Developed from ‘Costa’ minimal surfaces, this design incorporates sitting, lighting and storage into an elegant unit suitable for waiting lounges. Sleeves for magazines and newspapers are incorporated into the pads while a lighting fixture, placed in the central part of the structure, adds a glowing ambiance to the design.

The Costa minimal surface was plotted in Wolfram Mathematica, after which the geometry was imported into McNeel Rhinoceros for further manipulation.

The design allows for various plan layouts of the lounge system.

Posted: June 19th, 2009 under Architecture, Parametric Design.
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Back to conventional architecture for a shopping mall competition in one of the most touristic destinations of Turkey, Fethiye. The competition resulted in June.

“Shopping is arguably the last remaining form of public activity.” (Rem Koolhaas, The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping / Harvard Design School Project on the City 2, Taschen, 2002)

The proposal brings together 2 distinct urban programmes, the Urban Park and the Shopping Mall. Constructing its presence from the duality created by these otherwise discrete functions, it creates an urban activity area as its exterior shells emerge from the landscape at different intervals and become a park. The shopping mall function is distributed beneath these shells.

Credit List:

Designers: Elif Erdine, Ceyhun Baskin

Design Consultants: Evren Basbug, Inanc Eray

Static Consultant: I. Cem Baskin

Electrical Engineering Consultant: Ali Gunduz

Mechanical Engineering Consultant: Soylu Kaan Akyurek

Posted: July 7th, 2008 under Architecture.
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Different façade studies developed during May for a potential commission in Adana, Turkey. The brief is designing a façade for a multi storey retail building. Option 01//Louvers is defined by parametrically rotated louvers with gradually varying percentages of look-at constraint. Option 02//Tubes is characterized by semi-transparent tubes in 3 different sizes which are then randomly rotated to create a façade pattern.

Option 01//Louvres

Option 02//Tubes

Posted: July 1st, 2008 under Architecture, Parametric Design.
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Elif Erdine and Ceyhun Baskin have been the guest editors of Betonart for its Winter 2008 issue, investigating the impact of concrete and digital technologies upon one another under the theme “Digital Concrete”. Their article “Towards a Paperless Architecture” have been published alongside with articles from Christos Passas (ZHA), Charles Walker (ZHA), Andrew Murray (AKT), and Wolfgang Rieder (Rieder FiberC).

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Posted: March 11th, 2008 under Architecture, News, Parametric Design.
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