The Landscape Post-Mortem: An Ode to Excess

The research conducted at the beginning of the graduation year revolved around the indeterminate forces that shape the built environment, resulting in the formation of many ‘ephemeral’ cities along the new silk road. As such, the main outcomes from the research stage resided in the definition of the leftover spaces of intensive industrial...

Binckpark-Music factory

While other disciplines take the concept of chance as crucial to understand the world and integrate it into their practice, which took their practice to another level bringing freedom and triggering creativity, architecture is still concerned about solidity, rationality, structure, firmness, and hierarchy. As we develop a better understanding of...

The Backbone: Indeterminate Framework

Architecture often manifests itself for a multitude of decades in the built environment, as something that is static. It is in itself an end-result, often designed as a seamless whole, specifically applicable within the design of music venues. These are often iconic objects within city fabrics, sometimes only accessible by one specific target...

Concept Development of Megastructure: Study of megastructure trend in longitudinal time horizon through Google Ngram Viewer and theoretical texts

Dictionaries often define “Megastructure” as “a very large multi-story building or complex” (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 2022). Somebody who first encounters the term must value such a definition; although it does not reflect the actual meaning that architects attach to the term. In the mid-twentieth century, the concept of...

Disclosing Interstices: Open-ended Design Transformation of Urban Leftover Spaces

Leftover spaces are neglected and obsolete spaces within the city. As they are temporarily unoccupied by defined urban functions, leftover spaces provide unique “interstitial conditions” that open for wild species as well as different informal social activities, offering crucial complements to the formal and defined urban spaces. In this context...

Encounter of Unknown: Indeterminate Public Space

What are the preconditions for aleatory occurrence of social interaction? Can unexpected public activities be catalyzed by specific spatial characteristic? The objective of the thesis is to explore the flexibility, mobility and adaptiveness in architecture and urban domain through the research of “Public Condenser” within multiplicity and...

Framing Indeterminacy: architecture indeterminacy

The problem that discussed is less an issue to the contexts, but a general critical reflection on the disciplinary of architecture. The determinant role of architects in design process and free interpretation of the inhabitants pose the conflictions. Our (architects) creativities and imaginations are confined within the given role and limited...

Repetition, variation, chance: An experimental theater in Yerevan

The phenomena of repetition, variation and indeterminacy identified in the Soviet neighborhood of Norashen in Yerevan are synthesized into an experimental theater. The stages of the theater are materialized based on the researched themes so that they create the material affordances for unique plays.

Safe-by-Design: from Safety to Responsibility

Safe-by-design (SbD) aims at addressing safety issues already during the R&D and design phases of new technologies. SbD has increasingly become popular in the last few years for addressing the risks of emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology. We ask to what extent SbD approaches can deal with uncertainty, in...

Naval Archive, the subversion of order

The graduation master of the public building studio focused this year on the topic of the biennale of Venice; ‘Palazzo Enciclopedico’, combined with the city of Istanbul. Since the beginning of my master architecture am I highly interested in the fundamental orders for the built environment. The combination with the public realm made me realize...