A museum that collects voices and makes listening a public act.

The Listening Institution reimagines the National Gallery as a place where speech, negotiation, performance and memory become part of the collection. Developed within DS3.3’s Expo 500 brief, this academic proposal for Project Domani treats collecting as a live act of cultural exchange.

Building on Notation of the Unwritten, acoustic mapping and physical experiments inform rooms calibrated to different scales of conversation. The basement Oral Bazaar brings together conversation, translation and recording spaces. Openings at ground level reveal the activity below, while the first floor contains exhibitions, screening rooms and a sound corridor. An open-air public terrace and an auditorium extend the sequence towards collective listening.

A translucent ETFE envelope and timber-finned upper volume articulate the building’s layered organisation. Drawings, mixed-media collages and an acrylic sectional site model explore the relationship between visible architecture and hidden networks of infrastructure, language and exchange.

Sound, vibration and oral memory become a new language for architecture.

Notation of the Unwritten investigates how architecture can record and communicate knowledge through sound, vibration and memory. Drawing on the Turkish aşık tradition and the saz, the project explores oral transmission as a way of understanding cultural collections.

At the British Museum, sound levels along a route are translated into maps, waveforms and sectional drawings. Chladni experiments make vibration visible, while a 1:50 sectional model and light-projection studies explore how these patterns might inhabit architectural space.

The museum room is then dismantled into fragments and reinterpreted as a series of physical instruments. Their activation produces changing patterns that develop into an alternative architectural notation. A final layered spatial score combines drawings, relief, fragments and traces of sound, establishing the research that continues into The Listening Institution.

A marketplace that makes room for both people and birds in the heart of London.

The Aviary proposes a communal marketplace above Temple Station in London, bringing people and pigeons into a shared public space. Drawing on family experiences of pigeon keeping and the birdhouses of Ottoman architecture, the project treats urban wildlife as a participant in everyday city life.

Mappings of pedestrian movement, pigeon activity, noise and environmental conditions inform a layered timber proposal. A patterned market floor accommodates mobile stalls and places to gather, while dovecote columns combine structural support with spaces for birds. A reflective soffit mirrors activity below, extending the colours and movement of the market into the ceiling.

Above, a landscaped rooftop offers a quieter public garden. Physical models, collages, drawings and construction studies explore how habitat, circulation and trade can occupy the same structure, proposing architecture as a setting for coexistence.

A rocking bench that explores how people sit, move and share space together.

I participated in reSEARCH as an industrial designer, contributing to a collaborative furniture research project centred on a rocking bench. Developed within the multidisciplinary initiative mentored by Bünyamin Aydın, the work brought material experiments, workshop making and collective discussion into the same design process.

The exploration considered the bench in relation to the city, its users, movement and the act of sitting together. Wooden prototypes were used to examine seating proportions, connections and rocking behaviour. These studies informed a metal bench built from a sequence of repeated ribs, with curved end profiles that give the object its rocking movement.

The gallery follows the work from research mapping and prototype tests to metal components, assembly and the finished bench. Related membership-card and carabiner studies are included as part of the wider reSEARCH project.

An intimate portrait of Istanbul, found in the everyday moments that usually pass unnoticed.

Istanbul Unseen is a photographic exploration of the city’s overlooked everyday life. Across 143 photographs, street fountains, market counters, ferry crossings, working boats and island doorsteps become ways of reading how the city is inhabited. The project follows small gestures, shared spaces and passing encounters that are easy to miss.

Conceived as a 188-page photobook, the sequence moves through five chapters: Ground Level, Edges of the City, Working Water, Island Time and Last Light. Images are paired through repeated colours, forms and gestures, bringing distant neighbourhoods into conversation. Generous layouts and short texts give each scene room to be noticed.

A closing register and series of maps connect the photographs to their locations across Istanbul, the Bosphorus and the Princes’ Islands. Together, the book offers a personal portrait of a city shaped by daily use, memory and the act of looking again.

Two shores, one deck: Istanbul’s districts and everyday symbols become a new visual language for play.

Istanbul Playing Cards reimagines a familiar deck as a portrait of the city. Red suits represent the European side and black suits the Anatolian side, while individual cards are dedicated to its districts and neighbourhoods. Together, the 52 playing cards and two jokers offer a way of exploring Istanbul through play.

The traditional suits are redrawn using four everyday symbols: a tulip-shaped tea glass for hearts, a simit for diamonds, a seagull for spades and a cat’s paw for clubs. These motifs connect the visual system to street life, shared rituals and the city’s animal inhabitants. District scenes and architectural details are framed by intricate, engraving-style ornament, with court cards retaining their mirrored compositions.

The two jokers depict Bosphorus bridges, connecting the red and black halves of the deck. A shared navy-and-cream reverse and matching illustrated packaging bring the collection together, carrying the city’s shoreline, boats and silhouettes across the complete set.