Cellular Folding: Basic Design 2012 Final Project
Below is the final project of group 3 at İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture Basic Design II Spring 2012 undergraduate studio*. First photo shows students’ efforts on generating formal variations. They studied much on this folding components and attaching them together to create surfaces. Their final surface spans nearly 2.5 meters in height. Forex is used as main material and they nailed them from faces. The different sizes, shapes and orientations of the faces somehow create stasis within gaps.
*Students: Aydan Ataç, Başak Akan, Damla İçyer, Dilara Akyürek, Gizem Efendioğlu, Kaan Karabağlı, Yıldız Tufan
*Faculty: Avşar Gürpınar, Benay Gürsoy, Burcu Kütükçüoğlu, Deniz Manisalı, İdil Karababa, Elif Erdoğan, İdil Erkol, Salih Küçüktuna, Şebnem Yalınay, Tuğrul Yazar
*Photographs: Avşar Gürpınar
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