Portfolio Irem Ceri

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İrem Çeri

2016 2021

BACHELOR MASTER’S DEGREE

Architectural

İREM ÇERİ CONTACT Milano +39 3312399437 irem.ceri@gmail.com 28.08.1993

education Bilkent High School

experience 2007-2011

Ankara, Turkey

IB (International Baccalaureate) Program

2014 Spring 2009-2011

Ankara, Turkey

Bilkent University Department of Computer Science Bilkent University Department of Architecture Bachelor

2014 Summer

Politecnico di Milano Department of Architecture Msc

Intern-ITO Yatırım Construction firm

2012-2016 2015 Summer

Intern-Bütüner Mimarlık Architectural firm

2015 Spring

Milano, Italy

Restoration Work Observation and Investigation Archeological Site, Vimercate

2011-2012

Ankara, Turkey

Period of Study Abroad, ERASMUS

Construction and assembly of an light wood structure

2015 Spring

Ankara, Turkey

Design Build Lab

2019 Summer

Workshop-Urban Sponge

Directed by Richard Ingersoll- Prato,Italy

2017-2020

Milano, Italy

achievements

extracuricular activities

2015-2016 Spring

2016-2017

Honour degree from Bilent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

TSMD Architectural Center Voluntary Event Assistant 2014

Italy Study Abroad Program in Architecture and Urbanism

2014 September

Project elected to be exhibited in TSMD Architectural Center Students’ Projects 2021 January

Non Architecture “Public Spaces Competition” finalist with project named “Live Protest”

2012-2015

Bilkent DAS (Design and Architecture Society) member, participated in Tasarım Bilkent (Design and Architecture Conference) ‘13 & ‘14 Organization 2013-2015

Information Office for Prospective Students (BTO) worked as a guide student.

2018

Participitation to the ‘Biennale Sessions ARCHITECTURE AS GIFT’ with a project model

language proficiency Turkish English Italian French

software skills Revit Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Rhino Grasshopper Vray Lumion Autocad Archicad Microsoft Office

CONTENTS This portfolio contains selected works from design projects developed while pursuing a Bachelor degree in Architecture at Bilkent University, and while pursuing a Master of Science degree in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. The projects were chosen to highlight the diverse scale and approaches encompassed in my design education and career.

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MUSEUM OF THE VOID

Contemporary Art Museum, Nice, France

PIAZZA CARIGNANO

Square + Installation, Torino, Italy

PIAZZA CARIGNANO

Square + Installation, Torino, Italy

CASA PARISI

Redesign of the House of Ico Parisi, Como, Italy

ANKARA WHOLESALE MARKET

Revitalization of Ankara River + Market Design, Ankara, Turkey

CHILDREN’S CENTRE

Re-Use of Venice Biennale Pavilions, Venice, Italy

BRICK STUDENT HOUSING

Student Housing Design + Re-Use of a dried out canal , Milan, Italy

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MUSEUM OF THE VOID Project Location: Nice, France Politecnico di Milano-Thesis Project

Var River is located at the west-end of Nice. The region around the river is a developing area. It is mostly composed of abandoned agricultural fields, industrial areas, and warehouse scaled commercial buildings. The site is located at a junction point of various transportation infrastructures. There is the A8 highway which is connecting France to Italy, there is the airport of the Nice and also the railway of TGV. In addition to these, the municipality is planning both infrastructural and regional development which is called Eco-Valley. They are planing a sustainable business hub around the area. By taking these into consideration the project aims to develop a strategy, an idea for the future landscape and designing an innovative museum.

Museum of the Void is located at the threshold between the industrial area and the abandoned agricultural fields across the Allianz Riviera Stadium. The idea is to connect both sides of the Var River by creating another focal point opposing an existing attraction point, which is the stadium, and establish a buffer zone between the industrial area and the agricultural area.

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• New public transportation lines that are moving between Var and Paillon • Increasing the attraction points at the West end of the city • Balancing productive land, natural land and recreational land

Agricultural land Abondoned agricultural land Parks and recreation Research center University Museum Tram (existing line) Tram (planned line) Train

KEYWORDS: Mobility-Connectivity-Resiliency-Green Network-Urban Network-Productive Land-Recreational Land-Attraction Points-Sustainablity

Existing Situation

Connections

Strategy

C O N N E C T E D A N D S U STA I N A B L E L A N D S C A P E Main purpose of the strategical plan is to attach both sides of the river by blue- green networks and physical connection by using existing networks.

