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Desire-Land | MArch GAD | 2011
Awarded Distinction in Design
Desire-Land, Simulation of Hyper-Reality Reflection
The Project is originated to examine the world in the reflected image as a virtual output built on human’s desire according to the Mirror Stage theory [...]
Memory of Shadow | Tokyo| MArch GAD | 2011
Memory of Shadow: Hysterical Parametricism
When I was growing up in a rural area of Japan, when a visitor came to my house and walked along the path next to the living room to reach the entrance a shadow was cast on the shoji. [...]
Digital Reconsecration | London | MArch GAD | 2011
Awarded Distinction in Design
Digital Reconsecration of the Levelled Churchyard
Driven by the desire to comment on the ubiquitous use of new technologies and research on a number of notions and ideas such as the human body in motion and its relation to [...]
A Crude Island | Los Angeles | MArch GAD | 2011
A CRUDE ISLAND
Historically, intensified energy flows have simultaneously been the reason behind massive cultural transformations and entropic damage to the planet. Now, the capitalist and political forces that control energy distribution networks have exchanged natural destruction for short-term profits while the [...]
Mechanical City | Beijing | MArch GAD | 2011
Awarded Distinction in Design
The Reincarnation of Atlantis
Initially the legend of Atlantis is used as a tactic to explore the birth and death of city. The process of Atlantis’s life is similar to the decline of old China and rebirth of new China. [...]
PORTMANTEAU: THE SOUVENIR_COLLECTION | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
The novel, ‘Istanbul – Memories and the City’ is a memoir to the home city of Orhan Pamuk. As he guides us through the back streets and waterways of Istanbul, he unveils the story of his boyhood.
The project began by attempting to analyse the [...]
Istanbul University Annex & The Urban Beach | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
A Fog Harvesting Waterscape is designed to recreate the ambitious civic & public works that early Turkish Republic undertook over century ago. The designs of these parks, beaches, pools – places of enjoyment, recreation, and relaxation – gave Istanbul [...]
SHADOW PARK | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
Fusing a technical construct with a theatrical narrative, introduced through the story of Karagöz and Havicat, two characters in a traditional Turkish Shadow play. The existing garden becomes an active public sculpture park and theatrical landscape of strange objects and peculiar artefacts. At night, the park [...]
MUSEUM OF DEMOCRACY | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
‘The Museum of Democracy’ is a proposal to remember and embody the defining acts of Turkish Democracy. The museum’s architecture is concerned with the acts of seeing and symbolising the narratives which have defined the process of Democracy in Turkey.
The museum is sited upon [...]
MUSEUM OF PANORAMIC CARTOGRAPHY | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
The Istanbul Museum of Panoramic Cartography investigates how individual and public ways of viewing Istanbul can be catalogued and exhibited to allow the user to visually comprehend the city’s development and contemporary urban fabric.
The museum is perceived externally as a mark in [...]
THEATRICAL PLEASURE GROUND ISTANBUL | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
Located on the old site of the great Byzantium Cemetery in Istanbul. A series of models exploring the physical and non physical create a time-based landscape, that is part natural, part technological. The landscape comprises of theatrical machines that are split into three time-based [...]
MUSEUM OF MELANCHOLY | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
The whole story comes from Orhan Pamuk’s book ‘Istanbul: Memories of a City’, in which ‘hüzün’, a Turkish expression of ‘melancholy’, is defined as a form of collective emotion shared by millions of people in Istanbul. In this book, people’s life and the landscape [...]
MUSEUM OF OPTICS | London | Unit 21 | 2011
‘On the last night of the nine-day boat journey, he makes a thorough mystical preparation when he hears thecaptain announce, “Gentlemen! Tomorrow at dawn, we will see the first minarets of Istanbul.” Passenger De Amicissleeps little, goes to the deck as soon as [...]
ANAMORPHIC CITY HALL | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
Awarded Distinction in Design [...]
FLOATING LIBRARY ISTANBUL | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
Istanbul, an ‘archipelago of neighbourhoods’ is a city within which the East and West straddle amongst each other, ‘like memories plucked from dreams’. I propose a building in the water, where the density of the city disappears, within the marriage of the civilizations inhabiting the [...]
THE ISTIKLAL CADDESI MONUMENT AND THE BUYUKADA MUSEUM | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
Awarded Distinction for Design & Merit for Thesis
RIBA Silver Medal Nomination in Thesis [...]
PICTURE HOUSE FOR THE TURKISH MOTION IMAGE | Istanbul | Unit 21 | 2011
Snow; “it made the city look new, not only covering up the mud, the filth and the neglect, but by producing in every street and every view an element of surprise…”
Situated amongst the long-lost memories of [...]
