the second year of my architectural education
Firstly, I would like to start by explaining the photograph that I put on the cover page. It is the end scene that the people encounter when they come to my project design. So, I want to start by putting it. After that, I will explain my initial design ideas and design intentions. As you see in the solid void map of Çeşmealtı, there are … Continue reading final jury | ARCH 202
During the Ottoman Empire’s final period, a new style started to be seen in the architectural field. Most of the historians named this style as “First National Style”, however, it is also known as the “National Architecture Renaissance” by their contemporaries and defined as “the first modern discourse in Turkish architecture culture”. Since the Ottoman architecture is transformed, revised and Westernized in the form of … Continue reading First National and International Style In The Scope of Istanbul and Ankara
In different time periods, by starting from the 1900s, Turkey had encountered with various changes in terms of social, political and cultural. One of the most significant examples is the proclamation of the republic. Following that, the other revolutionary acts were done and they all affected the style, construction way of the buildings and also the urban fabric of the cities so, the field of … Continue reading The Architecture of Turkey In Different Periods
Skyscraper is a term used to describe a multistorey and very high building and it appeared as a term in 1883, right after the first example of its were built in the United States. Several technological improvements and innovations in the scope of material and utilization techniques bring new construction ways to skyscrapers and it undergoes change and develops throughout the modern history of architecture. … Continue reading Development of Skyscraper Architecture
Walter Gropius is an avant-garde architect who had born in May 1883 in Berlin and died in July 1969 in the U.S. He is known as a German American architect and educator since he also played many roles in terms of education. In addition to this, Gropius had made an endeavor about the development of modern architecture and work with many other famous architects in … Continue reading Comparison between Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Last critic before the preliminary jury II. Continue reading development of ideas – IV
This could actually count as my first revise after the first preliminary jury because the first revision that I have done right after the jury was highly irrelevant and the instructors told me that I should immediately go back to the ideas, design of the previous proposal. As an addition to the previous one, I have changed the positioning of the spaces and make them … Continue reading development of ideas – III
I generally love to put some photographs taken from the jury atmosphere, however, as you know we are conducting our courses from the online platforms. And, the jury is carried out online. The sticker exists on my computer looks highly ironic I guess. Continue reading online pre-jury
After the first tries, I finally started to work with CAD with accuracy and scale. For this time, the main critic was eaves’ height. The instructor stated that if I wanted to create a bold perspective than I should make the height of the designed structures stable to direct the people without distraction. Also, the walls act independently from the masses became an inquirable part … Continue reading development of ideas-II
Our projects have started to develop in the scope of form, function and design. I have started by the idea of perspective and chose Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute as the main reference. I have realized two main axes in Çeşmealtı and want to extend the orthogonal one to the inside of the project area. The reason for this was directing the people, make the axes and … Continue reading development of ideas-I
bilgesu · an architect and a researcher 