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RRO 002 - A CENOTAPH FOR CONTENT

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Year: 2021
Location: Pier 27, NYC, NY
Type: Archive Building (for the Whole Internet),  Data Center and Performance Hall

The archive is a typology challenged by the advent of digital systems. Starting from Boullée, the concept of an archive of world knowledge was that it became a space of encounter in which consensus about truth could be formed. With the subtraction of books from the traditional archival imagination, this project addresses new forms of social gathering around shared spectatorship. The building, as an animated bodily cocoon and instrument of shared projection becomes a space in which people may share archival content and discuss its meaning. The small cocoons and lever arms exteriorized to be on display to a general public act as a weathervane for the dissapearance of content from the Internet, signalling the activity of the internet archive (data center) inside the concrete wall structure, and the performativity of remembering archival content.




RRO 001 - SUBTRACTION: HOUSE 001

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Year: 2019
Status: Conceptual Design
Location: San Romano Evi, Kuzguncuk, Istanbul
Type: Adaptive Re-use, Public Space

New Ways to Define Anatomy of Public Spaces,
Re-Appropriation of and Subtraction from Domestic Spaces

SUBTRACTION: ARCHITECTURE IN REVERSE asks the role of subtraction in architecture. It is an attempt to reverse the act of architecture. Subtraction, more than just being an erasure, is about keeping urban evolutionary processes alive. Subtraction keeps the interior in an unresolved state and creates an ongoing incompleteness for happenings.

Architecture has often been about adding. This research asks the question of subtraction’s role in architecture. Subtraction is an attempt to reverse the act of architecture. Subtraction investigates the anatomy of publicness.

We have built enough. We have re-contextualized the earth, the soil. We have created our artificial territories. We have created a new ecosystem, the ecosystem of built environment. Instead of killing the alive, the already living organism, re-evaluating the built environment, and catalyzing its metamorphosis, its reincarnation can save remaining unbuilt and unoccupied spaces. Instead of occupying the unoccupied, this thesis takes what’s existing seriously and responds to it.

Publicness in urban settings is not about spatial phenomenon solely considered. Publicness is beyond ownership and spatial attributes. Public space is always an appropriation of an existing space – a layering of a political space over legal space. Publicness happens.

Traditional definitions of public spaces are not sufficient to untie socio-political and spatial knots in democratically suppressed cities. Rather than seeking public spaces “assigned” with top-down decisions, one can think of re-appropriating private spaces to form them.

This research traces new ways to define public spaces and publicness, challenging the urbanistic trend of an apolitical domesticity. This thesis proposes a set of new political spheres, hosted in a range of untraditional containers, houses. It focuses on analyzing three chosen house types, major sub-systems of the built environment ecosystem, and investigating the possibilities of creating new levels of publicness by subtracting from these architectural types as a series of deliberate and contingent interventions.

Searching for new ways to define public spaces in Istanbul, this research finds new sites for the representation of people. These sites will be helpful in spatializing, maintaining, and strengthening public interaction. Although this project focuses on three primary house types in Istanbul as a case study, it has global applicability.




RRO 001 - SUBTRACTION: HOUSE 002

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Year: 2019
Status: Conceptual Design
Location: Tüten Apartmanı, Gümüssuyu, Istanbul
Type: Adaptive Re-use, Public Space

New Ways to Define Anatomy of Public Spaces,
Re-Appropriation of and Subtraction from Domestic Spaces

SUBTRACTION: ARCHITECTURE IN REVERSE asks the role of subtraction in architecture. It is an attempt to reverse the act of architecture. Subtraction, more than just being an erasure, is about keeping urban evolutionary processes alive. Subtraction keeps the interior in an unresolved state and creates an ongoing incompleteness for happenings.


Architecture has often been about adding. 
This research asks the question of subtraction’s role in architecture. Subtraction is an attempt to reverse the act of architecture. Subtraction investigates the anatomy of publicness.

We have built enough. We have re-contextualized the earth, the soil. We have created our artificial territories. We have created a new ecosystem, the ecosystem of built environment. Instead of killing the alive, the already living organism, re-evaluating the built environment, and catalyzing its metamorphosis, its reincarnation can save remaining unbuilt and unoccupied spaces. Instead of occupying the unoccupied, this thesis takes what’s existing seriously and responds to it.

Publicness in urban settings is not about spatial phenomenon solely considered. Publicness is beyond ownership and spatial attributes. Public space is always an appropriation of an existing space – a layering of a political space over legal space. Publicness happens.

Traditional definitions of public spaces are not sufficient to untie socio-political and spatial knots in democratically suppressed cities. Rather than seeking public spaces “assigned” with top-down decisions, one can think of re-appropriating private spaces to form them.

This research traces new ways to define public spaces and publicness, challenging the urbanistic trend of an apolitical domesticity. This thesis proposes a set of new political spheres, hosted in a range of untraditional containers, houses. It focuses on analyzing three chosen house types, major sub-systems of the built environment ecosystem, and investigating the possibilities of creating new levels of publicness by subtracting from these architectural types as a series of deliberate and contingent interventions.

Searching for new ways to define public spaces in Istanbul, this research finds new sites for the representation of people. These sites will be helpful in spatializing, maintaining, and strengthening public interaction. Although this project focuses on three primary house types in Istanbul as a case study, it has global applicability.




RRO 001 - SUBTRACTION: HOUSE 003

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Year: 2019
Status: Conceptual Design
Location: Hukukçular Sitesi, Sisli, Istanbul
Type: Adaptive Re-use, Public Space

New Ways to Define Anatomy of Public Spaces,
Re-Appropriation of and Subtraction from Domestic Spaces

SUBTRACTION: ARCHITECTURE IN REVERSE asks the role of subtraction in architecture. It is an attempt to reverse the act of architecture. Subtraction, more than just being an erasure, is about keeping urban evolutionary processes alive. Subtraction keeps the interior in an unresolved state and creates an ongoing incompleteness for happenings.


Architecture has often been about adding.
This research asks the question of subtraction’s role in architecture. Subtraction is an attempt to reverse the act of architecture. Subtraction investigates the anatomy of publicness.

We have built enough. We have re-contextualized the earth, the soil. We have created our artificial territories. We have created a new ecosystem, the ecosystem of built environment. Instead of killing the alive, the already living organism, re-evaluating the built environment, and catalyzing its metamorphosis, its reincarnation can save remaining unbuilt and unoccupied spaces. Instead of occupying the unoccupied, this thesis takes what’s existing seriously and responds to it.

Publicness in urban settings is not about spatial phenomenon solely considered. Publicness is beyond ownership and spatial attributes. Public space is always an appropriation of an existing space – a layering of a political space over legal space. Publicness happens.

Traditional definitions of public spaces are not sufficient to untie socio-political and spatial knots in democratically suppressed cities. Rather than seeking public spaces “assigned” with top-down decisions, one can think of re-appropriating private spaces to form them.

This research traces new ways to define public spaces and publicness, challenging the urbanistic trend of an apolitical domesticity. This thesis proposes a set of new political spheres, hosted in a range of untraditional containers, houses. It focuses on analyzing three chosen house types, major sub-systems of the built environment ecosystem, and investigating the possibilities of creating new levels of publicness by subtracting from these architectural types as a series of deliberate and contingent interventions.

Searching for new ways to define public spaces in Istanbul, this research finds new sites for the representation of people. These sites will be helpful in spatializing, maintaining, and strengthening public interaction. Although this project focuses on three primary house types in Istanbul as a case study, it has global applicability.