World Architecture Awards 10+5+X Submissions

The project area is located in the most noisy and crowded area of Izmir. Access to this area, which is adjacent to the Bornova Bolge Metro Station and the upper bridge, is also very easy. The objective was to seamlessly integrate work, living, and public areas, focusing on the specific needs of the user group. The main theme of the project was vertical farming, prompting research into this advanced technology. The goal was to minimize urban noise and overcrowding by establishing vertical farming areas, where products are grown on vertically stacked shelves or layers using soilless farming techniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics. I took references from neighboring buildings and identified the entrances to the area.
The design concept arose with the question of how to reduce noise pollution caused by the adjacent highway and subway line. For this, I paid attention to the short width of my buildings and rotating the building masses according to sunlight in order to have the most sunlight in the vertical gardening spaces.
In this project, I aimed to use innovative hydroponic systems alongside traditional methods like greenhouse gardening, rooftop gardens, and community gardens for vertical farming. The title of my project, ElevaGreen, which means Rising Green, is actually derived from a green that rises in vertical farming.
Additionally, I considered providing farmers with affordable and sustainable housing options, believing it would be more suitable for their living needs while engaged in production. The modular living units offered in three different types; It offers versatile and functional spaces, including dedicated laboratory units for advanced innovation.The public spaces I envisioned included a bazaar for farmers to sell their products, a daycare, a library, and culinary workshops, all designed to meet the needs of the farming community.

Modular living units; the first unit is 36 m², the second unit is 54 m², and the third unit is 72 m² in area. The vertical farming area covers approximately 7,400 m², with greenhouses occupying 1,400 m² and underground parking covering 2,000 m². The Dynamic Bazaar area includes 4 culinary workshops of 70 m² each, 6 cafes of 50 m² each, a nursery of 200 m², and administrative and staff areas totaling 2,000 m².
The building elements used are steel construction and concrete cladding. Steel crossbars were preferred to increase the horizontal load-bearing capacity and reduce lateral displacement. The building elements of the modular housing are also steel construction, ensuring a stronger and more dynamic transition with the vertical farming buildings.
Architect: Ceyda Cosar
Supervisor: Isik Ulkun Neusser
Metin Sahin

The limits of fixation present in the Colombian territory have not only defined the way that we live in it , the way in which we structure our spatial conception of the city, the urban and the rural. But they have also established contradictory living conditions for their habitants, from having their view centered on the hills, to living on their edges as the last free space to live, under unsafe conditions . Being this last one a reality around which discussions and reflections must take place in the local current architecture, which for years has been treated with restrictions, in parts due to governmental decisions and the scale of the problem or treated as a problem that must be hidden or expelled for commercial and tourist purposes.

This project, demarcated in the coastal territories of the city of Santa Marta in Colombia, seeks to expand the scale of intervention of these actions, through the understanding of dwell as a system, which is born from the violence that affects the area and the challenges that its habitants face. Adapting it self to the territory topografi and the challenges that it brings.

Having as its main axis the management of water, that resource necessary for the community and lacking, and affected by the current incapacity to provide water to the constructions above the 40 topographical level. Seeking its collection in channels that collect water from the runoff of the hills until its storage and treatment in cisterns, which are located in the basements of the educational spaces, to later guarantee its equitable distribution along the hills and its passage to supply future crops.

Also proposing the creation of crops that naturalize and protect the area that have been affected by arsons and climatic problematics - connecting current community proposals with the project - allowing the community to produce their own food and in the future to sell the resulting food from the crops.

While giving space to educational structures that allow the community to get access to education without having to travel long distances and and creating spaces for business and tourism in order to give the community means of sustenance, in constant development between the hills and their habitants.



The walls are the main elements of the project, necessary for the containment of the terrain, they contribute to mimicking the built elements without altering and intervening forcefully the natural topography of the mountain, allowing the creation of terraces that perch on the Ziruma hill and in whose each of the stages takes place of the project. Demarcating the differents areas and access roads, guaranteeing pedestrian connectivity.

All the structures of the project such as: viewpoints, educational centers, canals, systems and walls are made of reinforced concrete, a material that unifies the project and highlights the natural environment. While being also the ideal material for use in the educational spaces, since concrete allows perforations to be made in the roofs and the plates of the floors, allowing access to light in the different spaces and the use of without losing its bearing capacity. And allowing the use of concrete arches that accompany and delimit the long corridors. Being those arch shapes the ones given also to the entrances and other light access points throughout the project in the educational building and in the seed storage station.
Design: Luisa M Fernandez
Tutors: Daniela Atencio, Claudio Rossi, Daniel Bonilla.

DESCRIPTION
Nexus is a self-sufficient, sustainable public library that is located in Alsancak, İzmir.
The name Nexus comes from the fact that it was designed as a common point, a project that brings people together from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds in Izmir. And become the connection point of public life in the city.
PROJECT AREA
The Project area is 15.000 square meters and is one of the dense areas of Izmir, containing two historical buildings and protected centuries-old palm trees. Since the location of the land can be considered at the center of the public transportation network in the city, parking was not included in the project design in order to encourage users to use public transportation.
Since there is a pedestrian density in the surrounding area and the streets are not suitable for vehicle traffic, an underpass proposal had been prepared around the land.
The project consists of two ramps, one end of which extends to Kıbrıs Şehitleri Street and the other end of which extends to the tram stop in that area, and 6 floors located where these two ramps connected. Each floor has a square form and is 289 square meters. In the building layout, a gallery space of approximately 170 square meters were used in the middle, and the functions of the floors were distributed from the ground floor to the upper floor in a more silent way. The facade design of the building has been designed separately on each facade, in accordance with its rotating form, and a distribution has been created to receive light in a sunny city like Izmir, while also consuming the least amount of energy for cooling. Thanks to the solar panels on the roof of the building and on the interfaces formed as a result of rotation, the library can produce the annual electricity needs of approximately 82 households.
FORM OF THE BUILDING
The mass was placed in the middle of the empty spaces in the site so that it was equally distant from everywhere and not stay under the shadow of surrounded buildings. Two extensions directed to the dense areas at the ends of the field were added to the square mass. The mass is extruded 28 meters to get more sunlight and the extensions are turned into ramps with spaces under them with 4m of height at maximum to welcome people from both sides. In order not to interrupt the pedestrian transportation, the connection of the main mass with the ground floor was cut off for 4 meters. The floor was pushed down to prevent claustrophobic feeling on the ground floor of the building by not making the building any higher and disturb city’s skyline. Then the mass is rotated and an atrium putted in the middle of the square mass to get the best sunlight. Lastly, the facade covered the building to control the light entrance of the building and controlling the heat.


