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ASLI ARDA DESIGN PORTFOLIO
ASLI ARDADESIGN PORTFOLIO
Index
01 - Constructing Productive Territories, London, UK
02 - Social Housing and Urban Transformation National Professional Competition, Canakkale, Turkey
03 - Rethinking the Excluded Migrant Neighbourhoods: Reconstructing the Productive Networks, Tarlabasi, Istanbul
04 - Integrated Ecologies, Recife International Workshop, Recife, Brasil
05 - Alacaatli Housing Project, Ankara, Turkey
06 - Residential (Confidential), London, UK
07 - Education Campuses National Competition, Bursa, Turkey
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Augmenting productivity understood in its purely economic dimension has become a central con-cern of cities undergoing rapid transformation and change. However, urban growth and transformation exclusively based in these parameters often leads to an intangible increase in land value, resulting in the expulsion of local communities and activities. In order to design cities that are inclusive and robust,
it becomes vital to incorporate a complex assem-blage of forces which are generated not only by the material, but social and cultural dimensions of life that have bearings on the spaces of the urban fabric. Through a multidimensional and multi-scalar strategy, it is possible to facilitate synergies within and between the various actors.Through the investigation of the current develop-
ment trends in London, it is possible to identify the London Plan as the main driver of urban transfor-mation. It is dominated by new rail-based trans-portation as the primary tool for development, and combined with a nodal development strategy of Opportunity Areas along the rail line; investments are directed into clearly defined boundaries, exert-ing high pressure on lower value industrial land
within these borders. The association of opportu-nity area designation and master plan schemes makes it easy for the development to follow the log-ic of speculation that is focussed on short-term gain rather than long term value for the communities.
The territory around Old Kent Road (OKR) becomes a key site where an alternative logic of transforma-
tion can be pursued owing to its particular condi-tions and strategic location close to the city. It is an important thoroughfare that links the city to the port and contains a significant percentage of low value industrial land. With the proposed extension of the Bakerloo line on OKR, the development pres-sure on the existing industrial land may lead to the expulsion of local economic activity. Therefore, it is
important to understand Old Kent Road as a territo-ry where productivity could be stimulated besides the infrastructural investments, taking into account its economic, social and cultural aspects.
The project aims to find a more inclusive tool for transforming an area, which becomes important for the city at large to build resilient communities.
Constructing Productive Territories,Old Kent Road, London
AA School of Architecture2014
Team:Yolanda Nayeli Galindo Cano, Magnus Thiemer Jensen, Gayathri Kaly-anasundaram, Sharmila Kamalakkannan, Livia Rita Klemencsics, Sabrina Kösters, Piyush Makwana, Mariana Moro, Solachi Ra-manathan, Meruert Isaevna Zharekesheva
Tutors:Jorge FioriAlex Warnock-Smith
The identification of existing productive networks in the territory that work across different scales, inte-grating different actors and promoting multi-secto-rial relationships, supports the hypothesis that large industrial sites sustain smaller industrial business-es, integrating the local population in the produc-tive cycle. Productivity could be enhanced by the combined action of institutions that play an import-
ant role not only as social equipment, but also as learning centres for labour force, with the rethinking of housing from simple provision to a layered strat-egy towards urban development.
Three key areas of intervention were identified as being primary to develop spatial responses to the proposed articulation between dimensions. Each
of these sites establishes relationships between new flexible typologies with streets acting as the interfaces between the different parts of the urban fabric, clarifying the hierarchy of these areas as secondary routes where productive activities can emerge.
deep plan and shared atrium
shared interior workspace
functional separation of front and rear
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LARGE INDUSTRIES AS AN ANCHOR FOR MICROBUSINESSES
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The clustering of medium scale industries and large-scale housing estates or gated housing compounds around OKR creates a functional and spatial segregation within the urban fabric at the border. The dominant typology being the yard based industrial sheds with boundary walls results in isolated enclaves of industrial activity. These industrial sites are serviced solely by Old Kent Road resulting in further disintegration with the surrounding fabric. The poor interface between the existing industrial uses and surrounding
productive activities undermines the potential of the low value industrial land. On the contrary, the project is developed on the premise that large industries can support the growth of smaller businesses around it taking advantage of the low value of industrial land. Working with the largest industrial site along OKR, the ambition is to create interfaces between the fragmented uses in order to enhance the productive potential of the area and also enables the coexistence of housing and industries.
