Kulaç
Urbanites +
Urban Atölye collaborated with artist Aslı Özdoyuran on the production design and realization of the fluid forms at the center of Kulaç, a solo exhibition first presented at İMÇ 5533 and then at Hayy Open Space. The exhibition departs from an archive compiled by the artist's grandfather to document her mother's practice as a national swimmer between 1974 and 1979, and brings the swimming pool, interpreted as a space of modernization, into the exhibition space. The works are constructed from porcelain pool tiles over a concrete structure, with joint compound, materials drawn directly from the aquatic spaces the exhibition summons.
The computational model was developed in Rhino Grasshopper as an interlocking cassette structure. The sequencing and quantity of ceramic tiles were defined digitally, and the structure was then fabricated at full scale by hand in the atelier. The tension between the archive's bodily and historical content and the precision of computational form-finding runs through the production process: movement data derived from swimming becomes the generative logic for a physical structure, tracing a path from motion to material.
Two core motivations of Urban Atölye's practice meet in this project: collaboration with artists and the integration of craftsmanship with computational systems. The analog and the digital are not resolved into one another here but held in productive tension, each informing the other at every stage from model to making. To collaborate on installations or interior projects exploring the physical applications of digital systems, feel free to get in touch.
In collaboration with
Artwork by Aslı Özdoyuran
Exhibition photos courtesy of Emirkan Cörüt
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