Demet Apartment
Year2024
Locationİstanbul, Türkiye
ClientKavan Yapı
StatusOngoing
Area5000 m²
TypologyResidential
TeamAli Önalp, Burak Yardımcı, Esad Hamza Değirmenci, Halil İbrahim Bayındır, Melis Üsküner, Recep Çetin
The project was developed through the redevelopment—within the scope of urban renewal—of an existing residential building located on Nispetiye Avenue, opposite Akmerkez, in one of Istanbul’s vibrant and high-quality urban hubs. While the primary objective was to renovate the existing structure to meet current seismic safety standards, the aim was not merely to create a technically updated building, but to transform it into a contemporary and enduring urban structure that contributes to the architectural quality of its surroundings.
Bu doğrultuda tasarımın; deprem güvenliği, çağdaş yaşam standartları, kent ölçeğindeki temsiliyet, konut mahremiyeti ve zengin bir cephe karakteri arasında dengeli bir ilişki kurması hedeflenmiştir.
One of the primary challenges across the project was creating diverse floor plans to accommodate the varying demands and needs of the residents. This necessity led to a variety of apartment and room layouts across different floors. While initially a challenge, this factor served as a positive design element in shaping the building’s character, enabling a dynamic interplay of solid and void spaces across the facade. It created a facade dynamic that constantly varies—avoiding repetition—both horizontally and vertically across the floors. The inability to manipulate the building’s massing—due to zoning constraints and investment economics—was mitigated, at least in part, by enriching the facade design.
The variation in the solid-void composition of the facade was approached using the same logic in the design of the building’s massive facade elements. Precast facade panels—featuring widths of 50, 100, and 200 cm—were assembled in a manner that allows for multiple modularities in both horizontal and vertical layouts, utilizing a mix of aligned and offset positioning along the vertical axis.
