As an interior designer, my approach begins with movement. I design from the inside out, using circulation, rhythm and environmental response as the basis for spatial design.

BA (Hons) Interior Design render by Ilayda Oguz showing curved kinetic façade with circular openings; behind it, bike storage is integrated, blending infrastructure and envelope into a breathable architectural skin.

My final project, Atem, from the German word for “breath”, is a public building in Germany imagined as a breathing organ. Positioned between Duisburg’s high street and park, it links the city through layered flows: a sunken market, an elevated cycle route and modular workshops that wrap around a central courtyard, accessible only from within.

A responsive double-skin façade regulates light, airflow and atmosphere on both the exterior and interior. Its kinetic titanium-mesh outer layer filters air and reacts to presence, while the cavity supports passive comfort and energy performance.

A (Hons) Interior Design concept video by Ilayda Oguz, showing a projection-mapped heart collapsing and expanding. The motion informed Atem’s spatial logic, responsiveness, and circulatory plan.
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I’m aiming to design architecture/interiors where space doesn’t guide people; people guide space. My goal, therefore, is to create environments that adjust, listen and evolve, built not for static function, but for human momentum.

BA (Hons) Interior Design floor plan by Ilayda Oguz, showing heart-inspired layout with double-skin façade, cycling route, sunken interior and courtyard anchoring civic programs.
BA (Hons) Interior Design exploded axonometric diagram by Ilayda Oguz showing Atem’s modular roof, structural skin, terrain base and environmental systems, expressing a spatial organism built around sustainable and circulatory logic.