Sinay Coskun Gokalp - Urban Planning and Spatial Data Science Portfolio

Sinay Coskun Gokalp urban planning spatial data science

Portfolio

PREFACE

Hello, I’m Sinay!

I hold a bachelor’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Middle East Technical University, in Turkey. I’m a recent graduate of the Master in City and Technology Program at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, credited by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Taking place in Barcelona, the capital of urbanism, I am and trained on and experienced in the use of latest tools of computational design,urban simulations, and spatial data science, having attended seminars on programming, mapping, big data analytics and visualization.

SINAY COSKUN GOKALP Personal Website: sinaycgokalp.com Email: sinaycgokalp@gmail.com

New York, NY, 11201

CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION Master in City & Technology Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia | Barcelona, SPAIN

2020 - 2021

Bachelor in City and Regional Planning Middle East Technical University | Ankara, TURKEY

2016 - 2020

English Preparatory School Middle East Technical University | Ankara, TURKEY

2015 - 2016

EXPERIENCE Designer / Public Information Specialist REACH Family and Education Center | Volunteer @ New York, NY » Website design » Social media management » Community outreach and participation Urban Planner AtolyeZEA | Project-based (Remote) » Climatic, geographical, and infrastructural (GIS-based) site analysis » Report preparation, presentation design and documentation Urban Planner Labanc Studio | Project-based @ Barcelona, SPAIN » Architectural concept studies and mobility planning » Project preparation and submittal » Technical report preparation and presentation

Jan 2022 - Present

Sep 2021- Dec 2021

Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

Urban Planner Likya Planning and Architecture | Part-time @ Ankara, TURKEY

» Land-use planning and master plan development » Geographical (GIS-based) site analysis » Stakeholder analysis and community engagement strategies

Feb 2019 - Feb 2020

Urban Design Intern DNA Barcelona Architects | Intership @ Barcelona, SPAIN

Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

» Architectural concept studies » Preliminary site analysis and mobility planning » Websit design & media communication Junior Designer 4M Salali Architects | Project-based @ Ankara, Turkey

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

» Architectural concept studies and 3D modelling Urban Design Intern Middle East Technical University | Internship @ Ankara, Turkey

Jun 2016- Jul 2016

» Measurement of topographical elements » Mapping and analysis of cartographic data » Digital design and presentation

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS City Street 5 - Time of Streets Symposium | Project Presentation: “Phoenix Poblenou” University of Lisbon @ Lisbon, Portugal

Oct 2022

AESOP - 16th Young Academics Conference | Project Presentation: “Renaturing River Llobregat” Association of European Schools of Planning @ Istanbul, Turkey

Apr 2022

APA National Planning Conference | Panelist: “Planning for Gen Z and the Common Good” American Planning Association @ San Diego, CA

Apr 2022

APA National Planning Conference | Panelist: “How Planners Can Avoid Becoming Victims of Automation” American Planning Association (Online) Apr 2022 Data Driven Mobility Hackathon | First Place: “Pathaway” WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities | (Online)

Dec 2021

Collaborative Research Project: “Urban Intelligence” | Participant Foster + Partners & IAAC @ Barcelona, SPAIN

May 2021

Collaborative Research Project: “The New Old” | Participant The Why Factory & IAAC @ Barcelona, SPAIN

Feb 2021

Urbanism Colloquium | Project Presentation: “Planning, Concepts and Ways of Searching” Chamber of City Planners | Ankara, Turkey

Nov 2019

Training Camp | Participant Chamber of City Planners | Izmir,TURKEY

Aug 2018

Adobe Illustrator AutoCAD 2D CorelDraw

ArcGIS Pro Python Tableau Microsoft Excel

SketchUp Lumion Rhino 3D

Other Related

Adobe InDesign

QGIS

Modellnig & Rendering

Adobe Photoshop

Data Analysis & Visualization

Graphic Design

SKILL-SET

Grasshopper 3D

WordPress Caesar Lisfood Circuitscape Microsoft Office

3ds Max

CERTIFICATES Leveraging Urban Mobility Disruptions to Create Better Cities

a course of study offered by MITx, an online learning initiative of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GIS Foundations a course of study offered by AlaskaX, an online learning initiative of University of Alaska Fairbanks

