Tugce Ozsakalli Architectural Portfolio

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Tuğçe Özsakallı

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My name is Tuğçe Özsakallı and I am a 5 years experienced architect, and designer. Confident in high-end residentials, mixed-use and educational building designs. Passionate about art and architecture especially a focus on architectural design. Creative, dynamic, enthusiastic, good at quick decisions, victorious, solution-oriented, open-minded, great team-mate. Most importantly, dedicated to making the world a better place.

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Architectural Portfolio

Contents here: 1/ oak creek building 5, residential, united states 2/ conjunctive taksim, cultural, turkey 3/ rexx london, public, united kingdom 4/ silivri prefecture, public, turkey 5/ kadıköy anadolu, educational, turkey 6/ freelance, mix, worldwide

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Freelance Work 2022

1/ oak creek.

Los Angeles, California / USA

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Oak Creek Building 5

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Oak Creek is a project located in California State, United States. My role in this freelance project was to create massing idea with the plans provided and create mass model elevations/ideas accordingly. Oak Creek is a residential complex and here you only see the Building 5 in Oak Creek.

Information provided about the concept of the projects was that the residential complex should have Spanish roots but has American interpretation. My conceptual design started creating a moodboard about the concept and specifying keywords to focus on. My keywords and focus points are ‘stone exteriors’ , ‘smooth stucco’, ’relax outdoor spaces’ , ’warm colors’, ‘soft arches’

Program: Residential Location: California, United States My Role: Facade Design, Mass Model Occupation: Freelance Project

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Oak Creek Building 5

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Concept MoodBoard

Lots of plants

Iron Accents

terra cota

Combination of old and modern

Warm Colors

Arches

arches arches

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Freelance Work 2022

Knowing the strongest roots of Spanish Architecture Style and mixing the modern American architecture style with it was the point of the project. Designing Spanish-inspired but not just bringing out the ‘only Spanish’ of it was tricky. I have tried to solve it with imaginative use of ornaments and terra-cotta integrated with arches & clean rectangle window openings.

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Oak Creek Building 5

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Freelance Work 2022

As the plans of the project were provided by the design office, my role was to design facades and built a mass model for façade ideas. Therefore, no renders needed, only Sketchup model for the final submission of the work.

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Oak Creek Building 5

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Oak Creek Building 5

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Front Elevation

Left Elevation

Back Elevation

Right Elevation

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Oak Creek Building 5

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School Work 2019

2/ conjunctive.

Istanbul, Turkey

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Conjuctive Taksim

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Conjuctive Taksim is a proposal for art and music performance center on the site in Taksim square which is directly faced to the square. Which has very strong relationship with it and will affect it’s atmosphere very directly in every way. Project design process started with masterplan design.

According to the masterplan analysis, its detemined that site has very strong boundaries in its pieces. This project aims to break/remove those boundaries in a big scale. make in unvisible/ make people feel less that distinction.

Program: Cultural (Music and Arts Center) Location: Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey My Role: Designer Occupation: Bachelors Graduation Project KHAS University

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School Work 2019

Strongest part of Conjunctive Taksim is its site’s context. Project is facing to the Taksim Square directly so its façade is very important and also its integration with the topography which is very steep.

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Conjuctive Taksim

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School Work 2019

As its known that in Taksim area, places like Tarlabaşı, İstiklal Street, Cihangir, Sıraselviler etc. are existing next to each other. They all loonested on masterplan but they are all different atmospheres. They have invisible boundaries in between. This project aims to break/remove those boundaries in a big scale. make in unvisible/ make people feel less that distinction.

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The boundary concept came from the existing situation that we noticed in Taksim district, Beoğlu area. Therefore, design was developed to break it.

We use social boundary to connect not to divide.

To show that this proposal can apply in all Istanbul and reconnect all the parts together, in this diagram we choose some important functional area around Istanbul and we create link between them.

Our first proposal was that we notice there is social (non physical) borders at some points of our site. So our question was ‘how can we break those borders? How can we bring them together?’

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School Work 2019

Conjuctive Taksim

TRANSPARENT COMMON ACCESSIBLE

INTERACTIVE

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As its an aim to remove/break boundaries, whatis designed on the square should be doing the same. Therefore, the design decision was to entegrate ground floor with square and upper floor with the view. Also, design happened to be ‘invisible’ on the ground floor and it provided with plan design and also with material preferences. All the important functions located on the first floor and minus first floor; in this way ground floor took the task to connect those floors.

PERMEABLE

ALIVE CONNECTIVE

CONTINUITY

First of all the idea of our Masterplan proposal was to break/remove those boundaries. As we look at our project site from this perspective, we could easily say that there is a boundary there too.

