SELIM ATAK PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS
COVER LETTER I am a motivated, young architect enquiring a possible position in your firm. In the past 2 years i was located in China. During this time i worked in Atelier TeamMinus/Beijing and ARES Partners in Shanghai. My previous experiences includes Exposure Architects / Bergamo,Italy and Armim MimarlĹk / Ankara,Turkey. Through my professional career I had the chance to lead design teams and and to be the part of teams developing projects varying in different scales. During which time i was involved in design drawings, concept development and on site consultation. I did my bachelor studies in Karadeniz Technical University in Turkey, enriching my knowledge with an exchange year in TU Wien in Austria. I graduated from International Master’s programme of Politecnico di Milano in 2016. I am fluent in English, i have intermediate knowledge of Italian and i am eager to develop my skills for speaking Mandarin. The architectural aproach of your office encouraged me that i can learn and gain experience in the fields i am already interested in. This book consists the selected work through my educational and professional career for your consideretaion.
Kind Regards, Selim Atak
CONTENTS RESUME THESIS PROJECT Hashima Ruin Shrines WORK PROJECTS ARES partners Tea House for Shenzen Hotel Redesign of Yuntai Shan Vilage Printing Factory Renovation Atelier TeamMinus Exhibition Space for Garden Expo Facilities for Beijing Winter Olympics Armim Mimarlık Kuşadası Golf Club COMPETITION PROJECTS Hertage Archives Post-war Camp UNIVERSITY PROJECTS Museum in Berlin Library in Reggio Emilia
PERSONAL Adress : HouHai 50, 100010, Beijing / China Phone Number : +8618618414872 E-mail : seliimatak@gmail.com Date of Birth : 19.10.1990 Origin : Ankara / Turkiye
EDUCATION Politecnico di Milano 2013 - 2016 Masters of Architecture Technische Universitat Wien 2009 - 2010 Exchange programme - Architecture Karadeniz Technical University 2007 - 2012 Bachelors of Architecture Dr. Rıdvan Binnaz Ege High School 2004 - 2007 TED Ankara College 1997 - 2004 EMPLOYEMENT Cumhur Gürel Mimarlık / Ankara, Turkey 07/09 - 09/09 Worked on restoration projects. Involved in measuring on site and technical drawings.
MESA Group / Ankara, Turkey
07/10 - 09/10
Followed the work in construction site of Park Oran houses in Ankara.
MESA Group 02/11 - 03/11 Worked as an office intern on detailing
Armim Mimarlık / Ankara, Turkey 09/12 - 08/13 Involved in the design and application process of Kuşadası Golf Club. Had the possibility to built on site.
Exposure Architects / Bergamo, Italy 03/16 - 05/16 Part of the design team for the proposed education building complex located in Rishon LeZion Israel. In charge of the design of High School Building.
TeamMinus / Beijing, China 10/16 - 05/18 Worked as an Architect. Involved development of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics sports venues and Beijing 2019 Flower Expo venues.
ARES partners / Shanghai, China 05/18 - 11/18 Worked as a Senior Designer. Team leader preparing the Design Drawings for Shenzen Club House. Designed and developed the teahouse facility for the same project. Team Leader for redesigning YuntaiShan touristic village.
LANGUAGES Turkish - Mother Language English - Advanced Italian - Intermediate Chinese - Beginner SKILLS
- Autocad, Sketchup, Indesign, Photoshop, Ilustrator, Rhinoceros
HASHIMA RUIN SHRINES NAGASAKI in collaboration with Mark Adamson
Our thesis proposal was focused on ruins. We had choosen to work on Hashima Island in between the other ruined case studies we investigated which were abandoned due to various different reasons. Hashima Island - also called Gunkanjima Island - is located 18km off the coast of Nagasaki City. The island was previously a coal mine managed by a private company from the begining of 20th century and abandoned in 1974. Hashima was left untouched for 35 years when a deck was installed on the southern edge of the island for hosting touristic visits. The conclusion of the thesis work is to change the understanding of ruined areas and to propose a different tourism for such sites.