HOBIES & EXTRAS Volunteer Hope for New York | New York, NY

Aug 2021 - Present

Volunteer Tutor REACH Family and Education Center | New York, NY

Sep 2021 - Present

Volunteer Tutor Foundation for Children with Leukaemia | Ankara, TURKEY

Photography

Nature, Artefact and Facade Photography

Amateur Sailing

Certificate Competence for Operators of Pleasure Craft

2019 - 2021

CONTENTS

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RENATURING BA R C E L O NA December, 2020

PHOENI POBLENO June, 2021

PREFACE

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NEW NOMAD WORLD March, 2021

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SHAPING REGIONAL FUTURES April, 2020

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LABSNAMÄE May, 2021

OTHER WO R K S 2018 - 2022

Exibitions Workshops Photography

RENATURING RIVER LLOBREGAT

Developed with the aim of minimizing the flood risk due to the climate crisis and preventing urban expansion towards rivers.

Aims to effectively restore the river to a more naturally functioning system.

Selected to be presented in AESOP Young Academics Conference 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.

// individual contribution graphical representation | rendering | river simulation | data analysis & visualization

Project details: https://sinaycgokalp.com/renaturing-barcelona/

Renaturing River Llobregat is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at Master in City & Technology in 2020/21 by student: Sinay Coskun Gokalp, Aishath Nadh Ha Naseer, Hebah Qatanany, Laura Guimaraes, Mario Jose Gonzalez and faculty: Eduardo Rico, Mathilde Marengo & Iacopo Neri

River Anatomy

Llobregat River is a 170km river with large flood risk areas, that affect many Catalonia municipalities, not just Barcelona. Moreover, it has dams all along its course representing a river with high human intervention.

Potentials & Risks

Based on mapping studies and analysis of risks and opportunities, we opted for working on the Llobregat Delta area which contains a conservation zone, agricultural park and industry hub with the airport.

In the Delta, Barcelona’s desire for expansion meets farmland of immense economic importance, while it also faces water quality issues brought downstream from mining facilities. All of these issues play out in a territory that has been recognized as being of exceptional ecological value.

Stakeholder Analysis

We identified the stakeholders that control the Llobregat starting from the main projects and going deeper in the analysis of the river. We were able to conclude the high influence the agricultural and industrial areas (green and orange circles) have on the river, as well as some entities and facilities controlled by the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and the Catalan Water Agency, and even the Airport and Port of Barcelona, which flank the river on both sides of its mouth and strengthen the agriculture and industry hub of the lower Llobregat.

Causes & Effects

River Simulations

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

Phase 5

Further calculations were done to identify by how much the agricultural fields will be affected by the new river meandering in each of its phases. This was done in order to guide the potential adaptations scenarios that could be presented to the affected farmers.

We used Caesar simulation program that allowed us to visualize how and where the river would potentially flow over different time spans, and naturally the landscape starts to form wetlands, at this point we also identify that this new meandering will have an impact on existing agricultural areas.

Affected agricultural lands - Actions low - compensated for economic loss

medium - merge with other lands

high - adopt to aquaculture on wetlands

Research Methodology

Design Proposal roads

agriculture

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terraced edges

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agriculture

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dam removal

agriculture

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sedimental zone

river bed stabilization

channel creation

adoptation program

wetland creation

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bioswales

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aquaculture

urban farms

education program

roof gardens

The process begins with blocking the water with terrace edges to prevent the flow of water towards surrounding urban areas.

Then we start to see the first meanders and the formation of a new channel using the simulation software. In the second phase, wetlands provide new habitats for flora and fauna and at the end of this phase, an educational program is proposed that trains the farmers affected. With the formation of more water bodies and changes in the landscape, we start introducing river engineering mechanisms such sedimental zones that help control river flow and erosion levels.

