{"id":9061,"date":"2026-06-30T22:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:10:38","slug":"busranur-ozdemir-rift_mnyemosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/busranur-ozdemir-rift_mnyemosis\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00dc\u015eRANUR \u00d6ZDEM\u0130R \/ RIFT_mnyemos\u0131s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RIFT_mnyemos\u0131s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a radical architectural manifesto that collides Kayseri\u2019s historic commercial core, the Camikebir district, and the Kur\u015funlu Mosque, with contemporary urban dynamism and historical remembrance (Mnemosis). Rejecting an impermeable, monoblock mass within the historic fabric, the project generates a sharp &#8220;Urban Rift&#8221; via a seismic-like energy across the site, producing a temporal threshold confronting collective memory with today&#8217;s innovative life. On the site plan, deep purple blocks represent the solid urban fabric and monumental memory masses, while the bleeding line of vibrant golden yellow symbolizes the axis of seismic, innovative energy unleashed by this memory rupture.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing orientation from the intersection mechanics of urban gravitational forces generated by these two historic landmarks, this amorphous canyon functions as a powerful, urban-scale aerodynamic catalyst. Harsh winds from Mount Erciyes and dense pedestrian circulation from the city square are pulled into this rift and accelerated. Nature-driven wind vectors and city-driven human energy collide within the central courtyard and massive atrium, generating an urban vortex like the fluid dynamics allowing a dandelion seed to fly. This vortex feeds the project&#8217;s main public backbone: the exhibition and experience square where cotton innovation merges with urban circulation. The brutal rupture brought by the Urban Rift is softened indoors by the delicate, lightweight, permeable fiber tectonics of the dandelion seed.<\/p>\n<p>The projection of the micro-vortex ring, where the seed reaches maximum aerodynamic lift, transforms into the co-working design stations (Co-Design Forum) at the +4.30 level; innovation cocoons hang suspended within this vertical atrium. The ground-floor fluid, amorphous staircase and the steel cantilevered ramp rising spirally along the facade seamlessly infiltrate urban circulation into the building. This lightness achieves complete engineering consistency.<\/p>\n<p>The free-form, undulating Glass Grid-Shell Roof shelters the structure, transferring wind loads to perimeter circular steel tube profiles, while the Trapezoidal Sheet Composite Slab system, integrated with the steel skeleton, crosses wide spans rapidly and flexibly. The envelope features an Aluminum Curtain Wall (Mullion &amp; Transom) system with Low-E double glazing, anchored to slab edges with rigid steel brackets to withstand Kayseri&#8217;s harsh continental climate.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the brutal, jointless Microcement Flooring on the ground anchors the fluid character of this urban rift as a holistic, tactile spatial experience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9063\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/webpage-poster_FINAL_Busranur-Ozdemir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"8999\" height=\"22500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIFT_mnyemos\u0131s This is a radical architectural manifesto that collides Kayseri\u2019s historic commercial core, the Camikebir district, and the Kur\u015funlu Mosque, with contemporary urban dynamism and historical remembrance (Mnemosis). Rejecting an impermeable, monoblock mass within the historic fabric, the project generates a sharp &#8220;Urban Rift&#8221; via a seismic-like energy across the site, producing a temporal threshold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-s26-arch402"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}