TORBA HOUSES
Bodrum/Muğla︎2008︎Construction Area: 19.500 m2 ︎Site: 47.000 m2 ︎Residential ︎Çiğdem Mahsunlar, Gaye Keskin Erol, Metehan Kahya, Nevzat Sayın, Selin Biçer, Sibel Özdoğan, Sinem Cerrah, Tuğba Okçuoğlu, Umut Durmuş





Seven houses with owners we know and 7 more identical houses owned by the same users… This was unexplored territory for us. We were to design 7 different houses and build each of the 7 twice. Each house was designed after meeting directly with its owners and was developed based on cooperation on every point from functionality to form. Therefore, the distinctiveness of the houses was directly related to the fact that their users were different.
Although they may not have been similar in character, they were close enough to want to live in the same complex; correspondingly, the houses share a common architectural language even through they are markedly distinct from one another.
The road for vehicles leading to the garage of each house was installed with minimum damage to the property and, using the slopes of the property, “detours,” highly common to the area, were created.