ADAM PARSONS DESIGN THESIS

Bringing together the students of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University from the different faculties to provide the university with an outward expressing public facade. INTERTWINING AND INHABITING UN...

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The proposition is to thread a route through the three existing warehouse blocks connecting the usages. Along this route the university functions will occur adjacent to the route with a series ...

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The Findikli Building is the current home for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture at the Mimar Sinan University. the building combines the usages of teaching, research and exhibition but ...

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This is an initial study looking at spatial relationships between university accommodation and functions required for fine art and architectural studios, workshops and exhibition spaces. GROU...

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Retaining the existing structure, re-animating the form.

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Perspective exploring the concept of re-routing the road and removing fabric to create animated spaces.

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 Breaking edges, creating spaces conceptual vision. Altering fabric and perception.

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A study of the existing site in Karakoy, Istanbul. Looking at a possible strategic intervention, removing existing fabric to create spaces with connections.

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The “yin” and “yang” of planet earth could be conceived as the opposite natures of city and countryside; the pairing could not co-exist without each other.

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Architecture and Urban Design are not extensions of each other, they merge seamlessly. Maunuel de Solà-Morales work is not driven by planning or the art of city building, it is instead the c...

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Urban Acupuncture is an urban environmentalism theory of Finnish architect Professor Marco Casagrande which combines urban design with traditional Chinese medical theory of acupuncture. He deve...

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Jaime Lerner holds the ethos that the city is not a problem it is a solution. “More and more I am convinced that not only a solution for a country but also for the problem of climate change...

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The following serial views depict a route through the site, showing the changing nature of the spaces and their characteristics. Site plan 1. Approach along Galata bridge. 2. crossi...

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The area that the Urbanism Studio has chosen to work in lies within the Karakoy area and is highlighted on the map below. The site takes in the coastal banks along northern mouth of the Golden H...

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The following extract is as introduction to my theoretical exploration titled; small scale, BIG CHANGE : Urban Acupuncture as a strategy for sustainable regeneration. “The moment the cons...

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The months of September, October and November have been invested working collectively with the Urbanism Studio and individually. The Urbanism Studio have been studying the city of Istanbul wit...

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