The City Crater

This thesis constructs a theory of urban intervention based on banality, functionality and perception. It provides an example of The Hague Central Station, by placing a fresh, sharp, and plain volume in the existing, complicated, heterogeneous field, therefore forming an illogical, anti-functional demarcation and differentiation of the territory...

Mining Istanbul. A Project for an urban refinery.

Crafted Topographies

New Gateways: Requalification strategy for the waterfront of the golden Horn neighborhoods

Understanding the importance of the relationships between the neighborhoods along the Golden Horn with the actual waterfront was the reason to explore the ways to redefine this degenerated connection. The disconnection is the result of Istanbul’s XXth century industrialization, when the city walls were demolished to construct a highway between...

Ankara's urban gardens and spa

Restructuring the State Farm: Ankara Performing Arts

BAR - Brussels Artist in Residence

An European collective Artist in residence in the heart of the European Capital, Brussels. Oppose to the European quarter the city of Brussels is in need of a counterweight to balance the city for once more. A new urban injection of European culture will transform the South midi station district into a vivacious public and touristic area....

Grand Bazaar Utopia Ankara

In this one year graduation project, many steps are going through to find out the unique project for myself. It’s a long long study in different aspects, from urban strategy to construction details, everything need to consider by the designer. It’s difficult task but also a good chance to find out the unique way of the architecture design. There...

??Artificial ecologies: Concert beach on steppe lands of Ankara

“Studio Capital Region focuses on the challenges in the urban nodes of global networks, which could be part of centralized, decentralized or distributed structures. Despite its immediate association to governmental/administrative cities, Capital Region is a framework to undertake a comprehensive research into the spatial issues in the leading,...

Eutopia Now

A system and a mega building project marking the city and the Forest Farm with a Utopian projection.

Project of the European Parliament

The project of European Parliament. Complex and urban typology, rather than huge single building. European Parliament as a PUBLIC building/park, rather than an office building. Architecture as an infrastructure and platform for people activities and exposure. Parliament as a connector between PUBLIC and POLITICIANS.

"The 4th Power" Public Media Centre

By relocating the EU parliament to the folk area in the west part of the city, The Public Media Center supervises the EU Parliaments actions and ideas.

The Gates of Europe

The Gates of Europe is a proposal for the city of Brussels to balance out the differences in the city and to improve the representation of the presence of Europe in the city. One of the buildings, the Gate of Culture, is worked out into detail. It is a Centre for Performing Arts and functions on a regional and on a local scale. It contains a...

The Super Grid: The Social Injections of West Brussels

There are 3 forces in uniting Europe, political, economic and social. When European countries are on the march to supranationality, it blurs the national identity, makes people uncertain about the power holders of their destiny, pushing them into withdrawal, either individual and collective. Therefore creating an unbalanced forces in the unity...