garden design

FRONT ELEVATION

ISOMETRIC VIEW

                                                                  SDECTION

OASIS YOUTH CENTER

The oasis youth center is designed and inspired le corbusiers modernistic idea of architecture.

the youth center is designed to be modern, simple but yet functional.

The buildings front facade has a slanted front elevation which allows a controlled amount of light inside. 

On the terrace there is an indoor sitting area which has Glass walls and enables the user to feel closer to the natural environment but yet not affected by the natural factors such excess heat from the sun, dust and even Rain.

                                       Plan view of the oasis youth center

The back facade is designed to have elongated windows which also allows light from behind the building. to the kitchen, bed rooms and study rooms.

Second Midterm Project

MIDTERM PROJECT 2

YOUTH CENTER

We have been working on the new midterm project for several weeks and its coming to an end soon.I have finished my model so I wanted to share it!

Neoshan Pavilion - Hiba Kamran

Neoshan Pavilion

Bernhard Hans Scharoun was a German architect best known for designing the Berlin Philharmonıc concert Hall and the Schminke House. He was an important advocate of organic and expressionist architecture. Organic architecture is all about harmonizıng with nature and creating a balance while expressionist is all about creating profound works and emotional effect.

It is this harmony that I chose to reflect in my pavillion design. I call the pavillıon NEOSHAN PAVILION.

DESIGNING A PAVILLION INSPIRED BY REM KOOLHAS IN SULTANAHMET,

ISTANBUL

                                                          '' INFORMATION HOME''

Casa da Musica,Portugal
 In the ring of old buildings defining Rotunda,a solitary  building standing on a travertine-paved plateau


To begin with, the pavillion is designed with some inspirations coming from Rem Koolhas' works. Particularly, that the building called the Casa da Musica stands on a travertine-paved plateau is one of the features that is inspired in the design process of the building called ''Information Home''. The inspriration point includes not only about the similarity of Rotunda and Sultanahmet in terms of historical structures and buildings, but also the need for a partially ''solitary'' building in both areas. Therefore, the pavillion's first floor is surrounded with full of glass making both outside and inside life visible, reflecting the streets with full of people and activities instead of solid walls, on the contrary of the second floor.

To continue with, in the design process, the beginning point was creating the form roughly by considering the function of the area,the rotation of the ways and paths etc.

After determining the form roughly, in order,''the design process'' need to elect,limit and specify the function types. It is analyzed and discovered that the area has restaurants and places sellig souvenirs in large quantities. Therefore, the pavillion is designed while considering the needs of the area, created to provide people wide empty and free spaces in order to use for different functions; a stopover to have a rest and get information, reading and searching in a sophisticated library part, a coffee break in the middle of the day that fatigues, etc.

The second floor plan, with a library and cafe part.

In addition to these, the chiefly challenging part of the design process was to locate the toilet part. In this stage, it is inspired by Philip Johnson's Glass House and added to the first storey, as a solid section. Placing the toilets as a solid section in the area surrounded with full of glass also adumbrates the effect of both balance and distinguishability.

First floor plan. Entrance of the building, information center part, toilets

Section A-A

As a final part of the design, I want to name the pavillion as ''Information Home'' since it provides huge free areas as a ''home'' and having large open doors to every people,regardless of differences. In my imagination and vision, owing to this reasons, it is like a small ''Istanbul'' standing with its extremely old fellow ''Hagia Sophia'' in the heart of Historical Peninsula, Istanbul.

Yaren Aslan 

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SANAA IN SULTANAHMET

SANAA IN SULTANAHMET

     SANAA has a new project for Sultanahmet in Istanbul. The project is a pavillion design and this project will be used for a tourist informatin center.

     

     The pavillion is going to be in Sultanahmet. It's design looks like their previous pavillion styles, especcially the Glass Pavillion and the Serpentine Pavillion. The new pavillion has glass walls and a open space covered with glass. These glass walls and open space are also in the Glass Pavillion The shape of the new pavillion looks like the sahpe of the Serpentine Pavillion The Serpentine Pavillion has a lot of curves and it looks like water drop. It is a beautiful modernist design for a pavillion.They alsa use the simular design in the new pavillion.

