1. Manifesto and Brief

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Manifesto Brief

Design Manifesto

A distinctive design language should be used when establishing relationships with existing buildings.

The project should be respectful to the original buildings but also create contrast for revealing the importance of both the original design and the project design.

The project should be inclusive and create a collective environment.

The project should raise awareness about identity by including others in the college.

The spaces to be created in the college should offer opportunities that allow re-using and re-production.

The project should comply with sustainability principles and should encourage reducing the carbon footprint on fuel consumption and human behavior.

Buildings and the surrounding should be accessible for all users.

Spaces must be flexible allowing users to decide according to the function.

The project should raise awareness of the community and continue to follow a secular way.

1. Reusing Building Elements

2. More Efficient Structural Design

3. Less Energay Consumption for Construction

4. Use of Biodegradable / Recyclable Materials

5. Reducing the Waste

6. Producing Green Energy

7. Passive Technologies

8. Innovations for the Future

Technology Manifesto

Since the College Buildings structure is precast concrete, it is possible to reuse the building elements. Existing building elements should be used in the new design as much as possible. These elements can be preserved, recycled, or used for a new purpose.

Light and durable construction and a deployable technique using natural materials should be offered to the college’s old concrete buildings that cause energy waste

With computational design, the energy to be consumed on production, construction and transportation should be minimum.

Biodegradable or recyclable materials should be used instead of non-recyclable materials such as concrete. Using natural materials will also create a breathable system.

Some of the waste produced in the college must be recycled. These wastes can be paper and plastic. Improvements should be made in HVAC technologies, lighting, and insulation to avoid wasting energy.

There is no energy production in the college. Considering the amount of energy consumed and carbon emissions, the college needs to have a green energy source.

Binaların doğal havalandırma ve aydınlatma sistemleri geliştirilmelidir. Isı kayıplarını önleyecek yalıtımlar yapılmalıdır ve güneşin aşırı ısıtmasını engelleyecek teknolojiler kullanılmalıdır.

Students studying in relevant departments of Oxford University can work on the research and reproduction of materials produced with biological resources to replace petroleum-based plastic.

Technology Brief

The materials extracted from the building parts to be designed are used indoors, in units extending outwards and in the design created on the quad.

To create a stronger construction technique with less material and to allow the building to be dismantled and reused by mostly using physical connections

A large part of the construction consists of bringing the materials to be used to the correct size and shape. These pre-made parts are only installed at the construction site. Since physical connections are required in its installation, the construction period is shorter than the traditional.

It is designed by using natural materials such as wood, mycelium, linoleum, sheep wool to be biodegradable or recyclable.

The recycling facilities in the main laboratory aim to prevent the waste produced and to use the products produced from the waste for a long time. The proposed design reduces heat loss with fewer windows on the facade. Led Lightings are used.

Using Biogas System to produce green energy for the College’s Dining Hall It uses kitchen waste to produce Cooking Gas.

While designing the building, criteria such as air circulation and getting enough light are taken into consideration. There are skylights and vacant spaces in the building.

Laboratory facilities, including the education and business unit, can develop future-oriented product ideas in these facilities, allowing them to build a bridge between academia and the profession.

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Conceptual Design

In this study, there are design ideas I developed after Augmentation studies, determination of the places to be used in the college area, form finding studies to be created by using precedent studies, analysis and reuse ideas of existing building elements. In line with these studies, sketches of the spatial relations that guide the proposed design and the final decisions are also in this section.

Before having the design area decision, I started with a problem that I found important during my site visits. After the college was built, additions were made many times and the college area expanded to the north. For this reason, the original buildings and the main entrance in the south lost their visibility. It made me unable to find the main entrance while I was experiencing it myself, and even after finding it, on other visits, I chose to reach to the Quad by passing through the dining hall, which is a shorter path. I thought these parts of the buildings should be more noticeable. Together with the quad, I have determined these parts of the residential buildings as the design area.

Design Concept

The waste management idea that emerged from the brief development process created the concept design. The idea of people harming nature with waste every day is taken from the opposite side. Using its power, nature takes control of human artifacts that produce waste. It changes the existing forms of the buildings with natural movements such as emerging from the ground, growing, and wrapping and rearranges the functions in these areas for its benefit. This not only creates the awareness of a nature that makes users feel its power at any moment, but also enables designers to examine the architecture of nature and have an idea about the most efficient design that exists. The first example that I was inspired by for this concept is the giant tree roots surrounding the buildings. Sometimes it grows from inside a building and claims its own space. Sometimes it closes certain parts of the building, causing a change in function.

Using this growth movement and geometry, I produced a concept model surrounding college buildings. This work was the starting point for exploring hierarchy, the relationship between human-made flat perfect forms and nature’s uncontrolled growth with a freer form.