Köse House


CLIENT: Private
LOCATION: Kırklareli, Türkiye
STATUS: Design Development
DATE: 2017

PROJECT TEAM: Eren Çıracı, Mevce Çıracı, Esra Kurt, Sinan Kaya
This house for a couple with two children is a collection of spaces scattered on a gentle slope on the border of the floodplain forests of East Thrace. In addition to the regular living, dining, bedroom spaces, the client wanted a space for their mid-century Turkish painting collection and a separate greenhouse. Instead of treating the space for their art collection as another room and the greenhouse as a separate building we decided to turn the house into a collection of spaces and objects with unique identities, familiar and strange at the same time.
There’s no unifying architectural language or a hierarchy between the volumes. The seemingly random orientation of spaces provides different views of the land and the forest as well as providing sunlight and shade at different locations of the house throughout the day.