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Phase 5

As time passes, the river starts taking up more land and creating more meandering. So, at this stage start to introduce bio-filtering mechanisms and also introducing off-site solutions that will allow compensations for the loss of food production by introducing urban farms in different available voids in the city. This further strengthens the connection of the citizens with food production and to the site itself.

aqua tourism

Once the riverbed is stabilized, we can focus more on engaging the public by creating agricultural educational programs and aqua-tourism programs that will help fund the maintenance of the wetlands.

Finally, we can begin to focus on community building by designing recreational areas connecting rural and urban and open the site for the public engagement.

urban park

Phase 6

proposed system narutal wetland

aqua-tourism

park

renatured river

PHOENIX POBLENOU

Aimed at promoting urban vibrancy, by making use of morphological metrics. It promises an inclusive platform to create a communication channel between those who propose changes and those who will experience them in an urban environment.

Selected to be published and presented in City Street Conference 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.

// individual contribution data management & cleaning | data analysis & visualization graphical representation | observatory research

Project details: https://sinaycgokalp.com/phoenix-poblenou/ Collective studio interface: https://iob.iaac.net/app.html

Phoenix Poblenou is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at Master in City & Technology in 2020/21 by students: Sinay Coskun Gokalp, Arina Novikova, Kshama Patil, Simone Grasso, Stephania Kousoula and faculty: Angelos Chronis, Iacopo Neri, Mahsa Nikoufar and Androniki Pappa

Research Methodology mixture of uses frontage activeness existance of items mixture of uses existance of items

building blocks roads point of interests

Phoenix Poblenou puts an emphasis on the next phases for Barcelona’s 22@ innovation district reflecting new challenges. It is aimed at responding this radical change that awaits the area in the near future, with the tools suggested by the urban vibrancy.

Phoenix Poblenou has been completed in three main phases: analysis, development, and finally the user interface as the output of the project.

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Analysis begins with mapping vibrancy levels in the built environment, considering 4 main categories: 1) Buildings, 2) Blocks 3) Roads, 4) Point of Interest. Under each category, maps indicate separate layers of analysis on various factors affecting urban vibrancy such as density levels, entropy calculations, mixture etc.

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Analysis of the vibrancy in ground level has been made based on site observations on Mixture of Activities, Existence of Items, Frontage Activeness and Mixture of Uses. Road matrix is divided into x and y axis and assigned a value to each segment in between the intersections, where the maximum vibrancy value is 100. In this way we were able to analyse the variation of vibrancy through sections and understand how they vary in relation to the morphological parameters as the building height and the road size.

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To develop a better understanding, all layers of analysis (density and entropy maps) have been merged both for Vibrancy of Built Environment and the Ground Floor, providing 2 maps for overall vibrancy levels. In the last phase, the overall vibrancy maps consisting of all analysis layers of analysis were combined on a single map, providing the total vibrancy map of the area.

Total vibrancy map highlights the high, medium, and low vibrancy levels in the study area which help us, in the next step, to propose relevant interventions.

Catalogue of Ideas The catalogue contains possible interventions developed to increase the urban vibrancy in the area. They are thought to be suggested by the technical team members based on previous maps and analytics.

User Interface

Technical Team Members

Layers of analysis Technical team members can explore the total vibrancy levels in the area with all layers of analysis.

Once the layers are analysed and those having rough edges selected, then we can continue with the catalogue of interventions that are affecting the layers that have been selected before.

Catalogue of ideas The catalogue consisting of proposals made and uploaded by technical teams. Every proposal is categorized based on the metrics affecting urban vibrancy. Following the analysis, we can identify the metrics that are lagging behind, and through the filters we can cluster the proposals that are affecting these specific metrics.

Visualization panel In the visualization panel we can see proposals demonstrated on their actual locations and scales.