     In this ner pavillion, it has a little conferance room, a meeting hall, an information center, a cafe, kitchen and open sapce covered by glass. In the pavillion, the connection between meeting hall and the cafe has a little galery. The galery has old pictures and paintings from Hagia Sofia and the surroundings.

       

The Front View

                                          The Top View

                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                   The Back View

The Plan

FIRST IDEA FOR RECREATIONAL FAMILY OR STUDENT HOME CENTER

Information Center at Sultan Ahmet Square by Emre Arolat

Information Center by Emre Arolat

On 8th of February we have visited Sultan Ahmet area and experienced that there were no useable information center for tourists and also for Turkish visitors who would like to have information about the area and stuff. So we decided to design a information center by using the architects that our instructor Sinan teacher picked for us. My architect was Emre Arolat. 

'Emre Arolat (b. Ankara, 1963) studied architecture at Istanbul Mimar Sinan University and received his Master's degree in 1992. From 1987 to 2004 he worked at Arolat Architects as associate designer with his parents Saziment & Neset Arolat. In 2004 he founded Emre Arolat Architects with Gonca Paşolar. EAA now has a staff of 55 and two offices in Istanbul. Emre Arolat's other activities include teaching, writing and sitting on architecture juries.' (http://www.a10.eu/architects/profiles/emre_arolat/) 

I got inspired from Emre Arolat's 7800 Çeşme houses and did my design based on that project of his. I observed that he is modernist and usually does his projects in a modern and simple way. 

So I have decided to design a simple and modern information center like Emre Arolat's 7800 Çeşme houses. My information center is two floored design which is placed at the center of the Sultan Ahmet's main square. It has information desks and restrooms which are hidden back of the information desks at the first floor. At the second floor it includes a gift store, coffee house and open spaced area. 

Bukle Can

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THE BEST PAVILION OF ISTANBUL

Our last destination was Istanbul. Van der Rohe who is known as a father of modern architecture finished his tourist office work last week.                                              

 Mies Van der Rohe was born in Germany. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Llyod Wright he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture. He created an influential architectural style stated as; extremely clarity and simplicity. He is often associated with his quotation of the aphorisms, "less is more" and " God is in the details". 

If it requires an example for understanding better his style, I can give some details about one of his masterpieces which is Forsworth House. It seems simple, but Mies worked through 167 drawings to come his final, fearless design. Like Einstein's equation, its simplicity exudes an elegance through a through attention to detail. However, Mies did not create Farnsworth House to be an iconic glass box viewed from afar. Rather, he hoped to create a space  through which life unfolds both independently and interdependently with nature.

He reflected the same style in his new project which is like a gift to Sultanahmet Square. This area hosts tons of tourists in a year. Because of that there must be a tourist information office in there. Mies did it masterfully. This tourist office's facade is not so fancy, in contrary it is so basic. When I looked at it, I just saw glass wall and the wood frame. I was so excited and all I wanted was getting inside and explore this structure from top to buttom. When I got inside I saw a dark room which is used to show some slide shows about Sultanahmet Square and its history. In the right side, there was a gift stand. Then I went upstair. I saw a traditional room. There was a Turkish coffee service inside. I sat a couch that is called 'somya'. On the ground there was a colorfull carpet called as 'kilim'. In the middle of the upstair, there was a meeting room. Personnels were so friendly, they halped me and gave me information so much. I loved this place. I loved the design of this tourist information office. I strongly recommended to you to go there.

Büşra GÖKER. 

Zaha Hadid in Turkey

At place, near to Sultan Ahmet Park,

according to "futuristic" style of Zaha Hadid, l see big,

white pavilion which has curve shapes, with big stained

 glasses, through which tourists can see the bus station

and on the other side can see the park. Interior design of pavilion

also continues with curves.

•Inside of is separated into zones such as:

1) Information office where visitors can get information about tours and bus's schedule.

2) Cafeteria and Delight's shop and zone for eating.

3) Sitting area for people who are waiting tour or bus.

4) Zone for tourists' own needs.

 

LEGO O STRUCTURE

In this project I tried to make construction with curve roof which stand on colons.