Site has direct connection to Taksim Square, which will be called ‘CityScape’ and on the other side, there is a great view on the east side, which which will be called ‘SeaScape’. The concept of the project is to remove this boundary or make in unvisible/ make people feel less that distinction. This project proposes to engage itself with both square and the view.

Working on this very important and big scale project allowed to think in big scale and design details while doing it. Since we all know the square itself started to affect the project from the very begining.

CREATE A CONNECTION IN BETWEEN

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INVISIBLE Creating direct sight to the city view, however it was a good way to create that connection, is not possible with the section. Height of the buildings on the east side are long enough to block the sight.

Then the design decision was to lift up the building, with the function of interactive music museum. In this way, while lifted up part is making connection with the view, bottom part is interacting with the Taksim Square.

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School Work 2019

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Conjuctive Taksim

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CIRCULATION First floor is connected to the ground floor with main stairs.

The main stairs are made by unbreakable glass and they support the idea of ground floor’s ‘invisibility’. With a look from ground floor level, from square to our project site; a huge mess upstairs, stairs going upstairs with low opacity, and a huge ground floor area makes people feel the void.

Actually solid upstairs, void downstairs; engaged well. Solid project site, void square; or vice versa works too; engaged very well. And those thin but huge truss beams, in a way, invisible and also very very visible. While they are carrying the building, they also have a role to manage the circulation since they are from ground to roof and have huge role to define the plan itself.

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School Work 2019

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Conjuctive Taksim

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School Work 2019

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Conjuctive Taksim

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FUNCTION The building is designed as much connected with square as possible. There is a big rehearsal studio on the side of the building that faces to square. On this part, building’s facade is not stable. It is openable.

Famous musicians can give concerts to the all audiences in the square.

Some people can stand, some can sit on the benches that is designed according to the masterplan design decisions. Taksim Square itself is a very strong object in the history and its very important to design according to the context. Designing a massive concert stage facing to the square is an huge move but giving it an art approach is what I tried to do. While there are no concerts in the building, it turns to a interactive music studios where people can rehearse.

The part of the building uplifted is functioned as interactive music museum.

What does that mean? It means that people can come to this museum, play and all the people at square can listen them. People can bring their own instruments or hire them at the shop located upstairs right at the entrance.

studio type-1

There are three types of studios; first one is people can play more than 3 people with drummer; second type is up to 3 people who can only play acoustic; third one is for the ones who wants to record. studio type-2

studio type-3

Design uses advantage of it’s floor height on the studio parts, it works mezonine there. Also the walls are glass, mostly on the studio parts.

So people can walk by the corridor and watch people playing inside. In this way, studios interacts with its environment.

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School Work 2019

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Conjuctive Taksim

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Competition Project 2019

3/ rexx london.

London, United Kingdom

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Oak Creek Building 5

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Rexx London is a design proposal which gives a chance to people to be a part of the society with its detailly thought ideas and design decisions, most importantly. First of all, In consideration of London having very similar, syymetrical, coordinated streets mostly; design decision was to break down this rule. But at the same time maintain the idea of ‘function is not imaginable from the outside’. Project offers both museum visitors, students from universities around and society to spend time in a public, have a nice day break with coffee on the ground floor on the grass or the amfitheater stairs. Eventhough people who won’t participate in any auditoriums’ activity, they still can go in and spend time in semi-open first floor’s topographic auditorium or second floor’s bookshop or workshop area.

Program: Auditorium Complex and Public Park Location: London, United Kingdom My Role: Designer Occupation: Competition Project

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Competition Project 2019

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Oak Creek Building 5

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Competition Project 2019

Rexx London is a project which blends in the city it its best.

Accoring to the site analysis, its determined that there are senate library, british museum, university, business center area and some private houses. With this wide range of functions, it is important for the project to be part of this atmosphere. Also, project is kind of a junction point of all of these. So design should be something connective.

British Museum

Rexx London

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Project Site

Ramp is an important part of the design and its also has a function as a ramp where people can observe and enjoy the park while walking up to a theatre/or concert they are going.

Design has a feeling as it is floating and this funky ramp is where it connects to the ground.

Senate Library Private Houses

With London’s smooth topography, the design is aiming to give it a little movement with the face that has connection with the ground. In addition, as we know it is a kind of junction point of the area, funky ramp that goes up to the project, is what connects the upper body to the ground. Upper body is moving according to the auditorium function inside. Therefore, we can read the function from the exterior.

University

Business Center

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Competition Project 2019

Design also provides them a ‘public park’ on the ground floor. Students from university or tourist who are around for the British Museum can get to the Rexx London and have a lunch. Restaurant on the ground floor works as a take out as well as it provides seating in the inside.

