Projects

Deniz Apartment

Year

2012

Client

Helis Yapı

Category

Residential, Retail

Area

4,000m²

Team

Fuat Taşkıranoğlu, Beylem Taşkıranoğlu, Miguel Zapatero, Bilgehan Akça

Deniz Apartment, on the coastal road in Caddebostan, is an urban renewal project. In the 4,000m² building designed for Helis Yapı, the ground floor is given over to retail units and the upper floors to housing.

Our urban transformation work in Kadıköy

Deniz Apartmanı seen from the corner: wavy white balcony bands on the front façade, a timber-clad projection on the side façade and a rooftop pergola above, daytime street-level view
Front facade of Deniz Apartmanı with its rooftop pergola, daytime street-level view
Deniz Apartmanı at dusk, illuminated facade and balconies
Colonnade of Deniz Apartmanı with evening lighting and a seating area
Ground-floor retail unit of Deniz Apartmanı, storefront seen from the pedestrian walkway

The character of the building is set by the rhythm of the balconies on its front façade. The balcony lines continue from floor to floor, each differing symmetrically from the one below; the façade is therefore read not as identical balconies stacked vertically but as a wave-like rhythm that shifts from storey to storey. So that this rhythm remains free, the balconies nowhere touch the lines that frame the façade. The frame, by contrast, is a rigid and unchanging element, and it frames this idea. What makes the building distinctive on the coastal road is this relationship between frame and wave.

A timber-clad projection sits on the side façade. The projection is placed in proportion within the broad white wall. The ratio of the timber mass to the white surface finds its meaning in the fundamental design principle of solid and void.