Hashima Island
端 島 神 社 荒 廃
The first chapter of the work is on “physcology of ruins” and tries to find the answer to the question “Why human kind finds ruined spaces attractive?“. Detailing the research from various different aspects we concluded the chapter with 8 key themes aim to explain the unconscious reasons for appriciating ruins; natural reclamation framing exploration transience hedonic reversal sinister ambience memory incompleteness The following section of the thesis project deals with a range of conceptual proposals for the Hashima Island site. The process of developing these concepts was undertaken by directly applying the themes established within the theoretical part of the research. Accordingly the project follows a continuous design process from research to concept.We had came out with many different conceptual proposals along with the concept we based our project on. The Urban Illision Concept
Ruin Porn Concept
Hashima Island as a ship
The Urban Illision Concept explores the incompleteness of ruins. Ruinous often retain the general appearance of a habitable building but are abandoned and decomposing. In this sense ruins can be considered as illusions and the definition of ruined places is left to the interpretation of the viewer. Ruin Porn Concept criticizes the effect of mass tourism focused around the theme exploration. The popularization of ruinous places and the aesthetic of decay have generated the term “ruin porn” to describe the appreciation of ruins on a purely superficial level. In response to this Hashima island was reimagined as a floating open air museum, dislocated from its bedrock becoming a mobile element which can be transported.
Following chapter introduces the project site and the proposal. The site, located 18km away from Nagasaki shore, was once occupied by over 5000 people which exists today as a decomposing corpse. Hashima appears as a symbol of a failed human system. If ruin is the death of architecture then Hashima island represents a graveyard of urbanity. The project seeks to redefine ruinous places as tools for facilitating inward reflection. The proposal aims to develop an architecture of experience which explores a deeper spiritual connection to the place. The conceptual proposal for the project is inspired by Japanese spirituality, primarily pilgrimages. In most cases pilgrims journey along a defined route visiting a number of “reijo� or sacred points in search of personal enlightenment. The project redefines the abandoned island of Hashima as a contemporary pilgrimage journey.
Existing Observation Deck
Shirine of Suffering
Shirine of Spirits Shirine of Time
Shirine of Memory
The architectural manifestation of this concept calls for the introduction of four sacred spaces each of which is dedicated to a theme connected to ruination and mortality
Plans and sections for The Shrine of Spirits
The shrine of spirits is located upon the site of the former Shinto temple
Model - Shrine of Suffering Dedicated to the forced labour of the slaves
Pictures of the final thesis book
CLUB HOUSE SHENZHEN ARES partners
The first project i took part was a private club house planned in Shenzhen. The design of the masterplan was done before i joined the team. I designed the teahouse for the complex and leaded the project team producing first the conceptual drawings and presentation, later the architectural drawing set for the client. While i did the inoffice organization to produce the drawings, i was also incharge of the communication with the engineering office and arranging drawings accordingly. The project is renovating and designing additions to an existing group of buildings which were located on top of a hill surrounded by a lychee forest. The existing buildings were erected in the past 20 years when Shenzen went through the extraordinary development and left abandoned in short time. All the buildings are only 1 floor high and done with reinforeced concrete and bricks. According to structural analysis we planned to tear down one of the buildings to rebuilt as it was and we added 4 new buildings to the site one of which was my design for the teahouse. The masterplan consists 8 guestrooms, reception building, dining room, reading room and a teahouse done in total 1200 square meters.
North Building Group teahouse guestrooms reception building South Building Group guestrooms dining room
The image below is the view of the southern courtyard, dining room and guestrooms surrounds the reflection pool designed .
the view of the south building group
teahouse sections
40厚细石混凝保护层 80mm厚保温层 高分子防水卷材 20mm厚水泥砂浆找平层 细石混凝土找坡层最薄处 30厚
金属盖板 成品金属雨水沟
150mm厚钢筋混凝土屋面板
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水磨石完成面 30厚C20细石混凝土保护层 高分子防水卷材 120mm厚钢筋混凝土楼板
户外砖型号待定
C15混凝土垫层
混凝土板
回填碎石
回填碎石 素土夯实
素土夯实 FFL + 0.300
teahouse south facade
view of the dining room
YUNTAISHAN TOURISTIC STREET HENAN ARES partners
The YuntaiShan village has built during 90s as the mountain became a popular touristic scenic point. The old masterplan of the village where consist only bed&breakfast and shops, is developed as an orthagonal scheme denying the topographical facts of the site. With these repetitive buildings the village stands as a concrete island isolated from the surrounding nature. Our task was to demolish and redesign one of the many identical streets of this village. I worked as the teamleader developing the design and conceptual drawings. We analysed the vernacular architecture and local construction materials in the nearby villages where survived the industralization of tourism, to restore and rebuild the damaged identity of the village. We tried to use a contemporary language rather than imitating past. We decided to use stone as our main material while we have some plastered, more contemporary additions on each building. While we try to design an interesting street and propose an atrraction for the village, one of the big problems was to have 20 share holders.
