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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Parametric wall tiling study generated in GC. The wall tile itself is a 3-dimensional form inspired from the Tetracoralla depicted in Ernst Haeckel’s “Art Forms in Nature”.  The same wall is populated twice with the wall tile components; the first series being a less dense and the second series being a denser version.

Tetracoralla(from “Art Forms in Nature”; Ernst Haeckel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugosa )

Version 01//Less Dense

Version 02//More Dense

Single Wall Tile Component 

Posted: July 6th, 2008 under Parametric Design.
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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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