Papers by nilufer kozikoglu
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)
This paper presents a lecture methodology using pattern based and algorithmic design principles f... more This paper presents a lecture methodology using pattern based and algorithmic design principles for an introductory architectural design course aimed towards students who are not oriented in design practices but in natural sciences. This methodology is built upon eights interconnected steps, starting with analytical pattern extraction from nature-from the unique texture and structure of a plant (seed or fruit) and also from its lifecycle and relation to the existing habitat. The steps include abstract pattern making with the use of software tools and material building of abstracted geometries as standalone structures. Throughout these steps, principles of information design field is demonstrated to improve students' abilities to analyze visual information.
eCAADe proceedings
This paper will relay the initial phase of a collaborative work within partners from the design d... more This paper will relay the initial phase of a collaborative work within partners from the design discipline, systems engineering, and software engineering which deals with the interrelations of network idea, systems thinking, collective design, and computation. Vensim-a system dynamics modelling tool developed by Ventana Systems, Inc. in 1992-has been used in an experimental first year design studio to engage students in systems thinking in the architectural design environment. It has been observed that this tool enabled most students to develop a multi-layered, complex and more controlled design logic and to amplify the cognitive processes at the beginning of the design education. We conclude that in order to fully realize systems thinking in the design process, new ways of integrating parametric design environments and system dynamic modelling environments needs to be investigated.
eCAADe proceedings
Configuration of spatial setup is a major act in the architectural design process. Configuration ... more Configuration of spatial setup is a major act in the architectural design process. Configuration implies a set of relationships among the spatial elements that can be represented as a network pattern. This kind of spatial network is significant for architectural design as it reveals social implications by mapping interactions between users, indicating functional and latent routes and spatial proximities. This paper concentrates on network thinking in architecture and presents the development of a new software plugin and compares the plugin to similar software studies that allow coding spatial networks and exploring their potentials. The experimental study is also tested by student workshops, explains the motives for the plug-in currently prototyped as a Grasshopper definition and how-it-works.
Extant dichotomies of nature and city give their way to a blend as the massive industry, the ejec... more Extant dichotomies of nature and city give their way to a blend as the massive industry, the ejected ingredient of modernist urban context, now bygone, is more a feature of the global exchange network. This almost bucolic new urban context is further accentuated with virtual connectivity. Movement of people has been influential factor in the transformation of neighbourhoods, now exchange of information, maker’s goods and responsive tactics redefine what is urban. Diversity and variation as motives for mobility and exchange are the key factors in the urban network. Emergent technologies that become ubiquitous are agents for local differences. Such latent ecologies of micro-cultures and assemblages involve natural or nature-like responsive species. Connection between the sun and earthly resources is what makes nature described as independent of human intervention and a sustained continuity. Like the orchard of olive trees is a hybrid that involves human and natural processes, infra or...
A spatial setup is designed considering the network of interrelations between its constituent uni... more A spatial setup is designed considering the network of interrelations between its constituent units. This is a network significant for architectural discourse as it maps the interactions and social relations between users, defines the functional and latent routes, and indicates spatial proximities. Although design is subjective, design tools and methods provide objective criteria to interpret and iterate. Common tools of network thinking allow us to invoke scenarios that will lead us to visualize and exchange ideas about architecture, extrapolate up to date functional ratios, define ranges of proximities to bring forth spatial and potentialities of architectural program and test them within criteria. This study focuses on the idea of networks in architectural design and discusses the use of graph theory based tools in the design process. It presents the possibilities of systematic mapping of relations among spatial elements through their neighboring and attracting qualities in the i...
A/Z : ITU journal of Faculty of Architecture
Proceedings of eCAADe 2020: Anthropologic- Architecture and Fabrication in the Cognitive Age, 2020
Configuration of spatial setup is a major act in the architectural design process. Configuration ... more Configuration of spatial setup is a major act in the architectural design process. Configuration implies a set of relationships among the spatial elements that can be represented as a network pattern. This kind of spatial network is significant for architectural design as it reveals social implications by mapping interactions between users, indicating functional and latent routes and spatial proximities. This paper concentrates on network thinking in architecture and presents the development of a new software plugin and compares the plugin to similar software studies that allow coding spatial networks and exploring their potentials. The experimental study is also tested by student workshops, explains the motives for the plug-in currently prototyped as a Grasshopper definition and how-it-works.