Recalculation After selecting the proposals, one can recalculate the total Urban Vibrancy levels that will occur if you implement the selected proposals.

Finally, you will be able to compare the two results in order to understand how the proposals are affecting the selected area.

Community Memebers Ongoing projects

Catalogue of ideas

The interface also allows community members to interact actively and participate in the process.

Once they login, they will see the overall vibrancy map with ongoing projects where they can check for project details and time-lines in their neighbourhoods. In the catalogue, they will see all possible proposals suggested by the technical teams. There is also a possibility to highlight any proposal, meaning that a community member wants this to be implemented in his neighbourhood. Or they can leave a comment on the suggested proposals.

Visualization panel

In the next step, community members will be able to visualize the projects that are having a specific location developed and suggested by technical teams. Furthermore, all these proposals will be open to debate and vote by the community members for active participation.

User interface guideline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP6QcWZvXfA

SHAPING REGIONAL FUTURES

Developed with the aim of defining upper scale strategies for Bursa, which has a heterogeneous and multi-sectoral urban structure, and applying these strategies in the master development plan, following a comprehensive preliminary analysis.

Shaping Regional Futures is a project of METU, Middle East Technical University developed at the Department of City and Regional Planning 2018/19 by Sinay Coskun and faculty: Nil Uzun, Yucel Can Severcan, Burcu Ozdemir Sarı, Esma Aksoy Khurami, Damla Karagoz and Aynur Uluc

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Bursa, which has a long history of urbanization, is a city with limited land for urban settlements due to its various natural thresholds. However, during the urbanization process, they built settlements on the protected areas and the earthquake regions as well as high slope areas. These are determined as risk areas at the preliminary stage of the project. The threshold analysis is a basis for the comprehensive SWOT analysis in the next step and for the master development plan in the final step.

Alteration of Street Form and Block Sizes

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Looking at the planning history, the areas that were initially under protection or high risk have been opened to settlement and the increasing urban population has paved the way for high-rise constructions. The shrinking of block sizes, narrowing of the streets and development of detached housing are some observations made to interpret the rapid population growth and the dense urban

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Herbal product exportation Herbal product exportation Industrial material exportation Thermal tourism activities Existence of natural resources Congress tourism activities University & research activities Airport; passenger traffic Existence of national parks

T1: T2: T3: T4:

Destruction of agricultural lands Settlements in poor conditions Close proximity to landfill areas Close proximity to industrial sites

Threats

S1: S2: S3: S4: S5: S6: S7: S8: S9:

Strength

SWOT Analysis

Weakness Opportunity

W1: Lack of agribusinesses activities Lack of transportation facilities W2: High environmental pollution W3: Declining agricultural activity W4: Settlements on the fault line W5: High unemployment rates W6: W7: Lack of social and educational fac.

W8: Destruction of natural formation Damaging mining activities W9:

O1: O2: O3: O4: O5: O6: O7:

Strengthened road network Logistic and research centers Agribusinesses units in progress New public transportation routes Rearranged industrial units University-industry collaboration Regional - transit routes

Strategic Urban Plan

Strategies have been developed with an upper scale plan considering the urbanization process and today’s heterogeneous structure of the city. At this step, principal purposes were determined as: Identifying the urban regeneration areas to ensure better use/allocation of land resources, protecting the natural barriers between industrial zones and residential areas, and defining new development areas to prevent illegal housing construction.

