Category: 3rd Year
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Studying the Details | Building Technologies in Architecture
When the project Living Together ended, we worked on the detail drawings. I analyzed and draw a generic system detail and the detail of Fire-Escape Stairs. You can check the project by clicking here, and see the analysis about the details such as materials, dimensions in the poster below.
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Sustainability | Building Technologies in Architecture
With a given form and weather circumstances, we were expected to design a sustainable house. In my case, I designed a house with a closed courtyard in a warm-hot climate. The approach is explained in the poster below.
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Accessibility | Building Technologies in Architecture
Simay Demirel and I analyzed my project that I’ve designed previous term in Politechnika Krakowska according to accessibility. The main topics are Low Physical Effort, Perception Information, Simple and Intuitive Use, Size and Space Approach, Tolerance for Error, Equitable Use.
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First Step: Units | Living Together
This term we will be working on a problem which seniors and young people live together. Before the introduction of the main problem, we have dealed with the problem that we designed the living units. As Locit, our design approach is to keep the spaces minimal while allowing the inhabitants to acquire the spaces in…
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Designing as LOCIT | Living Together
Our firm is established by Esin Akdoğan, İdil Gökgöz, Şeyma Kurucu, and Zeynep Özcan. The aim of the partnership of four architects consists of creating architectural practice considering today’s problems while conserving the collectivistic way of living bringing a variety of user-profiles together while signifying the thought of every “I” being unique in our design…
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Housing in the Metropolis | Turkey: Modern Architectures in History
Two housing types before modern examples were small-contractor apartments and squatter settlements in Turkey. In the 2nd half of the 20th century, there was rapid urbanization with increasing migration to the cities from the rural. In the 50s the percentage of the urban population over the total was 25 and it became 53 in…