do you read me — ekineryilmaz

Do you read me?

A collective of multi species inhabiting structures of bio technological dualities and ecological thresholds

Dou you read me? is a proposal that functions as a bio-confronting representative of ecologies for embracing possible futures of ‘commoning’. Situated at an isolated site ironically in one of the liveliest districts of Istanbul, which is Kadıköy, the design stimulates an organism which no longer will depend on the arbitrary decisions or control over its emergence exercised by a few, but rather the ensemble of its subjective contingencies, by questioning the narrated duality in between ecology and technology in linear history writing. The architectural manifestation of the project consists of knotted geometries that are being engaged from cross-fertilization of mechanic and living matter —life forms embodied within it.

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Bachelor’s Graduation Project
ITU
Fall 18/19

Instructors
Prof. Dr. Aslıhan Şenel
Prof. Dr. Ayşe Şentürer
Prof. Dr. Pelin Dursun Çebi

The urban atlas, traces of commoning, common activities, collective conscious, memory, and fragments are extremely diverse and promising in Kadıköy.
The diagrammatic syntheses of these aspects of the given site of the district
(fig 2), shaped the manifestation of the design and provided a guidance for conceptualizing the project. These representations can be extended as an archive of ownerships, needs, desires or subjectivities specific to Kadıköy’s inhabitants.

Do you read me ?’, herein, is a search for a medium of translation and a form of language to relate the proposal with the design of the locality and to amplify the interdependency of the ecologies within the collective.
The representational language refers to the site’s mundane character as a giant parking lot and also investigates tension in between the liveliness of the living and the dullness of machinery is an indomitable duality by trying to render the common activities with machine parts (fig 7 and figures 2.1-3).

The overall approach to the site can be framed by defining axes. ‘The repair, construction and data encoding axis’ (fig 6.1) inhabits the archive and forum within, the residents can make spatial proposals to the construction core and receive feedback. ‘The bio-digital production axis’ (fig 6.2) is producing organic filling materials for the robotic arms to contour craft new structures in real time.
‘The axis confrontation cells’ (fig 6.3) are the hubs to negotiate tension between conflicting ecologies to then establish creative forms of co-habitation. ‘The housing axis’ (fig 6.4) hosts the repetitive and reversible housing systems.

As the land is inhabited, hybridized spaces between the machinery and the living or organic matter are articulated on these axes, and over time they diminish and multiply according to the dynamics and activities of the users.
This also reflects on the spatial parts of the collective on varying scales and transitions to an architectural language and materiality.

The structure of the biotechnological production axis (fig 20) allows spaces to slide over each other, rotate or even skew themselves to extents. The grinding machine (fig 14,15) is used to turn organic materials into small particles, some of its parts can integrate and operate with living systems.

The processing engine composes this powdery material into bio plastic cartridges that can contour craft the bio-elements of the structure (fig 22) with the help of nozzle tipped soft machines (fig 24).

1
Sketches of production and encountering core
No scale, created by the author

2
Diagrammatic mapping of events and spaces that have taken place in the collective memory related to Kadıköy:
2.1 A timeline chart of the “Kuşdili” meadow’s functional uses. The diagram also symbolically renders the relation of meadow with “Gezi Park protests” and “Kurbağlıdere”, 2.2 Protests and marches under heavy police control usually starts in front of the Süreyya Opera” and ends at “Kadıköy Çarşı” square, 2.3 Crossing the passage way connecting two main streets of Kadıköy
No scale, created by the author

3,4
1/100, physical model of forum and archive

5
Experimental food production stacks occupy in betweens of the housing grid— while contour crafting processes define, erase and re-define other spaces.
Fragment created by the author

6
Axonometric view of the design proposal
No scale, created by the author

7
From top to bottom:
A collection of various machine parts, bits and pieces.
Finding a medium for narration: studies with machine parts.
Collages created by the author

