For the final project of 4th semester, we designed a house and an office for an industrial designer in Siteler. Here are the poster of the final jury including the diagram, elevations, plans and section drawings; 1/100 model and a conceptual model.
Last Friday we had second and the last prejury of the semester. You can see my AutoCAD drawings, sketchup model represents my strategy and the model.
Compared to with my previous prejury project, I proposed a new entrance and new organization of the circulation system inside the home/office. I also separated the house and the office part completely, and introduced a different entrances from different levels.
As I started using Sketchup more and more (which also is the first 3D modeling software I can use for now), it has been like a sketchbook for me. You can see all of my trials throughout the semester in one single picture. I think at the end of the semester it will be like a March of Progress of my project’s evolution. 🙂
Last week we had the first prejury of the semester. In my proposal my aim was to design a house composed of different boxes with different functions.
The blocks’ location, being back and forth or up and down could solve the natural lighting problem of the site by maximizing the surface. They are also provide the entrance, a shelter and a terrace.
The circulation between boxes are defined with two different approaches. The boxes with similar functions such as living room, bedroom, kitchen (house parts, yellow boxes); or showroom, meeting room, study room of the user (office part, blue boxes) have the circulation in themselves. And the house and office parts are connected to themselves with a different box functioned as a circulation box (green boxes). You can see the movement through the boxes in the section and plan drawings.
For each studio day, we were asked to produce a “Tag Cloud”, consists of the words have been using during the critics, juries, discussions etc. Here is an example that I made for the first week.
We were assigned to design a workshop for the industrial designer, who will spend 4 months of the year in this workshop according to our scenario. We had already measured and produced the autocad drawings of the given building with the exact dimensions. In my design I aimed an open space, which will be used only for working and exhibition. The roof of the building was totally destroyed so I decided to design some strips come from the ground level and in the upper parts create the roof itself. The strips will not only provide shelter and the roof but also any other components of the house. It will be used especially as walls, which will also defines the entrance of the building. It will be used as the floor, and upper level a terrace. The staircase and every other partition in the house will also provided by this strips. The originality of the building will be preserved, and the strips will not touch to the existing building. I also design this strips as a solid massive black material which will create a very contrary appearance consisting both ancient and the modern. Here are the drawings of my design.
As the first and second architecture students, we visited Kayaköy, which is an abandoned ancient village in Fethiye. Thousand of people lived here since 18th century until early 20th century. People had to leave the village because of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Later it was devastated by an earthquake in 1856 and a major fire in 1885. Now the village serves as a museum and is a historical monument.
The aim of this trip was producing survey drawings of the given building, which is something we are all experiencing the first time. So it has been a challenge to measure mostly destroyed building with the traditional methods. Here are some photos of the building we were assigned to study on.
We were asked to study the user patterns and decide on a scenario for the house through a graphic layout. In my scenario, there are two permanent users of the house, -the main user is already assigned as an industrial designer-. And there is one temporary but regular user: the assistant, who only use the house in the weekdays. Also there are temporary users who visit irregularly, the customers and the clients.
This semester we started to produce “Accordeon Drawing Sketchcards” the Text, Building, Diagram Series. The first step of the ADS was the concept “House“. We were asked to analyse 10 projects given and produce a series of spatial interaction and organisation diagrams. I have assigned the projects below:
UN Studio / Van Berkel & Bos, Möbius House, (1998), Villa Wilbrink (1994)
Le Corbusier, Unite d’ Habitation, (1947-52), Villa Curutchet,(1949)
Tadao Ando, Azuma House, (1976)
Preston Scott Cohen, Torus House , (1999)
Diller+ Scofidio, Slow House, (1991)
Rem Koolhaas / OMA, Villa Dall’Ava, (1991), Dutch House (1995), Maison a Bordeaux (1998)
For second year’s final project, we were assigned to design a #HOUSE in the industrial district of Ankara, Siteler. Therefore, as usual, the first step was the Site Survey. We observed various factors as site forces; for example, topography, landscape (river, hill, water), green areas (parks, playgrounds, trees), traffic roads, climate, etc. And we interpreted and document the information from the site, updated the plan drawing, draw the different sections and finally we produced a 1/200 model of the site.
Melis Kucuktunc 