— Project 01 / Graduation
Boğaziçi Research Center.
A research center designed along the steep topography of Beltalimanı, organizing laboratory, public exhibition, and shoreline programs into a stratified sequence that reads the slope as the project's primary structure.
- Year
- 2025 / 2026
- Type
- Graduation Project
- Location
- Beltalimanı, Istanbul
- Studio
- Fall Semester, ITU
- Program
- Research / Laboratory / Public
- Role
- Designer (individual)
The project began with a reading of the site's three terrain layers — upper laboratory and research zones, mid-level communal areas, and lower programs that step down toward the shore. The building is conceived not as an object placed into the slope, but as a system that erodes in conversation with it.
Public exhibition and circulation occupy the upper levels, accommodating more controlled, production-oriented functions in the lower volumes. In this way, the sections simultaneously render legible a horizontally continuous public platform and a vertically stratified programmatic stack.
Within the sections, circulation elements are not treated merely as connective devices but as integral components of the spatial experience. Ramps, stairs, and voids transform into elements that frame views, reinforce relationships with the Bosphorus, and define the spatial rhythm — light is brought into the interior through controlled openings and semi-permeable surfaces along the section, registering the transformation of dawn through the day.
