TEPE NARLIFE
Maltepe/İstanbul ︎ 2013 ︎Construction Area: 298.000 m2 ︎ Site: 147.000 m2 ︎ Residential ︎ Burçin Tunç, Çiğdem Mahsunlar, Gaye Keskin Erol, Hakan Tung, Metehan Kahya, Nevzat Sayın, Serheng Dellal, Serkan Çakıt, Tuğba Okçuoğlu, Tuğçe Şık







This project may constitute another example to answer the question, “How do you fit four elephants into a Volkswagen?” A common garden/courtyard instead of the street. Overlooking the Narcity housing complex we had designed earlier and set around a common courtyard surrounded by buildings of different character except for the side facing east, the houses and their residents are connected to one another through the inner courtyard. Concentrating the density on the perimeter instead of the entire property determines the inner courtyard, which, by extension, creates the infrastructure of relations in the housing complex.