Cohousing Residential Project In Sancak District

This project is a result of third year architectural design studio in the Bilkent University, Turkey. Studio requires co- housing, which includes different types of residential units, commercial areas with in a concept in Sancak District, where located the center of the city. That co-housing project is designed by starting with observation of some problems about ordinary residential lifestyle such as inconsistent urban context in the area, The observed problems ,which are high traffic pollution emerges from main road, inefficiency usage of existing city view and lackness of dynamic social life, are tried to solve with the help of that project. Moreover, this co- housing project where includes housing units, art studios, cafes, social areas.. is not only designed for artists and craftsman but also it is designed to create new urban context in an attempt to enrich the value of Sancak district urban context. In the light of the program and problems residential units are oriented as L shape at the highest level of the site. And social areas are distributed to whole site and serving as a co-housing social facilities such as studios, kitchen, dining, child care, cafe, market..etc There are several types of units such as 2+1, studio flat, dublex units. They are articulated around a circulation tube which offers horizontal and vertical circulation between flats and terraces. Thanks to flat articulation, there are some common and private terraces shows up to increase dynamic social life for units. Terraces also provide good view which is produced with stepping green roofed social areas. Therefore, site provides its own view thanks to using green roofs of social areas and studios as landscape areas.