The goal of this paper is to externalize the design research on fabrication methodology for a tub... more The goal of this paper is to externalize the design research on fabrication methodology for a tubular and hollowed network structure, namely Alveosis, conceptualized by Nilüfer Kozikoğlu prototyped and designed by Urban Atolye. Alveosis denotes the process, the method or " state of " becoming hollow and tubular. The methodology that enabled a continuous surface, that starts out as a non-gravitational point cloud and ends as a mesh that is suspended in a metal framework and stuffed with various infill both organic and inorganic, conforms with gravitation when concretized in layers, finally the structural mesh is released from metal framework. The process and form are tested both before and after construction, in digital modeling with SAP and further physical prototyping and installation. The structure secures resilience and strength with shell-skin performance due to the networked branches and its tubularity, the whole skin is active. The infill of mycelium and sawdust is part of that further observations on the structure's confrontation with use, physical and climate conditions. The paper concludes with critical assessment of the process. The structural shell of a building is the outcome of the interaction of the load-bearing and the spatial separating elements. [1, p. 12] Active form as opposed to active section denotes those structural compositions whereby the flow of forces becomes a form-finding parameter and the structure is reduced until only the structurally relevant elements remain. [1, p. 269] The research, namely Alveosis is a rhizomatic shell whereby all elements load as much as needed for structural integrity. The idea is a morphogenetic concept where the interstitial space between the networks of cells defines omnidirectional branching structure. The conceptual morphology is rhizomatic, able to grow in all directions and nonhierarchical, like the radiolarian or the radices. The digital model of this 3D active form is derived from a variable set of points and represents the nodes of a Voronoi network in a bounding-box, a preset context. The intersection lines of the cells defined by these centroid points represented as a parameterized mesh which has a variable tubular diameter at each branching. The resulting poly-mesh is merged into one continuous surface. Wrapping or cladding multi-branched and holed geometries are analogous to clothing and textile industries requiring tools such as flattening patterning and sewing. [2] The challenge is initially achieved by fabric formwork, as by convention the formwork is a filigree structure and poured concrete forms a solid one, as differentiated by Deplazes and Wieser, however fast-set concrete mix
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The set-up of spatial configurations is an essential topic in architectural design. The logics be... more The set-up of spatial configurations is an essential topic in architectural design. The logics behind this configuration of spatial networks are significant for architects as it denotes social as well as physical implications. If we accept that design is an experiential process, then experimenting and probing gain much prominence in the process. Experiments lead architects to discover, and then to redefine their design concepts.
This study focuses on the potentials of analytical methods via graph theory based tools and how to apply network thinking in architectural design. The study questions the following: If spatial systems are regarded as networks, how do various network visualization and assessment tools are useful to extrapolate the inherent pattern and the logic? How do space syntax, graph theory based tools and diagrams aid the exteriorization of this logic? How does the architect think through these tools and learn from them?
The topic will be expressed by presenting an experiment from architectural practice. This experiment deals with an iterative process of “a hotel specialized on the elderly and the disabled with rehab centre” (a mix-used building which includes a hotel, a rehabilitation centre and assisted-care apartments). In the design scheme relationships based on circulation scenarios of daily activities and services are modelled and animated by network related tools like Syntactic, the Space Syntax tool in Grasshopper, a plugin for the digital design platform Rhinoceros; a software for network visualization and evaluation Cytoscape, and a mind mapping software TheBrain. This experiment aims to explore how scientific; graph theory based tools feed design thinking and making.
Exploring alternative ways to integrate theoretical and practical implications of network thinking in architectural design is valuable for those in the architectural education and in practice. Findings of the research show that, graph theory based tools provide a useful basis for architects both for making and thinking about architectural space by generating scientific and numerical data. The study concludes with an array of advantages in working with network models in architectural design, and suggests future methods for design analysis and design research with network mapping tools.
Extant dichotomies of nature and city give their way to a blend as the massive industry, the ejec... more Extant dichotomies of nature and city give their way to a blend as the massive industry, the ejected ingredient of modernist urban context, now bygone, is more a feature of the global exchange network. This almost bucolic new urban context is further accentuated with virtual connectivity. Movement of people has been influential factor in the transformation of neighbourhoods , now exchange of information, maker's goods and responsive tactics redefine what is urban. Diversity and variation as motives for mobility and exchange are the key factors in the urban network. Emergent technologies that become ubiquitous are agents for local differences. Such latent ecologies of micro-cultures and assemblages involve natural or nature-like responsive species. Connection between the sun and earthly resources is what makes nature described as independent of human intervention and a sustained continuity. Like the orchard of olive trees is a hybrid that involves human and natural processes, infra or pro structural networks, landscape organisms in the new urban context is a " wild " mesh connecting human as well as natural phylogenies and invoke generative power.
