The first experimental project of the BİLGİ Graduate Architectural Design Studio is exhibited at the International Architecture Biennial of Antalya 2025

The first experimental project of the BİLGİ Graduate Architectural Design Studio is exhibited at the International Architecture Biennial of Antalya 2025. 

Supervised by Prof. Tuğrul Yazar, director of the Graduate Program in Architectural Design, the project PLURA explores how rhythm and structure can coexist through modularity, material logic, and algorithmic design.

Developed with Rhino 3D by Robert McNeel and Associates, Grasshopper, and robotic hotwirecutting with KUKA, the installation transforms expanded polystyrene (EPS) into a system of polyhedra that respond to structural and spatial tension, forming an architectural field that behaves like matter in motion, fluid, uncertain, and alive.

Through this one-month project, the team investigated the poetic and performative potential of computation in architecture: not as a tool for control, but as a collaborator in material expression.

Team:

Aleksandra Panchenko, Almir Can Sinanoglu, Carlos Jose Azevedo Dias, Doğa Edremit, Efe Erman, Juna Alturck, Namra N., Pinar Kahya, Razan AlGarah, Ruhma Fatima Quadri, and Tuğrul Yazar