Type A
Type B
Type C
Type D
Type E
In order prepare a scheme which could give each lot owner more or less the same cost values and square meters we came up with a base plan and modified it slightly to generate not identical buildings. The base plan we prepared was a result of the analysis of the courtyard family houses in the surrounding villages.
axonometric view of the street
PRINTING FACTORY RENOVATION SHANGHAI ARES partners
The project is a proposal for renovating an old printing factory to office spaces which is located in Pudong, Shanghai. I worked as a teamleader. We were commisioned to give a quick proposal for the factory building to explore the possibilities restoring this building. We planned to expose the strcutural system on the facade and design window panel which could repeat in all the facade. We strip the strange bulge, primarily designed as an entrance, to reduce the crushing effect of it and proposed a mesh wire which give the opportunity to create balconies behind. I was in charge of consulting the design and communicating wth the rendering company to generate the better images.
existing circulation core proposed circulation core
CROSS COUNTRY SERVICE BUILDING ZHANGJIAKOU Atelier TeamMinus
I was assigned to develop a concept for the brief which requires to come up with a solution to use the service building as another function after it has done its purpose for winter olympic games 2022. To overcome he problems that may occur while shifting the function, a single space is proposed with 2 cores serving as circulation and bathroom units. The spatial arrangement is done with the consultancy of experts according to the competition requirements. The building is composed of 2 volumes. The ground level which contains the functions for the sportsman and onfield staff creates the platform for the second volume to rise on. The second part is a deformed rectangular volume where is spared for the judges and the olympic family. It has thought to stand as an abstract, manmade object in the nature.
View of the main entrance
GALLERY FOR GARDEN EXPO BEIJING Atelier TeamMinus
The Gallery building is located in the center of the village designed for the Garden Expo 2019 BeiJing . The purpose of the building is to held a small informative exhibition for the main event. The concept is derived from the idea of how the public space defined in the Chinese villages. Through analysing the chinese rural a stage has decided to built to mark the center of the Expo village. Gallery building is navigated according to the stage, burried underground. The exhibition spaces designed to be percetable from outside.
KUŞADASI GOLF CLUB AYDIN ARMİM Mimarlık
In the period i worked in Turkey at Armim Mimarlık, i involved in the design development and construction drawings of the club house for Kuşadası golf course. The building planned as a part of a residential community with 2000 dwellings which was also designed and developed by the same office. Except from being a part of the residential community the club intended to serve the region. The golf club is in use since 2013. Working on this project i had the chance to raise my knowledge on construction and detail drawings.
Site Section
Master Plan
Ground Level Plan
HERITAGE ARCHIVES PAMUKKALE
The competitions aim was to design an observation deck for Pamukkale where is a thermal site. The views offered by the naturally existing deck generates the idea that any building designed can not top existing situation. This leaded the search to find a definetive use for the building which could be more than a deck and maybe help solving other problems. The project focuses on offering a wire of archives around Turkey which are located in strategic points to preserve, document and share the information about heritage sites with the public as a way to increase awareness. Regarding the fact that a simple platform would serve as a high quality observation deck in this specific site, the project focuses on the social impact that the building could have using this adventegous location. The facadeless volume appears in the landscape as a man made terrace, mostly burried under earth. The building is inverted inside forming an agora type structure. Having the archives in center, the building surrounds the open event space where is desgined for scheduled events and daily use. The main entrance door designed and rotated to offer a particular framed view of the travertines visible from the inner courtyard.
Archive building is located on the path which forms two level of terraces.The courtyard planned for daily uses and to hold events in order to identify the place as a spot of gathering. The platform above gives the building its shape while serving as a viewpoint. The platform below is thought to be an expansion of the agora as well as a viewing platform.