yard based industrial sheds, mandela way
street based access, hatcham road
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LARGE INDUSTRIES AS AN ANCHOR FOR MICROBUSINESSES
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The clustering of medium scale industries and large-scale housing estates or gated housing compounds around OKR creates a functional and spatial segregation within the urban fabric at the border. The dominant typology being the yard based industrial sheds with boundary walls results in isolated enclaves of industrial activity. These industrial sites are serviced solely by Old Kent Road resulting in further disintegration with the surrounding fabric. The poor interface between the existing industrial uses and surrounding
productive activities undermines the potential of the low value industrial land. On the contrary, the project is developed on the premise that large industries can support the growth of smaller businesses around it taking advantage of the low value of industrial land. Working with the largest industrial site along OKR, the ambition is to create interfaces between the fragmented uses in order to enhance the productive potential of the area and also enables the coexistence of housing and industries.
yard based industrial sheds, mandela way
street based access, hatcham road
existing community centres 39
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The clustering of medium scale industries and large scale housing estates or gated housing com-pounds around OKR creates a functional and spa-tial segregation within the urban fabric at the bor-der. The dominant typology being the yard based industrial sheds with boundary walls results in iso-
lated enclaves of industrial activity. These industrial sites are serviced solely by Old Kent Road resulting in further disintegration with the surrounding fabric. The poor interface between the existing industrial uses and surrounding productive activities un-dermines the potential of the low value industrial
land. On the contrary, the project is developed on the premise that large industries can support the growth of smaller businesses around it taking ad-vantage of the low value of industrial land.
The proposed masterplan for the redevelopment of the estate into housing blocks with 60% privatehousing and 40% affordable housing will result in the loss of social housing units and expulsion of local residents. Rather than designing a new mas-terplan, the aim is to show a different logic of trans-formation that can improve the existing communityas well as bring in new ones. The project is based
on the premise that the Aylesbury will be demol-ished due to poor conditions and quality of its structure.
Through the retrofitting of the unused garagespaces, in addition to introducing new mixed use types, the project can generate value for the un-derused spaces while integrating new spaces with
existing ones. By introducing new collective work-spaces, it is possible to secure employmentwith affordable investment for the residents and increase local participation in the area. The tem-porary nature of the interventions demands smaller investments with bigger room for experimentation with design and community participation.
Along with the large number of housing estates in the area, there also exists a large number of com-munity centres associated with each estate, which currently only perform social functions as leisure centres. The isolated and repetitive nature of com-munity centres undermines the potential of linking complementary programs to create a widespread impact. It is important to expand the role of the
community centre to become an institution for skill development and training facilities. A new central-ity based on community activities that is based on production spaces can drive institutional networks and employment strategies. Taking Tesco as a starting point as it is located strategically as a pivot between OKR and a secondary road through the Mandela Way Industrial Estate, the aim is to acti-
vate the disengaged streetscape in order to create an environment that encourages exchange and fa-cilitates synergies.
Working with the past redevelopment plans for Te-sco, the aim is to introduce a catalyst project that anchors the formation of new networks between existing and new institutions in the area.
PHASING
PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
VEHICULAR CIRCULATION
URBAN ANALYSIS
BLOCK TYPOLOGIES
1. Functional Integration: The section of the perim-eter block has been differentiated according to the ground floor uses. On the street edge the commer-cial functions are placed, whereas, on the courtyard edge, it serves as housing.2. Multiplification: The site is divided into six parts horizontally, and two equal perimeter blockes are placed to the parts without commercial uses.
3. Differentiation: The dimensions of the perimeter blocks are distorted according to the urban dynam-ics.4. Sustaining the Inner Street: The angle is changed to endure the continuity of the inner street created within the blocks.5. Differentiating the Courtyards: By the change of angle, the courtyards gained different characteris-
tics and dimensions.6. Punctual Densifications: Some points in the area have been densified while regarding the angle of the sun.7. Breaking the Perimeter Blocks: Parts of the pe-rimeter blocks which are unable to receive sunlight, have taken out.
Commercial Housing
GROUND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
TYPICAL FLOOR
CARPARK
3+1 B-C-E BLOCKS
3+1 A-D BLOCKS
4+1 B-C BLOCKSDUBLEX
GROUND FLOOR
3+1 B-C-E BLOCKS /
DUBLEX GROUND FLOOR
3+1 A-D BLOCKS /DUBLEX GROUND
FLOOR
4+1 B-C BLOCKS /DUBLEX FIRST
FLOOR
3+1 B-C-E BLOCKS /DUBLEX FIRST FLOOR
3+1 A-D BLOCKS /DUBLEX FIRST FLOOR
1+1 B-C BLOCKS
Considering that the residential spaces that dom-inate the vast majority of our cities, urban environ-ment that is integrated successfully with housing should an integral part of the city. Housing, should be considered as an urban element that serves to the public as well as the residential users.