8
Site plan and axes
See the scale bar, created by the author
8.2 (same as in fig 6) A hub that produces digital fabrication models using components such as organic waste and water works in conjunction with a water treatment plant (fig XI.5) located directly behind the site, 8.3 (same as in fig 6) The busy transportation axis and its relationship with the site , 8.4 (same as in fig 6) Temporary accommodation spaces that can be articulated with each other are located in the area where the relationship with the water is the most intense

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A detailed structural fragment of forum’s theatre
Created by the author

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The structure of the complex allows spaces to slide over each other, rotate or even skew themselves to extents. Sliders can also rotate and re/dis-assemble with other parts of the mass body
Fragment created by the author

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Physical model of the forum and its theatre

12
Hand drawing of the construction engine connected to all of the axles
No scale, created by the author

13
Physical model of the archive and the confrontation cells

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Sketch of the grinding machine which is used to turn organic materials into small particles, some of its parts can integrate and operate with living systems
No scale, created by the author

15
3D model of the grinding machine
No scale, created by the author

16
Axonometric view of housing units; hydroponic and aquaponic systems, robotic arms, water storage, laser electricity network and solar panels are visible characteristics
No scale, created by the author

17
Homemade hydroponics and soft machines, a hybrid living unit: interiors of housing units the materiality and spatiality of the units are highly customizable with respect to the use of biopolymers and the subjective needs of their inhabitants
Fragment created by the author

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System section of stacked housing modules
No scale, created by the author
(18.1) 0.4 mm zinc sheet, sealing membrane, 12 mm larch plywood sheet, 45/60 hemlock battens, 45 mm agri-food based thermal insulation,28 mm larch plywood sheet with protective coating, 150/300 mm biopolymer beam with reinforced date palm fibers; (18.2) 0.4 mm zinc sheet 45/27mm battens; (18.3) 5 mm semi-transparent bio-plastic from shredded shrimp shells + 12 mm cavity +5 mm float glass in biocement frame; (18.4) 0.4 mm zinc sheet cladding; (18.5) sliding element 5 mm float glass + 12 mm cavity + 5 mm float glass in wood frame; (18.6) 20 mm cypress boards, 45/45 mm battens, zinc sheet, sealing membrane, 15 mm plywood sheet, battens cut to falls, 28 mm plywood sheet; (18.7) sliding element galvanised steel; (18.8) railing 6/50 mm galvanised flat steel on 110/120/8 mm steel angle screwed to ends of beams; (18.9) 0.4 mm biopolymer sheet; (18.10) 15 mm birch parquet 12 mm plywood sheet, 45/105 mm timber section, space for service runs between 28 mm plywood sheet; (18.11) biopolymer beam with reinforced date palm fibers

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Material and construction cycles
No scale, diagram created by the author
(19.1) Shredder and grinder for organic materials, (19.2) Data input received by the archive, (19.3) Transmission to soft and contour crafting machines, (19.4-5) Processing the bio construction material, (19.6) Building phase

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Bio-digital productio axis bird eye view
No scale, created by the author

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The conceptions of the learning scape allows science, art classes and all other messy activities to occur in a number of spaces throughout the school, wherever they integrate well with the learning plan
No scale, created by the author

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Harvesting the organic waste and other parent materials for bio-digital production
Fragment created by the author

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Phases of organic waste processing
No scale, created by the author
(23.1 Harvest, (23.2) Storing, clustering, classifying, (23.3) Shredding and grinding

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The processing engine composes this powdery material into bio plastic cartridges that can contour craft the bio-elements of the structure with the help of nozzle tipped soft machines
No scale, created by the author

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Material cycle of a hardened solid produced by mixing corn starch with a and water and heating the mixture in a microwave or oven
Created by the author
(25.1) Sand, (25.2) Corn flour, (25.3) Water, (25.4) Mold, (25.5) Thermal treatment, (25.6) Cultivated building element, (25.7) Biological decomposition

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