{"id":2787,"date":"2026-08-08T23:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/2026\/08\/08\/miracle-residence-atlas-of-world-architecture\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:30:38","slug":"miracle-residence-atlas-of-world-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/miracle-residence-atlas-of-world-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Miracle Residence in Braun\u2019s \u201cAtlas of World Architecture\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The value of a building often becomes clear not on the day it is handed over, but years later, in the context in which it is remembered. Miracle Residence<\/a>, Atlas of World Architecture<\/em> , the compilation published by Braun Publishing in 2013, entering an international selection of contemporary architecture \u2014 and it is the only project representing Turkey in that selection.<\/p>\n

What kind of publication is it?<\/h2>\n

Braun Publishing is one of the best-known European publishers in contemporary architecture literature. Atlas of World Architecture<\/em>is one of the publisher\u2019s comprehensive reference compilations: across 512 pages it presents 500 projects<\/strong> from Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas with texts, drawings and photographs.<\/p>\n

The book\u2019s editorial stance is what separates compilations like this from an ordinary catalogue. The publisher does not build the selection solely on well-known names and their familiar works; it explicitly aims to show \u201cquality buildings not yet discovered\u201d on the same page as the prominent examples of contemporary architecture. Being selected is therefore not a promotion but the outcome of an editorial assessment.<\/p>\n

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Atlas of World Architecture, p. 292 \u2014 Miracle Residence, \u201cLiving\u201d section. Photographs: G\u00fcrkan Akay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The selected building: Miracle Residence<\/h2>\n

Miracle Residence is located on the Asian side of Istanbul, near Sabiha G\u00f6k\u00e7en Airport. The site runs southeast to northwest and faces the highway to the north. The project is set out as two 100-metre blocks with shared social facilities between them; hotel and residential functions come together in a single continuous mass.<\/p>\n

What carried the building into the selection, however, is the fa\u00e7ade. Rather than surrendering to the familiar logic of repetition in housing, the 250-metre surface was treated as a design experiment. Fibercement blocks, compact wooden laminate panels and standardized window<\/strong> dimensions \u2014 that is, economical and readily available components \u2014 were used to build an interlocking pattern. The resulting fa\u00e7ade takes its character not from a bespoke system but from the way ordinary building elements are composed.<\/p>\n

This is a distinction worth dwelling on. In large-scale housing, architectural quality is often seen as a demand at odds with the budget; here, what sets the building apart is not the material itself but the way repetition is composed. The same window, the same panel, the same block \u2014 only the arrangement differs. From a distance the 250-metre surface reads as a single pattern; up close, each apartment\u2019s own frame separates out.<\/p>\n

In this respect Miracle Residence can be read as an example of how quality can arise not from expensive materials but from how standard materials are composed.<\/p>\n

Why does it matter?<\/h2>\n

Given the volume of housing production in Turkey, it is striking how few projects are represented in an international selection. Atlas of World Architecture<\/em>listing Miracle Residence as the only example from Turkey points to something beyond the project\u2019s individual success: that housing architecture can produce an architectural position from within the logic of mass production.<\/p>\n

Miracle Residence was also published on ArchDaily and Archello. But appearing on digital platforms is not the same as entering a printed reference compilation: the first provides visibility, the second a lasting record. A building included in a book continues to stand, years later, in a source that describes the architectural production of its period.<\/p>\n

At BFTA Architects we believe that quality architecture depends not on exceptional budgets but on a properly framed design problem. Miracle Residence\u2019s place in this selection shows that this approach also finds a response at an international scale.<\/p>\n

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Credits:<\/strong> Atlas of World Architecture<\/em>, ed. Markus Sebastian Braun & Chris van Uffelen, Braun Publishing AG, 2013, 512 pages (ISBN 978-3-03768-127-5) \u2014 Miracle Residence, p. 292. Photos: G\u00fcrkan Akay.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miracle Residence, Braun Publishing’in 2013’de yay\u0131mlad\u0131\u011f\u0131 Atlas of World Architecture derlemesinde yer ald\u0131 ve se\u00e7kideki 500 proje aras\u0131nda T\u00fcrkiye’yi temsil eden tek yap\u0131 oldu. Se\u00e7kiye giren, yenilik\u00e7i bir mimari anlay\u0131\u015f\u0131n b\u00fcy\u00fck \u00f6l\u00e7ekli konut \u00fcretiminde de kurulabildi\u011fini g\u00f6steren bir tasar\u0131m.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yayin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfta.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}