Type: Architectural Visualization / Client: ZAAS / Year: 2017
Cendere Valley Housing Complex
From the architect:
"Cendere Valley which had been used as an agricultural zone in the last period of the Ottoman Empire had become an industrial district after the 1950s. The fact of this area being once out of town but now having become downtown, required the decentralization of the industrial functions.
Without ignoring the client’s expectations, but protecting the rights of the users and the people living in the surroundings, a plan scheme which would expand the green and public areas was proposed. Various mass studies were done to optimize the placement of the blocks and finally the decision of creating inner courtyards around which the residential blocks would be settled without obstructing each other’s view, was embraced.
Visual contact with the surroundings was extended thanks to the connection of the inner courtyards with the river line throughout the passages and the pedestrian flow enabled between the street and the river. As a planning decision, the upper parts were to be only used for residential purposes; but the base part of the blocks was planned for offices and housing usage.
Thanks to the terraced floors and inner gardens on each floor, green areas were brought up to the upper levels in the section plane, hence various social areas and breathing points were created on each floor for the users. Keeping the residential bloks lower on the river side and differentiating the height levels of the blocks resulted in a powerful silhouette effect.
Withdrawals on the upper levels, galleries, volumetric voids and the balconies defined by the framing system in the facade were planned to enhance the dynamism intended in the architectural composition."
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