Architecture Wednesday: Alaçati Stone House

Inspired by the spirit of its 130-year history, the Alaçati Stone House, located in Izmir Alaçati, was renovated and redesigned by Erdem Hamza Architecture. This building, which was once used as a business where olive oil and gum tree resin was extracted, pays homage to its past while taken on a more modern-style home.

The spaces—calm and peaceful stone walls and floor that carry from the outside to the interior—come to life again as a modern home with a spacious walled garden which is accessible through the bedrooms and the study on the entrance floor, and from the terrace off the living room, dining area and bedroom on the first floor.

A lap pool at the edge of the garden forms a large vertical surface, with a mirror at one end, reflects sunlight and the sky throughout the garden and into the home.

It’s old but new; quirky, yet livable.

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Tuesday Thought #2

Architecture Wednesday: T House

I wondered why they called this the T-house when it looks like an A-frame.

A T-and-A house? Not really; but it looks kind of like a 'T' from above, so we'll go with that.

I don't know much about this one, other than it's in turkey and looks like it';s mostly outdoor living with terraces on all sides, and gardens all around, but I like how open it is, and how much light there is, and how serene it seems.

Serenity now.

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Architecture Wednesday: Y House

While the Y House is in Turkey, it looks like it could be anywhere … Los Angeles, Sydney, the Hamptons. And it has a feature with which I am currently obsessed; black metal window frames … both inside the house, as in the “wall” between the kitchen and the living room … and as outside windows.

Now, I am not such a fan of all the white, but I love that they mixed it up with stone-work on the walls; the textured plaster walls; the lath ornaments on the ceilings. I love the terrace, and the outside dining area … and the stairs — the house is an upside down house where the master bedroom is on the entrance level and the living areas are one floor down on the garden level.

It does look like it could be anywhere in the world, along some peaceful ocean coastline, but it’s Turkey, and I like it.

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