Innovative Designs

From the Sagist YouTube channel: sculptural coffee table ideas with geometric cut-out frames, an overlapping two-tier top and patterned accessories, plus 2026 trends and how to brief a bespoke table.

Adapted from the author’s ARCH402D Children’s Museum project booklet and published with her permission. Sensorium is an academic children’s museum proposal by Architect Elif Naz Sürücü for Hasköy, on Istanbul’s Golden Horn. The project brings together storytelling, sensory exploration, play, landscape and architectural design. Its central idea is that children can encounter stories through spaces, materials, sounds, light and movement, alongside spoken and written language.

Symbiosis: Art Factory for Collaborative Making investigates how architecture can support artistic production as an interconnected social and spatial process. Located within the Kağıthane context of Istanbul, the proposal responds to a setting shaped by industrial memory, dense residential development, a river corridor, significant topographical variation and continuous urban movement. The Art Factory is conceived as a Living Machine: a spatial system in which workshops, ci