TECHNICAL DATA
Location: Izmir/Turkey
Total Project Area: 15000 m2
Project Site: 8000 m2


STRUCTURE
The core of the project includes 2 elevators with reinforced steel walls and reinforced rotating concrete filled steel tube columns located in the middle of the floor surface. Cassette flooring was used to allow large openings in the structure

SOLAR RADIATION & DAYLIGHT
After the optimization, annual solar radiation value increased .5 from 590 MWh to 658 MWh. To achieve this increase in value, the rotation of the building was increased and the skylight on the top was reduced. As a result of these processes, the surface areas that can fully receive sunlight have been increased.
As a result of the annual optimization, the annual value increased from 2002306 to 2170157, reaching the maximum result. Thus, thanks to the new façade, a sustainable building was built by getting maximum efficiency from daylight.

PROJECT TEAM
Designers: Bensu Beliz Meskener, Melek Aksan
Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Berk Ekici, Res. Assist. Berkay Batuhan Bostan

PUBLIC GROUND is a castle square, marketplace and a municipality project located in Eğirdir, Isparta, Turkey. The project aims to transform the currently degraded, undefined public square and transform it into an attractive gathering place with respecting to the cultural heritage of the town.

The current form of the town is the result of the construction of a causeway which links the two islands to the main shore. After the completion of the causeway the waterfront changed drastically as a result of accumulation of silt that was carried by the currents. The town’s urban fabric has been altered many times by fires. Today the town presents a rich collage of the incremental changes and the city square became undefined upon these changes. The PUBLIC GROUND deals with the redesign of the town hall. It connects two shores of the lake and the castle gate to the city square within the inner street.

The municipality building is made up of a dispersed structure that has been meticulously interwoven, particularly at the levels that are connected to the ground. The wide spaces created between the building blocks help to clarify functional distinctions and establish relationships, while the fragmented structure aids in packing functions in areas that suit their demands. The structure formation, urban and building circulation, and landscape all work together as a single entity.

Also, PUBLIC GROUND aims to connect two significant city historical sites: the Eğirdir Castle and the Hızır Bey Mosque, by creating a circulation path as well as connecting the two shore lines by the inner street through the municipality building.



Location: Eğirdir, Isparta, Turkey
Programme: Defining the castle square, marketplace and designing a municipality building
Designer: Dicle Doğa Karakaş
Instructor: Yiğit Acar

Roundtimber Eco-Duct acts as a proposal for a Welcome Center on Georgia Institute of Technology's campus, and acts as both an outward facing representation of the innovative work completed at the university as well as a student occupied classrooms space. This is in an attempt to immediately ingrain visitors with the everyday goings-on of the student population. The project uses the AIA Framework for Design Excellence as a means to situate the design in the greater context of climate equity and honoring humanity, which the project accomplishes through a host of ecologically driven design principles.

Designed as part of research to create an optimized balance between embodied carbon and operational carbon, the Roundtimber Eco-Duct is a structurally experimental welcome center for prospective Georgia Tech students. Designed as a research studio project into low embodied carbon structural systems, the structural system takes inspiration from a thesis by Dr. Aurimas Bukauskas of MIT, who gave consultation on the feasibility of the system. Expanding on the work done by Dr. Bukauskas, variations on roundtimber compound columns that geometrically solved the issue of racking, were the driving force of spatial layout as well as the overall structural grid design, and digitally fabricated roundtimber models give experimental credence to the hypothetical embodied carbon calculations.

Cove.tool analysis shows a projected final EUI of -2.98, owing to the large scale insulative and habitat regenerative turf roof, as well as digitally fabricated roundtimber solar carports offsetting energy needs. The regenerative roof provides insulation as well as collecting rainwater and growth zones for native plants as well as the pollinators that coexist in these spaces.

Calculated to be a LEED Platinum project acheiving 87 points of 110, as well as a Living Building Certified project, local materiality is a driving force in acheiving these certifications. Sustainably managed Southern Yellow Pine tracts operated by the Georgia Forestry Foundation 60 miles south provide a carbon sequestering alternative to the carbon intensive usual practice of concrete construction.

The Roundtimber Eco-Duct combines all of these ecological strategies to seamlessly integrate visitors with the existing student population while giving a small taste of the innovative technological efforts being undertaken at the university.

22,500 sq ft
46,000 sq ft of onsite permeable surface
18,100 sq ft of Monosilicate Solar Panels

87/110 LEED points
82/100 WELL points
Estimated 669,000 kilograms of Embodied Carbon (15.9kg per sqft)
Estimated -26,450 kilograms of Operational Carbon per year

Estimated time to become Net Carbon Negative: 25.29 years
Devin Lohman

Supervisor- Howard Wertheimer, FAIA