
AA ISTANBUL VISITING SCHOOL 2015: CELLULAR INTERVENTIONS Review
by Elif Erdine, Programme Director of the Istanbul Visiting School

How can we alter the perception of an existing architectural element through intervention? Design explorations revolved around this problematic, whereby the existing architectural element was defined as the entrance façade of Istanbul Bilgi University’s Department of Architecture. The design brief was the creation of a complex partitioning system that acts as a parasitic addition to the façade. This task was investigated by focusing on a combination of structural, morphological, and contextual factors which the design intervention was expected to respond to in order to differentiate its material and geometrical organisation. The main objective of large-scale fabrication was to investigate the prototype as an “analog machine”, whereby participants could examine the transformation of systems they have devised in digital simulations into material configurations embedded with specific types of data. It was crucial to consider real world constraints such as gravity, physical forces, and loads in the digital simulations in order to create analogous correlations between the computational and physical paradigms.
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The upcoming AA Istanbul Visiting School will be from 13-22 June 2016. For more information and details, please visit: http://ai.aaschool.ac.uk/istanbul/ and http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/istanbul
Credits: Programme Director: Elif Erdine Host School Coordinator: Sebnem Yalınay Çinici Visiting School Director: Christopher Pierce
Tutors: Aslı Aydın, Cemal Koray Bingöl, Dağhan Çam, Elif Erdine, Alexandros Kallegias, Benay Gürsoy Toykoç , Tuğrul Yazar
Students: Simge Diken, Gizem Akın, Özgüç Bertuğ Çapunaman, Oğuzhan Çokgunlu, İlkan Cemre Acar, Sezen Kıvılcım Sözeri, Deniz Çelik, Esin Bilge Çelik, Pınar Aksoy, Merve Başot, Verda Ayşe Sezgin, Çağla Şaşmaz, Damla Aydın, Berk Ekmen, Merve Boy, Dilara Kayacan, Elif Doğan, Elif Sena Arabacı, Yıldırım Erbaz, Eslam Abd El-Khalek, Doruk Biçgi, Yunus Emre Demirkıran, Bilge Kardelen Bekiroğlu, Burak Ertuğrul Güney, Dilruba Ağaçcıoğlu, Ceren Bilen, Simay Uluca, Lara Alkhouli, Sarah Abu Al Hamail, Samera Taye, İrem Papila, Sara AL Jabi, Song Ren, Elif Beyza Öngüt, Youssef Ibrahim, Levent Özruh, Jing Wei Qian, Ariss Majid, Emine Ece Emanetoglu, Seda Öznal, Ilknur Güngör
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