the pool: an alternative environment for learning
2023/24 WiSe
research + design + installation
Bauhaus University Weimar
In the realm of creative practices, the ‘Pool’ project challenges traditional hierarchies within the creative process and power structures. The essence of this research project lies in stimulating a collective, diverse, and collaborative environment that exceeds conventional creative processes. It disrupts conventional notions of space-making by dynamically engaging participants in the generation of space through embodied interactions.
beyond the funky
2024 SuSe – on going
animation
Bauhaus University Weimar
Beyond the Funky suggests a move towards a more holistic and integrated understanding of the world, celebrating the diversity and complexity that lie beyond the familiar, that is somehow uncanny. It navigates through environments symbolizing various degrees of human influence and natural integration.
funky.
2023/24 WiSe
photogrammetry + touchdesigner
Bauhaus University Weimar
Funky drew inspiration from the profound ideas of Ernst Haeckel, a renowned zoologist, naturalist, philosopher, and artist. Haeckel’s philosophy, beautifully encapsulated in the documentary “Proteus” (2004), emphasizes the connection between individual organisms and their evolutionary development. He believed that each era has its own image of the world, reflecting the vision of its time and its creators. For Haeckel, the primary task of a scientist, much like that of an artist, is to depict the world with both the precision of meticulous research and the passionate intensity of a mystic.
Heterotopia for Urban Hacking
Urban hacking is defined as unauthorized artistic and creative practices that aim to de/reconstruct the power structures and spatial politics of the urban public space. It has a growing power to raise awareness of sociopolitical issues, and enhance solidarity. The acts of urban hacking can be identified as dismantlement, reappropriation, redefinition, and occupy from within. Micheal Foucault’s heterotopias are discursive spaces that are somehow other, they are disturbing, intense, contradictory and transforming. Therefore, heterotopias (other spaces) have enormous motivation to fulfill the acts of urban hacking.
Laboratorium Lignum
2021 SuSe
Architectural design project
Bauhaus University Weimar
Laboratorium Lignum is a research and development center for using wood in construction while building with wood is currently becoming a central topic among architects and construction sector by taking the consideration the broad debate on climate change. It aims to host ateliers, labs and workshops for practical in relation with the theoretical.
beehive
2020/21 WiSe
Architectural design project
Middle East Technical University
× featured in the ”Basamaklar ’21” exhibition
The coronavirus and the pandemic era has reinforced the fact that there will be a new urban life and architectural context based on new social relations evoked from density in-use, demand for flexible systems, need for adaptability in small environments and small communities. It is clearly recognizable that the future of living units will be at their capacity in flexibility and adaptation; and the issue of mobility will be the keystone. This project is looking for a alternative solutions of movable housing units in the needs of the occupant living in, that can be defined as the modern nomads, and their merging strategy to create a whole interactive complex at a central hub, which is called as Beehive.
ethnic set
2024
research + artwork + exhibition
as a part of the exhibition ‘PERA Reverse‘
Part of global tourism is the reference to mass production and commercialization of local traditions and customs. A significant example in this context is the labeling of a set of (industrially produced) tea glasses as ‘etnik’ (ethnic). While this word is intended to connect with and preserve the traditional culture of tea drinking, it also appeals to the global souvenir-seeking visitor –a similar mechanism can be seen in contemporary art from the so-called peripheries.
Canon4
“Canon” refers to a set of organizing principles or rules that govern the design and arrangement of architectural elements within a given system or typology. It establishes a framework that guides the spatial organization, proportions, and relationships between different components. This work showcases the floor plans and facade views of the arcade typologies drawn by Behruz and Altug Cinici and designed within the context of the METU campus. It strives to concretize the perception of rhythm and order by systematically examining the unique canonical types that govern each system.
Maruziyet
2022
× 1st place
Architectural Photography Contest
The fact that architecture reproduces in the context of the structure through the continuously reproduced content and the platforms used or produces “new” meanings in a different context is mediating to the newly inquiries, criticisms, definitions and productions.