Oğuz Emre Bal
Artist · Architect · Researcher · Founder
Understanding reality by altering it through different perspectives.
Architecture · Interior
2026
Bosque Alto Retreat
A mountain sanctuary concept that redefines luxury through proportion, depth, and curation, prioritizing experience over objecthood.
App · Research
2026–present
DocViz APP
Visualize & understand any document with AI — uploads become interactive visual maps of structure and relationships: Classic, Node Map, Mind Map, and Text views, powered by local Ollama models.
Architecture · Interior
Canyon Shopping Center Concept
A shopping center concept design with fluidity elements especially insipred by slices and smoothed canyons and caves.
App · Product · Research
2026 — in development
Solar Dial APP
The relationship operating system for people who refuse to let the people they love drift away — contacts orbit you, drifting outward as time passes, making relationship decay visible before it becomes permanent loss.
Product · Art · Research · Video Animation
2026
Solleria - Authenticated Singular Designer Clutches
A collection of one-of-one, digitally authenticated designer clutches with unique surfaces and collectible design.
Architecture
2025
Aurelia Harbour Tower
Skyline tower development — Unio Design Studio, 2025.
App · Research
2025–present
Brainie APP
Personal knowledge graph powered by AI — organize information into separate 'brainies', visualize connections in a customizable 3D graph, and let AI extract keywords and process content.
Architecture · Web · Video Animation
Hatay Kilisesi Animasyonu
Hatay Kilisesi Animasyonu - Lumion
Architecture
2025
Palazzo Nero Social House
A heritage adaptive-reuse concept for a boutique hotel, members’ club, and dining-led social destination in Southern Europe.
XR / Spatial · App · Product · Research
2025–present
Reality Overlap XR APP
Persistent AR/XR platform for spatial collaboration in real architectural environments — spatial anchors, wayfinding, place-based memory, and a web-based spatial data analysis tool with AI-interpreted heatmaps.
Architecture · Interior
2025
Tideline Residences & Club
A luxury waterfront concept combining branded residences, private club amenities, and hospitality-led living in the GCC.
Research · App · Product
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Trackie APP
A tool that turns any text into an interactive map of its structure, meaning, and connections.
Architecture · Video Animation
2024
Abu Dhabi Villa - Concept & Animation
Architecture, 3D Modeling, and Animation project for a villa in Abu Dhabi.
Video Animation
2024
Diffusion of Emotions
A graphic design project exploring the concept of emotional diffusion.
Architecture
2024
Maris Quarter
Promenade-centered urban quarter — Unio Design Studio, 2024.
Product · Video Animation
2024
RTA LABS Animation
Product Design, 3D Modeling, Animation for a project by Oğuz Emre Bal.
Architecture · Interior
2024
Saltwind Resort
A luxury coastal wellness retreat concept exploring slow hospitality, quiet luxury, and landscape-led design on the Mediterranean.
Video Animation
2024
un10.design logo animation
A dynamic logo animation showcasing the brand's identity.
Architecture
2023
Bodrum Shore Villas & Beach Club
A members-only coastal resort in Bodrum, Türkiye, designed as a protected summer resort with terraced topography and dark stone architecture.
Architecture
2023
Crescent Courtyard
A luxury mid-rise residential concept shaped by a shaded courtyard oasis—deep loggias, calm water, club amenities, and rigorous planning logic.
XR / Spatial · Product · Research · App
2023–present
METAKIŞLA APP - Immersive Learning
A 3D immersive building game that turns the joy of building into a hands-on education in how the world is made.
Architecture · Interior
2023
Saha North
A luxury Riyadh promenade where leasing logic, shaded urban section, premium dining, and invisible operations are shaped into one coherent destination.
Architecture · Interior
2022
Maslak Square | Parametric Office Tower Concept
A concept design for a contemporary office tower and public interior environment in Istanbul’s business district, driven by a single spatial idea: a vertical façade system that evolves into an architectural framework.
Art · XR / Spatial · App · Research · Video Animation
2022–ongoing
Meta Materials // Droplets
An avant-garde digital art project exploring materiality in virtual spaces and questioning the nature of reality.
Architecture · Interior
2022
Sharq Passage Hotel
A stay-open hospitality repositioning investment concept in Kuwait City, focused on upgrading a mid-scale urban hotel through lobby, dining, and spa interventions.
