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Stitching Istanbul

Stitching Istanbul strategically choreographs public space in order to break down perceived social and cultural differences in the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul by creating new relationships between secular and clerical architectonic expressions and programs the attempt is to add cosmopolitan value to the Eminonu District by reintroducing the secular and

Greening Istanbul

In a city where green spaces are running low, the site selected forms a threshold between high rise office buildings and low rise residential buildings. The structure creates an elevated platform above a critical highway to ease the pedestrian flow and to provide a recreational green area to the neighbourhood. Location:

Eighth Hill

The site selected in Rome has changed a lot since the Nolli Plan. With the Fascist regime of Mussolini most of the site was destroyed. Today, the site is a touristic attraction with Teatro Marcello on one side, Capitoline Hill and Vittorio Emmanuela on the other side. The flow of

Parking Garden

Looking towards Brooklyn hospital, is the only open parking lot in DownTown Brooklyn. We decided to introduce an underground parking and above ground vertical parking systems hidden by green walls. We tripled the existing parking condition. The introduction of the green park would help the clients of Brooklyn hospital as well

Boathouse For Columbia University

When we thought about a boathouse the image we wanted to have was a gym with a garage(storage) in it. To achieve that image, first we made the entrance in the second floor with the most of the communal spaces. It opens up to the multipurpose room that has all

Dormitory Project For Pratt Institute

For our precedent analysis we looked at FOA’s Carabanchel housing in Madrid, Spain. In this project there are vertical shared circulation cores between units, therefore minizing horizontal circulation areas and they also have shared wet walls, making the plumbing more efficient. All units have balconies on both East and West

Library in China Town

In the prototype, randomly rotated cubes intersected to create new spaces to the different programs. This time, the two angles that will be taken in the archive project are the street angle and the solar angle. The four shapes used are rectangles of different dimensions. The green roof is located

Artist Dwelling

Precedent: Chapelle de Notre-Dame, Ronchamp, France, Le Corbusier. Site: Wavehill, Bronx To me, the most interesting part of the chapelle was the concrete wall in the chapelle. The concrete wall is a triangular massive wall, which I decided to divide into two and make it a dwellible space. The first

Representation

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Refract: Dense, Hollow, Slender

Dense lines refract when entering the hollow space forming new slender lines. It is all about angles. Refraction creates angles. Angles are everywhere. This was his first thought of this new site. Throughout the whole site he experiences different kind of feelings. Refraction can produce different experiences within the site.

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