About

Burak Gürtunca

Twelve years, some hundred and fifty projects, one recurring subject: the threshold. The deliberate gap between a new structure and a six-hundred-year-old wall. The moment a private room turns public inside a video call. The step of a stair set outside the code so that a nine-metre climb stays easy. The tools change – building, drawing, survey, software – and the subject doesn't. In my thesis I gave it the definition I still work by: “The space we are in is a meshwork of relationships.” Nothing in it is fixed; every thread can be rewoven.

Registered architect (TMMOB no. 47543) with 12 years of practice across Turkey and Italy. I work where BIM, architectural heritage and the public realm meet: LiDAR survey and scan-to-BIM, construction details, municipal permits, and built work – including UNESCO-listed and PNRR-funded projects in Turin.

Between 2015 and 2020 I founded and ran my own practice in Izmir – 22 commissioned projects – after working in four studios and serving as site chief on a 14,000 m² Hilton Hotel. In 2025 I completed an M.Sc. in Architecture for Sustainable Design at Politecnico di Torino, where I was also a teaching assistant; my thesis, supervised by Prof. Daniela Ciaffi, is a mixed-methods study of how virtual meetings reshape public and private space.

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bgurtunca@hotmail.com · Turin, Italy
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