Kübra İlayda Turan is a landscape architect with a specialisation in sustainability. She graduated with highest honours (cum laude) from the Politecnico di Milano’s M.Sc. programme in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design.
İlayda has gained experience with leading urban design studios in The Hague, contributing to projects that addressed large-scale sustainability, resilient landscapes, and healthier cities. She has also worked in Sardinia and Reggio Emilia on restoration and cultural landscape projects, where the Mediterranean climate sharpened her focus on water, ecology, and adaptive outdoor environments. Her research has extended to Africa, exploring how landscape design can improve liveability in hot climates, and she brings this interest into her ongoing practice.
Her work consistently seeks to integrate sustainability at the landscape scale, with a particular interest in how trees, shade, and ecological systems can transform the comfort and vitality of urban life. İlayda’s passion and research in sustainability at the landscape scale adds to NatureCulture’s growing expertise focused on improving quality of life by design through improving outdoor thermal comfort in vibrant places with sustainable urban forests.
Qualifications: M.Sc. Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design (cum laude), Politecnico di Milano, Italy. B.Sc. Architecture, Işık University, Turkey.
Experience: Independent designer in Italy and Turkey; leading urban design studios in The Hague; landscape projects in Sardinia; research in Africa.
Languages: Turkish, English, Italian.
Contact: ilayda@natureculture.me
