ENGIN TULAY
CAR DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM & LECTURER
www.engintulay.com
engin.tulay@stud.unibas.ch
Basel, Switzerland
EDUCATION
MA Critical Urbanisms
University of Basel, Basel Switzerland
2023’24. Currently studying for the third semester and preparing for the master thesis.
MA Car and Transportation Design
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2007’08. Alfa Romeo Flagship. The project is a twin-track conversation with both those of the past and contemporary design cues in a sculptural body inspired by classical art.
Workshop An Endeavor in Discontinuity of Car Design
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2010. Reflecting the evolution of automotive design since the invention of cars. Drawing attention to new and unexpected shapes that might be able to better interpret new social habits and gestures as a part of the new experimental moving concepts. Held by Chris Bangle.
Workshop The Paradigm After the Next Car
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2009. Creating a new breed of sustainable shared transportation for the year 2050 based on the concept of mass migration from the countryside to cities. Designing new transportation systems that engage on emotional and economic levels. Held by Chris Bangle.
MSc Architecture
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
1999’03. Architecture and Automobile: Place with Continuously Changing Boundaries. Providing a new commentary on man’s journey among various spatial dimensions through the car that is positioned as a cross section between architecture and city platform. Examining the corporeal reality formed by man and machine. Introducing the limits of the car’s various spatial dimensions that resemble an architectural space formed by several human sensations.
BA Architecture
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
1993’98. Architecture.
High School
Kabatas Erkek (Boys’) Advanced High School, Istanbul Turkey
1989’92. Department of Mathematics.
GIVEN WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
Lecture Car as a Spatial Memory
Ayvansaray University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
2020. Analyzing the car as comprehensible pictures of physical formations and understanding its symbolic and aesthetic characteristics. Evaluating it in accordance with its strong influence on man’s life on an urban scale.
Workshop The Patterns of Journey
Osmangazi University Faculty of Architecture, Eskisehir Turkey
2019. Exploring a collaborative expression and synergistic scope together with emotional experiences of journey. Provoke a deep reflection on new forms of mobility with sensorial comprehensions. Parallel to trans-dimensional spatial studies, focusing on the analysis of contemporary information networks as habitat, artificial infrastructure, and organisms and embracing the interrelations and qualities of digital spaces with their unknown inhabitants.
Lecture Car as a Documentary
Bilgi University Communication in Design, Istanbul Turkey
2019’20. Examining how the car transforms the messages into signs, attributes, and symbols and determines the cultural codes throughout the processes between macro and micro mobility.
Lecture Car as an Interface
Osmangazi University Faculty of Architecture, Eskisehir Turkey
2017. Considering that cars serve as an interface between man and architecture, home and car are symbiotic in nature. Questioning how mobile lives can alter and adapt their movements by observing the nature around them with reference to man's spatial needs.
Workshop PostCAR
MEF University FADA Architectural Design Festival,Istanbul Turkey
2017. Considering that future cities will be radically transformed according to mobility patterns, create tools to design them as psycho-physical and mental structures. Developing new living forms that incorporate mobile and immobile architectural elements as symbioses in the future.
Lecture Car as a Metaphor
Beykent University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
2015. Discussing the cultural concepts cognitively examined within the scope of various spatial planes and mobility parameters through cars. Analyzing the car as an interface that reflects the social consciousness and memory of societal structures.
Workshop Future Mobility
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
2015. Exploring the micro- and macro-mobility systems responding to the urban morphology. Bringing today’s transportation paradigm into question while exploring new ways of inclusive emotional mobility.
Workshop Cloud Machine
Istanbul Technical University ART+ Design Festival, Istanbul Turkey
2012’13’14’15. Creating cognitive and visual musical structures and performing them physically. Considering sound as one of the primary dimensions of space for architecture,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES & GIVEN COURSES
Architect
1999’Present. Architectural projects, interior design, furniture design, and construction.
Car Design Consultancy & Lecturer
2008’Present. Design methodology, communication, culture, research, and future mobility.
Invited Academic Diploma Jury of Transportation Design
RUBIKA ISD, Valenciennes France
2019. Students in their 5th year in product, transportation, and digital design were evaluated by professionals. 87 students in defense, 25 jury members, 24 partner companies, and 12 countries.
Workshop The Parallel Car
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2019. Developing a car design project by extending its existing conceptual practice and forming its future. Focusing on how cars need to evolve in response to changes in our social contexts. Aiming to engage in what cars could become with functional design experiments that can give material to imaginative and purposeful design features.
Course Future Mobility
MEF University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
2018’19’20. Observing how future technologies can be reflected into the configurations between man and machine in the context of cognitive sensations, spatial perceptions, and imaginary emotions following mobility patterns. Assessing the biotic relationship between man and machine envisaged in accordance with future city paradigms and proposing anthropoid- like relations in conjunction with new forms of mobile lives.
Workshop TransCAR Life on the Move
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2018. Discovering what additional functions cars might have in the future. Describing an innovative vision for the interaction between man and machine to transform cars into architectural units to allow people to better reflect their senses. Intending to reflect future life configurations to attach people more to the car both physically and psychologically.
Workshop The Art of Mobility
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2017. Aiming to generate a futuristic image of mobility that embodies the intention of movement in an artistic manner. Reflecting the multiple aspects of the symbolic and artistic content of motion and opening ways towards trans-disciplinary studies and car design.
Workshop Sensing the Future
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan Italy
2016. Aiming to create an innovative vision and demonstrate its commitment to shape the future of mobility in the urban context. Considering the concept of driving based on the journey, not the destination, Experiencing how the transformation of human-machine interactions will allow people to reflect their senses, feelings, and life patterns in the far future.
Course Car Design as Mass Culture and Art
Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture Istanbul Turkey
2013’14’15’16’17. Evaluating cars in terms of structural and symbolic typologies as well as machine aesthetics following societal and spatial changes throughout history, especially during the modern era. Considering the cross-section between architecture and city, redefine the context of cars by analyzing what would shape the future of mobility as a system and program.
Certificated Study Car Design Basics
Bilgi University Continuing Education, Istanbul Turkey
2015’16’17’18. Aiming for an integral car design association in an interdisciplinary sense, including design thinking, methodology, and communication, with a balanced combination of theoretical and applied knowledge. Advancing techniques in sketching and design practices.
SKILLS
English (Advanced), German (Good), Italian (Good), Turkish (Advanced)
Architectural project conceptualization, design theory, and construction management. Sketching, technical drawing, rendering, model making, furniture design, and presentation.