Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
Started January 2017,
Completed September 2017
Ceren Bingol Studio
The Moses Residence, two 85- year- old lake cabins in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, demonstrates design imagination where new possibilities can be shaped within the confines of the existing footprint and envelope of multi-generational homes. Previously having designed museums, Ceren Bingol Studio designed the Moses residences with the precision of details found in museum architecture: eliminating trims, designing fine European -inspired built-ins and creating clean, volumetric masses that eliminate clutter. The main organizing concept for both houses is to introduce an architectural parti which creates a threshold between the public and intimate faces of domestic living. This continuous armature gives visual clarity to various functions such as one-to-two story structural walls, stairs, a built-in desk, built-in cabinets, entryways and a kitchenette.
Detroit Lakes Residence photography is by Kevin Miyazaki and Ceren Bingol.
GUT RENOVATION
Work and Description in Progress
TO BE COMPLETED SPRING 2021
TO BE COMPLETED WINTER 2020
The Knowlton is a 12,000 sf adaptive reuse project including 3 connected buildings which house event venues, artist studios, small businesses, an art gallery and a boathouse.
The Knowlton was once home to the Armstrong Manufacturing Company — a well-known tool and die manufacturer in the 1800s and little known creator of a technologically advanced prototype “horseless carriage” built in 1895. In the 1900s, the first electric car was built at The Knowlton.
The building is located on the Pequonnock River estuary in the Washington Park Historic District on Bridgeport’s East Side. Once referred to as “Pembroke City” — it is an area rich with nineteenth century residential architecture — largely due to P.T. Barnum and William Noble, who invested heavily in development of the area.
Quebec City, Canada
14,900sm / 162,535sf
Completed June 2016
OMA New York - Ceren Bingol (Project Architect)
The 14,900sf museum stacks three gallery volumes in a cascading cantilever over the Grand Hall. The museum structure steps up in section and steps out in plan, creating a cascading cantilever that opens up towards the Grand Allée and invites the city into the building while acting as an extension of the park through the green roofs and carefully placed windows and terraces. The Grand Hall, a transparent glass box independently supported by vertically cantilevering glass fins located underneath the cantilevering museum structure as well as the intimate courtyard, both add new urban plazas to the city and to the museum complex. Quiet, functional and understated, the museum’s galleries stack upwards in the order of required gallery dimensions for temporary, semi-permanent and permanent galleries. The hybrid steel truss structural system used throughout the building creates uninterrupted gallery spaces and provide the building’s formal identity as the truss structure is exposed behind the triple layered glass facade surrounding the entire building. The frit pattern on the glass facade mimics and enhances the reading of the steel structure while providing the required thermal control to lower mechanical loads.
Tokyo, Japan
444.75sm / 4448sf
Completed J2012
OMA New York - Ceren Bingol (Project Team member)
Text description provided by OMA. Photographs by Iwan Baan.
Coach's ninth Japan flagship is a two-story, corner site on Omotesando, a prominent retail corridor in Tokyo. In comparison to the increasingly decorative elevations that characterize Omotesando, OMA's design integrates display into the façade, seamlessly extending the brand's presence from the inside out.
Dimensioned to accommodate Coach's standard merchandising elements (ex. mannequins, busts, bags), the flagship's basic display unit measures1800 mm x 520 mm. Frosted glass that provides interior shelving is further articulated to the exterior as louvers. The display units are configured in a herringbone pattern, assembled in vertical and horizontal orientation to facilitate a range of curation scenarios.
Viewed from the exterior, the double-height storefront presents an uninterrupted survey of Coach's full collection in a single view, with a dedicated frame for each product. Viewed from the interior, the display unit's translucency creates an active backdrop for merchandise, filtering Omotesando's streetscape into the shopping experience.
In addition to the façade, OMA designed a central core of acrylic blocks that provides a second layer of fixed display. The floating tower of illuminated units encases the store's circulation, drawing circulation up to the second level of the store, while maintaining urban views. Beyond increasing display density, the tower creates a spatial condition in which the shopper is continuously surrounded by product. In the evenings, the circulation tower acts as a lantern, illuminating the façade as a dynamic, 24-hour window display from within.
Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY 105,000sf
Completed November 2013
Grimshaw Architects - Ceren Bingol (Architect)
The winning competition entry by Grimshaw Architects in 2005 led to the renovation and expansion of the existing Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows, Queens. The design proposed a series of interventions into the existing World’s Fair building which are aimed at keeping the historical identity of the building as well as providing the desired openness, daylight, visibility and functionality to the museum program. A chain of 7 daylit galleries surround the glass cascade of natural-light-diffusing and amplifying chandelier-like enclosure. Skylights above the glass enclosure filter ample daylight into the large works gallery, as well as into the surrounding chain of galleries, where the carefully designed louvred-roof structure both diffuses and reflects desirable amounts of evenly distributed daylight on the gallery walls.
The west facade, facing the Grand Central Parkway, has been redesigned with a new entrance and a 200’ wide by 27’ tall interactive glass wall that will announce the museum to the 244,000 cars driving by every day.
