This villa is under construction and conceived upon the request of a retired aging couple who wanted to live in a spacious, well ventilated house and spend time with their adult children in a natural environment.
Location
Mugla, Turkiye
Construction Area
1,400 m²
Completion
Ongoing
Service
Design & Build Turnkey
Hence, the client wanted a spacious three-storey house but since living in a huge house causes an enormous increase in the energy consumption and maintenance cost which makes the living very hard in the long term, we intended to propose not only an ecological residence design but also a more efficiently articulated program that would create economically more sustainable living.
We suggested a flexible layout composed of two smaller buildings instead of a single large one which enables flexible inhabiting and control of energy consumption as per varying needs. One of the residences is suggested to be as a short-term rental house while the other one becomes owners` main residence.
The buildings are also connected in the ground floor via an enclosed dining area and retractable doors in order to function as one large house for family gathering when not rented. When ground floors are combined, it forms a longer living room with different living zones for a big family gathering supported by a large kitchen for collective meal preparation.
Designed for an aging couple, the project was meant to restructure the living areas so that, if needed, it would be possible to live on the ground floor only. The upper floor is dedicated to guests and spaces are extended to outdoor life via balconies all framing the sea view differently.
The primary formal gesture of the project inserts a very long native stone wall facing the rear yard and upper street, serving as a spine for the cantilevered white boxes -accommodating living room and library area- to sit on its top at the first floor and the service areas to lean on the ground floor. The other perpendicular stone wall works as a privacy separator between the building and the adjacent hotel.
These thick stone walls on the ground floor together with shading cantilevered terraces above are intended to keep the interior cool in summer and to preserve warm air in winter time.
