Suryapı Antalya
Year
2017
Client
Suryapı
Category
Area
680,000m²
Team
Fuat Taşkıranoğlu, Beylem Taşkıranoğlu, Oğuzhan Solmaz, Göktuğ Hazer, Miguel Zapatero, Meliha Pogena, Can Veiz, Elif Sabırlı, Esen Kantarcı, Ece Kanturer
The area holds 93 blocks of 12 types in 3 main families, with a total footprint of 35,705m² on a site of roughly 253,775m². There are 6,417 apartments in 42 unit types, 5,073 of them belonging to the rights holders. The zoning allows a floor area ratio of 1.7 and a limit of 12 storeys. The site slopes continuously at an average of 3% from north-west to south-east. The principal layout decision was to arrange the blocks around shared gardens. Where blocks sit along the slope, the basement levels exposed by the grade are organised as semi-open car parks, so the car parks are ventilated naturally. Since the blocks are reached from two levels, both from the garages beneath the terraces and from the gardens, vehicle traffic in the central gardens is reduced. The second important site decision is that the central gardens enclosed by the blocks, with natural ground at their centre, open onto the large green corridor that the master plan envisages along the forest–sea axis. In this way all the buildings around this large park share the same rich outlook.
All the rights holders' plots are designed as open estates. The new 25m and 35m roads around the plots first connect to the secondary roads within the estate, giving a road hierarchy appropriate to its scale; traffic within the estate is not pushed onto the surrounding roads. Parking is provided for every one of the 6,417 apartments in the project, and the ring roads running behind the housing that forms the gardens allow the open parking potential to be used efficiently. The most important criterion shaping the project is the distribution of apartments required for the rights holders: the brief called for set numbers of apartments ranging from 40 to 140m², while the unit types, their distribution and density differ from plot to plot. These density analyses were decisive in the site-scale layout. The site-scale design criteria can be summarised as designing the plots around central gardens, settling in accordance with the slope of the land, and separating the internal ring roads from the external roads so that they operate independently.
Twelve different block types were designed, together with three-storey podium blocks that can combine with three of them, producing 42 different apartment types. In working out the apartment combinations, care was taken to place small apartments alongside small and medium ones, and large apartments alongside large and medium ones. This required the same apartment types to form different floor plans in different blocks. The combinations were designed with decisions drawn from the implementation experience of all engineering disciplines. At the request of the rights holders, the larger apartments, including 2-bedroom units, were to open onto at least two façades; apartments requiring two or more façades therefore make up 85% of the total. This created the need to increase the number of dual-aspect apartments without increasing the number of blocks, and the proposed Z-type blocks were designed to increase façade area without adding blocks. Two further block types, square and rectangular in plan, were produced with the same apartment types. When buildings are designed block by block, there is a difference between the perspective perceived at eye level from the central gardens and ring roads and the perspective perceived from further away at the scale of the skyline. Large white frames at the corners of the buildings, starting at the second or third floor and rising above the parapet of the non-accessible flat roof, enclose the balconies at these points on both sides, securing their privacy while creating their own rhythm at skyline scale. The horizontal terminations of the buildings at roof level reinforce the effect of these frames, which is why a flat roof was chosen. The three-storey podium blocks containing the large apartments are designed to attach to either end of the Z-type blocks, offering a solution that raises the value of these apartments without increasing block density.
In the perspective from the gardens, the first three floors of the buildings use pastel colours and textured surfaces that change from building to building, even among blocks of the same type. Residents will encounter a different, distinctive façade composition in each central garden. Air-conditioning rooms open to the outside are designed at the façade ends of all floor lobbies, and on balconies far from the façade ends a parapet is designed so that the unit is not perceived from outside.
The building façades use a palette of pastel tones in white, grey, anthracite, brown and earth colours. The window frames are coloured and the glazing clear. Balcony balustrades combine glass parapets with steel railing details.