a home in the city: testing street dwelling as an alternative in Munich's housing crisis

Challenging a predominant focus in academia on studying societal and spatial challenges primarily in the Global South or non-Western environments, this project investigates the urban fabric and hidden socio-political mechanisms of precarity in the city of Munich, Germany. Houselessness appears as the manifestation of a global housing crisis and...

Building Craft Centre: Revitalizing Neighborhood by Appropriating the Existing Structure of Former Leonidas Factory

The street is a complex socio-physical network that reveals various layers of life in a city: its historical setting, planning, political and economic situation, and cultural mentality. Studying such complexities of social life is important in order to understand the constantly changing identity of space. In the face of globalization, cities are...

Re-connecting Mostar: Rethinking the East-West Axis by using the Neretva's water as natural catalyser

This graduation thesis aims to reactivate an old axis connecting two different parts of the city of Mostar. The choice of this particular corridor has been adopted not just because of its strategic location - it crosses the city from East to West, two sides that have been rebuilt after the Bosnian war without a coherent urban strategy - but also...

Accommodation of spiritual spatial experience in a modern urban fabric

The entirety of built environment exists in a state of flux and adaptation under the effect of a mutual relation between society and its spatial outcomes. Since human beings’ existence cannot be separated from space and its man-made forms, built environment can alter people through embedded biases. And these biases are mostly manifested by...

The Shed | Embedment embracing the streetscape

This plan is designed in order to embed the Lijnbaan area by adding local and regional/local functions, including sports, wellness and a sports park. This design is developed through a bottom-up strategy, by making decisions through the eyes of the man on the street. The urban hierarchy and human scale of the plan are dominant for the...