The
plot is near a seaside settlement called Yahşi in Bodrum Turkey. The
location is in enough distance from the crowded touristic part of the
area to obtain a calm and relaxed life style yet it has the potential
to access to facilities in 10 minutes.
The
surrounding has low density private housing character mostly composed
of 2 storey summer villas with gardens. The plot has an area of 5000
sqm with a very sloppy nature. There is 25 m difference from one side
to other.
The
key element of the design is the huge rock which is observable
through every where covering almost 1/3 of the plot.
Preserving
this sculpture like beauty and to evaluate it as a part of the
project is the main motive of the design. Without blocking the
visuality of the rock and integrating the natural platform to the
house; pastoral scenery of Yahşi framed by every opening of the
project.
E-House
reaches to this natural platform on the rock like a bridge on one
side and attached to the ground only with a moderate tower-like
structure on the other side.
The
platform on the rock establishes the necessary out door space for the
house and provides a terrace in harmony with the nature. Rock becomes
a spatial element of the house and mutually the house becomes a part
of the rock by this use.
The
floor where living room, kitchen and master bedroom planned exists on
a level 5.50 m height from the ground in form of a bridge. The guest
rooms and related facilities are planned on other two basement
floors.
After
decades passed with dreams, spaces and suggestions on other lives;
designing for your very self with the remaining of a life time
practice on architecture, to dream for your dreams, also reveals the
most apparent phase of ones struggle of it own existence.
E-House
is a proposal by the designer for him self.
E-house
can be assumed as a confrontation of nature and man made structure
with out being in a challenge but hopefully in harmony.