Current:


  • Performance-Driven Architectural Design

    Performance-Driven Architectural Design

    This lecture presents research exploring how environmental performance can actively inform architectural design under changing climatic conditions. Rather than evaluating buildings only after design decisions…

  • Grafting: Designing the Relations Between Past and Future

    Grafting: Designing the Relations Between Past and Future

    The lecture analyzes the practice of architectural grafting as a methodological tool to define new relationships between historical pre-existences and contemporary urban scenarios. Through the…

  • Geometry as Agency

    Geometry as Agency

    Buildings are demolished not because they physically fail, but because their construction logic locks them into a single configuration. This cycle of waste suggests that…

Recent Studios & Courses:


  • Adaptation(s)

    Adaptation(s)

    We are living in a time of unprecedented global change. Borders are being redrawn, social and economic systems are in flux, and environments are being reshaped at an extraordinary pace. These large-scale transformations demand not only solutions but also a fundamental reconsideration of how we design, build, and inhabit the world.

  • Reinterpreting the Thresholds: Knitting the Urban Threads

    Reinterpreting the Thresholds: Knitting the Urban Threads

    For the Spring Term 2024-2025 ARCH 302 focused on a challenging approach on interlacing the different layers of an urban complexity located at the very core of Adana. In particular, the main challenges and the intentions within this semester aims to reimagine and integrate the urban spaces in connection with the Seyhan River and the…

  • Mind Prop Hub

    Mind Prop Hub

    Learning is often linked to formal institutions and fixed time frames, but it is, in fact, an essential and ongoing process that begins early in life and continues throughout one’s lifetime for progress. Thus, learning is a prop for mental progress and health, and is a lifelong journey. In 2025 Spring, Arch 202 project was…

  • A Summer Camp for Bilkenters

    A Summer Camp for Bilkenters

    In Spring 2025 FA 102 students studied the area in front of the 92nd and 93rd dormitories in the East Campus of Bilkent University for a settlement for a summer camp prepared for high school and young adult students, aged between 15 and 20.

  • Material Matters: Architectural Systems & Detailing Lab

    Material Matters: Architectural Systems & Detailing Lab

    In Spring 2025, ARCH 252 focused on transforming architectural design ideas into buildable systems through a semester-long group lab.

Past Studio Works:


  • The Urban Block 
  • The Mosaic
  • Egirdir Cultural Center
  • Retreat and Exploration Center in Nevşehir
  • Living Steps
  • New Residential Landscape
  • Reconceptualize Urban Mass Housing
  • New Residential Landscape
  • An Embassy Residence in Ankara: Home on Another Land
  • An Embassy Residence in Ankara: Home on Another Land
  • A House to Share
  • Gordion Excavation House
  • Prêt-à-porter
  • FA 101 Fall 2013
  • Triadic Motion
  • Order in Chaos

Research Stories:


Department of Architecture Bilkent University FF-304A
06800 Ankara – TURKEY

Email: arch@bilkent.edu.tr

Phone: +90-312-290-3463
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