Folkart Narlidere Housing by Emre Arolat Architects

Folkart Narlıdere, the most luxurious housing project in Turkey, which sits on a 70,000-square-meter area in İzmir’s Narlıdere district was completed in December 2008. In the Project designed by Emre Arolat Architects, topographic situation of the site was interpreted with the search of urban characteristics such as, existing structural pattern, transportation, density and the sociological balances of the region.

District encompasses normal and duplex houses with 3+1, 4+1, 5+1 and 6+1 plans in sizes ranging from 180 square meters to 480 square meters, is comprised of a total of 168 residences. Housing project provides a wide range of social facilities to its residents, including open and closed swimming pools, a sauna, a gym, a children’s playground, a billiard saloon, table tennis courts and multi-purpose rooms. In addition, the floor that contains the social facilities also encompasses a cinema room, providing residents with the opportunity to watch movies and sports matches.

The most important essentials behind the situation of the buildings on the site were their possibilities of benefiting from the alluring seascape. Abundantly plantation of the large and amorphous terraces which were oriented towards the panorama without any exceptions enabled the life in that place to gain a fresh and unique scale. On the rear facade of the buildings, the promenades that provide horizontal circulation were separated from the main masses and leaned against the wall with rosebays that was extended along with the boundary line at the back. The inner spaces that were created after this decision appeared as a place beyond an ordinary apartment hallway by means of the light roof skin, structural features that allow air circulation and microclimatic effects of the cooling pools that were designed at the base of these spaces.

On the exterior surface of the buildings, as the continuation of the general architectural approaches, an articulation consisting of some natural materials such as wood and stone and exposed concrete was created. It was considered that the performance of these kinds of materials in the course of time will turn the project which aims to set ‘new’ agendas with its own features having the design tendency, into a building complex getting old beautifully.

Credits:
Architectural project:  eaa – emre arolat architects
Responsible architect: Eda Yazkurt
Team: Gonca Paşolar, Gözde Sazak, Selin Biçer, Mert Kıral, Efe Gözen, Benay Gürsoy, Sevgi Yener, Didem Cengiz, Gamze Doğan

Posted by: Eva Prelovšek