A spatial setup is designed considering the network of interrelations between its constituent uni... more A spatial setup is designed considering the network of interrelations between its constituent units. This is a network significant for architectural discourse as it maps the interactions and social relations between users, defines the functional and latent routes, and indicates spatial proximities. Although design is subjective, design tools and methods provide objective criteria to interpret and iterate. Common tools of network thinking allow us to invoke scenarios that will lead us to visualize and exchange ideas about architecture, extrapolate up to date functional ratios, define ranges of proximities to bring forth spatial and potentialities of architectural program and test them within criteria. This study focuses on the idea of networks in architectural design and discusses the use of graph theory based tools in the design process. It presents the possibilities of systematic mapping of relations among spatial elements through their neighboring and attracting qualities in the initial phase whereby the relational network is still dynamic and non-hierarchical. The topic will be expressed by presenting two examples, one from an academic setting, the other elicited from practice. The first describes a workshop on systems thinking demonstrated with a game called " İkidebir ". The second is an iterative hospital campus design scheme in which functional and site specific relationships are modeled and animated with network modeling and assessment tools. Network-based thinking, graphs measurements , and the diagrammatic assessment of relationships between spatial organizations as a design exercise are valuable both for those who are in practice and in the education of architectural design.
A spatial setup is designed considering the network of interrelations between its constituent uni... more A spatial setup is designed considering the network of interrelations between its constituent units. This is a network significant for architectural discourse as it maps the interactions and social relations between users, defines the functional and latent routes, and indicates spatial proximities. Although design is subjective, design tools and methods provide objective criteria to interpret and iterate. Common tools of network thinking allow us to invoke scenarios that will lead us to visualize and exchange ideas about architecture, extrapolate up to date functional ratios, define ranges of proximities to bring forth spatial and potentialities of architectural program and test them within criteria.
This study focuses on the idea of networks in architectural design and discusses the use of graph theory based tools in the design process. It presents the possibilities of systematic mapping of relations among spatial elements through their neighboring and attracting qualities in the initial phase whereby the relational network is still dynamic and non-hierarchical. The topic will be expressed by presenting two examples, one from an academic setting, the other elicited from practice. The first describes a workshop on systems thinking demonstrated with a game called “İkidebir”. The second is an iterative hospital campus design scheme in which functional and site specific relationships are modeled and animated with network modeling and assessment tools. Network-based thinking, graphs measurements, and the diagrammatic assessment of relationships between spatial organizations as a design exercise are valuable both for those who are in practice and in the education of architectural design.
A rapid acceleration in urbanization has appeared as an important by-product
of the world's globa... more A rapid acceleration in urbanization has appeared as an important by-product
of the world's globalization process, with the result that cities have now become man's
primary habitat. This development is both forcing urban environments to embrace
increasing numbers of inhabitants, despite their often limited resources, and requiring
21st century architects and urban planners to quickly develop new ideas and new forms
on how to direct the futures of global cities. Faced as they are by the challenges of
sustainability, these architects and planners are exploring ways both to rehabilitate
existing urban centers and come up with new modes of space production. This study
concentrates on the concept of the smart city and explores these new approaches by
considering the findings achieved by the IAAC Global Summer School, which was
conducted at the ITU Faculty of Architecture in 2013. This summer school was conducted
as a means in the investigation of new strategies for urban development and city
production by focusing on such different aspects as the production of knowledge,
production of food, production of objects, and the production of energy. In order to
enhance the discussion of this development, this work looks at the method of exploration
utilized and the ideas set forth by the architectural student participants and considers
their suggestions for adaptive and reactive spatial infrastructures. The aim of this study is
to the enable architects to enhance their spatial awareness while generating new ideas for
the future of the city.
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Papers by nilufer kozikoglu
This study focuses on the potentials of analytical methods via graph theory based tools and how to apply network thinking in architectural design. The study questions the following: If spatial systems are regarded as networks, how do various network visualization and assessment tools are useful to extrapolate the inherent pattern and the logic? How do space syntax, graph theory based tools and diagrams aid the exteriorization of this logic? How does the architect think through these tools and learn from them?
The topic will be expressed by presenting an experiment from architectural practice. This experiment deals with an iterative process of “a hotel specialized on the elderly and the disabled with rehab centre” (a mix-used building which includes a hotel, a rehabilitation centre and assisted-care apartments). In the design scheme relationships based on circulation scenarios of daily activities and services are modelled and animated by network related tools like Syntactic, the Space Syntax tool in Grasshopper, a plugin for the digital design platform Rhinoceros; a software for network visualization and evaluation Cytoscape, and a mind mapping software TheBrain. This experiment aims to explore how scientific; graph theory based tools feed design thinking and making.
Exploring alternative ways to integrate theoretical and practical implications of network thinking in architectural design is valuable for those in the architectural education and in practice. Findings of the research show that, graph theory based tools provide a useful basis for architects both for making and thinking about architectural space by generating scientific and numerical data. The study concludes with an array of advantages in working with network models in architectural design, and suggests future methods for design analysis and design research with network mapping tools.
This study focuses on the idea of networks in architectural design and discusses the use of graph theory based tools in the design process. It presents the possibilities of systematic mapping of relations among spatial elements through their neighboring and attracting qualities in the initial phase whereby the relational network is still dynamic and non-hierarchical. The topic will be expressed by presenting two examples, one from an academic setting, the other elicited from practice. The first describes a workshop on systems thinking demonstrated with a game called “İkidebir”. The second is an iterative hospital campus design scheme in which functional and site specific relationships are modeled and animated with network modeling and assessment tools. Network-based thinking, graphs measurements, and the diagrammatic assessment of relationships between spatial organizations as a design exercise are valuable both for those who are in practice and in the education of architectural design.
of the world's globalization process, with the result that cities have now become man's
primary habitat. This development is both forcing urban environments to embrace
increasing numbers of inhabitants, despite their often limited resources, and requiring
21st century architects and urban planners to quickly develop new ideas and new forms
on how to direct the futures of global cities. Faced as they are by the challenges of
sustainability, these architects and planners are exploring ways both to rehabilitate
existing urban centers and come up with new modes of space production. This study
concentrates on the concept of the smart city and explores these new approaches by
considering the findings achieved by the IAAC Global Summer School, which was
conducted at the ITU Faculty of Architecture in 2013. This summer school was conducted
as a means in the investigation of new strategies for urban development and city
production by focusing on such different aspects as the production of knowledge,
production of food, production of objects, and the production of energy. In order to
enhance the discussion of this development, this work looks at the method of exploration
utilized and the ideas set forth by the architectural student participants and considers
their suggestions for adaptive and reactive spatial infrastructures. The aim of this study is
to the enable architects to enhance their spatial awareness while generating new ideas for
the future of the city.
This study focuses on the potentials of analytical methods via graph theory based tools and how to apply network thinking in architectural design. The study questions the following: If spatial systems are regarded as networks, how do various network visualization and assessment tools are useful to extrapolate the inherent pattern and the logic? How do space syntax, graph theory based tools and diagrams aid the exteriorization of this logic? How does the architect think through these tools and learn from them?
The topic will be expressed by presenting an experiment from architectural practice. This experiment deals with an iterative process of “a hotel specialized on the elderly and the disabled with rehab centre” (a mix-used building which includes a hotel, a rehabilitation centre and assisted-care apartments). In the design scheme relationships based on circulation scenarios of daily activities and services are modelled and animated by network related tools like Syntactic, the Space Syntax tool in Grasshopper, a plugin for the digital design platform Rhinoceros; a software for network visualization and evaluation Cytoscape, and a mind mapping software TheBrain. This experiment aims to explore how scientific; graph theory based tools feed design thinking and making.
Exploring alternative ways to integrate theoretical and practical implications of network thinking in architectural design is valuable for those in the architectural education and in practice. Findings of the research show that, graph theory based tools provide a useful basis for architects both for making and thinking about architectural space by generating scientific and numerical data. The study concludes with an array of advantages in working with network models in architectural design, and suggests future methods for design analysis and design research with network mapping tools.
This study focuses on the idea of networks in architectural design and discusses the use of graph theory based tools in the design process. It presents the possibilities of systematic mapping of relations among spatial elements through their neighboring and attracting qualities in the initial phase whereby the relational network is still dynamic and non-hierarchical. The topic will be expressed by presenting two examples, one from an academic setting, the other elicited from practice. The first describes a workshop on systems thinking demonstrated with a game called “İkidebir”. The second is an iterative hospital campus design scheme in which functional and site specific relationships are modeled and animated with network modeling and assessment tools. Network-based thinking, graphs measurements, and the diagrammatic assessment of relationships between spatial organizations as a design exercise are valuable both for those who are in practice and in the education of architectural design.
of the world's globalization process, with the result that cities have now become man's
primary habitat. This development is both forcing urban environments to embrace
increasing numbers of inhabitants, despite their often limited resources, and requiring
21st century architects and urban planners to quickly develop new ideas and new forms
on how to direct the futures of global cities. Faced as they are by the challenges of
sustainability, these architects and planners are exploring ways both to rehabilitate
existing urban centers and come up with new modes of space production. This study
concentrates on the concept of the smart city and explores these new approaches by
considering the findings achieved by the IAAC Global Summer School, which was
conducted at the ITU Faculty of Architecture in 2013. This summer school was conducted
as a means in the investigation of new strategies for urban development and city
production by focusing on such different aspects as the production of knowledge,
production of food, production of objects, and the production of energy. In order to
enhance the discussion of this development, this work looks at the method of exploration
utilized and the ideas set forth by the architectural student participants and considers
their suggestions for adaptive and reactive spatial infrastructures. The aim of this study is
to the enable architects to enhance their spatial awareness while generating new ideas for
the future of the city.