HAN TUMERTEKIN - SM HOUSE

HAN TUMERTEKIN - SM HOUSE

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SM HOUSE DESIGN BY HAN TUMERTEKIN

Ayvacık, Canakkale, Turkiye
A vacation house on the hill top of an aegean village. The density of the village drops as the descending slope density meets the sea. The village overlooks the scenery from far.

Designed for a family with two kids and their guests the house is located on the edge of the village where it meets the landscape. It gives its back to the road that borders the village with a massive stone wall.

Each volume has been lined up to see the sea. Thus it is long and 5-6 times bigger than the others in the village. Such a structure could not be built with local techniques, so the load bearing structure is steel. There is a stone filling between the prefabricated steel structure in 1.6 m  intervals. Curtain walls support the steel structue and emphasize the directionality.The living space is syncopated by rooms.

The stone covers the roof. Thus it is distinguished from the terra cotta roofs around yet blends into the stone walls and floors of the landscape of the village. The stone wall that borders the north of the site continues on the floor, rises on the back of the house, and covers it on the roof. The view follows this wrap of stone.

The house acts as a filter for the open house it accommodates in the front and in the back. Visually  and physically permeable house is composed of layering of the volumes. Starting from the back: Open, covered, semi covered and open in north-south direction emphasize permeability. The volumes are a syncopes within these passages.

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All the photographs have taken from www.arkitera.com web page. Information of SM Evi project and Han Tümertekin had sent by  Mimarlar & Han Tümertekin Proje Danışmanlık Hizmetleri Ltd. Şti. His web page is under construction. Web page will open in short time schedule.

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HAN TÜMERTEKİN

Han Tümertekin is a practicing architect based in Istanbul and principal of Mimarlar + Han Tümertekin that he established in 1986. Previously, he worked in Paris as an architect. His work include residential, commercial and institutional projects primarily in Turkey, as well as in Netherlands, Japan, United Kingdom, France, China, Mongolia and Kenya.

Mr. Tümertekin was trained in architecture at Istanbul Technical University and completed graduate studies in historic preservation at the University of Istanbul. In addition to his built work, he has been teaching architecture since 1992 at several universities, such as; Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Istanbul Technical University; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris; Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul; Uludag University, Bursa; Strasbourg, Ecole d'Architecture. He is among the founders of the graduate programme in architecture at Bilgi University, Istanbul, where he still teaches.
Mr. Tümertekin’s work have been widely published in international architectural journals, including Domus, Abitare, AV, Oris, Architecturel Review, L'architecture d'Aujourd'hui,  the World Atlas of Contemporary Architecture, the Phaidon Atlas of 21^st Century World Architecture etc. A monograph of his work was published by Harvard University Press in 2006.
 Recipient of several prizes of architecture, Tümertekin was presented a 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the B2 House. He served on the Aga Khan 2007 Master Jury and he is a member of the awards steering committee.