This portfolio includes selected works from the design projects I developed during my Bachelor of Architecture at Bilkent University, Master of Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, projects I was involved in during my internship at Carlo Ratti Associati, and projects I participated in and followed at Flaviano Capriotti Architetti. The projects were chosen to highlight the different scales and approaches in my design education and career.
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MUSEUM OF THE VOID
Contemporary Art Museum, Nice, France
LA FERMATA-LAKE CHAPEL
Competition Project for ReUse Italy, San Giovanni in Val di Lago, Italy
PIAZZA CARIGNANO
Square + Installation, Torino, Italy
ANKARA WHOLESALE MARKET
Revitalization of Ankara River + Market Design, Ankara, Turkey
ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL
NATURAL CAPITAL
Data Visualization Project for Milan Design Week Collabrated with ENI, Milan, Italy
PARK HYATT HOTEL MILANO
Signature Suites of Park Hyatt Milano, Milan, Italy
FALORIA MOUNTAIN SPA RESORT
Spa Hotel Suite Design, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
VIA FONTANA OFFICE
Office Design, Milan, Italy
MUSEUM OF THE VOID
Academic Project (Msc Thesis Project)
Project Location: Nice, France
Politecnico di Milano
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.
Topography Map of Nice
Collage, Museum of Void, Eco Valley, Nice
Collage, Museum of the Void, Eco Valley, Nice
LA FERMATA-LAKE CHAPEL
Competition Project
Project Location: San Giovanni in Val di Lago, Italy
Resuse Italy Competition
Embracing the idea of “being on a journey with a purpose and a direction” as the conceptual center of the challenge, moment and to come together. The project proposal aims to highlight the experience of stopping to meet with new satisfying religious/spiritual and cultural needs in and around the Lake Chapel of San Lorenzo Nuovo.
challenge, La Fermata offers a stop for the pilgrims, the hikers, and the local community a place to pause, to be in the new people, bring life stories together, to be present in now, get to know thyself and others while being in nature,
The programmatic layout is designed by extending the northern path through the plot and introducing a secondary axis referenced by the Chapel itself. The accommodation center and the external auditorium are located on the intersection area highlighting the two axes. Most of the program is placed underground in order not to disturb the scenic nature of the area. The two ramps from both approach sides meet at a common ground in between the auditorium and the accommodation center and provide access to both buildings. The ramps are also aligned to frame the Chapel while approaching it.
The roof of the auditorium is tilted to provide a direction to the interior space and for the continuation of the green area above. The accommodation center is designed in a way to accumulate the common areas and meditation spaces on the underground level while sunken courtyards and gardens provide light to these common places. The pilgrim rooms are located on the ground level each of them facing a marvelous country view towards the fields. The landscape is treated with a garden strip and a grid garden offering a rich existence with nature and a round pool is introduced on the green axis and existing water canal extension. La Fermata offers a stop and an opportunity to pause for communication and interaction for all who are on a sacred journey.
As the conservation approach, the proposal intervenes minimally with a geometric approach while highlighting the existing lineaments. In the interior space, the main and smaller rooms are divided with a rotating door allowing the users programmatic flexibility. Seating steps designed complementary to the octagonal geometry are introduced for communal religious or cultural activities such as classical music concerts. The arched niches of the interior space are highlighted with frames.
For the roof covering, the inherent octagonal form of the chapel is extruded and tilted with an angle emphasizing the front facade of the Lake Chapel. To respect and preserve the ruin, a threshold area is provided in-between the stone walls and the new light roof. The roof is provided with a skylight to keep the interior space lit and have a divine experience. Reflective metal surfaces are clad to the roof exterior for the roof to blend in with the surroundings while keeping its contemporary identity.
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Academic Project
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.
Physical Model Photo II
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.
4 ANKARA WHOLESALE MARKET
Academic Project (BA Final Project)
Project Location: Ankara, Turkiye Bilkent University
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.
Circulation and View Alternative Functions
Ramp Green Roof
Secondary Roof
5 NATURAL CAPITAL
Executed project designed with CRA team
Project Location: Milan, Italy
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati for Eni
Energy company Eni and international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati present “Natural Capital,” one of the largest data visualizations ever produced. Located in the Brera Botanical Garden, in Milan, the project aims to demonstrate the key role that trees play in producing oxygen, by showing how much CO2 each individual tree species can capture and store. The same amount of CO2 would be released in the atmosphere if the trees were removed, thus making it crucial to promote forestry protection instead of deforestation.
“Natural Capital” aims to be one of the largest data visualizations projects ever produced, and also showcases Eni’s commitment to forestry initiatives. The project will open to the public during the Milan Design Week 2021 as part of INTERNI’s “Creative Connections” exhibition, from 4 to 12 September 2021.
