cares a unique design philosophy in which architectural and urban design parameters are holistically reflected in all productions. Our practice adopts a production process in which local values and experience from tradition are blended with contemporary design principles and technological infrastructures. The office has an efficient and sustainable workflow that use the latest possibilities of computer-aided and parametric design.
The office has projects implemented at the scales of urban design, city square, city park, living valley and development plan. Especially ecological village masterplans, housing, mass housing, high-rise buildings, offices, schools, mixed buildings, factories and public buildings. In addition, they won over 30 national and international awards in the architectural and urban design project competitions they participated in.
M.Sc. Architect Erhan VURAL, is a founding partner of “Aboutblank Creative Community”
Aboutblank is an award-winning community, gathers around a collective design philosophy to produce generative and provocative ideas on architecture and urban design. Granted more than thirty prestigious national and international awards, Aboutblank’s founders advanced a hybrid design ethos blending generative conceptual frameworks, affective metropolitan conditions, critical socio-spatial analyses, and rigorous ecological pursuits.
As a community that emphasizes collective production, Aboutblank has collaborated with a number of distinguished international partners, including MVRDV, AECOM, KCAP and Martha Schwartz Partners.
Aboutblank Creative Community is co-founded by Erhan Vural, Hasan Sıtkı Gümüşsoy, Gökhan Kodalak and Ozan Özdilek in 2005, while they were studying architecture in Yildiz Technical University, in Istanbul. In 2012, Gokhan Kodalak moved to NewYork for his academic wishes, and he is now an assistant professor at Cornell University and Stanford University. In 2016, Ozan Özdilek has started his own video production and design business under the brand 9dan sonra. And in 2024, Erhan Vural has formed his own company practicing arts, architecture, urban design and landscape.
Since 2024, the founding partners have been leading their own disciplines with their own teams. But the partners keeps pursuing their core team formation and continue to discuss architecture and urban design under the roof of Aboutblank Creative Community...