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About Me-
Umut studied architecture at Yildiz Technical University, and continued his studies in the area of Architecture Urban Design
at Stadelschule Architecture Class. He had the opportunity to study with Jefrey Kipnis, Mark Wigley and David Ruy. His work
is focused on theoretical criticism of public spaces and contemporary urban problems related to community well-being.
He worked on his master thesis project with Peter Trummer based on readings about authorship in architecture such as
Dead of Author by Roland Barthes.
Between 2012 - 2015, he has worked as an architect and graphic designer in Istanbul, and he had full responsibility to
outline architectural design of his projects. Since 2017, he has been working as an experienced architect with a focus on
theater, cinema and opera building projects across globe. He is enthusiastic about his ability to deliver projects with an
expectional level of detail and accuracy.

About Me

CONTENTS

pg. 03-08 ACADEMIC
pg. 09-14
“Cultural Soup” Cultural Transformation

Yildiz Technical University 2013

Social Housing

Yildiz Technical University 2014

pg. 15-22 Game and Interfaces

Staelschule Architecture Class | 2015

pg. 23-30 PROFESSIONAL

Münchner Volkstheater

Atelier Achatz Architects | 2017

pg. 31-34 Kinomaxx Pushkino
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Atelier Achatz Architecs | 2018

Ongoing Projects

Atelier Achatz Architecs | 2019 -

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01“CULTURAL SOUP” BACHELOR New Structure that is not strange from the others
CULTURAL
Old Istanbul & Newborn Souvenir Photograph
TRANSFORMATION Historic Inns in Historical Peninsula

Yildiz Technical University | Architectural Design 04 | 2013 03
Location: Istanbul, Büyük Valida Han
Function: Movie Industry Museum

The project is based on the cultural industry. The

current situation of historical buildings, especially the ones in
Historical Peninsula have been criticised, as they play the role
of ‘Istanbul’s memorybook’. It has been critisized that even
though historical buildings are untouchable, they should not
be so “idle”.

A historical inn “Büyük Valide Han” which was left to be in an
‘idle position’ for many years, has been planned to be convert-
ed into a modern building and put into service of public again.

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The idle inn 'Büyük Valide Han', was Public spaces among All impractical spaces Selected idle inn that will
actually one of the biggest symbols of intense urban fabric related with inns open public use
Istanbul and one of the most popular
places to socialize. As time goes by, the inn
lost this specialty. With the contrarian
design in this project, the aim is to evolve
the place into Istanbul's focal point and
meeting center for people again.

This new design should be a design which
neither Istanbul nor 'Büyük Valide Han has
in their historical memory. In order to raise
awareness, first of all people should ques-
tion the place and the circulation. This is
why a design as such has been chosen.

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Science Fiction Selected idle inn that will be opened for
public use with this modern “strange”
Animation structure.
Comic
Cartoon Through Grand Bazaar Open-Theater

Old Movies

Content

Inside the structure, the histories, the characters and
the infos about different movies are exhibited.
The exhibitions of different banners and decors from
World Cinema.

Exhibitions

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Büyük Valide Han, is one of the biggest Inn's in Istanbul. The historian thinks, there was a Byzantion construction in the place, where the Inn stands today. The inn has
three patios and two sections named as 'Big Inn' and 'Small Inn'

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Ground Floor Plan

1st Floor Plan

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Level +3.00
Level +5.30
Level +8.30

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02 BACHELOR

SOCIAL HOUSING

Yildiz Technical University | Architectural Design 06 | 2014 Functıons
Location: Istanbul, Esenler
Function: Social Housing

Mass housing project which is designed for people

with lower income level in Esenler(a sburb neighborhood in
Istanbul). A complex with a school and a leisure centre. Differ-
ently from the other mass housing projects, the communica-
tion between neighborhood residants are not detached and
street life has been prioritized.

Terracing

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School

The schoolyard is also a social space that allows the inhabitants of the sburb to socialize.

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Energy and climate: In ribbon buildings, gallery spaces have been designed for the maxi-
mum solar heat in directly sun-exposed sides. Heat sink surface area increased in this way.
Each building is designed to have a side both in the North and the South. This is how natural
ventilanion is provided. Since buildings are ribbon, heat surface area has been optimised and
heat loose has been minimised.

Attached Buildings

2 Floors
3 Floors
4 Floors

5 Floors
15 Floors
20 Floors

Number of Floors

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Apartment Section Ribbon Building SEction

Apartment Perspective + 6.00 + 3.00 / + 9.00 +- 0.00 - 3.60

Apartment Perspective + 9.00 + 6.00 + 3.00 +- 0.00 - 3.60

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Apartments

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Plans

School Plan Ribbon Building Plans
Apartment Plans

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Asymmetrical Balnace(Substantial Understanding)

03 MASTER

GAME
AND
INTERFACES

Stadelschule Architecture Class | Master of Art 1st Year Project The topic of games also invokes the various 'games' of architecture itself: The
Location: Italy figure-ground game, the inside-outside game, etc. Lastly, the emerging medium of
Function: University Campus computer games (emerging in the sense of its possible architectural relevance) is
employed as an extra-disciplinary interest. The premise is that architects have a lot to
The topic of games is understood and appropriated as learn from game designers, as they also operate in virtual environments and strive to
create a total immersive experience. If it is true that cinema was the defining art of the
a possible basis of a different research methodology, one that 20th century, games could well prove to be the same for the 21st.
goes away from trajectories and pitfalls of positivist science
and into a more playful, self-ironic realm where the basic opera- Asymmetrical Balnace(Abstract Understanding)
tions of architecture (drawing, modeling and speaking)
acknowledge their debt to rule-based play and the construction
of fictions.

http://form.de/en/news/interview-mit-damjan-jovanovic-staedelschule-architecture-class-mind-your-tools

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Cube & Sphere Intersection Game and Interfaces
What I questioned above; The
reflection of the objects or the
reflection of the abstract phenom-
enon to the model, which are
antipodes but also symmetrical.
Despite the cube and the sphere
being two opposite objects, when
they cohere, they form a balance.

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Venturi House Geometrical Analysis

Fragmented Pieces of Venturi House

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Game and Interfaces

Software collapses the field of visual effects, and enables messy encounters between drawing, painting, photography, cinema,
games and all possible images of architecture. The tools we use model us back. Software is an apparatus. How to overcome the
representational lockdown? Through DADA-like detournements, artistic eruptions of life force into the heart of the technological

sublime? Through restless accumulations and remixes, through sampling of all possible search spaces? Computer graphics
tropes as elements of the digital vernacular, games as unfiltered expressions within contemporary culture. High Definition

Abstraction. Raw materials of software, a new multiplication of the author through the entanglement with non-human agency, a
collapse of Albertian window, the mirror of Brunelleschi and the machine vision regimes. And in the midst of it all, a sensuous
unraveling: the garden in the machine.

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Programme

Each student group took responsibility for
different sections in the University
campus and tried to bring solutions for
their respective sections.
My area, student socializing spaces, was
one of the most important parts of the
campus. In this concept, 'Multipurpose
Areas' have been created.

Technology Areas
Reading Ares
Lounge
Social Network Areas

The Platform Social Network Lounge Reading Technology
Areas Areas Areas
We refuse to build on the island and to participate in the politics of gentrification. We
believe that the utopian project of architecture is dead, which is the precise reason
for reinventing it.

Our aim is to preserve the magic and the stories, and invent new ones. We propose
a Platform with 33 buildings, encircling the island, fulfilling the requested
programme. The island becomes an oasis and the buildings take the role of strang-
er Venetian characters congregating for a Bal Masque.

The real is a strange place, get over it.

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MÜNCHNER
VOLKSTHEATER

Atelier Achatz Architekten 2017
Location: GERMANY
Function: Theater LP 1-3

Münchener Volkstheater, is a company based in the

Bavarian capital and operated by the cultural office of the city
government. Its original performing home opened in 1903.

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Warehouses Basement 02 -8.00 Car Parks Basement 01 -4.00 Foyer Level 00 | Entrance +- 0.00
Sprinkler Tanks Warehouses Stages
Technical Rooms Chairs Storage Rehearsal Stages
Stage Technic Backrooms Technical Rooms Backrooms
Stage Technic Backrooms Multifunctional Rooms
Cafeteria
0 5m 15 m 35 m

Intendance & Administration Stage (Not Public Areas) Gastronomy Technical Areas
TECH. Departments Stage (Public Areas) Sanitary Circulation Areas

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Foyer Level 01 | Auditorium +3.15 Storage Level 02 +6.30 Storage Level 03 +9.50
Administraion Rooms Backrooms
Audience Room/Auditorium Rehearsal Stages Technical Roolms
Administration Rooms Backrooms
Technical Rooms Multifunctional Rooms
Wardrobes Regie

0 5m 15 m 35 m

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Elevation South

Elevation South

Elevation North

Roof Level 04 +12.70
Stage Tower
Technical Roolms

0 5m 15 m 35 m

Elevation North

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Patio 28

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Section A-A

Section B-B

Section C-C

0 5m 15 m 35 m Section D-D

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05 Side Foyer Material
Selections and
PUSHKINO Design

KINOMAX RELAX

CINEMA

Atelier Achatz Architekten 2018
Location: RUSSIA
Function: Theater LP 1-5

The project is the design of the cinema floor of a shop-

ping mall, in the town of Pushkino. A town nearby Moskow,
Russia. It is a cinema complex with 6 auditoriums.

The demand from the customer in the project was to have a
playful design. Colors and forms have been designed accord-
ingly. The materials were prefabricated materials. Thereby, the
production process and installation process have been acceler-
ated, and the project has been completed in a timely manner.

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ONGOING
PROJECTS

Atelier Achatz Architekten
Location: GERMANY
Function: Theater LP 1-9

Due to the confidencial information included in the

Ausburg Theater project and other ongoing projects, they will
be added in this portfolio only when they are completed and
public.

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