On the other hand, considering the production structure in Turkey, parcel-oriented and introverted design processes, could not be sufficiently inte-grated into the city and hence cannot create a suc-cessful urban environment which only produces individual apartment blocks.
By mixing the uses of residential and retail, housing has a more strategic role in the urban environment. The open spaces and semi-public areas provide different users to interact. Additionally, a variety of the types of dwelling units bring people together with different purchasing power and background.
Social Housing and Urban Transformation National Professional Competition,Canakkale, Turkey
Purchase Prize2014
Team:Neris Parlak, Yiğit Acar, Emre Kaygusuz, Tugyan Kepkep, Orhan Mete Isiko-glu, Ensar Temizel, Ozgun Ozcakir, Mert Tosun, Zuhal Acar
SECTION B-B
SECTION A-A
WEST SILHOUETTE
Baruthane Waste Collection Center
Beyoglu Waste Collection Center
Halkali Recycling Center
Odayeri Recycling Center
Bayrampasa Collection Center
Yenibosna Recycling Center
Besiktas Collection Center
HekimkoyRecycling Center
Storage and Separation Spaces in
Tarlabasi
Waste Collection from Istiklal
Commercial District
The investigation of the potentials of those inner city areas that are occupied by marginal groups is an individual work resulting from a collective research of a group of two. The aim was to put into question of political economic dimensions through testing different themes and possibilities in different sites with distinct conditions. The main goal of enhanc-ing the local productive networks and preventing the local community to be expelled, the strategy of controlled gentrification was developed. To break the spatial and social boundaries between the infor-mal and formal activities in and around the centrally located neighbourhoods, new uses and users in the process of redevelopment of an inner city area were introduced in a controlled manner. The intro-
duction of new users and uses as a tool to requal-ify an existing area by generating new synergies across the existing and the new conditions with the explicit aim of neutralising the process of expulsion. This could be used to control an existing process of gentrification as well as pre-empt a process of plain expulsion in a ‘tabula rasa’ manner, as opposed to gentrification. Controlled gentrification, as achieved for instance in the case of the old centre of Barce-lona, is obviously a difficult and complex task that encompasses a variety of levels of action, from the institutional and regulatory dimension to questions of spatial and design approaches.
Tarlabasi, an inner city neighbourhood in Istanbul
where mostly migrant communities inhabit, has been facing the threat of expulsion to the periphery areas as a consequent of the ongoing urban trans-formation project. As a centrally located area, with the proximity to Taksim Square and the vibrant retail hubs of the city, instead of transforming the area for the benefit of local residents, the government has been collaborating with the private investors to turn the neighbourhood into an important commercial and residential part of the city where high-income residents would use. By expropriating the histori-cal buildings, the users are urged to leave the area either by the market forces or the policies that the government has been pursuing during this gentrifi-cation process.
Rethinking the Excluded Migrant Neighbourhoods: Reconstructing the Pro-ductive NetworksTarlabasi, Istanbul
AA School of Architecture2015
Team:Shaleen Jethi
Tutors:Jorge FioriAlex Warnock-Smith
However, the existing productive activities and the microbusinesses constitute a potential local econ-omy that would endure the existence of the local inhabitants within the area. As a multiscalar strat-egy, it is crucial to consolidate the informal cycles, mainly recycling activities, and the local retail units that will start to create synergies between the local economy and the ongoing urban transformation by careful design intervention.
The test site chosen is the area around one of the main roads that crosses the neighbourhood verti-cally and connecting to both sides where two bou-levards create boundaries to the area. By introduc-ing new typologies and a change of fabric at the edge of the boulevard and the urban transforma-tion project, an urban centre is proposed to act as a filtration point by allowing private investment yet creating spaces for local activities.
As a main driver, the recycling cycle becomes a potential to generate the local economy, however, the production spaces are spread among the area, which become isolated from each other and unable to create proper networks at larger scale as well. By redesigning the underutilised courtyards as work-live environments, a secondary route is created with connection to the main spine that is constitut-ed of local businesses.
Movement through the hybrid
Enhancing the local economy
Building up a frontage to the main road
Moreover, this sequence of spaces from the street to the courtyards is reflected to the housing on the upper floors; a change from single use to collective living.
The multi-dimensional spatial intervention aims to create productive ecologies between the local ac-tivities and the mechanisms of urban transforma-tion. Therefore, the spaces of contact are crucial for
implementing the elements of controlled gentrifica-tion so as to articulate synergies between formal and informal activities. Changes in the movement through the existing streets and blocks, as well as the new public routes enables interactions among various actors. This strategy is reinforced with spa-tial and typological variations that also collaborate with the economic and institutional dimensions.
