EVİDEA
Ümraniye/İstanbul︎ 2007︎Construction Area: 100.000 m2 ︎Site: 34.500 m2 ︎Residential ︎Emre Arolat (EAA), İhsan Bilgin, İbrahim Eyüp, Onur Eroğuz, Özlem Özdemir, Nevzat Sayın, Sibel Özdoğan
A ‘new’ housing model created by setting 470 apartments of varying sizes around a single courtyard. An enjoyable middle-class living alternative in which the use of common areas is made quite desirable. As there is not much of an ‘outside’ scene to look at in an environment comprised of highways and mismatched buildings, the life transpires on the ‘inside.’ An attempt to integrate daily life and holidays, private lives and neighborliness without destroying either or both. Based on the reactions of its inhabitants after all this time, it seems like a successful outcome. Basically, it is an attempt to revisit Karl Marx-Hof ..