Product
c. 2021
The Bosphorus Table
A unique and luxurious table design inspired by the natural beauty of the Bosporus coastline in Istanbul.
Architecture · Interior · Video Animation
2021
Casa 6 Playas
A contemporary cliffside residence in Nosara, Costa Rica, designed around structural precision, ocean views, and tropical indoor-outdoor living.
Architecture · Interior
2021
Casa Lettini
A contemporary coastal residence in Nosara, Costa Rica, designed with modern form, high-efficiency glazing, and performance-led durability.
Architecture · Interior
2021
Casa Miller
A contemporary tropical residence in Nosara, Costa Rica, defined by floating stairs, built-in planters, and integrated pool, hot tub, and deck living.
Product · Architecture
c. 2020–2021
The Living Furniture Series
A furniture series that brings the natural world inside, incorporating functional planters and promoting biophilic design.
Architecture · Interior · Research · Video Animation
2021
The Living O’Pod
A minimal, decentralized, and connected housing concept that nurtures the habitant's soul, mind, and resilience for social, environmental, and technological challenges.
Architecture · Video Animation · App
2021
The Living O'Pod - Concept, 360 Degrees & Animation
A futuristic concept for a living pod with immersive 360-degree animation. https://uniodesignstudio.com/external/tour3/
Research · App · Art · Video Animation
2021
Trouble Market APP aka dertedin
Speculative design installation imagining personal anxieties as tokenized, tradeable financial instruments — exposing the logic of financializing human distress.
Architecture
2020
Kelowna Children's Museum & Family Learning Complex
Museum, children's museum, and family learning complex with interiors in Kelowna, BC — 110,000 m² construction on a 162,000 m² site. Designed with Eti Kastoryano.
Architecture · Interior · App
2020
Lisbon Apartment
A luxury apartment house in Lisbon, Portugal, featuring modern design elements and high-end finishes.
Architecture · Interior
2020
Manly Cove Beach Club
Commercial beach club with restaurant, bar, and interiors at Manly Cove, Sydney — 1,000 m². Designed with Eti Kastoryano.
Architecture · Interior
2020
Zayed City Residence
Residential project with interiors in Zayed City, Abu Dhabi — 1,200 m² construction on a 3,000 m² site. Designed with Eti Kastoryano.
Product · Video Animation
2019
BALO Smart Case
A product design concept and animation for a smart case, showcasing innovative features and user experience.
Architecture · Interior
Omzibar — Desert, Wadi & Sea Sanctuary
A regenerative coastal desert destination in Oman shaped by desert adventure, productive ecology, wadi wellness, culture, and hospitality-led luxury.
Research
2019–present
Architectural Design of Multi-Cognitive Reality Generated in Virtual Environment
Ph.D. research at ITU investigating how multi-cognitive realities are generated and designed in virtual environments — the theoretical spine of the entire practice.
Art · App · Product · Research · Video Animation
2019
Specularism APP✦
An interactive data sculpture that explores the mutable nature of reality within the contemporary digital landscape.
Architecture
2019
Walker Farmhouse
A contemporary farmhouse concept study exploring natural materials, deconstructed planning, glass corridor links, and calm indoor-outdoor living.
Art
ongoing
X-Scapes
Animation series exploring consciousness-spaces for experiences that resist recording: dreams, memory, and imagination as time-space constructs.
Architecture
2018
Courtyard House Manama
A private villa in Manama defined by carved courtyards, deep shade, restrained greenery, and quiet water elements within a calm, mineral architecture.
XR / Spatial · Product · Video Animation · App
2018
Real Estate AR & VR App
Interactive AR & VR mobile application for real estate — a demo built to improve sales by letting buyers experience unbuilt properties immersively.
Architecture
2018
Riva Residences
Residential development with interiors in Riva, Istanbul — 36,000 m² construction on a 106,000 m² site.
Architecture
2017
Abu Dhabi Passive Courtyard Villa
A climate-responsive luxury residence defined by inward-facing courtyards, passive cooling, filtered light, and a private oasis for modern family living.
Architecture · Interior
2017
Anatolium Marmara Shopping Center
A large-scale shopping center project in Istanbul, Turkey, featuring interior design and architecture.
Art · XR / Spatial · Video Animation · App
2017–2018
İçlek — AR & VR: Wormholes APP✦
26 hand-made 3D-printed sculptures + AR app + VR environment. A semi-open structure where any boundary between inner and outer worlds is inherently permeable — a wormhole between urban and cosmic scales. bang. Prix Art Innovation Prize 2017.
