As a studio, we made our own lexicon related to the ecology and its discussions. This time, as a group of three, we categorized our words and revised our previous lexicon* according to the four concepts.
*previous lexicon: https://ekinbaskentli.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/eco_lexicon/
Group Partners: Ayşe Karaarslan, Uğur Çınar
As a studio, we prepared our own lexicon related to the ecology and its discussions. This is our lexicon which we categorized the terms and interpreted them/ produce new words.
Group Partners: Ayşe Karaarslan, Uğur Çınar
We were expected to represent our ideas and approaches towards the site by visualizing it with a collage. The collage should include natural and artificial contextual elements and fields.
I produced a collage that shows the in-between condition of the site. Our site acts as a buffer between the sea and occupied areas and also between industrial formations and residential formation forces. The yellow ones demonstrate the voids which act as buffers that we analyzed in the previous mapping of the context assignment.
As a group, we define buffer as any intermediate or intervening field reducing the danger of interaction between two contravening contexts.
My critics are mainly about the representation of voids. So, I will revise this collage according to the critics and I will update it later.
We were expected to choose at least 3 cases with respect to the concepts that we’ve developed in mapping the context assignment. We were expected to analyze each case considering the program distribution, program elements, their size and percentage, their spatial relations and so on. Then, we were asked to produce at least two architectural program proposals by hybridizing the cases that we have analyzed and associate the programs with the concepts that we’ve developed.
We analyzed as many cases as we can to understand especially Ford Building. We mainly focused on 3 contexts as sea, industry and life in the site and find/analyze the cases in accordance with these contexts.
Here you can find our program proposal for two scenarios that we’ve developed. In the first scenario, we assume that Ford plant expands through the site and the second scenario is foresight to the next 20 years of Ford Plant’s contraction due to technological development.
We produced the physical model of Gölcük in relation to mapping the context assignment. We applied landform operations according to the maps we produced.
This assignment has two phases. In the first phase, we were expected to produce a number of 2D maps to illustrate the characteristics of Gölcük. We were asked to choose a number of concepts from ECO-lexicon, associate them with the characteristics of the site and produce maps according to these relations. Later, we were asked to superimpose those maps. Continue reading “Mapping The Context”
We were asked to define an extreme geographical or climatic condition on Earth and develop a generic architectural system including a medical center for vaccination, dormitory for families, sanitary facilities, and food zone for 30-40 people including the permanent staff and temporary dwellers and visitors.
We chose a hot and arid desert as an extreme geographical/climatic condition. As a group, our strategy was to design a multi-layered infrastructure. Also, oasis is the core of the architectural system and they are linked with this multi-layered infrastructure. Continue reading “ECO_lexicon_how?”
In this assignment, we were expected to select one of the terms that we have developed for ass.02 and match it with a case that is cited in reading-2. We were asked to explore the design strategy and make a deep analysis of the case.
Here you can find my presentation:
You can find our readings below:
Tabb, P. (2016). Greening Architecture: The Impact of Sustainability. In Haddad, E. G. and Rifkind, D. A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture 1960-20120. (pp.91-114). Ashgate.
Deviren, A. S., & Tabb, P. J. (2014). The greening of architecture: A critical history and survey of contemporary sustainable architecture and urban design. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
In this reading assignment, we were asked to produce visual and oral presentations about Chapter 7 of The greening of architecture: A critical history and survey of contemporary sustainable architecture and urban design by Deviren, A. S., & Tabb, P. J. which was published in 2014.
Here you can find our presentation that we produced for the studio discussion:
As a studio, we were expected to produce a timeline which shows the relation of the cases that all studio analyzed and the concepts that all of us produced as a group of 3 or 4. All groups have one representative and they produced this timeline.
Our group’s representative was Ayşe (https://aysekaraarslan.wordpress.com/). After the critics, we were expected to revise this timeline. Again Ayşe was the representative and we try to help her to eliminate the unrelated words and relate them to the cases.
Thank you Ayşe we love youuuu!
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