Eymir Lake

Hey look at the fascinating view… This area is a really beatiful part of METU in Ankara… If you have a chance to go to Ankara, don’t forget to see there! Fresh air, green grass, trees, ducks and bicycle!!!

Cinnah 19

      Hey everybody, do you know that in Ankara there is a really modern apartment which looks like the buildings of Le Corbusier. 

      It is an impressive example of that period which is Cinnah 19 in Ankara. It’s exact name is ‘Meydanlar Müdürlüğü Kooperatif Apartmanı’ (The Cooperative Apartment of Airports Management). This structure that has overtones of modernist approach was built in 1957 by Nejat Ersin(1924-2010). 

      Nejat Ersin clearly said that he was inspired from the currents of international architecture while he was searching for this project and Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, Edward Durrel Stone were sources of inspiration for him while he was designing that. For instance, there is a really famous a building Unité d’Habitation in Marseille which was built by Le Corbusier. This structure was built for it’s users and communal life style with a contemporary approach. It’s surface was divided in the shape of grate and it has large windows and balconies and it stands on piloti. Also, it has a huge terrace which is very functional.There is a recreational facility on this terrace. Nejat Ersin’s apartment has all of these qualifications. In the terrace of Cinnah 19, there is a swimming pool, fireplace and  an American bar for the apartment residents. Ersin said that I tried to create an environment and peaceful space which is used collectively.

References:

http://dergi.mo.org.tr/dergiler/4/553/8278.pdf

http://dergi.mo.org.tr/dergiler/4/553/8277.pdf

Cinnah 19 

These are my drawings;

These are the photos of them that I took;

And this is the Le Corbusier's  Unité d’Habitation

This website is about Unité d’Habitation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%C3%A9_d'Habitation

The Dance of Light

Last season, my friends and I went to Ankara Castle to take photos and when we returned from there, we discovered a cute shop which is Kabak Dayı in Doyuran Street. There were brilliant lamps .  The man who created these lamps is using calabash and he is giving some different shape to them.  If you go to Ankara one day, you should try to see there. I'm sure you will love it.

PS: the is the website of this workplace..
http://kabakdayi.com/

Heey look at those!

Relief

''Relief is an intermediate condition between 2D and 3D, where the order is created predominantly in two dimensions, while demonstrating an attempt to free itself from two-dimensionality through accommodating three dimensional values.''

(PS: quotation from my assignment sheet.)

We were expexted to produce a relief from our 'info maping' studies. We showed the differentations of transparent layers by using elavations which have different heights. The important thing was ' how are the zones related to each other. We tried to reflect the relations between the cores and zones. We discovered the overall image by using corrugated cardboard. And, in order to create elevations we used some pieces of cardboard which were piled like chocks.

So, this is my FIELD

Movement of Sound

Hi everyone, today I want to mention about one of my assignments in Arch112. A few weeks ago, our professor gave some maps that shows several parts of Ankara. We were expected to experience these spaces. And we should have chosen a topic about experience like sound of movement. We went there and experienced. I chosed movement of sound. While I was experiencing these spaces I realised that some part of the area have differentiations in terms of movement of sound. Some parts are really noisy and others are different. Here , there are some photos of the maps.

By the way, you can search about these areas in this website:
http://www.haritamap.com/yer/589/mithatpasa-cd.html

In this assignment, we were expected to document an urban experience, map,represent the differentiation of relations and the experiences. Besides, we should have found 'cores'   in each experienced maps. We produced some three image for each maps in photoshop by using planes. We realised that while we were showing our experiences, some 'zones' of the image were overlapped. So, we can show the differentiations. For instance, 3 different zones overlapped in my images, then it created a core which is visible.