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Quill Motion

December 31, 2012, 8:53 am
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Quill Motion is a public art work installed at the Salt Lake Community College in Taylorsville, Utah. The project is commissioned by the Utah Public Art Division and was installed in April 2013.

The artwork is constructed out of 300 folded and painted steel panels. The aggregation of these multiple components and resultant dynamic motion reflects the inherent qualities and ideologies of the Humanistic Department at the college. It represents the ambiguous effort to to implement and flourish culture through an evolution of media and its vessels of communication.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu
Consultants: Nous Engineering
Fabrication: Demiurge LLC
Photography: John Mc Carthy
Date: 2013
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Status: Commission
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Ines Residence

January 20, 2013, 6:57 am
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The Ines Residence is located in vicinity to the City of Marietta, Georgia. The residence is part of a series of projects incorporating 'Gradients' as a generative tool for architectural studies. The origin of the design work is based on three distinct typological components. The emergent gradient body was then evaluated and developed into a single family residence building. The building form is organized and oriented in three directions to establish a multiplicity of views into the landscape.

The 2 -story building layout allows for a clear division between private and public functions. Entertainment and amenities are based on the ground floor, while the rather private living and sleeping areas are situated on the upper level. The residence cantilevers over the carport while the upper outdoor patio is carved into the volume.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Mark A. Santa Ines
Date: 2013
Location: Marietta, GA
Status: Feasibility Study
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Memorial

January 4, 2014, 10:18 am
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The art work is a memorial structure for fallen police officer Harry Davis Jr. of the MTPD. The design comprises of a bold surface structure which forms an elegant formal gradient, providing a strong, curios, and visually pleasing addition to the building. The design is conceived as a precious dynamic motion in both its sweeping, curvilinear design and its function as a representative of memory and cultural synthesis.

In daylight the artwork appears as a multiplicity of metallic surfaces networks, with settle reflective qualities, offering views from the under passing adjacent walkways and while approaching the building by car, bus or bicycle. The perception of the artwork creates a dynamic ambiance providing a inspiring experience for all visitors and commuters. By night the project assumes an elegant, sculptural presence on its site. It is lit up and made vivid in its internal patterning. The structure opens its additional qualities, displaying its beautiful internal world through light, color and shadow.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Jessica Greenstein,
Consultant: Buro Happold
Fabrication: Indianapolis Fabrications
Date: 2014
Location: Washington D.C.
Status: Commission
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Busan Opera

February 9, 2015, 7:01 am
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The design of the Opera House is based on an integrated process that allows for a wide range of solutions and strategies to solve many challenges simultaneously. Interrelated to these design building issues are approaches on landscape integration, sustainability, environmental strategies, plant efficiency and economic viability of the building form. By recognizing and exploiting these multi-layers of interactions, the building design will advance to the status of a global landmark representing Busan and South Korea worldwide.

Design: VA | DESIGN & TVMY
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Xian Chi, Caroline Liu
Consultants: Transolar Climate Engineering | ARTEC Acoustic Engineering
Date: 2011
Location: Busan, Korea
Status: Competition
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Super Nova

March 3, 2015, 2:38 am
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The Super Nova project is located within the main atrium of the New Academic Building on the UC Denver campus. Facing Speer Boulevard and Downtown Denver, the artwork is mounted to the auditorium wall and partly suspended in space.

Our initial concept for the design work consists of simple formal ellipses representing the connectivity, bond and unifying spirit within the UC Denver community. The ellipses are distributed throughout space and connected with single surfaces creating a almost maze alike structure. Titled ‘SuperNova’, the project is based on a dynamic expression of movement and the evolution of form over time.

SuperNova is a definition which describes the forming of new stars, growth, development and interaction, all ideologies we discover at UC Denver and the New Academic Building.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Matthew Au, David Moore, Austin Anderson
Structural Engineering: Laufs ED
Installation: Demiurge
Photography: Patrick Heagney
Client: University of Colorado Denver
Location: New Academic Building, Denver, CO
Date: August 2015
Status: Completed
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Jetson

March 3, 2015, 2:38 am
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The Jetson project is an art installation at the Georgia Institute of Technology within the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons. Located at the Tennenbaum Atrium the design is suspended within space and hovering above the main entrance lobby.

The design is established by 5 distinct ellipses representing the five colleges at the Institute which are connected by several single surface links. As a color choice the design reflects gold, white and black which are historic GT colors. The Jetson project resembles a futuristic appearance intriguing notions of innovation and technology. It is constructed out of hundreds of unique anodized and painted aluminum shapes and is build in reference to the structure of a monocoque airplane.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Russell Gentry, Ainsley McMaster, Derin Yilmaz, Jessica Greenstein, Matthew Au
Installation and Fabrication Team: David Moore, Heather Potts, Patricia Samartzis, Elpida Peponi, Annie Jenkins, Julie Echeverri, Ishrat Lopa, Alex Gillette, Son Vu Grace Reed, Abigail Smith, Sayuj Srivastava
Client: Georgia Institute of Technology
Consultant: Russell Gentry, Lauren Stewart, Jake Tompkins, Matthew Au
Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Atlanta, GA
Date: 2015
Photography: Patrick Heagney Photography
Status: Completed

