Designers: Team Bosphorus from Turkey
Country: Morocco
City: Ben Guerir
Area: 140 m²
Year: 2019
Architectural Team Leader: Aslı Aldemir
Architects: Bekir SüleymanoÄŸlu, Ilgın YeÅŸim EldeÅŸ, Avni Yılmaz, Mustafa Demirel
Project Team: Team Bosphorus from Turkey, Team Bosphorus from Turkey
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Client: Solar Decathlon Africa Competition
Photographs: Hacer Bozkurt
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Design Team: Aslı Aldemir, Bekir SüleymanoÄŸlu, Ilgın YeÅŸim EldeÅŸ, Avni Yılmaz, Onur Yılmaz, Ceren Çakar, Ege Nurcan, Serhan Kaya, Cem Fırat, Esra Kıygın, Fatih Seymen, AyÅŸe Yılmaz, Mustafa Demirel
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Consultants: Ruhi KafesçioÄŸlu, Özden AÄŸra, Murat Çakan, Muhammed MaraÅŸlı, Süleyman Akım, Fatma Akım, Erden Güven, Murat Åžanal, Dilek Yürük, Özgül Öztürk, Kerem ErcoÅŸkun, Ebru Akkaya, Emine Can Güven, Neslihan Say, Ahmet TopbaÅŸ, Mustafa Kemal Sevindir, AliÅŸan Gönül, Atalay Yıldırım
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Engineering: Ä°smail Çelik, Tarık AteÅŸer, Recep Tuna, Ece Zeynep KalyoncuoÄŸlu, Seda Kundakçı, Ahmet Can Bölük, Özge Aslan, Ä°rem Esen, Hamdi Ergök, Ali UÄŸur TülüoÄŸlu, Talha Öz, Batuhan ÜzümcüoÄŸlu, Merve Derinpınar, Erdem Akım, AyÅŸenur Uzaslan, Saniya Üstün, Berrak Ecem Ozan, Elif Nur Tepe, Rami Rafil Abdulwahhab Al-Samaraae, Merve Karamustafa, Derya Dikbıyık
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Construction: Ä°smail Çelik, Tarık AteÅŸer, Recep Tuna, Ece Zeynep KalyoncuoÄŸlu, Seda Kundakçı, Ahmet Can Bölük, Özge Aslan, Ä°rem Esen, Hamdi Ergök, Ali UÄŸur TülüoÄŸlu, Talha Öz, Batuhan ÜzümcüoÄŸlu, Merve Derinpınar, Erdem Akım, AyÅŸenur Uzaslan, Saniya Üstün, Berrak Ecem Ozan, Elif Nur Tepe, Rami Rafil Abdulwahhab Al-Samaraae, Merve Karamustafa, Derya Dikbıyık
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Manufacturers: Daikin, Fibrobeton, VitrA, AFS, Ahmet Demirel, AldaÄŸ, Ansys Fluent, Arbor AhÅŸap Pencere, Beko, Carrier HAP, Ege Kablo, Flow Design, Pekintas Schmid, SBS Otomasyon, Serozan, SimaPro 9 LCA
The ReYard House has been designed and built by Team Bosphorus for the Africa edition of an international collegiate sustainable and energy-efficient building competition ‘Solar Decathlon’. Team Bosphorus is the first Turkish team to compete in the Solar Decathlon-including students and professors from two well-known universities in Ä°stanbul/Turkey; Ä°stanbul Technical University and Yildiz Technical University.
The team has been awarded in 3 categories in the competition; Innovation, Engineering and Construction, Communication, and Social Awareness.
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Design and Build Project / 2019
We live in a world that wants to dramatically reduce energy consumption while increasing the use of renewable energy in order to achieve global goals of increasing sustainable and natural materials and preventing the depletion of resources.
Based on this idea, Team Bosphorus designed houses for everyone with the motto of “ReInterpret + ReCycle + ReUse.” ReYard House was intended to be a public space to raise awareness on the following motives: energy, water management, waste management, modularity, and natural materials.
The team won first place in the “Innovation” category because of being reusable and modular (easy to build) by combining local materials with today's technology and using microalgae technology in an architectural project. It is also in the first place in the “Construction and Engineering” category with its soil panels which can be easily constructed with wooden modular structure and energy-efficient / sustainable engineering systems. As well as through the written and visual publications on online and social media channels during the preparatory process that spanned 1.5 years, their presentations and hospitality in the competition process and even the methods of transferring knowledge to the visitors and other teams’ members through gamification, Team Bosphorus gained the “Communication and Social Awareness” award.