The reason the building has survived and been adapted for so many different uses over the years, is its intrinsic structural logic, robustness and inherent flexibility. The new design amplifies the building’s logic and makes strategic interventions that introduce natural light, improve the flow and circulation and create flexible art galleries.
Queens Museum photography is by Hai Zhang.
New York, New York
Started January 2016,
Completed May 2016
Ceren Bingol Studio
This minimal and airy apartment is designed to increase functionality from an existing studio apartment into a well proportioned and detailed 2-bedroom with ample storage as well as space and natural light. A floor-to-ceiling T-shaped armature containing kitchen, clothes and misc. storage was permanently inserted into the existing loft, from which the various spaces of the new 2 bedroom apartment are served and defined.
GUT RENOVATION
1800 SF Loft to be converted into Live, Work and Exhibition space for a multi-media artist and her husband.
TO BE COMPLETED SEPTEMBER 2020
FULL PHOTO SET AND STORY IN PROGRESS
2022
This rug was designed from a moment captured on the Okavango Delta in Botswana at sunset. It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream, so where better to continue dreaming but in your home.
The rug was produced in an atelier that has been producing rugs for 60 years, located in Uşak, Turkey, one of the important centers of the rug and carpet culture.
Double sided rug (%70 Recycled cotton)
Blue & Beige
120 x 180 cm (3'9" x 5'9")
Available for purchase at THE KEEP SHOP
https://global.thekeep.shop/en-us/products/rug-sunset-on-the-okavango-delta-by-ceren-bingol
JUNE 1ST - NOVEMBER 1ST, 2019
GOVERNORS ISLAND
NOLAN PARK, 6B
“There are no sculptors who just sculpt, no painters who just paint and no architects who just design buildings: the artistic event takes place in ‘ONE FORM’ - in the service of poetry.” - Le Corbusier
Imagination of Space, presented by The Cooper Union and curated by Ceren Bingol, is dedicated to the exploration and exhibition of projects in architecture, art, poetry, sound and performance. A series of residencies and exhibitions will feature professional and student artists, architects, poets and writers creating and collaborating on immersive work that celebrates imagination in space, ecology, form, light, sound and material.
Phenomenology of Space, curated by Ceren Bingol, explores a multi-disciplinary discourse between professional and student creatives, and the public, across five months of programming.
As part of an advanced concepts seminar taught by Ceren Bingol, 10 architecture students, Juan Cardona, Claudia D’Auria, Yoonsang Jo, Jisoo Kim, Jihoon Park, Karim Sabry, Jeremy Son, Maren Speyer, Tracy Tan and Brandy Vazquez, explored the intersection of poetics and architecture through a series of full scale installations and moveable objects inside the house. The projects reimagine and activate the physical, constructed space and perceived emotional or metaphorical space.
Furthering the collaborative discourse and artistic production, a series of residencies and exhibitions featuring artists Rebecca Ripple, Ashley Ferlito and Mauricio Higuera, designer Sunny Kim, poet Anna McDonald and architectural critic and film producer Nina Rappaport create spatial and three-dimensional works that explore a range of poetic responses to the society, culture, ecology, light, shape and materiality of the architecture, urbanism, nature and habitants of Governors Island as well as of New York City and beyond.
THE DROP: URBAN ART INFILL is proud to present a day-long festival of public interactive art, music, and fashion projects in Chelsea on 25th Street between 10th & 11th avenues happening Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 in New York City.
In the spirit of participation, THE DROP: URBAN ART INFILL is a double call to urban inhabitants to interact with and contemplate the city as well as their relationship to the greater global environment through the arts.
A series of planned indoor and outdoor art projects, including the best in New York’s independent music, fashion, art and design, blur the boundaries of artistic creatives into collaboration, asking artists and audience to intermingle. THE DROP activities are meant to create dialogue in the New York community about our relationship to art, the city and the greater global environment.
Included in THE DROP art projects is the special exhibition 2012+. The title is partly coined from the Mayan calendar, indicating an upcoming shift from one phase of life to something new about to take shape. With the Kyoto Protocol phasing out in 2012, it is also a call to look at where we are going in the near future as individuals who are part of the global community. THE DROP is proud to be presenting a new art installation work by Ryuichi Sakamoto titled Glacier created especially for the 2012+ exhibition.
Other interactive art projects include live painting with artists Christian Mendoza and Yuri Shimojo of the Barnstormers and a live ballgown draping by emerging fashion designers using recycled materials with Art for Progress. A schedule of activities follows.
The Drop is volunteer-run and based on the idea of creating a self-perpetuating series of Arts projects through other projects. The main goal of The Drop is to provide space in the city for a wide range of emerging to established artists to show and make work, and interact with the city.
ORGANIZERS
Ceren Bingol
Art and Design
Mie Iwatsuki
Curator
Alexandra Chang
Curator, Writer, Critic
Jonathan Lo
Graphic Design, Communication Design
Christian Mendoza
Artist representative, Barnstormers
Marco Raab
Strategic Communication Design
Noah Riley
Environmental Design and Production
