KAPlatform · Architecture & Design
KAPlatform is an architecture and design practice working across industrial, residential, workplace and civic projects.
Selected work
A selection of current and completed work across different scales and programmes.
Industrial
Industrial
Industrial
Industrial
Studio
We approach each project by identifying the forces that should shape it: programme, context, structure, climate, movement and use. Architectural form is then allowed to emerge from their relationship.
Vision
We understand architecture as a discipline of translation: giving material form to forces that are, in themselves, immaterial. For us, that translation happens through negotiation, between what a site already carries and what a project asks of it, until nothing in the result is arbitrary.
A site arrives already in motion. It carries forces that predate any design intention: water, wind, sun, topography, and the traces left by previous use. We treat these as equal parties to the flows a project generates internally: people, product, air, light. Neither is allowed to silently govern the other. The mass, then, is not a container built for a program, nor a form draped over a site. It is what remains once that negotiation has actually taken place.
Precision, in this sense, is not a technical virtue but an ethical one: a way of ensuring that every decision can be traced back to the condition that demanded it.
A building is never finished the way a sentence is finished. It continues to be shaped by use, by weather, and by a life we cannot fully anticipate. To design well is to accept that incompleteness in advance, and to build in a way that can absorb it.
Partners
Founding Partner · Architect M.Arch / SIA
Kerem founded the studio in 2010, holding a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and a studio exchange with Zaha Hadid's studio in Vienna. An earlier career leading software development teams at The Walt Disney Company and Vodafone shaped a practice built on precision, process, and close attention to how people actually use space. He now leads the studio's work from concept to construction, across industrial, civic, and residential projects in Türkiye, the United States, and Switzerland.
Partner
Bengisu joined the studio in 2016, graduating with honors from a dual major in Architecture and Interior Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2017. After working across the studio's international projects, she became partner in 2022. She now leads concept development and design across the studio's ongoing work in cities in Türkiye and abroad. Alongside her professional work, she continues her academic studies in Architectural Design at Istanbul Technical University.
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