ÖZGÜL ÖZTÜRK Circular Design
ÖZGÜL ÖZTÜRK Circular Design
Architecture is not only about buildings but about building relationships.
BIOGRAPHY
ÖZGÜL ÖZTÜRK
Özgül Öztürk is a national and international award-winning architect with over 30 years of experience, working with a holistic approach to the built and natural environment. Her practice focuses on sustainable and low-carbon architecture that integrates environmental, social, and cultural dimensions.
After more than a decade of designing high-level architectural interiors for international companies, hotels, and industrial facilities, she came face to face with the construction industry’s massive global energy consumption and its destructive impact on the planet. Her deep love for nature fueled her decision to make a deliberate shift to explore how to build architecture that heals this Earth. This realisation marked a conscious transformation in her professional direction, redefining architecture not as a resource-intensive industry, but as a regenerative and responsible practice.
Since then, she has been designing sustainable living environments with low carbon footprints that restore a sense of spaciousness, balance, and well-being for contemporary metropolitan communities increasingly disconnected from nature.
Özgül Öztürk uses architecture as a connective tool, building meaningful relationships between space, people, environment, and culture, grounded in local knowledge and wisdom. She is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University’s Faculty of Architecture and holds an MBA from Marmara University. Alongside her design practice, she works internationally as a speaker, trainer, and consultant.
APPROACH
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
Özgül Öztürk approaches architecture as a holistic practice operating between nature and culture, material and memory, people and place. Her work is grounded in the belief that the built environment should respect ecological limits while nurturing social and cultural continuity.
Rather than treating sustainability as a technical requirement, she understands it as a way of thinking and designing that reconnects architecture with natural cycles, local knowledge, and human well-being. This approach prioritizes regenerative and carbon-conscious design approaches, local materials, and place-based solutions that evolve from context rather than being imposed upon it.
Across different scales and geographies, her practice explores how architecture can be repositioned as a restorative and transformative tool, working on spaces that re-establish balance and strengthen a sense of belonging to place.