Berru Zeynep Koksal
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Freelance design . i am the deisgner
Lower deck design with a jacuzzi and planting beds in Orinda, CA. ATK Design.
Landscape
Entry planting design in collaboration with Loretta Gargan Landscape + Design. worked as a designer. model existing and did plant study.
Door Color Studies
Screen Design Studies
Academic Work
The project reinterprets the historic Ute Agency site in Conejos, Colorado as a layered landscape of memory. Restoring the 1855 adobe structure and introducing a sequence of contemporary pavilions, the design uses earthen tectonics and ritualized circulation to move visitors through spaces of compression, exposure, shadow, and light. A glass library and archive form the luminous core of the site, reframing remembrance as both knowledge and transparency. The result is an architecture that reveals absence, acknowledges trauma, and supports cultural continuity.
Academic Project at UC Berkeley.
Advisor: Ronald Rael.
Academic Work
This project begins with a simple square pavilion whose structural grid becomes a generative system—stacked, rotated, and condensed to produce new spatial hierarchies. Through this progression, the grid transforms from an abstract diagram into an inhabitable architecture, revealing how proportion, repetition, and circulation can shape density without losing clarity. The final condenser integrates athletic, cultural, and communal programs into a singular sectional framework, demonstrating how a minimal structural logic can scale from object to building to urban interface.
Academic Project at UC Berkeley.
Advisor: Adam Miller.
Academic Work
This project investigates the architectural and territorial logic of suburban storage infrastructure, using Expeditors International in San Jose as a case study. The existing warehouse operates as a prototypical component of the Bay Area’s logistics network: a massive rectangular volume optimized for supply-chain efficiency, yet spatially and socially disconnected from its surrounding community. Its footprint, loading operations, and impermeable edge conditions intensify environmental pressures on adjacent residential neighborhoods while contributing minimally to local economies.
The design proposal for San Jose’s Mayfair neighborhood reimagines storage as a decentralized, community-embedded infrastructure. Instead of a single isolated warehouse, storage is redistributed across the residential block as a network of small-scale, adaptable, and publicly accessible units. These spaces operate as shared resources: micro-distribution hubs, community fabrication rooms, tool libraries, and secure domestic storage.
Architecturally, the system introduces permeable edges, pedestrian circulation, and shaded outdoor rooms, transforming storage from a passive logistical object into an active spatial framework. The proposal challenges capitalist models of depersonalized infrastructure by positioning storage as a site of collective agency, environmental responsiveness, and neighborhood-scale self-determination.
Academic Project at UC Berkeley.
Advisor: Georgious Eftaxiopoulos.