Restaurant area is small but effective for the ground floor. It has stairs and also tables for seating; in addition to pub chairs. Main mass of the building also prevents the building from rain. It doesnt spread all the site with its angle, ground floor can be prevented by the rain.

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Oak Creek Building 5

Relationship with buildings on the site is really important. The public gateway that project creates gives a chance to create a connection with neighbor.

Also it is a great shortcut for people who are trying to pass the site directly.

They do not have to walk all around the building. Design proposal also takes the importance of sight of existing buildings. This ‘public gateway’ is also chance for them to have wonderful back entrance to their houses. There would be kind of local pazar somedays, or exhibitions which will give dynamism to this hallway.

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Competition Project 2019

Rexx London offers both museum visitors, students from universities around and society to spend time in a public, have a nice day break with coffee on the ground floor on the grass or the amfitheater stairs.

Eventhough people who won’t participate in any auditoriums’ activity, they still can go in and spend time in semi-open first floor’s topographic auditorium or second floor’s bookshop or workshop area.

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Oak Creek Building 5

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The ramp is one of the most important element in the design process. It takes people from ground floor to first floor as well as it continiues the movement of the topography on up above the ground. It connects. It integrates. It creates.

Surrealist Render of Rexx London

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Competition Project 2019

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Oak Creek Building 5

Rexx London has three different types of auditoriums. First of them is located on the first floor and its called ‘typographic auditorium’.

It can host the events for up to 200 people. Main building’s floor form follows the form of the topography 8 meters above it. This auditorium follows the floor on that side of building and its form shapes the function.

Events like acoustic concerts, stand ups, single theater kinds of events can be held in this auditorum.

Interior Designs of two auditoriums

Second one is the big one, called the Shell, which is for 400 people and has 2 floors. Big events can be hold in this one. The Shell as a ceiling of this auditorium is designed according to the every single people’s perspective, thanks to that everyone can directly focus on the stage. It also provides the acoustic insulation of this hall. Third and the last one is located on the second floor and is for 100 people. It’s called ‘The Neighbor’ and is designed in the glass box. It’s design decision was to create an auditorium which will held small events, talks for locals from the neigbor that is why it is designed as open facade people from outside of the hall can watch them and it integrates with the whole second floor.

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Competition Project 2019

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Also design do not ignore the residents by the site on the South-west side.

Facade of the building on this side is designed accordingly and none of the openings does not face directly to the Windows of the houses.Building sets back 10 meters from the buildings and creates ‘a public gateway’ there.

Gateway provides a direct Access for people who are in rush and wants to pass the site as fast as possible. This public passage also hosts exhibitions, food or coffee trucks, as well as some handmade stalls which the residents of the neigbor can come and sell their stuff. With this approach, design does not stand all alone, it entegrates itself to the society. It becomes ‘all public design offer’.

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Design follows its dynamic topography on upper floors. Floor on the first floor designed accordingly the function that will be. Also it controls the circulation and entries outside. It goes up on the side which most population will enter the site. Floor which works like roof to the ground floor also works like main element on the project. Rexx London is a great opportunity to create public park in the middle of the city of London.

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Office Work 2021

4/ si livri.

Istanbul, Turkey

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Silivri Prefecture

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Silivri Prefecture Building is a design made for government. Design approach is ‘’being explicit’ while it is a public building and it should be an inviting and open building. Its design and application drawings are done.

Its on the construction process.

Program: Public Building Location: Silivri, Istanbul, Turkey My Role: Design team + Application drawings Occupation: Optimal Project Management

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Office Work 2021

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Silivri Prefecture

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Strongest part of Conjunctive Taksim is its site’s context. Project is facing to the Taksim Square directly so its façade is very important and also its integration with the topography which is very steep.

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Silivri Prefecture

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Office Work 2022

5/ kar diology.

Istanbul, Turkey

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Kardiology

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Cerrahpaşa Kardiology Institute is a continuing cardiology hospital within Optimal Project Management. Still developing.

Program: Healthcare Location: Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey My Role: Designer in a Team of 3 Occupation: Optimal Project Management

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Office Work 2022

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Kardiology

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Strongest part of Conjunctive Taksim is its site’s context. Project is facing to the Taksim Square directly so its façade is very important and also its integration with the topography which is very steep.

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Kardiology

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Freelance Work 2022

5/ free lance.

Los Angeles, California / USA

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Mixed

Some freelance design works of mine.

Program: Mixed Location: Worldwide My Role: Designer Occupation: Tugce Ozsakalli Design Studio

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Germany Factory

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