TORF is an inter-scale design practice that brings design, research, prototyping and representation technologies into one production process.
What does the studio do?
Rather than assigning an idea to a single discipline, we focus on the layers it must pass through to become viable. Research findings can become software tools, product decisions can become spatial systems, and architectural experiences can generate new methods of representation and communication.
Research
We define the context, user and technical problem together.
Prototype
We test decisions early through software, models, interfaces or physical prototypes.
Realise
We carry the system into a product, publication, application or space.
Founding team
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Co-founder
Canberk Yurt, PhD
Industrial designer, design researcher and TORF Design Lab co-founder working across product, research and interdisciplinary design practice.
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Co-founder
Gönenç Kurpınar, PhD
Architect, researcher and TORF Design Lab co-founder working across architecture, spatial software, virtual reality and representation technologies.
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Co-founder
Yeliz Kurpınar, PhD
Architect, researcher and TORF Design Lab co-founder working across conservation, rural architecture, urban design and participatory practice.