Current landuse local settlements

forentlands

urban greenery

hitorical urban pattern

commercial uses

educational facilities

industrys

Strategies for future development extending metro lines to facilitate access to social, techinal other public services

improving existing conventional line to prevent newrail systems destroying lowlands

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new development areas to prevent illegal housing construction,urban sprawl

urban regeneration areas to ensure better use/ allocation of land resources

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defining a natural boundary to prevent further sprawl on natural protected areas

defining a boundary to prevent further sprawl on plain protection area

using stock to be filled up ed density

afforestation areas to provide adequate amount of green per person in the city

providing a buffer zone btw. industry and settlements within close proximity

Master Development Plan

Master development plan envisages the implementation of upper scale decisions in different phases. As a prior step, several strategies have been proposed as a solution for housing problem including: Defining new development areas that allow for different densities by considering the natural conditions, housing clearance on high-risk zones and re-utilizing these areas, as well as the most efficient use of existing housing stock with housing re-allocation, redevelopment and retrofitting.

low-dense residential area

mid-dense residential area

social service dependent settlements

housing clearance areas

new dev

tech. service dependent settlements

eco-city project area

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technical service dependent settlements

irrigated farming areas

leasehold for agricultural lands

supported private farming activities

transferred outspread industries

storage/warehousing units

implementation of law no: 4265/25

tourist activity zones

local bus stops and corridor

extended metro lines & stops

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Considering the multi-sectoral economic structure of the city, the main purposes of the proposed spatial strategies for agriculture, industry and tourism are: To minimize logistics problems by envisioning well-connected transportation routes, to support industry - university cooperation and to provide equal opportunities for both existing and proposed settlements to access these services.

high-dense resident,area

commercial axes

housing allocation for industrial workers

velopment on vacant lands

redevelopment of existing housing

housing allocation for uni. students

age new development area

military zone

urban forest

urban park

sports field

dry land farming areas

reafforestation areas

urban recrational and breathing areas

university-controlled lands

afforestation areas

hospitals and health services

small indutrial zones

organized industrial zones

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waste water treatment plant

solid waste stogare units/areas

high speed train

centers of each district

boundaries of identified 8 regions

university

education unit

SERVICE FOR

THE NEW NOMAD WORLD

Aimed at questioning the actual system of tourism and its future in a post-capitalistic world by making assumptions for the future. The challenge was to take the specific role of the Airbnb company to provide a beneficial layer to the city and its citizens.

// individual contribution data management and cleaning | analysis & visualization | graphical representation

Project details: https://sinaycgokalp.com/new-nomad-world-the-end-of-tourism-as-we-know-it/ Data processing: https://www.iaacblog.com/programs/reclassifying-tourists-profile/

New Nomad World: The end of tourism as we know it is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at Master in City & Technology in 2020/21 by students: Sinay Coskun Gokalp, Adriana Aguirre Such, Arina Novikova, Aishath Nadh Ha Naseer and faculty: Luis Falcón & Iacopo Neri.

Context

Future Assumptions

Digital nomads Digital nomads choose location-independent and technology-enabled lifestyle that allows them to travel and work remotely. And thus, they regret owning any commodity. Their most distinctive characteristic is that they travel for long periods of time regardless of their destination.

There are three basic assumptions underlying the scope of the project, which have been reached by doing literature research and based on static data: We will have fast & cheaper technologies, more mobile workers and less ownership trends in near future.

Challenge

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Taking the role of Airbnb company, we believe that Digital Nomads will be the entrepreneurs of the new nomadic lifestyle given that every year the culture of nomadism will be adopted by more people. As it is stated in the Future of Remote Work Report, 27% of the European workforce will switch to the remote system in the future and Nomadism will be as common as any traditional lifestyle.

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The wild growth of technology will increase the speed of our digital and physical connectivity. The speed of Internet will increase to 12.5 Gb per second that allows us to get connected, anywhere and anytime. And through time we will spend %75 less time in our travels thanks to the improvements in aviation technology.

Source: Alcatel-Luvent, Exhibit 9.21 & Gizmag, 2014

Historical & projected home ownership rate in the US (%) 70 65 60 55 50 45 1960

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Accessibility is becoming more powerful than ownership. Ownership patterns in housing market is one of the solid indicators. The tendency of home ownership is in constant declining since 2010. By 2050, the home ownership rate will fall below 50%. It is also estimated that in less than fifteen years, companies working in the sharing economies will increase by 2333%.