And then create a loop by connecting upper and lower part of the area by benefiting from the existing natural and infrastructural network.

Collage, Museum of Void, Eco Valley, Nice

Museum of the Void, Nic

ce, France, Axonometry

Section AA’ This part of the museum has an inner garden with tranparent facades which creates a visual connection with the inside of the museum and also brings sun light through the rooms of the musem.

Void is inside the volume and creates a potential at the central part of the structure.

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Middle section of the museum is like the negative of the first part. Inner core is totally solid and non-permeable while the outher shell is transperent.

Section CC’ The part that is closer to the riverbes is directly connected with the river itself. There is a basin/pool that extracts the water directly from the river with an undergroun canal.

Museum of the Void consists of three rectangular volumes which have same dimensions. The bridge behind the museum connects it with the stadium and both of these structures creates a flow of people and stitches two sides of the river. There is also the deck that goes upon the river. The void on the deck creates different kind of communication with context of the museum.

The circulation of the complex based on two different flows. There is the uninterrpted vertical connection that starts from the bridge and goes until the special houses. And there is horizontal flow that goes through the riverside.

Collage, Museum of the Void, Eco Valley, Nice

Nature

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PIAZZA CARIGNANO Group Project with Adriana Pascale Project Location: Torino, Italy Politecnico di Milano

Given the rigorous grid and bourgeois vibes in the Carignano Piazza, the new design is meant to disrupt the austere organisation and redesign it in a modernist manner. Influenced by the works of Kazimir Malevich, a Russian Suprematist who believed that art should transcend subject matter and the truth of shape and colour should reign over the image, the proposal aims to bring dynamism to the piazza, due to the arrangement and orientation of the coloured marble tiles. The strategic fragmentation of the pavement dictates a new rhythm, an unusual one for a historic piazza, which invites people to use the space for more than just a transitory corridor.

The two installations painted in an eye-catching International Klein Blue, like the central monument as well, bring a new set of activities into the piazza, for both children and adults. Inspired by old-school playgrounds, such as the ones created by Aldo van Eyck, but mostly by the work of SUPERFLEX, an artistic Danish trio, exhibited in Tate Modern in London, our seven-meter-high metal pipe installation blends with the created pavement and it is a combination of climbing areas and swings, meant to be used by the public.

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Group Project with Pelin SĂśkmen Project Location: Milano, Italy Non-Architecture Competition Finalist

In the world’s current environment, it is not far off to foresee a future where even social gatherings are online especially after witnessing a pandemic. Through digitalization, global accessibility in such events is made possible. We can participate in any gathering with a click and join in through the public screens placed during these events.

“The Gatherer� app let’s you see all these ongoing events around the globe to select which cause you want to support and join in. Having access to a public gathering with one click allows a higher number of participations therefore leading to a greater impact in a short period of time.

However, this global accessibility comes with a price: controlled environments. Putting limitations to physical participation could be a gateway for governments to fully filter the events, track all the participants.

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CASA PARISI Group Project with Ardian Murati Project Location: Como, Italy Politecnico di Milano

Ico Parisi was one of the leading figures in the Como culture of the 1900s. This house that he renovated for himself is also one of the important architectural figures of the city. In this project the house that is designed by Ico Parisi had been rethought by making small interventions to increase the functionality and also adapt it to today’s architecture.

One of the most problematic part of the house was the use of natural light, to overcome this problem a wide opening had been proposed on the heavy wall that was separating the living room from the kitchen. Another problem was that the entrance of the house is from the first floor where the bedroom is located and there is no separation between the bedroom and the circulatory system of the house.

For this reason a wooden separator which has two layers: a wood plate and a net, was introduced. With the help of this element the privacy of the bedroom had been given back and the light also will able to pass to the circulatory part of the house.

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Bedroom is detached from the circulation system with the semiopen wooden seperator.

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LIVING ROOM

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ANKARA WHOLESALE MARKET Project Location: Ankara, Turkiye Bilkent University-Final Project

This project focuses on revitalization of Ankara River and offers a sustainable development of the master plan which goes along the Ankara river basin and urban riverfront. The main concern of the design is creating a prototype that approaches sustainability along different dimensions: Economic, Environmental, Cultural, Aesthetic and Functional.

