Research Cluster 14 14.34
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2014
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Figs. 14.34 – 14.37 Yuhan Yang ‘From Resort to City’. The project focuses on the resort town of Cesme in Turkey, an endless strip of second homes and tourist villages established between the historical settlements of Alaçatı and Cesme. The project aims to redefine the structure of the now completely urbanised territory, inserting strategic corridors that could bring a truly urban environment. At the same time, connected with this new territorial infrastructure, a new type of housing block is proposed in order to increase the density and preserve the agricultural landscape. The suburban dimension of the holiday house is maintained inside the block through a complex system of accessibility and private gardens. The housing typology breaks the monotonous repetition of both
the traditional tower blocks and the single family houses, introducing a more sophisticated relationship between the units and the open space. The dynamic articulation of the volume and the internal circulation of the block allows modulation of the threshold between inside and outside, where each house uses the roof of the floor below as a private terrace or common circulation. This design strategy aims to reproduce a relationship with the open space that is similar to the one of the detached house but in a much denser environment.
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