Resort Village, Gocek
The wetlands at the edge of a steep hill that meets the bay on the outskirts of Gocek is an unbuilt landscape and an area of nature. The omnipresent relationship between landscape, architecture, and water is key to the atmosphere to this unique place. This atmosphere has been integrated into a new development of a resort village composed of individual villas.
The individual units are surrounded by a water garden which is mostly wild landscape. In a harmony with these green-brown surroundings, the buildings appear as a continuation of the landscape set in travertine stone. They are placed on stone-lands that form the base of a village with various levels, walls, and terraces creating a sequence of exterior spaces which are continuation of the buildings’ interiors. The interiors are also characterized by these floating terraces where slits in the walls form windows and doors that allow for natural light and views over the water gardens. Ozge led Eaa design team.
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view from the sea: the settlement merged with the surroundings
A view from an inner street; articulating walls in ways to create an almost sculptural but natural environment also used them to direct the guests as well as creating private entrances for the units.
The private pools of the units are infinity pools that almost merge into the great pond that surrounds the whole village, top.
The pond divides the two units next to each other and transforms them into islands.
poetics of light
cuts and slits in the walls instead of typical windows.
Project designed at EAA. Ozge Ertoptamis, Team Leader-in-Charge of design