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Ayşe Gizem Taş - Sustainability Consultant & Architect

Ayse Gizem Tas

Architect · Sustainability Consultant · Permaculture Designer · Systems Thinker

I’m Gizem. A decade of sustainability consulting taught me one thing: the problem is rarely just technical.

My work spans green building certification (LEED, BREEAM, WELL, Fitwel), Life Cycle Assessment, embodied carbon analysis, energy and daylight modeling across 40+ projects in Europe and the Middle East, from airports to data centers to flagship retail. The technical depth is real, it matters, and I bring hands-on rigor to every stage of delivery. Because buildings that perform well on paper should also support the health and wellbeing of the people inside them.

But what I’ve come to believe: the most critical sustainability decisions fail not because of missing data, but because of missing translation. Numbers that don’t connect to decisions. Certifications that don’t change behavior. Reports that get filed and then quietly forgotten.

So the work goes further into climate facilitation, systems-thinking workshops, regenerative education, and my role as a founding member of the Ecology and Architecture Commission at the Istanbul Chamber of Architects. As a certified Climate Fresk facilitator, active member of the Terra.do Learning for Action Tapirs Cohort and a sibling of Regenerators community, my focus shifts to how people understand buildings and their impacts. Because that shift matters as much as optimizing how buildings perform.

That's the gap this practice works in.

    • LEED Accredited Professional (Building Design + Construction)

    • WELL Accredited Professional

    • Fitwel Ambassador

    • Permaculture Designer

    • Climate Fresk Facilitator (Yellow Belt)

    • Istanbul Technical University — Architecture (BSc)

    • Terra.do Fellowship — Climate & Systems Thinking

    • Istanbul University — Child Development (BSc)

  • I've contributed to 40+ green building projects across Turkey, Europe, and the Middle East.

    A selection:

    • Flagship stores of a global tech retailer — Madrid, UK, Riyadh, India

    • Antalya Airport T2-T4 Terminals

    • Allianz Turkey HQ

    • InterContinental Tashkent

    • Nestlé Orjin & Hilltown Offices

    • Ernst & Young Istanbul

    • Türkiye İs Bankası Atlas Data Center

    • Akasya & Akbatı Shopping Centers

    • CEVA Logistics

    • THY Kargo HQ

    • Maltepe Piazza

    • USACE Federal Projects — Germany & Nigeria

    Reach out for the full project list.

    • Alternate Board Member & Child and Architecture Commission — Chamber of Architects Istanbul

    • YEYKAD — Green Collar Women Association

LEED AP logo with green and gray background, and white text.
A dark gray circular badge with white stylized concentric arcs and the words "WELL AP" in the center.
A hand with a red glove holding cleaning cloths next to a red exclamation mark and the word "Caution".
Fitwel Ambassador logo on a background with shades of gray and black.
Logo for Terra.do featuring a circular icon with a yellow play button inside, followed by the black text 'Terra.do'.
An artistic illustration of Earth surrounded by colorful aquatic elements and coral branches.
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