(Source: US Decennial census to 2010)

Planned business adaptation in response to COVID-19 (%) accelerate the process for work digitalization

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The perception of “work” is changing. Due to Covid, 84% of the companies have accelerated the digitalization of the work and 83% of the companies have provided more opportunity to work remotely.

In 5 years, due to the automation process and improvements in Artificial Intelligence, 98 million jobs will be displaced, but we will have 97 million new kinds.

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accelerate automation of tasks promote digitalization of re-skilling/up-skilling

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implement the programs for re-skilling/up-skilling

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accelerate organizational transformations 30

temporarily reassign workers to different tasks

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temporarily reduce workforce 13

permanently reduce workforce temporarily increase workforce no specific measures taken

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Source: The future of jobs survey 2020

Share of task hours (%) information and data processing looking for and receiving job related information performing complex and technical activities administering identifying and evaluating job-related information all other tasks performing physical and manual work activities communicating and interacting reasoning and decision making coordinating, developing , managing and advising 0

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Airbnb: Selling trust

Airbnb is a mediator between host and the guest and charges a fee to both as an inter mediator. It sells trust using unique tools: transparency, safety and information. In fact, In Barcelona (and many other cities) the company got into the difficulties in Barcelona as it is perceived as an enemy of the city by the locals due to the high demand on short term rental places.

Profile review

Providing local information

Secure payments

Suspicious activity tracking

Airbnb: Business loss Company cost & expenses Due to global pandemic tourism sector collapsed, and the company lost 1.2 billion in nine months. We see this as an opportunity to rethink our business model and to adapt to the changing reality. Our business model can’t rely only on short term stays anymore, and our challenge is to improve the model itself.

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2020 Decline in Airbnb reservation rate

In order to compensate for this loss experienced by the company, it has become obligatory to reconsider the business model. For this reason, our project aims to develop a new model, taking into account the existing problems faced by growing population of digital nomads.

Source: AirDna

Barriers Towards Nomadic Lifestyle | Barcelona // No rental options for mid-term visits Airbnb does not have a business strategy that can meet the needs of the growing population of digital nomads in cities such as Barcelona that are the focus of international tourism. Digital nomads stay between 1 and 3 months (called as mid-term visitors in our study) due to their lifestyles and preferences.

However, state rules and local regulations follow a restrictive attitude for mid-term stays.

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Barriers Towards Nomadic Lifestyle | Barcelona // No interaction between locals and tourists

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Total Number of Tweets

To analyse their movement patterns in the city, we analyse 3 years twitter data (320 K geolocated unique IDs) following the data management, cleaning, and filtering processes. This analysis allowed us to detect the activity of different tourist profiles at different times of the day and at different times of the year. While determining the tourist profiles, they are classified according to their duration of stay based on the first and last date of tweets by each unique id, applying time delta function.

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In the first step, we have an expectation from both hosts and the guests to submit their location information and personal data in our system. In the second step, the system will assign an ID and provide it to the municipality. In return, we expect the municipality to handle the legal processes quickly and safely through our system. At the end, hosts will receive their permission to operate and guests will be provided with necessary rights and duties in a timely manner.

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Sharing Cities | “New nomads will bring a no ownership culture”

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living spaces accessible for all

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There is no commodity ownership culture in Nomadic lifestyle. Today, considering the effects of the global pandemic, the number of digital nomads is increasing rapidly. We believe that they will pioneer a new culture in which urban infrastructure and other components of urban life will be shared and citizen will live, work and learn together. New nomads will bring a no ownership culture.

LABSNAMÄE Building of a Promise

Labsnamäe promotes a new urban model in the district, Lasnamäe, in Tallinn. Experimenting in one of the micro-rayons (small administrative units), it proposes a novel design strategy based on circular economy.

Developed in Urban Design course between IAAC and Foster + Partners within the framework of the next Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022 Tallinn, Estonia.

