CUSA DESIGN STUDIO
POST REMOVAL OF ATATURK STADIUM
National Competition: Equivalent Prize / July, 2014
Post Removal of Ataturk stadium competition was organised by chamber of architects Eskisehir city branch in order to cultivate ideas regarding the future of public space which is to become available after the planned removal of Ataturk Football stadium of the city. Considering the city had a history of use and manufacturing of construction brick and terra cota, our proposal aimed to bring a new interpretation of use of brick laying as main space making strategy coupled with an idea of focal point. Geometric waves emerging from the determined focal point causes folding of the surface which potentially creates structural vaulting on the brick-made surfaces.
Team : Cusa Studio in collaboration with Doguscan Aladag, Cosku Cinkilic and Semra Dora
KEMAL KURDAS CENOTAPH
National Competiton: Honorable Mention / November, 2013
The cenotaph proposal for Kemal Kurdas, founding president of METU(ODTU) who passed away in 2011. Mr. Kurdas had been a significant figure in the 1950s and 1960s in Turkish educational history. METU, the university which he served as the president, decided to open a cenotaph competition after his passing. Our proposal materialises the endurance of his legacy connected with the passion in nature as he is known to be the architect of great METU forestation project recipient of Aga Khan award. Our proposal is a a steel vegetation composed of 540 pieces, an abstract metal forest grown on his grave. A premanent symbolisation of his legacy.
Team : Cusa Studio in collaboration with Doguscan Aladag
PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
National Competition: Honorable Mention / January, 2016
Pamukkale University Faculty of Architecture and Design project is a competition entry awarded with Honorable Mention by Pamukkale University. The project aims to provide university with a new faculty of architecture and design studios, along with academic and adminstritive units, lecture halls, canteens and conference venues. The strength of the scheme comes from the generation of a lively, striking expression of design studios in the southern facade of the building facing the campus social node and integration between it's uses.
Team : Cusa Studio in collaboration with Umut Baykan and Doguscan Aladag
YTONG 2014 IDEA COMPETITION: "STORY OF NOMAD PROVOCATOR"
National Competition: Equivalent Prize / August, 2014
YTONG 2014 Idea competition entry, "Story of Nomad Provocator" awarded with one of four Equivalent prizes by Ytong Foundation and is a futuristic scenario presentatiion taking place in near future. The projects tells the story of a nomadic high-tech entity named Nomad Provocator, which is mysterious and unpredictable. The entity performs operations worldwide and aims to make changes the way we live in cities and rural areas. Along with the telling of this story, presentation narrates a criticism of government- public space relations and capital- public space conflicts.
Team : Cusa Studio in collaboration with Umut Baykan and Doguscan Aladag
CASSABA MIXED USED DEVELOPMENT
Contracted Job / February, 2015
Cassaba Mixed us development is located in Eskisehir, Turkey. It is a 30.000 sqm project which encompasses a wide range of uses, such as cinemas, street retail, mall, offices and residences. The style of the projects aims to fuse a contemporary style in office and resiences block with a more vernacular style in low rise ceommerical units. Cassaba Mixed use Development is planned to play an important role in the city's development to the west.
Team: Mupasan Construction Ltd in collaboration with Cusa Studio
KILICOGLU OFFICES AND RESIDENCES
Contracted Job / May, 2015
Kilicoglu Offices and Residences is an office &residential building located in Eskisehir, Turkey. The client is infamous Kilicoglu family of the city, asking for a brand new building in the place of their existing apartment building on the same site. The being special and existing building having a history in the city, new new design aims to reflect same sensitivity of using local materials, similar scale and proportions with a contemporary approach.
Team: Mupasan Construction Ltd in collaboration with Cusa Studio
BORUSAN KINDERGARDEN
National Competition / December, 2013
Borusan Kindergarden project is a competition entry proposing a new typology of Kindergarden Design. Competition brief asked for a kindergarden in an industrial site to serve the working class families children. Our response was an introverted design with a high-security courtyard, surrounded with a continuous surface plankwood roof for children to enjoy running around it's slope and painting on.
Team: Cusa Studio in collaboration with Umut Baykan and Doguscan Aladag
YTONG CULTURAL CENTRE
National Competition / September, 2013
YTONG Cultural Centre Project is located in Istanbul, Kartal Beach and developed in the framework of a public competition funded by Ytong Foundation. The project aims to provide the neighbourhood with multi- purpose halls, workshops and commercial facilites as well as creating a new public interface between streets and the beachfront.
Team : Cusa Studio in collaboration with Doguscan Aladag