Huzur Apartment

Year

2014

Client

3S Kale

Category

Area

4,700m²

Team

Fuat Taşkıranoğlu, Beylem Taşkıranoğlu, Miguel Zapatero, Bilgehan Akça

An 11-storey urban renewal apartment building designed in Fenerbahçe.

Our urban transformation work in Kadıköy

Huzur Apartmanı seen from the street at dusk: a white and grey banded façade with cantilevered balconies
Huzur Apartmanı seen from below: a horizontally banded façade with deep balconies and birds in the sky
Entrance front of Huzur Apartmanı: anthracite cantilevered balconies and a lit entrance canopy

The building stands on Kuyu Sokak in Fenerbahçe and has 11 storeys. There are no flats on the ground floor. Each floor holds two flats. Under the floor-area sharing arrangement the top three storeys go to the investor, and their floor areas are smaller than those of the typical storeys. We expressed this difference in the shell of the building. The building can be read in two parts, a sea façade and a street façade. The rear flats project towards the street façade, which lets their living rooms take in the sea view as well. The entrance is an open welcome; to mark it on the pedestrian approach, a concrete pier driven into the building carries a small canopy.