Architecture
2016–2017
Media City Master Plan✦
A self-sufficient, sustainable city and cultural attraction with innovative, interactive planning and structures echoing developments in technology.
Product · Interior
ŞekerBank Sculture Lightings
A commercial bank lobby with various types of lighting design inspired by the bank logo
Art · Product
c. 2016
Miami Scope Artworks — 3D Printed Parametric Sculptures
3D-printed parametric sculptures created as tributes to fluidity in architecture — interlocking parts generated algorithmically from organic shapes like water droplets and vines, exhibited during Art Basel Miami.
Architecture
c. 2016
Balmumcu Residences
Residential project with a parametric facade inspired by ink brush strokes — organic, form-finding flowing lines creating a distinctive visual identity.
Interior · Product
2016
Berlin WAF Stand
A modular exhibition stand that embodies the principles of embodied cognition, allowing visitors to present experience in a tactile and immersive way.
Architecture
c. 2015–2017
Beykonak Residences
Residential project with GAD Architecture.
Architecture · Research
c. 2015–2017
Experimental Tower Studies
Algorithmic form-finding studies for high-rise typologies during GAD's computational design research period.
Interior
c. 2015–2017
Istanbul Incubation Center
Incubation center project in Istanbul with GAD Architecture.
Product · Research · Architecture
c. 2016
Milano Marble Fair Stand
Fair stand design for a marble exhibition in Milan, with GAD Architecture.
Architecture
c. 2016
Monaco Le Meridien Hotel
A hospitality project located in Monaco, currently under development.
Architecture
2016
MOSCOW-VARVARKA MIXED USE
Designing for an urban setting poses many challenges, including dealing with significant changes in grade and placing a structure that addresses modern needs between historic buildings.
Architecture
c. 2015–2017
Noodle Degeneration
Generative design research study at GAD Architecture.
Architecture · Research
2016
Waffle Structure — WAF Future Vision
Biomimicry-driven study of future architectural space: a flexible structure that unfolds and adapts to boundary conditions — light, view, landscape, climate. Presented as WAF Future Vision 2016; 25,000 m² mixed-use study for Berlin.
Architecture · Interior · Video Animation
2016
Wepublic experımental SHOPPING center
A commercial space that can transform and renew itself like a living organism, blending art and architecture.
Product
Lunar Watch Project
A lunar watch project.
Architecture
2014
Narköy Eco Hotel & Training Center
A built eco-hospitality and training campus combining accommodation, training spaces, and an organic farm within a forest valley environment.
Art · Research · Product · XR / Spatial · Video Animation
2014–2017
Space Hackers APP✦
Participatory platform inviting citizens to identify and 'hack' inaccessible urban spaces — mapping them as sites of latent potential and proposing collaborative interventions.
Product
Wireframe Faucet Design
A faucet minimal faucet design that hide s how the water flows from inside.
Video Animation · Product
MapiArt
Magnetic Pixel Art - Magnetic Sliced colored pieces to create images in the surfaces.
Research
2013–2015
Instant Space Design by the Experience of Movement
M.Sc. thesis at ITU: designing instant space through the experience of movement — where the practice's body-space-cognition thread began.
Web · Architecture · Interior · Video Animation
Likör Sosyal Experience Museum
An adaptive reuse project at old Mecidiyeköy Liquor Factory as a Social and Cultural Center.
Product
2011
Crank - Modular Lightening
A modular lighting design concept.
Art · Product · Video Animation
2011
Freshgate — Interactive Festival Booth
Freshgate: interactive festival booth exploring responsive human-space relations — 3D modeling, prototyping, and on-site production with Salon Architects for the Miller Festival 2011.
Interior
Outdoor Action
An experimental Outdoor Store, inspired by canyons and river beds. The rocks are stylized to reflect the canyon inspiration and used as a sale module. In the walls it is aimed to create a canyon feeling by using artificial rock texture.
Architecture · Interior
TU-ARC Trakya Universitesi Campus Concept
The dialog between old and new is always controversial. In this project we are stacking spaces with fluidity each other in 3d space and relation with old enclosure.
Architecture · Video Animation · Interior
Tibidabo Twin House
A Luxury Twin House Design that seamlessly blends natural materials with modern architecture.