After analyzing the site by the perspective of sustainability and presenting different master plans, the type of building that we were going to design had chosen, as it was considered the final academic project.

I decided to redesign an existing place which is a wholesale market. My main purpose was to solve the existing problems by looking from a sustainable perspective and designing a riverfront which gains favor for its own community and the environment.

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House Prices

Open Spaces

Airport - 120 dB Industry - 85 dB Railways - 80 dB Highways - 75 dB

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Open Space Green Area Plant Nursery Brownfield Agriculture

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As mentioned, this effort concentrates on the redevelopment of the A The site’s importance as a potential catalyst in the re-imaging of Ank proximity to potential interconnected green-ways and transportation variety of design and planning interventions possible.

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Ankara River watershed as it passes through critical urban foci. kara’s central urban fabric, its economic potential, sheer scale, and nodes suggested vast potential, both in terms of the scale of and the

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Secondary Roof

The parametric envelop is directly connected to the columns of the structure.

These columns are designed to collect rain water. Harvested rain water is kept in a underground basin which is located below the administration building. The stored water is transfered to the plumbing system for the maintenance of the area.

Drainage System

Parametric Roof Structure Water Column

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VENICE CHILDREN’S CENTRE Group Project with Ardian Murati, Adriana Pascale Project Location: Venice, Italy Politecnico di Milano

One of the most famous attraction points of the Venice is the “Giardini” where the Biennale takes place every year.

However, this huge space is closed 6 months of a year. The pavilions that are located here are permanent buildings, with temporal use. This project aims to connect Giardini with the city and give these pavilions back to Venice where they naturally belong.

The project had an introduced method which was in 3 parts: Mapping-Prototyping-Re-using. On the mapping part potential of the each pavilion is analyzed and some initial ideas are introduced. Prototyping stage is a method which is segregated from the context and it was about finding forms from a 2D image by abstracting it and then redefining as 3D objects. The last part is the re-using where a function is introduced and the objects become architecture.

West side border “canal”

North side border “the wall” East side border “the neighbourhood”

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Prototyping At this stage of the project, among lots of trials of abstraction of an image, both by drawing and physical modeling, the coin image got chosen. First, the empty and full parts of the coin image differentiated by black and white. Then the geometrical shape of the black parts transformed into 3D objects and finally different relations between the modules studied.

Initial image: coins

Highlighting the empty spaces

Porosity model

Prototyping

First Floor Plan / Section New modules are placed on a diagonal grid. The only volumes that follow the same orientation as the existing building are the ones that are in direct contact with the pavilion. Put together, one accross the other, the shapes create in between them some spaces similar to the Venetian piazzas called “campielli�. These would serve as either transitory spaces, areas for diverse activities or outdoor playgrounds for the Children’s Centre.

During the WINTER the pavilion is transformed into an interior playground for the children to enjoy. One of the smaller rooms will become an amphitheatre. The main space will be full of slides, swings that hang from the arches, nets to climb on and other such accessories. An installation based on the shape of the modules will be placed inside of the pavilion as well, and it would incorporate swings inside the structure and stairs that lead to a slide on the top.

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During the SUMMER the pavilion is used as usually for the exhibitions. The interior playground installations are moved outside, some in front of the pavilion to be used by the children that come to the Biennale and need a place to play at some point, or behind the pavilion as an outdoor playground for the children in the Children’s Centre.

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BRICK STUDENT HOUSING Group Project with Ä°rem Gizem Aras, Cansu Ergezen Project Location: Milan, Italy Politecnico di Milano

Brick Student Housing is located in Via San Marco, Milan, next to the dried canal that was designed by Leonardo da Vinci.

The building is surrounded by existing buildings in 3 sides. By taking Milanese buildings as reference, the lower part of the Student Housing is designed for commercial purposes and the upper part is private and used only by the residents.

The dried abandoned canal turns into a public space with the addition of stairs on the two sides of the void. Circulation between two areas designed as an open air exhibition. It starts from the Designed Monumental Staircase dedicated to Umberto Eco in the other side of the street, continuing into the tunnel under the motorway which is going to be used as a contemporary exhibition space.

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Ground Floor Plan

The last item of the open exhibition is the old brick Observation Tower which leads the visitors into the entrance of the exhibition tunnel inside the building. The main entrance of the building is placed at the end of the old bridge.

İREM ÇERİ irem.ceri@gmail.com / irem.ceri@mail.polimi.it