and let project it into future generations. -bats and pangolins- traitors that represent the remark of the pandemic, are brought to the AA yard, as a symbol of end to an era. Minoan cooking is re-enacted with Nigerian Stew and Skewers, experimentally done in collaboration with British Museum Conservation Department, Ebere, Sorrel, Gigi and many others alternative experts around these creatures. Result is the rejection of Symposium to a festive and informal gathering, in which the possibilities are shared, whilst Minoan pot turning into rhetoric that questions the future of festivity.. ‘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut2I9eGoA1I
Image above: Ceramicwares made in collaboration with Sorrel Madley, which is an interpretation of Minoan Pot, in shape of Covid Virus.
Image on the right: Photo from the AA, when the event was hosted in the courtyard
The Catalyst: Relational Architecture
3rd year thesis
The project is an exploration of relational architecture, when an interactive projective system is superimposed with a centre for artistic activity and events situated in unused spaces in central London. It aims to both open space for artists that are pushed outskirts of the city due to housing crisis, and become architectural conjunction of everyday life and artistic activity.
It takes the advantage of unused rare spaces of building blocks in London by introducing a system of scaffolding and polycarbonate façades to bring a new kind artistic spaces . This facade not only shows moments from life behind, but becomes a canvas for real time projection mapping of activities in the space. Through a loop system including 3d scanning of activity and projection, facade becomes an informative archive showing fragments from the past and the present.
Projector
The final prototype acts like a stage set, it aims to bring fragments of existing site (Mayfair) and Catalyst in order to investigate conjunction of two and different point cloud projections together. Rather than a final representation, the prototype aims to become a tool of learning, and further imagining the life
Image above: Adjustable model to intensity and capability of projection. Different materials can be placed, distance between each module can be adjusted
Programme Head of Architectural Association
Visiting School in Izmir
2022 - ongoing
Sirince Visiting School is a centre of research and experimentation on Heritage studies. The main interest is design through conservation, how re-interpretation might generate an alternative ways of archiving, frame existing knowledge, yet build upon the narrative. Each year focuses on a particular theme in the Western Aegean Peninsula. Sirince Visiting School is part of Architectural Association’s Visiting School Programme.
The sacred and domestic Hearth of Ephesus, myths of Prometheus and Artemis, recipes, architectural forms, objects and rituals around fire served as departing points in the participant’s research in 2022. We have visited archaeological sites and recorded these artefacts. From Ephesus, one of the most important world heritage sites in Turkey, to Stratonikeia, an untouched site in which heirloom and rural life still entangles one another. These recordings and gathered materials were then developed into briefs and explored through 1:1 making and testing of artifacts.
The workshop aims to offer amalgam of traditional and modern techniques; pit firing is practiced prior to the workshop and successful results were obtained, certain joinery techniques are taught to participants to accompany in their making process, a fully functioning oven was built through listening to experts and making changes to test new ideas.
‘Spear Hearth ’, is an experimental stove developed by Programme Heads of AAVS Sirince. It aims to bring different traditional and modern techniques together; pit firing, vault construction and morrocan plaster.
The ceramic arrowheads are influenced from the myth and temple of Artemis; goddess of war. Different intuitive ceramic arrows are pit fired on site, than found place on the vault of the stove as ornamental pieces. A reddish mortar induced with natural pigment is applied and made waterproof by morrocan plaster application.
Image on the right: Ceramic elements and digital manupilation of artifacts collected from the site of Artemis Temple
Making incense
Herb powder, Hot coal, Oil.
Method1. Sprinkle herb powder on burnt hot coal.
Method2. a. Mix herb powder with few drops of oil. b. Burn the mixture. c. Blow out the flame, keep the heat.
Images on the left: Tools designed by stone grinding to make grape juice as part of the feast
Image above: ‘Hayrat Koliva’, tracing back to lost recipe called Koliva, before the Turkish Greek Exchange. By re-enacting the recipe and serving it in town, it aims to question the intimate bond and memory that was once existing in the Geography.
Cooking Koliva Wheat, Bay leave, Sunflower oil, Sugar, Water, Hazelnut, Peanut, Walnut, Fresh lemon(optional).
1. Cook bay leave with sunflower oil.
2. Mix bay leave with washed wheat.
3. Pure cold water in to wheat.
4. Add sugar.
5. Cook until wheat turn soft.
6, Pour wheat in to a wider container without water.
7. Mix wheat with nuts after it cool and dry.
8. Add fresh lemon on mixture(optional).
Cooking Fig Jam
Fresh figs, Sugar, Water, Starch water(optional)
1. Chop frish figs.
2. Cook figs with water(Starch water).
3. Add sugar.
4. Pour jam to jar when it comes sticky.
Cooking Lavender and Fig Tea
Dry lavender, Dry figs, Boiled water.
1. Choose dry lavender and dry figs.
2. Pour boiled water on dry lavender flower and dry figs, and wait til cool down.
