openact

A collaborative practice engaging contemporary culture through architecture, urbanism and design, founded by Zuhal Kol and Carlos Zarco

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Holcim Awards 2023 events continue in 2024!
Openact is the winner of the Silver Holcim Award in the Middle-East Africa Region with Tuzla Stream CoHabitat! 🏆
The award is given to innovative projects and teams testing limits and means of sustainability by the @HolcimFdn

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Holcim Foundation tarafından Venedik Mimarlik Bienali etkinliklerine paralel olarak düzenlenen Holcim Ödüllerinde, Tuzla Yaşam Vadisi projemiz Orta Doğu - Afrika bölgesinden ödüle layık görülen dört projeden biri oldu.🏆

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Holcim Foundation tarafından düzenlenen, sürdürülebilir tasarımları destekleyen Holcim Awards’ta bu yıl Stream Co-Habitat projesiyle Openact Architecture Gümüş Ödül kazandı.

https://t.co/SVC6bysgCH

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. @openactstudio, Tuzla Yaşam Vadisi (Tuzla Stream Co-habitat) projesi ile Holcim Foundation tarafından her iki yılda bir Venedik Mimarlık Bienali etkinliklerine paralel olarak verilen Holcim Ödülleri'nin kazananları arasında.
https://t.co/CPfjBd2Bcl

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. @openactstudio tarafından tasarlanan Tuzla Yaşam Vadisi projesinin inşaat çalışmaları başladı. https://t.co/qt54v1VRdl

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. @openactstudio, Budva Kıyı Bandı Düzenleme Yarışması'nda 2. Mansiyon ödülü kazandı. @zuhalkol
https://t.co/yL25NIqFtM

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Budva Kıyı Bandı Düzenleme Yarışması’nda türk ekiplere ödül. Yarışmanın 1. aşamasından katılımcılardan Budva şehri için yeni bir kimlik geliştirmek amacıyla bir yerleşim planı tasarlamaları isteniyordu.
https://t.co/ydm8ydnW95

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Congrats to our team!!!

Team: @zuhalkol @muntanyo @bernayaylali @Tugcedilan @yassir_rawi @alilwaterlilie Elif Kandemir, Daniela F. Rozotto, Ayşegül Oruçoğlu, Isabella Espinal

#architecture #design #budva #montenegro #landscapedesign #waterfront #architecturalcompetition

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Openact has won one of the honorable mention awards of the International Conceptual Architectural Design Competition for the Promenade ‘Budva Bay’ in Montenegro!

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…anthropocentrism during times marked by natural disasters and a climate emergency.

The registration is now open and accesible via: https://t.co/Ixwo1MU5Vt

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Europan 17 by Europan Europe has now officially launched! Openact founding partner @zuhalkol is joining the Europan this year as one of the jurors from Europan Spain.

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Organized under the theme “LIVING CITIES /2 - REIMAGINING ARCHITECTURES BY CARING FOR INHABITED MILIEUS”, the aim of E17 is to explore the regenerative capacities of living milieus amidst new ecologies that attempt to overcome the opposition between nature and culture and …+

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+boosting biodiversity, and providing performative and programmatic public engagement of water and green within the public space.

Stay tuned for more!

#Tuzla #ecology #biodiversity #water #construction #landscapearchitecture #ecologicaldesign

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The construction of our Tuzla Valley project is continuing!

Through a systematic approach based on the understanding of the Doğan River's eco-functional zones, the project contains an extensive catalog of solutions fostering an ecologically self-sufficient urban ecosystem+

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Openact’s lecture in Europan Forum Clermont-Ferrand is now available on Youtube!

You can watch the seminar via the link below👇🏻
https://t.co/T2qpiNHoEJ

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#waterfront #lagoon #kucukcekmece #landscape #landscapedesign #ecology #ecologicaldesign #modernarchitecture #visualarchitects #architecturedesign #architecturelover #renderlover

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Our project''Başlangıç''(Beginning) for Kucukcekmece Lagoon Basin Competition is the winner of the equivalent prize!
The project focuses on the precious watersheds of Istanbul and speculates through counter-narratives exploring the potentials of de-growth and regenerative design+

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While the ring becomes evident as a whole of natural mechanism that works as an ecological buffer, the system is completed with a circulation loop placed on topography and a green corridor connected to it.