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Project Details

The design was conceived in an attempt to create a dialogue between the past and present conditions of the neighborhood and began with the neighborhood. A neighborhood that used to be mostly gardens that surrounded blocks of one to two-story houses, and now the gardens have been replaced by buildings in those places that are irregularly arranged and the privacy between the houses has been weakened. Buildings with wide windows covered with thick curtains and their connection with the surroundings is limited. The project was referred to our office at the skeleton and roof stage and with structural and design constraints. Our approach to this project was to revive the space as a courtyard as in the past. Internal courtyards between apartment boxes and directing the living space to them, where light and openness play the main roles of the space and they see space as being placed.

With a definition of the residential typology and its relationship with the open space, the middle terraces were activated and with a new reading of the courtyard, they became an intermediate area in the building's volumetric envelope. The connection between the inside and the outside and the continuity of the space were formed and its extension towards the inside defined permeable and related courtyards in a way. An all-encompassing interiority and maintaining the extension and becoming the space inside and outside the house with two atmospheres that can create different spatial qualities. The middle terraces were defined as a green figure in the form of a vertical element in the volumetric envelope. The intermediate space that plays the role of both terraces and courtyards that are extended inward and have improved light, ventilation and views and made the quality of life more desirable. Courtyards are species that can improve life in the house. Considering the context of the project, climate and neighborhoods, the windows in the facade body were seen with greater depth, which were defined with a smaller width on the lower floors and more open on the higher floors to be a more appropriate control for the view and light of the house space.

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