Category: University Students and Young Architects Support Programs

Stoneline hosted MEF University Faculty of Architecture students in its showroom in an event organised to transfer its expertise in natural stone to future generations. This special visit offered an important opportunity for students to reinforce their sectoral knowledge and gain in-depth knowledge about natural stones.

Journey of Natural Stones: From Rock to Structure

In the first part of the visit, Stoneline Geological Engineer Kadir Akyıldırım made a special comprehensive presentation to the students. In the presentation; natural stone types, the production process from the extraction of stones to processing, and details were explained in all stages.
While the students had the opportunity to get to know many types of natural stones from marble to travertine, granite to limestone, they were equipped with critical information such as how these stones are used in different structures and which technical details should be taken into consideration.

Showroom Tour: Carefully Selected Stones from Turkey and the World

Following the training, the students took a comprehensive tour of Stoneline’s impressive showroom. In this section, natural stone samples extracted from all over Turkey and high quality stones imported from different parts of the world were closely examined. Students had the opportunity to see and touch the surface textures.

A Meeting Inspiring Young Architects

For the students, this meeting has become an inspiring experience where they can not only gain technical knowledge but also have direct contact with the sector and shape their interests. As Stoneline, we are happy to bring young architecture candidates together with the subtleties of the natural stone world.

As Stoneline family, we aspired to organize a contest in which students from various disciplines work together to produce in the field of natural stone, an area which we have internationally served more than 20 years. The theme we have designated, was the design of the fair stand on which the Stoneline products would be exhibited. With this contest, we aimed to encourage the students of interior design and industrial product design, to think on natural stone and create innovate ideas.  

Our contest which we have designed for architecture, interior design and industrial product design students to create innovative and creative ideas about natural stone and marble, to make them familiar with natural a material which they will use in their desings, to empower succesfull and creative young designers by improving their perspective on the natural stone and to ensure the creation of original and contemporary design with contest spirit, has been completed. 

Attention given to the contest is the best evidence to prove that we have reached our goal. 149 students from 43 universities have participated to the contest. As a result of the evaluation conducted by the jury, in addition to the first three prizes, five projects have been awarded with Equivalent Mention Award. We have happily observed that, within the scope of the contest; students of architecture, interior design and industrial product desing have created creative and innovative ideas, have embraced the importance of working with young people from different profiles and relationship between the disciplines. Every type of building material in the world, has a shelf life. Natural stone however, is one of the building materials which have the longest shelf life, with correct application and preservation. We hope that, with this contest, we have been able to help young people to familiarize themselves with the natural stone which is one of the materials they will use in their future designs and to explore the value which this material coming from the nature can add to architecture and the possibilities it can provide. As an establishment, we have always emphasized on enouring the sucessfull and creative young designers.  

With this contest, we are proud that we we will able to help create a platform to further create original and contemporary designs. We would like to thank the esteemed lecturers of universities which always provided their help, participant students and Members of the Elective Council for their interest in this contest which we plan to annualize.