“The information we need for mapping the absorption of the Botanical Garden are selected from a sample of specimens and will be used for the "Three-dimensional infographics" installation.”
“The species of the selected specimens will be indicated by means of a graphic (for example the shape of the leaf) and their scientific name.”
“Each species’ capacity of absorbing quantity of CO2 is different: this data is displayed through a color scale that will be the base of the heat map.”
“The diameter of the inflatable ball will indicate the amount of CO2 absorbed by the specimen in examination throughout its one month life.”
User Journey Diagram
1. Entrance
2. Black Sphere
3. Kiosk + Totem1
4. Passerella
5. Totem2
6. Sphere with PVC
7. Totem3
8. Bar
9. Exit
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Project at definitive phase
Project Location: Milan, Italy
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati
International design and innovation practice
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and a team led by Australian real estate group Lendlease have won the international competition to design the University of Milan’s new science campus. Located in the MIND-Milano Innovation District, a 1-million-square-meter (10 million square feet) innovation park whose masterplan was also developed by CRA, the new campus is set to open in 2025.
The campus will extend over 190,000 square meters (2 million square feet) and will serve approximately 23,000 researchers and students specializing in natural and formal sciences at the University of Milan. The design, developed by CRA in collaboration with architect Italo Rota, revolves around a network of green courtyards, a series of uninterrupted walking paths (“common ground”) at different heights, and five brick buildings. It also features a large central square with an adjacent lake.
The buildings pay tribute to the Ca’ Granda, the 15th-century brick building designed by the Renaissance been designed with an innovative construction technique, with each brick individually positioned sional tapestry with textual and visual content.
The concept of the facades are still in an experimental process to understand which kind of images cept there are collages which consists old “HERBARIUM” scientific illustrations. The goal is to create today’s facades of the new university buildings.
Renaissance architect Filarete, which today hosts the central seat of the University of Milan. The facades have by a robotic arm and treated as a pixel within a large-scale bas-relief. The result will be a three-dimen-
images would represent the university best and can be applicable in reality. In the latest version of the concreate and herbarium on the facades of the university’s buildings and bringing an old scientific method to
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PARK HYATT HOTEL SUITES
Executed Project
Project Location: Milan, Italy
Flaviano Capriotti Architetti
Park Hyatt Milano is located in the most central part of Milan right next to Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. The hotel is surrounded by Milan’s most important buildings, which ultimately become part of the interior design of the rooms with their picturesque views framed by windows. Design of the rooms are reflecting some of the features of the Milanese entries with the selection of the materials and Italian designed furniture pieces.
The hotel’s most important suites are located on the last floor of the building, giving the opportunity to see the sunset and sunrise, and these colors have inspired the color palette of the rooms.
- DUOMO SUITE
616 - PARK TERRACE TWIN SUITE
618 - KING PREMIUM
601 - PRESIDENTIAL SUITE
NEW JUNIOR SUITE (EX-TERRACE)
Montenapoleone Suite has 216 sqm of interior space and a 30 sqm charming terrace featuring a retractable pergola under which to enjoy, in all seasons, remarkable views of the city’s rooftops and surrounding buildings.
Furnished with elements of Italian contemporary design, dark smoked European oak parquet, light silky wallpaper cabinets, wall claddings in light Italian walnut matt finish, and granite floor which echoes the old pavements of Milanese internal courtyards, the suite consists of a master bedroom, a spacious living room with table for up to 8 guests, a central double-sided fireplace and a kitchenette.
Material board
Montenapoleone Suite - Fireplace area
Brera Suite - Veranda
Brera Suite - Veranda detail drawing
FALORIA MOUNTAIN SPA RESORT
Project Location:Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
Flaviano Capriotti Architetti
Faloria Mountain SPA Resort is located in Cortina d’Ampezzo between Mount Faloria and the 1956 Olympic ski trampoline. The project is inspired to the alpine context with references to the natural environments of the area.
The project was partly restored and partly designed from scratch. The central volume was completely rebuilt, but the underground level was preserved and renovated as the hotel’s new spa. The two side buildings were renovated to preserve their historical value and provide a more comfortable space for visitors.
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Project Location: Milan, Italy
Flaviano Capriotti Architetti
It is an office located on Via Fontana, the historic street of Milan. While preserving all the architectural features and characteristic materials of the historic building, a more contemporary and functional touch was aimed for the needs of the office.
To create a more unified space and to continue the existing paving, one of the walls was removed to create a glass partition.
The kitchen is located at the junction of all spaces. This creates a space that is easily accessible to everyone and a place for informal gatherings.
