[02] DRYDOCK
ARCHAEOLOGIES
Oddkin Architecture
Karaköy, Istanbul · Spring 2019
INSTITUTION
University of Pennsylvania
ROLE Graduate Architecture Student
COURSE ARCH-704 · Graduate Option Studio II
PROGRAM Shipyard · Hybrid · Oddkin · Fiction
CRITICS Ferda Kolatan + Michael Zimmerman
COLLABORATION GAD Foundation + GAD Architecture
ROLE Graduate Architecture Student
COURSE ARCH-704 · Graduate Option Studio II
PROGRAM Shipyard · Hybrid · Oddkin · Fiction
CRITICS Ferda Kolatan + Michael Zimmerman
COLLABORATION GAD Foundation + GAD Architecture
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Graduate design research reinterpreting Istanbul’s historic Haliç Imperial Shipyards through archaeology, architectural fiction, and digital representation. The proposal treats the drydock as a speculative archaeological landscape where fragmented remains are excavated, reconstructed, and transformed into autonomous architectural artifacts.
Rather than restoring historical forms, the project hybridizes extracted profile geometries and uses shadow projection to generate new three-dimensional primitives. These reconstructed fragments populate the shipyard basin as an invented collection of architectural evidence, shifting between object, ruin, and inhabitable form.
The resulting landscape deliberately destabilizes distinctions between historical documentation and design authorship, using representation itself as a method for questioning preservation, authenticity, and architectural identity.
Graduate design research reinterpreting Istanbul’s historic Haliç Imperial Shipyards through archaeology, architectural fiction, and digital representation. The proposal treats the drydock as a speculative archaeological landscape where fragmented remains are excavated, reconstructed, and transformed into autonomous architectural artifacts.
Rather than restoring historical forms, the project hybridizes extracted profile geometries and uses shadow projection to generate new three-dimensional primitives. These reconstructed fragments populate the shipyard basin as an invented collection of architectural evidence, shifting between object, ruin, and inhabitable form.
The resulting landscape deliberately destabilizes distinctions between historical documentation and design authorship, using representation itself as a method for questioning preservation, authenticity, and architectural identity.
GEOMETRY BEFORE USE
Inhabitation follows the reconstructed geometry rather than prescribing it. Appropriation, adaptation, and misreading allow the artifacts to acquire uses without resolving their uncertainty as objects, ruins, and architectural evidence.
Inhabitation follows the reconstructed geometry rather than prescribing it. Appropriation, adaptation, and misreading allow the artifacts to acquire uses without resolving their uncertainty as objects, ruins, and architectural evidence.
ARTIFACT + MODEL STUDIES
Hybrid Artifacts — Follie Series 01
Hybrid Artifacts — Follie Series 02
Follies 03 + 04 — Powder Prints
Hybrid Artifacts — Follie Series 01
Hybrid Artifacts — Follie Series 02
Follies 03 + 04 — Powder Prints
BASIN STUDIES
01 · ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD
02 · INHABITED INFRASTRUCTURE
03 · RECONSTRUCTED EVIDENCE
04 · MARITIME THRESHOLD
FOLLIE STUDIES
05 · FOLLIE 01 — ACCRETION
06 · FOLLIE 02 — COMPRESSION
07 · FOLLIE 03 — CONFINEMENT
08 · FOLLIE 04 — EROSION
09 · FOLLIE 05 — SUSPENSION
10 · FOLLIE 06 — EXCAVATION
11 · FOLLIE 07 — COLLISION
12 · FOLLIE 08 — THRESHOLD
The reconstruction returns to its source no longer as a copy of the shipyard, but as another possible reading of it.