Bodrum Vicem / Emre Arolat Architects

Courtesy of Emre Arolat Architects

Architects: Emre Arolat Architects Location: Mugla, Turkey Client: Vicem Yacht – Sanko Holding Cooperation Concept Design: eaa-emre arolat architects Responsible Architect: emre arolat, başak akkoyunlu, natali tombak, sezer bahtiyar (-preliminary project); gonca paşolar, natali tombak (construction project) Project Team: Tansel Dalgalı, Ünal Ali Özger, Leyla Kori, Natali Tombak, Taner Arıkan, Nurgül Yardım, Taha Alkan Project Year: 2010 Project Area: 9,500 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Emre Arolat Architects

Bodrum Vicem / Emre Arolat Architects - More Images+ 10

A large structure group is not expected to be seen along the strip that extends between the sea and the coastal road from Bodrum city center to İçmeler till the shipyard region. It can easily be claimed that this strip that’s kept its natural texture, contains a surprising freshness for the eyes that have been used to the density that exists in the castle side.

Vicem Residences are located on a rocky tip along the coast line. The tension that is arises from the conflict of the coast’s untouched quality and the presumable dense physical pattern that is going to be built on the site, emerges as the most crucial fact of the design. In this sense, the settlement scheme is treated as an experimentation of mass fragmentation that loosens the phenomenon of the stereotypical “large single house” that also deals with the three dimensional topographic problem which develops in the axis of landscape apertures and functional relationships as well as with the contextualization the natural qualities of the place.

Plan
Courtesy of Emre Arolat Architects

In order for the buildings to collide with the natural texture and even to dissolve into the rocky site, the lower sections of the masses that sit in the ground contains as much as possible, a natural surface articulation. The upper parts that sit above them, in fact that only subtly touch them, are proposed to have a light, evanescent sense as they are fragile structures that are designed sophisticatedly.

Courtesy of Emre Arolat Architects

The landscape arrangement is also fed from the same context axis. It is aimed to achieve an arrangement that is suited for the genetic pattern of site which is mostly a rocky tip, that exploits the effects of the different surfaces of the natural rock that is found in the area rather than having it overly planted.

Section

Text provided by Emre Arolat Architects

Courtesy of Emre Arolat Architects

Image gallery

See allShow less
About this author
Cite: Megan Jett. "Bodrum Vicem / Emre Arolat Architects" 28 Oct 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/180196/bodrum-vicem-emre-arolat-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

You've started following your first account!

Did you know?

You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.