STATEMENT

As an architect and car and transportation designer, I consider future mobility. Research and future scenarios fascinate me enough to produce new narratives. I have been developing concepts while identifying new design methodologies and trying to achieve a transdisciplinary vision to propose an awareness that better interprets future mobility.

I focus on integrated design in a broader sense, together with aesthetic principles. Architecture is the core of my work among social, personal, and spatial concerns and addressing alternatives for future living. In my studies, I pursue the evolution of human-machine interactions and work on emerging energy-aware transportation in the context of symbiosis between mobile and immobile elements within the built environment towards future city paradigms.

My academic workload is divided into three main areas: teaching, observation, and research. Teaching will be the principal activity to lead briefs and tutor projects from research to initial design. Projects will be assessed in the context of open platforms based on transformable, programmable, and adaptable aspects to create space for better accessibility and sustainability. Design takes the center of debates to understand the constraints of developed projects and explore mobility within the various environments.

In the future, I want to offer people opportunities for setting collaborative and intellectual directions of mobility that move into a new and exciting era. I aim for a professional formation that is designed to give more focus to the fundamental aspects of architecture and car design, to support my development through teaching, practice, and research, and to provide a better understanding of the broader issues relevant to future mobility through my specialized disciplines.

I would like to be a part of a team where I can exchange ideas and develop information. Parallel to my academic process, in my further career steps, I would like to work for companies, research institutions operating content for mobility, and universities in urban studies where I can draw on my background as an architect, car and mobility designer, urbanist, and academic.

MOTIVATION

Cars are taking place in my life, along with unrevealed stories. The first memory I remember about cars was before school period, during then wandering around them never ended. My architecture education was, in fact, a significant period in shaping my view of cars. From time to time, inside the angle formed by architecture, car design, and music, I felt like a metal ball that rolls from one side to another. I know that each one feeds and strengthens the other.

I wanted to generate a common purpose for architecture and cars for my master's degree in architecture that is edited through joint spatial dimensions based on the assembling dynamics of the modern city at Istanbul Technical University. This study aims to provide a new commentary on man’s journey through different spatial and cognitive structures over the car as a cross-section between man, machine, and space. After having a master's degree in car and transportation design at Scuola Politecnica di Design, SPD Milan, parallel to the applied projects in architecture and car design, I combine the two disciplines into a future mobility context where I have been holding courses, lectures, and workshops. I currently reinforce this with my third master's degree in urban studies at the University of Basel. My work is often transdisciplinary.

Thanks to;

My Father* (1947-2016) and My Mother, Vahide Tulay, for everlasting support

*The content of this online portfolio is dedicated to the lovely memories of my father, Muzaffer Tulay, a talented craftsman, with endless gratitude and kindness, and to his warm hand on me during the time we spent together on the earth plane.

Didem Derindere
for helping me translate my master thesis in architecture.

Prof. Dr. Hülya Yürekli (R.I.P.) and Prof. Dr. Ferhan Yürekli
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture
for shaping my architect and designer profiles with their mastery.

And to everyone, we have been together.

Engin Tulay