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1 main entrance 2 courtyard 3 archives entrance 4 archives main room 5 archives 6 storage 7 bathroom
POST-WAR CAMP MOSUL in collaboration with Silvia Campi
The first phase of the proposal imagines an urgent humanitarian aid camp for the people who intend to return Mosul. The second phase of the project suggests hosting co-housing and co-farming clusters around the Tigris river in order to reintegrate the citizens into society and a normal daily life. The strategy is to use the debris of the ruined city as construction material for the permanent buildings in both sites. The urgent humanitarian aid camp will be placed on the island on Tigris river and intended to be converted into a memorial park once it has served it’s purpose. The shelters in the camp planned to be built by using compressed cardboard which would be dismantled after its use. Meanwhile the public buildings will be made with recycled bricks, produced from the rubble of the destroyed city of Mosul.
View of the temporary shelters and permanent public buildings in the first phase
The housing units are planned to host 12 to 15 families. The working area, kitchen, dining and storage are planned as share spaces. View of the farming clusters
The single room is planned to accomodate 4 person, 1 male and 1 female bathroom placed for every 8 modules. The structure is thought to be done with compressed cardboard while recycled paper is used for the partitions
Plan of the humanitarian camp
MUSEUM
BERLIN in colaboration with Ilaria Positano Greg Petroupolos The project is located in Mitte, Berlin, on the riverside of the Spree, in an area characterized by two types of urban fabrics. The project designed to complete the urban island and the row houses with a public square which is one of the spaces on the promonade proposed in higher scale. The main concept of the volumetric studies based on symbolically finishing the journey which begins in the island of museums. The central volume, which overlooks the river contains exhibition rooms veritable while the services are placed on the edge of the area. The complex is unified with an elevated public square in the ground level.
PLANNING THE FUTURE REGGIO EMILIA / ITALY in cooperation with Gregorios Petropoulos Polina Kanatouri
Reggio Emilia, the capital of the region Emilia-Romagna, is located on an ancient Roman road which connects Alps to Adriatic Sea, lays on the Po valley. The pure hexagonal form of the city center comes from the historical walls of the city. The road system created to form a ring around the hexagonal center generates undefined spaces and a striking partition on many levels between the new and the old parts of city, because the road working as strong physical barrier. We started with the idea of giving this vehicle conquered space to pedesterians and to design the existing ring as a circular continuous park which would work as an atraction point opposing the existing situation. First thing we did is to identfy the existing green areas and the potential spaces in the city where would be converted. We came out with 20 different spaces- 6 of them are on the periphery and the 14 is in the city center to form a network of squares and parks connecting the city center. Perimetrical areas are where we defined the new entrances to city center with underground car parking and main green areas connected with the circular park around. Parking and the vehicle existence is the second big problem in the city center so second part of our proposal included the car parking in the pre-defined areas under the main green spaces. We planned to reduce car presence in the center in different phases and at the end completely avoid it. Supporting the main concept we tried to implement alternative transportation devices such as the public biking and defined the routes with atraction points. We defined 3 strategies - Relocate, Redesign, Reuse.
LIBRARY
REGGIO EMILIA After preparing our main strategy as a group we designed the masterplan of the defined area. The master plan designed respecting the existing building line and the surrounding historical/important buildings. The first thing we did is to define which buildings to transform and which ones to demolish.The master plan included housing for students, a future arts faculty and gallery space inside the existing complex in the center, a library, a performance hall, exhibition hall and a kindergarden connected through the public spaces. The main object of the masterplan is to bring all age groups together and also to make the area a interaction point between the old and the new part of Reggio Emilia. The area i developed contains the library, performance hall and the exhibiton hall which generated highly social and cultural programme. In order to achieve the needs of the site 3 different kind of public spaces are designed in a sequence concerning the different privacy levels required by the surrounding programmes.
1 entrance / 2 borrow desk / 3 book store - bar / 4 inner garden / 5 children library / 6 public Pc’s 7 adult reading rooms / 8 area for group use / 9 isolated classrooms / 10 offices
Section
Axonometric view of connection of the main entrance and the proposed public space.
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