It is crucial to introduce new typologies to filter the change of fabric and uses, thus, an urban block is designed at the edge of the main road and the proposed urban transformation project that con-sists of hybrid blocks that new income groups are introduced. Providing accommodation is required in those buildings in the way that they become mix use, which also have the services and spaces for the local community.
Regarded as a dead part of the city, in fact Tarlaba-si is very productive through its informal recycling economy, that serves the rest of the city. Its location is the crucial point that enables potential to integrate this informal production with the formal sector. The two main roads surrounding the neighbourhood not only create physical segregation, but also form a clear division between the production activities in the area as well. The industrial area at the north
of Tarlabasi is located within the residential area of Dolapdere, one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Istanbul. Small-scale manufacturing spaces, re-pairment areas and waste material collection cen-ters generate a productive spot within the area. On the other hand, the commercial district around Tak-sim Square has been attracting the private invest-ment where the majority of the residential blocks have transformed into retail spaces, office uses and
shopping malls. Cultural spaces remained individu-al, unable to form synergies between various other spaces of production, therefore, lead to the domi-nancy of the commercial character of the area.
The informal recycling industry as the main eco-nomic driver in the area has the potential to create a link with the industrial area and the commercial dis-trict. The spatial conditions and the networks of this
production makes this area an appropriate testing ground. As a starting point, the dispersion of the spaces of those informal processes constitutes ar-bitrary patterns within the neighbourhood, therefore the tests will focus on the exploration and revision of the block structures and the public spaces.
In conclusion, the area offers a variety of opportu-nities to rethink the process of urban transforma-tion. By articulation of the recycling industry and transform it into an urban driver as it has the po-tential to integrate with different actors and facilitate combinations between formal and informal sector.
However, the current dispersed and disintegrated condition is still far from that situation, working with only a few institutions that try to link the formal and informal productive activities.
Integrated Ecologies aims to revive the layered mo-bility system that makes it possible to decongest the roadways and to open up new possibilities along Avenida Norte a layered mobility system can also improve the productive relationships between many different actors across a broad spatial, eco-nomic, and physical territory to integrate these sys-tems and promote social equity. It addition to this, new destinations have been strategically placed to
support a network of existing and new integrated productive activities. This also requires combining the national policies in different sectors to have a multidimensional and multi scalar impact.
Recife already has a complex system of roadways, railways, and bus routes in place, however these systems are not well unified and do not integrate the variety of social and economic territories pres-
ent. To relieve the usage pressure and congestion on Avenida Norte, alternative modes of transport are necessary to create a layered mobility system. A city-driven proposal to install a rail system that will alleviate some of the pressures and connect areas of the city that are currently not integrated is currently being considered. However, implementing this rail system along Avenida Norte threatens to congest the avenue further.
The strategy is to build upon the existing propos-al to utilize the route of the canal system, adding the new light rail route to revitalize the public realm. In any light rail development the land value is ex-pected to rise, especially around the rail stops and stations. The aim is to use the additional value as an advantage to concentrate investment into these areas; wherein Avenida Norte, the light rail and the canal, and their peripheral areas become es-
pecially important. The role of Avenida Norte will still remain a thriving thoroughfare in Recife, along with the possibility of emerging new territories. The intersection of Avenida and canal route through val-ley creates a strategic area for concentrating the new economic social and cultural activities and to connect centers along Avenida Norte. In addition, the already active public realm improvements of the canal will be utilized, enforced, and strengthened,
unifying the various transit systems along a similar route. Three locations were strategically chosen to inter-sect the light rail and Avenida Norte, and rail stops were placed at all of these locations. With the intro-duction of the light rail to the canal, a project similar to that of the Recife 500 will be implemented, up-grading the entire canal system to be more open to public realm.
Integrated EcologiesRecife International WorkshopRecife, Brasil
AA School of Architecture2014
Team:Marilia Cavalcanti Farias, Maria Eduarda Campos, Sabrina da Rosa Machry, Marina Holanda Kunst, Celina Izar Cerreta de Lima, Adriano Neves Pereira, Vitor Silva Delpizzo, Solachi Ramanathan, Keval Kaushik, Sharmila Kamelakkannan, Livia Klemencsics, Natalie Clemens, Marta Roca Munoz
Tutors:Jorge FioriAlex Warnock-SmithJuliana Muniz Westcott
STRUCTURING MOBILITY
DEFINING A PUBLIC SQUARE
URBAN CATALYSTS
There are three key sites that provide exemplar test territories that are most likely to be prime lo-cations of investment after the implementation of the light rail route. The interventions of the proposal are dealing with these, exploring their potential and preparing a basis for future development. The first site is the intersection at the midpoint of Avenida Norte. Being an important junction already, this hub has the potential to become a key point of
the mobility interchange, influencing the success of its entire network. If successfully implemented, this area can work as a catalyst for nearby devel-opments by attracting significant investments and becoming a social and cultural draw, or reference point, in the city of Recife.