With kind support by the College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, George B. Johnston
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Auto Residence

March 3, 2015, 2:38 am
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The Auto Residence is located in the rural areas of Northern Italy and serves as a recreation destination for passionate automobile drivers. The projects challenges a synthesis between spectacles of a car in comparison to the functionality of a domesticated single family home. The layout is programmed for a car to be parked inside the house allowing for a continuous visual and ambient relationship with the automobile.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Date: 2012
Location: Modena, Italy
Status: Feasibility Study
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JS Residence

March 3, 2015, 2:38 am
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The JS Residence is located in the hills of Los Angeles in Los Feliz, California. The building is situated on a medium sized slope and orientated in a north-south direction. The design refers with its form and aesthetic to the analogies of vehicle design within the history of Southern California. The two-story building layout allows for a clear division between private and public functions while the top floor area is dedicated to entertainment and hosting activities. Main element of the house is the centralized position of an collectible old-timer car as part of the internal topology.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Jonathan Schnure
Date: 2011
Location: Los Feliz, CA
Status: Feasibility Study
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Gatewave Pavilion

March 3, 2015, 2:38 am
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In cooperation with the City of Redondo Beach Public Art Program our design strategy for a new and contemporary Public Art project for the City’s new Redondo Beach Transit Centre located at the entry plaza location at 1521 Kingsdale Avenue, Redondo Beach, California, will be an outstanding example of 21st century design that celebrates the notion of public transportation, provides an aesthetically pleasing addition to the cultural qualities of the community, and resonates with a larger audience. With our commitment to innovation and high quality design, the proposed art project will feature an unparalleled design vision constructed with the most leading edge technologies, durable materials, and fabrication methods to celebrate not just the idea of transportation, but also of arrival and departure.

Design: VA | DESIGN & TVMY
Consultant: Dr. Will Laufs/ BuroHappold
Location: Transit Center, Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Completion 2016
Status: Competition winning entry
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Rae Chair

May 25, 2015, 5:56 am
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Product and Furniture Design is an important medium to challenge and test architectural concepts on a smaller scale. This change in scale and typology also gives rise into research in material properties, fabrication methods, and design techniques. The Rae-Chair is a molded chair made out of Carbon Fiber material. The chair has a black-gloss lacquer finish and takes on a topological form which is informed through parameters of dynamic, construction, and eloquence. It challenges the notion of fluid forms and its functional paradigms. The formulation and transition of a single continuous gesture charged with per-formative parameters, allows a new experience into the world of contemporary furniture design. The form of the chair has been designed with extreme control over curvature, ergonomic use and spatial arrangement. The project assumes an elegant, sculptural presence in any interior layout and references in its presence to Classic Mid Century Modern Chairs.


Design: VA | DESIGN
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2010
Status: Commission
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Venice Bridge

January 4, 2016, 8:52 am
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The Venice Bridge is conceptual study for a pedestrian bridge crossing the Venice Canal in California. The project is conceived as an instigator for circulation and participation. This ambiguous understanding of relationships between atmosphere, construct, and material qualities will enhance and reflect the communicative and interactive nature of the project. The design reflects our strong ambition of research in material properties and new deployments. The bridge is designed as a hybrid of structural metal and Corian. The outer surface of the construct is a dark engraved Corian surface which blends and playfully abstracts the bridge into one volume, while the inner surface of the construct represents a structural recalling expression of intrinsic values and dynamic forces.

Design: VA | Design
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Mike Woodruff, Mark Santa A. Ines
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2012
Status: Feasibility Study
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Pop Up Store

January 4, 2016, 8:52 am
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Our design strategy for the Pop Up flagship store project in New York introduces two main functional elements to the existing shipping container. In terms of the exterior resolution, we are adding a golden anodized aluminum pattern to the side of the container and the front facade. The interior design feature several finishes. We have introduce mirrored surfaces on the shorted sides in order to visually expand the perception of the interior and be received as more generous. Both interior side walls will be covered with a white folded aluminum pattern. This finish acts as both a dynamic 3-Dimensional design pattern as well as functions as display trays to showcase the commercial collection of the designer. The pattern is highlighted with a gradient of colored and white panels and reflects the exterior color of the container as well.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Date: 2013
Location: New York City, NY
Status: Feasibility Study
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Super Bench

January 4, 2016, 8:52 am
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Our design strategy for a new and contemporary public ‘SuperBENCH’ structure at the corner of Mountain Street and South Coast Highway, celebrates the notion of transportation, inspires its users, and resonates with a larger audience. With our commitment to innovation and high quality design, the proposed ‘SuperBENCH’ project will feature an unparalleled design vision constructed with the most leading edge technologies, durable materials, and fabrication methods. The design work will provide a comfortable and pleasant space for the interaction of its inhabitants, and will serve as a benchmark for public projects, as well as create identity and diversity in its location.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Location:Hermosa Beach, CA
Date: 2011
Status: Competition
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Drift

January 4, 2016, 8:52 am
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Our proposed artwork will celebrate the notion of public domain, provide an aesthetically pleasing addition to the qualities of the new East Stadium Bridge staircase, and its community in large. It is our goal that the project will support the enhancement of the site, promote the idea of transportation, activate the area and resonate with a larger national and international audience.

