Architecture & Design

FULL İSTANBUL

     After the visit of Eminönü square
from Kadir Has University, we decided to zoom in on part of one place where we went. It was a place between these two places that I mentionned. In this place, there were settlements, mosques and trees, which express the solidity and the fullness, and the road and the small paths between buildings and trees, which express the void.

  To represent the subject of solid and void in our three dimentional map, we made two spaces which were separated by a white photoblock. The main color is red because we wanted to represent by this color the solid side in using different tons of red color for different structures of buildings in this place. However, what is very important in this project, is the different materials to express the fullness. For example, to represent the settlement with a single floor we used a red net as material. The settlement with a double floor is made by a transparent red acetate, the settlement with three floors is made by an opaque red acetate and finally the settlement with four floors is made by a thick red wire wound tightly. We can perceive more that the floors increase the more materials change and become more opaque. We made this to show the solidity and the fullness of these buildings.

For the mosque we used different materials and colors because in Istanbul , there are many mosques and Turkey is an Islamic country. The mosque is made by a grey opaque acetate for the main body and its minaret is made by a transparent yellow acetate. There is a difference between the acetate material because minaret is empty inside so this is why we made it with a transparent yellow acetate. All the buildings are in different sizes to show the floors and the importance as the mosque with the minaret which is the larger element in this map.

      For nature we use metal as a material, but these metals are in different colors, thicknesses and sizes because each metal expresses different elements. A one silver long thicker metal expresses 3 big trees, the blue middle thick metal is 3 mid-sized trees and finally the less yellow little thick metal is 5 bushes.

      Behind the different buildings we put black ropes to express the shadow and the support of the building to create a kind of solid side and a volumetric side too. Dirtiness expresses the presence of many things in this place, the older side of buildings and the narrow side of the street. And we chose the color blue to show the dirtiness underneath of the painting because we wanted to put an abstract effect creates texture in the three dimentional map.

      We chose to represent the underground for the void side, which is underneath which is under the white photoblock. We wanted to represent the void with woodsticks and red ropes and so we made a shape with both to create a void between the solid and the void side.

FIRST STEP OF PROJECT

2D SENSE MAPS: SOLID & VOID

IMPROVED 2D SENSE MAPS: SOLID & VOİD

SECOND STEP OF PROJECT 3D SENSE MAPS: SOLİD & VOİD FIRST MODEL

  3D SENSE MAPS: SOLİD & VOİD FINAL MODEL

3D SENSE MAPS: SOLİD & VOİD FINAL MODEL: SCENARIOS AND DRAWINGS

PROJECT BUILDERS

DERİN ŞENGÜN

ESMA LEYLA MEŞİN

DUYGU SUNAL

HANDE BİNER

HARMONY OF LIGHT AND LINES

LIGHT AND SHADOW

In this project, I tried to learn how can I use shadow and light on my projects. I got some answers for my questions for example when you use more than one light, shadows numbers rise and different shadow shapes occur because of multiple lights. Although light is too important, materials as important as lights. If you use perforated or perforated and striped materials, shadow will be variable.

In my project, I used materials in various tissues to understand effects of light on frame. My first prototype is not as suitable as final one.

FIRST PROTOTYPE DRAWINGS

SECOND PROTOTYPE

According to my teachers comments, I needed to improve my projects with different appoaches.

Firstly I painted my sticks with black acrylic paint to provide depth also I used geometrical shapes besides circles.

I started with observing the structure because of the fact that to understand which materials are suitable for my projects, what king of patterns will be more usefull for getting more impressive shadow.

I drew some sketches to learn sticks effects on shadow so I did them and I compared effects of sticks without colors, I mean, just one color is used to show shadow and sticks in whole drawing.

FINAL OF WIRE FRAME

After this study, I developed my project in a good way. I added colorful papers that have different patterns and observe effects of light on surface. Cutted opac papers gave impressive shadows also semiopac and transparent parts provided semishadows and colorful transparent shadows.