Renovation Project

In relation to my thesis concept "IT HAS BEEN THERE"


Architecture is traditionally concerned with external phenomena such as environmental issues, social conditions, and cultural values. Dislike an art piece that can be displayed in a museum against white walls and neutral lighting, inherently, architecture is not to be perceived independently from its context. Geometry of a building can be communicated through sets of drawing and photographs, but not the physical experience.

Architectural experience should transcend the simple acts of perceiving the geometry. At the same time, designing of the experiences should not limit its procedures in a way that unseen forces are sculpting the building envelops.


Rather, individual’s discovery at the site should become the integral part of the architectural experience.


It is not preservation or reutilization that renovation projects become relevant to the thesis concept “IT HAS BEEN THERE.” While site (environmental issues, social conditions, and cultural values) gives presence to architecture, old gives presence to new. Existing conditions are both restrictions and advantages for architect to work with. As a result, the connections or alignments between old and new become the constant reference to each other, which renew people’s interest to the building. Renovation Projects are the obvious examples where the existing context gives presence to the intervention. The fact -that architects have certain condition from the beginning to work with- leads to the concept of setting up datum geometries and manipulating them.















Coop Himmelblau/ rooftop extension in Vienna











Bernard Tschumi/ fresnoy art center











Michael Rotondi/ Carlson and Reges house

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