Mimlab

MİMLAB is an independent design practice founded in Istanbul in 2018 and led by Derya Yüce and Elif Sarpaşar, working across architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and interior design.

MİMLAB approaches architecture not solely through the built outcome, but through the plural, intellectual, and cultural processes that precede it. The practice sees design as an open field of inquiry, where different ideas, disciplines, scales, and contextual conditions encounter and transform one another.

This approach allows the boundaries between architecture, landscape, urban design, and interior space to become increasingly fluid. Topography, open space, program, users, and cultural context are not treated as conditions to be resolved around a building, but as integral components that shape the design itself. For MİMLAB, the process, relationships, and decisions that lead to an outcome are therefore as significant as the outcome itself.

Working across scales, from competitions to built projects, and from masterplans to interiors, MİMLAB seeks not to repeat a singular design language, but to explore how a shared way of thinking can take different forms under different conditions. The resulting architecture is not simply the final object of this multilayered process, but rather one of the moments in which that process becomes visible.