EDUCATION
University of Virginia / Master of Architecture / Urban Design Certificate
VA, USA / 2016-Winter 2018
Partial Financial Scholarship
3,94 GPA
Syracuse University / Bachelor of Architecture
NY, USA / Fall 2013, World Exchange Program
Full Financial Scholarship
3,91 GPA
Bahcesehir University / Bachelor of Architecture
Istanbul, Turkey / 2011-2016
Full Financial Scholarship, High Honor
3,84 GPA
PROFESSIONAL WORK
VMDO Architects / Charlottesville, VA
Architectural Designer / February 2019 - Current
Intern / June - August 2017, June - August 2018
Previously worked two consecutive summers at VMDO Architects in Charlottesville as an architectural design intern and currently a full-time architectural designer. Projects involved include University of Miami Centennial Village Dining Building, George Washington University Thurston Hall student life project and University of Virginia Contemplative Commons. Got involved in projects phases from early SD’s to complete CD packages. Used Revit, AutoCAD, Enscape, Lumion and Adobe Suite to produce 2D and 3D documentation.
Büke Uras Architecture / Istanbul, Turkey
Intern / June - August 2016
Worked as an architectural design intern in the design office on projects including renovation of a commercial interior and redesign of a residential. Project included surveying of existing buildings and creating concept and design development drawings. Used Autocad and Adobe Photoshop for the completion of tasks.
Selin Maner Architects / Istanbul, Turkey
Intern / March - June 2016
Worked as an architectural design intern in SMA Architects office on projects including including a private beach bay club, the design of a high-end residence,a project presentation exhibited at the 15th International Venice Architecture Biennale, and the design development drawings for a 300 room hotel project in Cyprus.Used Lumion, AutoCad and Sketchup for the completion of tasks.
Tabanlioglu Architects / Istanbul, Turkey
Intern / July - August 2015
Worked as an architectural design intern in the design office. Helped creating phsical models, drawings and renderings for both international and national projects ranging from a high rise mixed use tower in Istanbul to exhibitons in London and Antwerp.Used Rhinoceros, Autocad, Adobe Creative Suite and SketchUp for completion of tasks.
Tepe Construction Industry Inc. / Istanbul, Turkey
Intern / July - August 2014
Worked as an intern in the construction site of a mixed-use residential project of 30acres. Due to the phasing of the project parts, duties included inspection and reporting of daily progress in construction ranging from formwork, reinforcing, concrete pouring to flooring, glazing and interior finishing.
AFFILIATIONS
Assoc. AIA
Actively Pursuing Licensure
Member No: 38836646
Leed AP BD+C
Member No: 1784522999104102
AIA Virginia
2020 ELA Alumni
CalOES Building Evaluator
September 2019 - Current
Registered Architect
Chamber of Architects, Section of UIA in Turkey
AWARDS
LICC, London International Creative Competition
Honorable Mention / 2019
Project: HERE | THERE
Presented to: VMDO Architects
Project Team: Mert Kansu, Hayley Owens, Kimberly Faber, Brady Scott
Architecture MasterPrize
Student Winner / November 2018
Project: Carve & Construct
Has been named a Student Winner of the Architecture MasterPrize award in the Educational Buildings category. The winning project is an A-School addition design to Campbell Hall completed in ARCH 8010 Studio (Spring 2018), led by Professors Luis Pancorbo and Ines Martin Robles.The project will be showcased in the annual AMP Book of Architecture.
Link: https://architectureprize.com/winners/winner.php?id=3633
World Architecture Community Awards
Student Award / 2018
Project: Carve & Construct
Has won the 29th cycle of the Word Architecture Community Awards. The mission of the award is to highlight and recognize remarkable projects that might otherwise remain unnoticed by the international public, yet have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse.
Link: https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-projects/hpnnp/carve_construct-project-pages.html
Lori Ann Pristo Award
UVA School of Architecture / 2018
Award given each year to the graduate student with the highest grade point average.
EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION
World Architecture Community, USA Reporter
March 2019 – Current
https://worldarchitecture.org/
Arkitera.com Website Publication
December 2018
Project: Carve & Construct
Carve & Construct gets full page coverage in the most popular Turkish architectural website.