// individual contribution graphical representation | rendering | data management & cleanning

Project details: https://sinaycgokalp.com/labsnamae-the-building-of-a-promise/

Labsnamäe | The Building of a promise is a project of IAAC, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at Master in City and Technology in 2020/21 by students: Sinay Coskun Gokalp, Adriana Aguirre Such, Iñigo Esteban Marina, Marta Maria Galdys, Stefania-Maria Kousoula and faculty: Andy Bow, Bruno Moser and Laura Narvaez Zertuche

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LABSNAMÄE aims to develop a New Economic Model based on Industry 4.0 that will bring new jobs to the district and consequently will attract younger people. Its existing educational infrastructure will be the base to create a New Educational System that will attract new families. New system also proposes the creation of Elderly City Labs that will be the connecting place of the generations living in the area. Overall, it promises a new Urban Model that will bring resiliency, circularity, efficiency, adaptability and new materials.

Social segregation

% of Elderly People 0%

65%

Lack of job opportunities

Segregation is based on the distribution of population by age.

Lasnamäe is inhabited mostly by elderly people, while the youth of Tallinn are willing to live in more central locations within the city.

Lack of job opportunities also contributes to the segregation. The area was firstly designed as a residential area for people working in the industrial sites. Through the years though, the working model has changed and while the area can have enough space for living, it doesn’t have enough work related infrastructure.

Residential Business Production Mining Land

Unhealt effects

Mining Lands

Lack of human scale

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Despite this model of work becoming obsolete, Lasnamae still continues to produce materials with old methods and techniques which has several unhealthy effects in return.

The last challenge detected in the district is that the area has open wide spaces, however, considering the height of the buildings there is no respect to the human scale.

Thus, people are getting lost in this wideness without any objects or urban elements adjusted in human scale around.

Strategy Assessment District Scale 1

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Vertical to the economical axis, we propose devolopment of a social axis in every micro-rayon that connects the education facilities at the centre of the micro-rayons and concentrates amenities and services. On the intersection of these 2 axes, will be the “core” of our new communities. Finally, we want to renaturalize the degraded area of the corridor in order to use the materials for our construction as well as increase the green areas of Lasnamäe.

Our strategy, on district scale, focuses on the disconnection of micro-rayons and the lack of public transportation in between them. In order to connect the existing residential areas as while reducing car usage, we want to create a circular tram line. This process will be followed by a new transversal economical axis, on the trace of the unbuilt highway for the new industries 4.0 to promote novel methods of construction and a more sustainable construction economy to reformulate segregation.

Pilot project area

Although this strategy is scalable for the entire district, in order to implement our ideas, we worked on a Pilot Project Area, Kuristiku, which is one of the micro-rayons. It has a population of 10.000 people and is inhabited by mostly elderly and Russian-speaking people, as in many parts of the district. Prior to the design decisions, we ran several analyses to inform design process that includes but not limited to solar and wind analysis, weather conditions, land uses and accessibility analysis.

Pilot Project Area - Analysis Design decisions

Solar analysis

Hours 6.00 5.40 4.80 4.20 3.60 3.00 2.40 1.80 1.20 0.60

Orientation of public spaces

Mobility analysis roads buildings entrances pathways bus stops cycle route parking lots project area

roads tram line pathways cycle route service roads

Land use analysis

cafe parks schools business restaurant residential production playground kindergarten

fablabs schools business residential elderly labs commercial kindergarten winter garden

