This is the basketball cup that won the design contest organized in 2018 by the Turkish Basketball Federation (TBF). Nadide Ebru Yazar and Mete Yazar proposed this idea, and I modeled that in Rhino and rendered it with Neon. Among more than 150 designs, the jury chose our design due to its dynamic formal expression. Cage-editing was very efficient in creating this kind of free-form surface. However, the production phase […]
The “Common-Action Wall” Project of the POTplus Design Research Group, founded by Fulya Akipek and Tuğrul Yazar from BİLGİ Faculty of Architecture, got an honorable mention in the category of “Completed Projects/Small Projects” in “S.ARCH 2018 Project Award”. For detailed information about the “Common-Action Walls” Project, please click here and here For detailed information about “S.ARCH: The 5th International Conference on Architecture & Built Environment + AWARDs”, please click here. Members of the Jury: Toyo Ito, Toyo Ito & Associates, […]
The website of our design works with Fulya Akipek is now open. You can check it here: www.potplus.org According to the website; Which sources feed the creative energy of current architecture in an agenda where crisis and opportunities encounter? In what kinds of productions is this energy being used for? How does architecture relate to channels of everyday life; does it reveal, highlight or transform any existing relations? Does architecture […]
This video shows the method of constructing equal segments on a line by only using compass operations. Here, you can see that there is a pattern in the number of required compass operations. For example, if you need to divide the distance by 3, you need 13 circles (or compass operations). This reveals a simple equation of c = 2 * n + 3 where n is the desired number […]