Link: http://www.arkitera.com/proje/9847/carve--construct
Mimarizm.com Website Publication
December 2018
Project: Carve & Construct
Carve & Construct gets full page coverage in one of the leading architectural websites in Turkey.
Link: http://www.mimarizm.com/mimari-projeler/egitim/carve-construct_129666
KooZA/rch Website Publication
October 2018
Project: Carve & Construct
An animation created from series of photos taken of a sectional model was published in the “Models” section of the “Archipelago” page in KooZA/rc.com.
Link: http://www.koozarch.com/archipelago/
Emancipation Park Redesigns Exhibition / CitySpace, Charlottesville, VA
February 2018
Project: Revealing Within
Was part of a public exhibition in downtown Charlottesville on Emancipation Park Redesigns as a respond to August 11-12 events in Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park. Publicity of the project includes news articles in NBC29, CBS19, CVille Tomorrow, The Daily Progress and Cavalier Daily.
UVA End-Of-Semester Exhibition
Fall-Spring 2016, 17, 18
Projects: Carve&Construct, Revealing Within, Vertical Avenue, Catalysts | XL M S
Four projects done in the previous design studios were exhibited in an End-Of-Semester exhibition.
ACADEMIC WORK
Luis Pancorbo, Ines Martin Robles / Pancorbo Arquitectos
Campbell Hall Renovation and West Addition Project
Draftsmen, Visualiser / Ongoing-Fall 2018
Worked on producing a comprehensive 3D model. visualization and animations for the new addition for the UVA School of Arhitecture. The project involves renovation of existing facilities, classrooms and a new three storey addition to house a new fabrication lab and studio spaces. Used Rhinoceros, Lumion and AutoCAD to complete tasks.
Lumion Workshop for ARCH6010 Studio
Lecturer / Fall 2018
Held a workshop on Lumion for first year M.Arch students. Workshop included, explaining workflows from Rhinoceros to Lumion and to post-processing softwares to create renderings. Apart from basic interface and operations, material adjustments, effects, animation and terrain modification was also covered.
Catalogue for Previous Academic and Professional Works
Editor / Spring 2017
Collected, edited and curated the academic and professional portfolio of Pancorbo Arquitectos. Project invovled collecting, scanning analyzing both digital and analogue material and preparing 3 books divided between Teaching, Academic and Professional works. Majority of work was completed using Adobe Indesign.
Inaki Alday, Margarita Jover / aldayjover Arquitectos
Water&Cities Exhibition
Researcher, Model Maker / Fall 2017
Worked on the creation of an imagined landscape model housing a curated display of all aldayjover Arquitectos’s professional work. The work included surveying the exhibition area making research for the barcode scanning technologies used in the model and managing all the logistics of material allocation. Later, modeled and 3D printed buildings,3D modeled the landscape, made tests and created prototypes for the 5’x5’ CNC routed landscape model of high density foam.
UVA Campbell Hall Library Proposal Model
Model Maker / May - July 2017
Restored, repaired and created a displaybox for a renovation proposal model of UVA School of Architecure’s library in Campbell Hall. The renovation of 2.5’x1.5’ museumboard and basswood model included surveying existing areas around the school and then remaking, and cutting of damaged parts. Displaybox included crafting a plexiglass box with a plywood display base.
RESEARCH
Climate Resilient Networks of Energy for Self-Sustaining Communities
Advisors: Margarita Jover, Luis Pancorbo, Alex Wall
Fall 2017-2018
Research takes the extreme condition of energy production and use in climaticaly vulnerable zones as a challenge and aims to see it as an opportunity to create a resilient, adaptable energy network model. This network model, composed of an alternative archetype for energy production and distribution will bring back these activities back into daily life of communities. This will enable energy to be governed by the communities and seen as a common good. As a result, energy becomes a common pool resource that is not supplied from a centralized infrastructure but supplied from local spaces, by common decision-making.
SKILLS
Digital
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, Grasshopper (Beginner), SketchUp ,VRay,Lumion
Analog
Woodworking (Plunge Router, Jigsaw, Tablesaw, Sander), CNC Routing, 3-D Printing, Laser Cutting
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