Helis Bodrum

Helis House Residence is a flexible-use housing project laid out on a sloping site in Güvercinlik, Bodrum. The slope falls towards the west; the semi-detached villa units are placed at the limit of the setback distances so that they form streets running parallel to the contours of the site. The houses are entered from the street behind them, while the frontages onto the lower street are gardens allotted to each house. In this way the upper floors, outlined in white frames, look out over the houses in front of them at every section and take in the view of Güvercinlik bay.

The buildings are for the most part semi-detached. Each white frame seen in the silhouette from across the bay is in fact a pair of units. The houses therefore read as far less dense than their use of the full setback distances would suggest. The interiors of these white frames are clad in timber.