Competition_Award: PINarchitecture

Our first year students Ufuk Uğurlar and Nur Hazal Gürgöze has been awarded the First and Second Prize in International PINarchitecture* competition. Berk Coşkun and Cansu Yeşil were also listed in the top 8 entries. We congratulate our students for their success.

*PINarchitecture is an open monthly micro-competition for designers who have a desire to exercise design skills and share original ideas. The theme of the competition for February 2016 was “The Permanent Form”. 

http://www.pinarchitecture.org/

First Prize

Ufuk Uğurlar_First Year Student

JURY COMMENTS ///

"Cultural objects that stand the test of time illuminate or distort our perspectives of history. The entry may be showing us how this brief responds to us today, rather than an alternate reality. The stone human can be a metaphor to the human condition confronting impermanence. The aging cycle segments are divided like the twelve hours of an analogue clock, both implications pointing to the scale of time."

Second Prize

Nur Hazal Gürgöze _First Year Student

JURY COMMENTS ///

"This entry makes me feel connected to the whole history of the world through the most basic of shapes and its constant reinterpretation. This form, no matter what scale or material, holds some basic truth in it that is both human and not human, man-made and supernatural."

"I like the comic directness of this entry. Would the pyramidal shape be the best form for building - is this all we could come up with? Historical references prove the attention to this form throughout the centuries. But would we just keep on stacking them on top of each other?"

Top Eight

Berk Coşkun _First Year Student

JURY COMMENTS ///

"Japanese culture is the wellspring of living with impermanence. This graphic is compelling by reflecting on the fragility of human life even with everlasting forms. The stage is set in a moment in time: two humans dancing amongst the rubble of permanent material, holding a temporary position."

Cansu Yeşil _First Year Student

JURY COMMENTS ///

"Visually this entry is quite catching. For me it tells a story of attempted change going wrong. Society was sick of its surroundings and tried to make the materials budge, but all they were able to do was to distort and misshape. It is now used as an example of what not to do."