The strategy calls for an articulation of the in-tersection and the existing destinations, like the
SESC community center, through the use of larger, high-density, mixed-use buildings. The proposed example building outlined demonstrates two larger block buildings that experiments with concentrated mixed-use typologies.
The strategy is not restricted to the south of Avenida Norte. It draws on important geographical, cultural, and public safety issues of the ZEIS and the up-keep and integration of the urban fabric. Since the geography of the morros plays such an important role in how life operates in the ZEIS, key interven-tions were targeted to the most critical geographi-cal morphologies and social ecologies.
One of the main goals of the proposal is to get ahead of landslides and transform the hills so they can continue to be utilized for the betterment of the morro ecology. The implementation of geographi-cal terraces will prevent the landslides through a se-ries of retaining walls and drainage systems. They will allow additional flat lands that can be planned accordingly, and will improve accessibility through a sequence of public realm and pedestrian mobil-
ity infrastructures. These terraces can be planned in an incremental system, and can conform to any sloped landscape. With the terraces, a more nat-ural system of soil retention and drainage is to be installed. The soil is weak in part because of the amount of trees that were removed to make room for housing. Along with these proposals, new sys-tems of plantings will be reinstalled that reform the natural strength and aid in their stabilization.
Block Structure
Vehicular Circulation
Grid of 3 m
Circulation core
Housing Units
Area for Balconies
Area for Balconies
moving the face inside
Vehicle WayCarpark
Storage Areas
Inclined Roof
Roof Terrace
Dwellings
Side Openings
Rear Openings
Rear Balconies
Entrance
Roof Garden
extruding towards courtyard
Balconies are created by:
Living Spaces
Orientation Towards the South
Alacaatli Housing ProjectAnkara, Turkey
FREA Architects2012
12680 m2
Team:Fatih Yavuz, Emre Savural, Hasan Okan Cetin
Lower Ground Floor Plan Ground Floor Plan First Floor Plan
Lower Ground Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Section A-AUrban Strategy
Rear Streetscape Elevation
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Residential (Confidential)
London, UK
Urbanist Architecture2014
540 m2
Team:Ufuk Bahar, Ipek Guler
Solar Panels
Common areas
Interaction between the closed and open spaces
Educational units on the upper level
Common areas and socail spac-es on the ground level
Courtyards and green spaces
Green roofs
Shifting the court-yards to create mul-tiple open spaces
Courtyards
Green roofs
1. Systematicly Repeat-ing Units
2. Variational Units
Class-rooms
Service Spaces
Circu-lation
Education Campuses National CompetitionBursa, Turkey
First Prize
Yazgan Design2013
95000 m2
Team:Kerem Yazgan, Ruya Ipek Balaban
The campus is located at the west of the city cen-tre, in the neighborhood of Ozluce, Bursa. Ap-proximately with 95,000 m2 construction area, the campus is located on plain green area. The project reflects the green tissue of Bursa and supports this fiction in the foreground. The campus is placed along the long edge of the plot with four education-al structures towards the northeast, a kindergarten and two dormitory buildings sharing a common
courtyard. The parking lots, internal service road and the bicycle lanes are parts of the integrated inner circulation.
The campus is a modern educational institution in accordance with the requirements of the planning approach, as well as the historical and geograph-ical typology. The systematic organisation of the constant elements like circulation, services and the
classrooms are clustered around a courtyard. At the same time those courtyards create social spac-es, and provide spatial ground for many purposes. The design of the campus developed in a format that is discussed in contemporary fiction.
The design of Bursa-Lotus Education Campus is mainly articulated around the concept of ‘court-yard-street’, where the autonomous units of class-rooms and services are clustered around the court-yards and integrated to each other with the street.
The educational spaces are classified into two: self-repeating systematic elements and the vari-able elements. Systematic ones; solar panels,
classrooms, services and circulation and all the technical spaces are placed framing the court-yards. Those frames, which have been differentiat-ed according to the ages of the students, create courtyard typology that enhances semi open and semi-public spaces.
The social spaces, i.e. library, cafeteria, sports hall, auditorium, are regarded as the variable spaces
that would be used by the external users, hence, designed at the ground level within the courtyards.
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