Geçit / Wood Architecture and construction workshop

Size 8.6 m2

Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, IEU, Izmir Turkey

10-14 June 2019

Run by architects: Sebastian Erazo and Stefano Pugliese

Partcipants: Melis Özbaş, Büşra Nalbantlar, Selen Erdoğan, Anil Dinç Demirbilek, Serkut Yüksel, Oğul Görgülü, Beste Çiçek

Consultants: Argun Tanriverdi (DmakerLab), Elif Tekcan (Fashion Department, FAAD, IEU).

Video Making and Editing: Ali Matay (Media and Comunication)

The workshop had two main pedagogical aims: first, students from Interior Architecture and Industrial Design had to respond to a design brief prepared by the tutors: they where asked to activate certain areas of their campus through a spatial intervention with simple architectural actions: a roof, a wall or a bench.

Second, to provide the student a design method that would guide and frame their design process in strict relation with a given technique and material. In this specific case: pine wood and reclaimed agriculture mesh fabric.

During the first 2 days of the workshop the students and the instructors worked in a process of collaborative design in order to define: the architectural strategy to be applied, the location where to install the structure and all the constructive details to be developed in order to be build it in the following 3 days.

Part of the of the challenge of this workshop was in fact to involve the students in all the design phases leading to the experience of building a 1:1 working and usable ‘small’ architecture piece.

Geçit is a turkish word meaning portal, passage or gateway. This is how the students wanted to name their work, once it was built.