zeynep ebru aksoy

designer, founder, executive

architect (odtu 1994), permaculture designer (findhorn 2011)

 

She argues that the designer is responsible for flexible, pluralistic, constructive and creative work between disciplines and patterns in today's transformation of the countryside. 

The holistic life cycle gives priority to projects where land, water, architecture, landscape, interior architecture and product designs can only be linked to local production cycles in the production basin to which they belong.  

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Ebru, who graduated from METU Department of Architecture in 1994, started working in Budapest in the summer of 1992 with an office internship, and worked as a designer, producer, project manager, coordinator in architecture, interior architecture and re-functioning projects in Turkey and abroad until 2015. . He took and executed projects for Turkish and foreign employers in Turkey, Romania, Russia, Moldova and Kazakhstan.

 

In November 2010, he decided not to continue the mainstream business that supports consumer culture.

In February – March 2011, she lived in Findhorn Ekoköy, Spiritual Community and Learning Center in Scotland, and studied ecovillage / permaculture design. In 2014, she attended Water Retention Landscapes training in Tamera Healing Biotope community. He received information and technical training on the details of an exemplary project that resulted in ecosystem restoration and support of food production by holding rainwater with ponds on land scale.

ecological architecture, permaculture,  He gave various workshops and trainings on water retention in the field. He contributed to the Social Forum of Architecture 2010 and the International Congress of Children and Architecture organized by the Ankara Branch of the Chamber of Architects. He took part in the Right to Housing workshops.

He worked on projects in solidarity with the local people in order to sustain rural development and village life in Yeşilüzümlü, where he settled in 2015. Focusing on the ecological, economic and social sustainability of man-made life structures, he structured his holistic design perspective on architectural design infrastructure.  

 

e-mail: ebru@atolyezea.com