About

Nilüfer is a graduate of Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, 1995, with a masters degree in architecture and urban design from the Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London, 2003. She runs her architectural design practice at NK agency for architecture, prototypical design works at Urban Atolye.Kozikoglu is interested in emergent properties of spatial, material and structural compositions with a focus on organic/inorganic in their differentiated states. Her interest in “livelihood” reflects on her installations that involve digital technologies and handcraft together with in situ processes and workshop experiments. nkozik@gmail.com

Çağla graduated from the Department of Architecture at Mimar Sinan University. She is aspiring to enhance her skills in web design and coding, both for her personal growth and for the development of SpaceChase Software.
cagla.ylmz.99@gmail.com
cagla.yilmaz@tuspa.net

Melda graduated from the Department of Industrial Product Design at Bahçeşehir University. After graduating, she worked on projects both abroad and in Istanbul, blending physical and digital mediums in her work. She leveraged her experience in 3D modeling applications to focus on user experience in service design. Currently, she continues to work on physical designs at Urban Atolye while establishing herself as a researcher in the digital design world.
melda.güzel@tuspa.net

Dr. Pelin Dursun Çebi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University. Her PhD thesis focused on morphological analyses of home environments in the city of Trabzon. Dr. Dursun has been a visiting scholar at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, CARDO, UK. and at The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies. She has been a member of many research and design teams national and international number of design projects including student social centres, conference rooms and research-educational spaces in different faculties of ITU.  Her research interests focus on architectural design, architectural design education, architectural morphology and space syntax. Dr. Dursun currently teaches at the Architectural Design Group of ITU Faculty of Architecture both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
dursunpe@itu.edu.tr

Nilüfer is a graduate of Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, 1995, with a masters degree in architecture and urban design from the Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London, 2003. She runs her architectural design practice at NK agency for architecture, prototypical design works at Urban Atolye.Kozikoglu is interested in emergent properties of spatial, material and structural compositions with a focus on organic/inorganic in their differentiated states. Her interest in “livelihood” reflects on her installations that involve digital technologies and handcraft together with in situ processes and workshop experiments. nkozik@gmail.com

Dr. Tuğrul Yazar is a computational design researcher – architect. He studied architecture at Yıldız Technical University and received his doctorate degree in 2009 from the same school’s Computer-aided Architecture program in 2009. He has publications on computational design and production technologies. Since 2010, he has taught design geometry, design computing, mathematics, parametric modeling and basic design courses at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture. He’s sharing a part of his research on his blog at designcoding.net. In 2016, he published the first Turkish book in this research field titled, “Parametric Modeling with Grasshopper”. In addition to academic publications, he is a computational design consultant and workshop tutor. The works of the POTPlus research group, established together with Fulya Akipek were exhibited in various exhibitions and biennials.
tugrul.yazar@bilgi.edu.tr

Oğulcan is a freelance architect-programmer focused on computational design and a graduate student at Istanbul Bilgi University. He received his bachelor’s degree of Architecture from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2017 and his master’s degree of Advanced Architecture from Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) in 2018. Since 2020 , he has been teaching parametric modeling at Istanbul Medipol University, Faculty of Architecture. He has been a scholarship student and the Grasshopper Plugin developer in this research project.
ogulcanunesi@gmail.com

Melike is an architect and a graduate student at the Architectural Design Master Program in Istanbul Technical University. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Abdullah Gül University in 2018. She has been a voluntary assistant to graduate level architectural design studios in ITU and Medipol University and a scholarship student in this research project since 2020.
melikesenaerden@gmail.com

Büşra is an architect and graduate student in Architectural Design Master Program at Istanbul Technical University. She received her bachelor degree of Architecture and did a minor of Industrial Product Design in the same university. In 2016, she studied in Venice IUAV University as an exchange student. In 2019, she assisted with several graduate level architectural design studios in ITU and has been a scholarship student in this research project. Currently, she is working as a research assistant in Beykent University.
busrabalabann@gmail.com

Ceylin is an architect and UI/UX Designer. After completing her degree on Architectural Design and Environmental Sustainability in 2017, she has worked with copious design collectives in Canada, England and Turkey. Since 2021, she has been working at Urban Atolye in the development of SpaceChase gaming platform.
ceylinoz95@gmail.com

Currently, he manages a web design firm called E-Medya, an electronic services design, development and auditing company based in Istanbul.He worked as a curator in many architectural and design-oriented exhibitions held in Istanbul, London, and New York. He continues to work actively on vernacular solutions applied in modern designs focusing on local cultures. He was recently appointed as a Member of the Advisory Board of the Istanbul Design Biennial 2016.

Aymelek is a graduate of Bogazici University Istanbul, 1986, with a masters degree in international banking from the Heriott-Watt University Edinburgh, 1993. She runs administrative practices at Urban Atolye. Kozikoglu had over two decades of work experience in banking, finance specially on derivative and investment banking products.