Gölbahçe

Year

2016

Client

Suryapı

Category

Residential

Area

30000m²

Team

Fuat Taşkıranoğlu, Beylem Taşkıranoğlu, Miguel Zapatero, Aurelija Doğru, Muhammet Tetikoğlu

Photographs

Gürkan Akay

The "Gölbahçe" project is a residential development located in a newly urbanized area of Sultanbeyli, spread over approximately 20 acres, with 12 acres dedicated to garden space surrounded by six residential blocks and a social facility. Outside the complex, there is a small shopping area catering to the residents. The residential blocks are positioned close to the plot boundaries to create the largest possible garden area. The blocks are connected at angled corners, ensuring that the small rooms in the corner apartments don't face each other directly. Additionally, the ground floor apartments open onto private gardens, enhancing their value.

The "Gölbahçe" project is situated on a nearly flat plot of land. A one-way ring road circles around the blocks, and there is a 500-meter-long running and cycling track. Service and pedestrian access to the blocks is provided from the rear via this ring road. Open parking areas are located around the road, while there are two entrances and one exit to the underground parking beneath the blocks

Vaziyet planında blokların zemin kattlarındaki terasların önünde dairelerin şerefiyesini güçlendiren bir yeşil bant bulunur. Bahçe içindeki site içi yaya yolları bir süs havuzundan sonra bahçe içinde bir ring yapmaktadır. Su ögesi bahçedeki ortak alanla zemin teraslarını ayırmaktadır. Böylece terasların önü daha tenha bir “yarı özel” alan olarak ayrılmıştır.

Spor alanları arsanın güneydoğu köşesinde ring yolu ile bahçe duvarları arasında ses konforu düşünülerek bahçeye en uzak alanda çözülmüştür.

The social facility is situated in the center of the garden. It consists of two distinct buildings: one, with a more enclosed façade, will later be used as a management office and includes a caretaker's apartment and a children's play area, while the other, characterized by a more transparent design, serves as a combination of a cafeteria and a fitness center. Between the two buildings, there is a protected terrace with a hard surface, suitable for hosting large outdoor events such as birthday parties, engagements, and religious ceremonies, while ensuring that any noise generated does not disturb the overall site.

Two retractable indoor pools are located on the first basement level of the social facility. The pools receive natural light through their transparent roofs, as well as from the front façade, which is opened up by landscaped retaining walls and pedestrian ramps at the height of the pool level. These landscaped ramps also enhance the interior decoration of the pools, providing additional richness through both daytime and nighttime lighting.

The residential blocks present a continuous silhouette from within the garden. In our project, we considered the silhouette formed when the individual façades of the blocks come together while designing each façade. In this context, the building is vertically divided into three sections along both the garden and street façades. Each section is defined by dark gray surfaces marked by windows on the floor plans. This approach aims to create a more fragmented "street" character that conceals the length of the buildings in both the garden and street façades.