The project takes on several roles. It is seen as an art piece, a gateway structure, and visual identity for the bridge and Ann Arbor in large. With these extrinsic qualities, the art work celebrates the notion of perception, place, and innovation with an aesthetically pleasing addition to the cultural qualities of the community. It is our goal for the art to not just serve the adjacent community, but also to resonate with a larger audience.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, James Michael Tate
Date: 2013
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Status: Invited Competition
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Dulles Airport

February 1, 2016, 2:12 am
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The project is representing the complex multi-modal connectivity, visual effects and historic references to Eero Saarinen’s airport aesthetic. The art work comprises of a sculptural structure which forms an elegant symbiosis with the tall atrium and provides a strong, curios, and visually pleasing addition to the identity of the new Dulles Airport Station.

The sculpture synthesizes a spatial link of the atrium through both visual and physical connections. The contemporary artwork is developed as a contrast to the modern architecture and materials of the building introducing a synthetic balance.

The abstract, yet controlled form of the sculpture allows for multiple readings and a playful ambiguity between surface, aperture and transparency. The material choice of Anodized Aluminum of gold, black, and white color is a balanced towards the interior qualities and tonality of the atrium space.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Date: 2013
Location: Washington D.C.
Status: Invited Competition
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Miami Pavilion

February 1, 2016, 2:12 am
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The canopy project forms a sustainable structure that celebrates the idea of a Tree House for the 21st Century. The project serves as a communication device playfully allowing the public to interact and engage with the variety of effects within the colorful pattern and ephemeral qualities of light and shadows provided. The dynamic curvature of the project will also act as a structural performance systems while reflecting natural dynamics such as wind, sky and water of the Miami
environment within the community.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Leodan Castillo
Consultant: Dr. Will Laufs/ BuroHappold
Location: Miami, FL
Date: Completion 2013
Status: Feasibility Study
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Innovation Pavilion

February 1, 2016, 2:12 am
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The transparent canopy shape of the Pavilion for the Texas Tech University Campus in Lubbock, Texas is designed to serve as a network of many individual components, connecting three distinct programmatic Islands. Each Island reflects and supports core values of the school such as Communication, Innovation and Education. The canopy is also perforated creating a sense of scale and introducing transparency, light and reflections to the space.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, H Clark, Jonathan Schnure
Date: 2011
Location: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Status: Competition
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Cement Lounge

February 1, 2016, 2:12 am
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The Cement Lounge project is a private commission to design a multi-purpose lounge for a design office in Los Angeles. The project is reminiscent of the Southern California car design culture and offers a variety of engagement. The material selected for the lounge design consist of a silver vinyl finish, high and soft density foam layers for the upper body, and fiberglass with a gloss white acrylic lacquer finish for the chassis.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Leodan Castillo, Andres Fuentes, Francisco Martinez
Location: American Cement Building
Date: Completion 2012
Status: Commission
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SLCC Pavilion

February 1, 2016, 2:12 am
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The SLCC Pavilion takes on the roles of an art piece, gateway structure, and public meeting place, which celebrates the notion of education, communication and innovation. The pavilion is an aesthetically pleasing addition to the cultural qualities of the community, and resonates with a larger audience. Our proposed “Campus Pavilion” project will celebrate the notion of public domain, serves as an addition to the qualities of the SLCC building, the campus in large, and its community. It is our goal that the project will support the redevelopment of the campus, activate the area and resonate with a larger national and international audience. This design proposal focuses on a idea of a communication device. The art work is connecting the SLCC building to the larger campus. The form is conceived as a pavilion type which allows larger gatherings, formal - and informal use and will have a high frequency usage of students. The design proposal reflects these qualities with a strong formal sculptural expression and coloration creating a identity and recognizable figure. The form allows for community gathering, visual appreciation, and the building of a strong identity for the SLCC building.

Design: VA | DESIGN
Animation: Jack Gaumer
Date: 2012
Location: SLCC Campus, Salt Lake City, UT
Status: Competition winning entry
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Bridge One

February 1, 2016, 2:12 am
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Bridge One is the first of two conceptual studies for a infrastructural bridge crossing the Los Angeles river in Downtown LA. Designed to connect a road over the river its also provides pedestrian circulation on both sides. The conceptual idea reflects a series of dynamic vectors that are connected through performance based characteristics and form the framework of the project. The main material of construction for this project will be comprised out of a structural steel and concrete composite. To achieve this goal requires a unique insight into design, creativity, understanding of new construction technologies and commitment to innovation, research, and progress. The design of the project requires a holistic and integrated approach with a keen awareness of challenges and opportunities. At night and during the dark hours, the structure illuminates with multiple linear light sources forming a network of information and engagement.

Design: VA | Design
Project Team: Volkan Alkanoglu, Mike Woodruff
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2012
Status: Feasibility Study
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