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ARGOS HOTEL / SPA-HAMAM
Uçhisar/Nevşehir ︎ 2015 ︎ Construction Area: 800 m2 ︎ Site: 658 m2 ︎ Rekreasyon︎ Dilara Sezgin, İbrahim Eyüp, Nevzat Sayın ︎ Competition







We won our first architecture award in 1990 with the project I designed for a building that would be carved into the rocks in Cappadocia, which I had duly named “A Cavity in Göreme.”   Twenty-five years later, we are working on a similar building in the same geography. By now, we know both more about the region and about the kind of building needed there. A number of opposites such as old-new, exceptional-ordinary, good-bad, preservation-renovation are considered together. Hygienic conditions that can be easily handled anywhere else emerge as an important problem here due to dust emission. We don’t want to cover or clad natural surfaces. Therefore, the first point of the meetings is often how the surfaces can be preserved in their original state. Our first urge and the most important point of our exercise is to see a new function be assigned to an old space in an area built years ago with extraordinary spaces. There is no 90° angle in the wall-floor relationship. Everything seems to have been drawn without lifting the hand off the paper and we want it to say that way.