taking x-ray of the project

Since our design concept is based on the fracture, we decided to present our drawings with the idea of x-ray. We present our fractures with the help of the x-ray idea.

 

Prejury II

We worked two different skin in our structure. The first one is the shell which is fractured according to the external site forces, the second one is the internal skin that envelopes, wraps, or separates the program components inside the shell.

For this prejury, we worked on the specific programs which are guest house, researcher lodging, scientific dissemination which consists of library, mediatheque, archive. The shell relates itself to the landscape and so that landscape becomes an active field.

You can find our drawings below:

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Quaranteam – working with sketches

We started to work with sketches, we studied the relationship between different spaces in sections. We studied partial sections and we started to discover the relation between spaces and scapes.

Program Fracture

Our aim was to design the program before we fracture it according to the external forces that we define as the contextual elements. While we design the program, we defined resistant areas as well as fragile areas with points/lines/surfaces. Every program components have their own resistance and fragility and they are related to each other so that when the fracture occurs, new possible spatial relations and interactions will appear.

 

Field Fracture

After the urban analysis that we made, we wanted to define resistant/fragile areas according to the soil type. We thought that when we superimpose this and program fracture, we will study the spatial relations and relations between scapes better.

After Jury

After the prejury we decided to make analysis on the macro-scale to understand and support our concept better. We mapped the context and analyzed urban fractures as hydrology, infrastructure, seismic, greenery, and soil type.

Afterward, we defined resistant and fragile areas in the site according to the soil type analysis. This is going to help us while we are producing our field. In order to relate our architectural program components, we defined again resistant and fragile areas with points/lines/surfaces. When we juxtaposed this two analysis (field-program) we started to produce our fractures and our structure.

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Programming 3D | Prejury I

In this prejury we tried to represent our initial decisions to approach the site. Our initial design decisions are coming from the marble analogy. We thought that marble is a natural analogy that is related to our semester’s topic assemblage.

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Quaranteam – brainstorming

After the brain burning session that we made with archnoire, we came up with some ideas, and we started to revise and work on the issues which we pointed in the meeting. Here you can find some screenshots from our meeting.

Sketchproblem – SCALE

This is a quick exercise that we made to understand the scale of the given site, Izmit. To understand the scale we were expected to place the selected building on the site. So, we placed Musée des Confluences, and we try to understand both the building scale which we have to design and the site scale. It is beneficial for us to locate this building with its landscape.

Quaranteam – behind the scenes

We continue to work on our studio project, these are some quick shots that we took in our zoom meeting. I think that making this project as a group really helps us to spend these quarantine times beneficially in terms of studio production.