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- NewsYeni Bakış
Young Yaşar University Architects Receive an Award for Nexus
Yeni Bakış reports on Nexus, an award-winning proposal for suspended modular homes beneath viaducts, highlighting accessible housing, social inclusion and environmental sustainability.
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- NewsBalıkesir Birlik Gazetesi
Designing a Future Beneath the Viaduct
Balıkesir Birlik Gazetesi presents Nexus, exploring how modular housing beneath existing viaducts could address urban housing needs while making use of neglected spaces.
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- NewsDRT TV
Designing a Future Beneath the Viaduct
DRT TV covers Nexus, a modular micro-housing proposal recognised by the MICROHOME competition, with a focus on reusing the spaces beneath urban infrastructure.
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- NewsGazete Rize
Designing a Future Beneath the Viaduct
Gazete Rize reports on the Nexus team's MICROHOME recognition and its proposal to introduce suspended, adaptable living units beneath existing urban viaducts.
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- NewsHaber Kenti
Nexus Receives an International Award for Micro-Housing Beneath Viaducts
Haber Kenti features the award-winning Nexus proposal, describing how suspended micro-housing units could transform unused viaduct spaces into accessible places to live.
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- NewsSon Mühür
An Award for Turning Spaces Beneath Viaducts into Housing
Son Mühür covers the Nexus team's international recognition for a micro-housing proposal that reimagines unused viaduct spaces as adaptable places to live.
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- NewsYeni İzmir
Young Turkish Architects Gain International Recognition with Nexus
Yeni İzmir features Nexus and its Honorable Mention in the MICROHOME competition, introducing the team's approach to compact housing within overlooked urban infrastructure.
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- InterviewBuildner / Architecture Competitions
Meet the MICROHOME Kingspan Honorable Mention Team
Buildner interviews Gökalp Kalfa, Denizhan Şallı, Göktuğ Ünlü and Zehra Çelik about their collaborative practice, design interests and approach to architectural competitions.
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- Newsİhlas Haber Ajansı
Award for a Proposal Honouring the Historic Sümerbank Textile Factory
İhlas Haber Ajansı covers the team's Third Prize in ERKUT 1935, recognising a proposal that connects contemporary public spaces with Kayseri's textile heritage.
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- NewsKayseri Haber
Reimagining Kayseri's Historic Factory: Third Prize in ERKUT 1935
Kayseri Haber reports on the team's Third Prize proposal, which references the Sümerbank Textile Factory through landscape design, entrance spaces and textile-inspired interventions.
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- NewsManisa Meydan Gazetesi
Award for a Proposal Preserving Sümerbank's Industrial Memory
Manisa Meydan Gazetesi covers the ERKUT 1935 proposal, highlighting textile references and landscape interventions that reinterpret the memory of Kayseri's historic Sümerbank factory.
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- NewsVitrin Haber
Award for a Proposal Honouring the Historic Sümerbank Textile Factory
Vitrin Haber reports on the team's Third Prize in ERKUT 1935, featuring a design that brings industrial memory into contemporary entrance and landscape spaces.
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- AwardArkitera
ERKUT 1935 National Student Ideas Competition Results Announced
Arkitera publishes the ERKUT 1935 competition results, confirming Third Prize for the proposal by Gökalp Kalfa, Zehra Çelik and Sertaç Erbilgin.
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- NewsGazete Rize
A Design Exploring Nature's Cycles Receives First Prize
Gazete Rize covers the team's Equivalent First Prize design, tracing the transformation of the Güzelyalı coastline through scenarios for 2024, 2030 and 2100.
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- NewsHaber Ekspres
A Coastal Design Proposal by Yaşar University Students
Haber Ekspres presents the team's award-winning coastal proposal, exploring changing sea levels, material cycles and the relationship between architecture and nature over time.
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- Newsİz Gazete
Designing Çanakkale's Future: First Prize for Young Architects
İz Gazete features the team's Equivalent First Prize coastal proposal, examining how Çanakkale's Güzelyalı shoreline could evolve in response to environmental change.
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- NewsMalatya Sonsöz
A Design Exploring Nature's Cycles Receives First Prize
Malatya Sonsöz features coverage of the team's Ziya Tanalı Awards proposal, which explores coastal transformation, environmental change and the relationship between architecture and nature.
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- NewsManisa Denge
A Design Exploring Nature's Cycles Receives First Prize
Manisa Denge reports on the coastal transformation proposal, highlighting the team's exploration of environmental change and the evolving relationship between built form and landscape.
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- AwardArkitera
Ziya Tanalı National Student Project Competition 2024 Results
Arkitera announces the coastal competition results, confirming Equivalent First Prize for Gökalp Kalfa, Sertaç Erbilgin and Zehra Çelik of Yaşar University.
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- Award / PublicationARCHIP
Viaduct Surf Club Recognised in ARCHIP's Winter GoRo Awards
ARCHIP names Gökalp Kalfa's Viaduct Surf Club among the winter semester's best studio projects, recognising work developed in the Wertig–Kopecký studio.
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- Print archiveKöroğlu Gazetesi
HAYAT in Print: Köroğlu Gazetesi, Page 2
The original 3 July 2023 newspaper issue includes HAYAT on page 2, documenting the team's Kartalkaya mountain hotel and youth centre proposal.
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- NewsEge Telgraf
İzmir Architecture Students Receive an Award for Their Kartalkaya Proposal
Ege Telgraf reports on HAYAT, the team's Second Prize competition proposal for a mountain hotel and youth centre supporting year-round life in Kartalkaya.
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- NewsKöroğlu Gazetesi
Young Designers Develop HAYAT for Kartalkaya
Köroğlu Gazetesi features HAYAT, the team's Second Prize mountain hotel and youth centre proposal, designed around a courtyard and activities throughout the year.
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- NewsYeni İzmir
Design Award for Yaşar University Students
Yeni İzmir covers HAYAT, a Second Prize proposal for Kartalkaya that brings accommodation, recreation and shared spaces together around a contemporary interpretation of the courtyard.
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- PublicationArkitera
Second Prize: Kartalkaya Mountain Hotel and Youth Centre
Arkitera publishes the team's Second Prize HAYAT proposal, explaining its courtyard concept, seasonal use and integration of accommodation, recreation and communal life.
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- PublicationArkitera
Acıpayam Bus Stop Design Competition Results Announced
Arkitera lists the bus stop proposal by Gökalp Kalfa, Sertaç Erbilgin and Emirhan Duğral among the projects selected for exhibition in Acıpayam.
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