PLATFORM: AS AN EARTHLY ARCHITECTURAL GROUND

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2025-8-28

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Soysal, Zeynep

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This thesis deciphers architectural platform as both a spatial and theoretical element that redefines the relation between architecture and ground. It proposes that ground is not a given condition but a constructed one, made through drawing, representation, and inhabitation. Within this frame, platform is not simply a structural base; it is an epistemological element that makes earth legible by articulating ground, mediating systems, and enabling inhabitation. It is theorized as an interface which is a generative condition through which architecture constructs its relation to the earth. As such, it offers a conceptual perspective for reconsidering how architecture grounds itself in both material and representational terms. The thesis develops along three trajectories: a theoretical and historical survey of architectural ground; tracing of platform as spatial construct; and a situated study of platform as an architectural element that forms ground through repetition and modulation. By shifting attention from form to ground, and from object to operation, the thesis proposes a critical framework for understanding architectural space. Thus, platform is proposed as an element through which architecture reflects on its disciplinary foundations and confronts how it draws, occupies, and transforms ground.

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Architectural ground, surface, platform

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/116188

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis