Project Details
Location:
Kurtköy, İstanbul Google Maps
Date:
2005
Client:
AS İNŞAAT A.Ş.
Total Area:
60.000 m2
Award:
Altın Proje Housing Awards 2008
Our conceptual objective was to offer the amenities of a rural life to urban people by transforming them. The cavities opened on brute cement walls surrounding the settlement repeates in vertical the form of the ponds on the horizontal plan. Thematic corridors are designed throughout the settlement.
In the Millenium Park project, we conceived the buildings as objects of industrial design; we tried a
building style different from that of common villa type residences and developed a building type mass-produced and assembled like legos, where cement is used only in the foundations. Our inclination to create many different types of buildings was later dissipated due to economic reasons, and only three different types were designed in the end.
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