Wind analysis

buildings as wind barriers dense tree planting

Pilot Project Area

Kindergarten

Existing Roads

Commerce

Social axis

FabLabs

Schools

New pathways

Business

Mobility axis

ElderlyLabs

New roads

New development

Tram station

Parks

Residential

Phasing & Policies Grid

Amenities

Bus line

No parking Termal comfort

Phase 1 Renaturing Soil recovering

Tram

Greenery

No parking

Bike line

Connections

FabLabs

Furniture

Integration

Sidewalk

Materials

Housing

Ground floor

Phase 2

Building infrastructure

Interaction Social axis

Phase 3

Production through inclusion

Wind energy

Phase 4

Rehabilitation of pilot area

Winter areas

Rehabilitation

Solar energy

Policy 1

Green areas

Policy 3

Plant more trees

Permanent

In Phase 1, we aim to recover the soil through forestation in pilot project area. Moving to phase 2, Building the Infrastructure, we propose to create main axes in accordance with the strategy. Phase 3 focuses more on the Production through inclusion and the connection of the communities. The last phase focuses on total rehabilitation of the micro-rayon. By rehabilitating the old buildings, recovering the public spaces and transforming the ground floors to winter public spaces, we create a new landscape of the pilot project area.

Production

Fabrication

Cut down a tree

Policy 2 Policy 2New company Urban furniture Amenities

Policy 3

New company

Social responsibility department

LABSNAMÄE

Policy 4 New building

In order for the design decisions to progress systematically, we decided to proceed by creating a timeline and phasing the implementation process. Every phase proposes certain actions and a new policy regulating these actions.

Rehabilitation of an existing building

OTHER WORKS // Exibitions | Workshops | Photography

Includes some extracurricular activities, organization of exhibitions and workshops, which are conducted in parallel with higher education.

Workshop | Getting to Know the Historical City // Participatory design and cognitive mapping The workshop was prepared within the scope of the a seminar graduation project and was carried out by focusing on school students as the target group who are one of the frequent users of historical urban spaces due to their school location.

It is aimed at making assumptions about the use of historical urban areas by the target group, observe their mobility and awareness about the area. In the final step, it is aimed to inform participants about this urban texture by developing an appropriate medium of communication considering their age, interests, and background.

Mar, 2020

Participants were expected to take an active role during the workshop. They were asked to describe the urban historical places, where they visit on daily basis, and their daily walking routes using visual communication methods. Some of the methods used are route drawing, crossword puzzle preparation and model making. At the end of the workshop, route drawing exercise was repeated, with an aim to determine the change in their perception and cognition levels about the historical sites of the city.

Exibition | The Alphabet // Organization and content creation

In the words of László Moholy-Nagy, typography is communication in the form of letters, and photography is the visual representation of what can be perceived optically. Within the scope of this workshop, we took photographs that resemble the letters of the alphabet. It is aimed to form a visually precise manifestation of communication and to set the new tempo of the visual literature.

More about the exibition: http://spoankara.org/etkinlik/yarim-kalan-yenisehir/

Feb, 2020

Urbanism Colloquium | Public Engagement Workshop

Nov. 2019

// Interviewing , documantation & video editing

In the workshop carried out within the scope of the 43rd of annual World Urbanism Day Colloquium, conceptual way of searching in urban planning culture were discussed. We tried to determine the knowledge level, awareness, and familiarity of the citizens about the area of profession as well as terminologies/concepts related to urbanism. The interviews conducted in this context were turned into a presentation, and a booklet containing frequently used professional concepts was prepared and presented to the colloquium audience.

More about the Colloquium: https://city.tedu.edu.tr/tr/city/gundem/etkinlikler/43-dunya-sehircilik-gunu-kolokyumu

Training Camp & Participatory Planning Workshop

Aug. 2018

// Mapping, neighbourhood design & strategy development

Summer Training Camp for urban planning & design students is organized by the Chamber of City Planners, aimed at training students within the scope of the concept/theme of the camp. In the 7th Summer Camp, various workshops were organized on the active participation of the citizens in in urban design processes, local policies, and strategy development.

Summer Training Camp Program & Details: https://www.spo.org.tr/genel/bizden_detay.php?kod=9358&tipi=2&sube=0

Photography

Marseille

Barcelona

New York

artifact

Madrid

Toulouse

New York

Barcelona

New York

Toulouse

Photography

The photos are taken with the consent of the people and cannot be used for any commercial setting or promotional activities.

series: “now and then”

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