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 have that power?

POTplus believes that architecture’s creative energy generates from collective works. At a time of crisis, only such energy can turn architecture into a constructive power for a better world and alternative solutions. The realms of design and architecture can extend their fields of knowledge only when they cooperate with other disciplines. conducts collective works in every opportunity for production, takes design as research, relates the realms of education and practice in a feedback pattern, develops design research projects that are applied and tested within everyday life by the users. Thus each an event serves as a chance to produce an architectural prototype and improves architectural knowledge through experience.

POTplus focuses on the fields of computational design and production which evolved through performance-based design in recent years and works on the relations of nature, architecture and urban life. Thus permaculture design principles are an important field of knowledge for the research. We build prototype structures for festivals, biennials, and workshops to transform open-public spaces into fields of interaction and convey the information of these prototypes into architectural knowledge. The urban garden prototypes that we construct within open-public spaces introduce our current topics to work on such as architecture’s relation with environmental conditions and natural cycles; hidden social structures sustaining these products; reduction of consumption in production and material use; assembly-disassembly systems for re-use and recycling.