Çekmeköy Villa
A villa designed for a family that wanted Çekmeköy's quiet greenery to remain part of every room — glass walls, generous overhangs, and a stone-and-render palette that lets the architecture recede behind the landscape.
A modern family villa with an infinity pool and expansive glazing on a verdant plot.
- Location
- Çekmeköy, Istanbul
Project Narrative
The brief asked for a house that felt anchored to its hillside but never closed off from it. We organised the volumes as a stone podium grounding the structure to the slope, with a lighter rendered upper level cantilevered toward the garden so the bedrooms appear to hover above the pool.
Sun and view studies determined the cantilever's depth — enough to shade the southern glazing in summer while letting low winter sun reach the living room floor. The pool was positioned as a reflective plane that doubles the apparent presence of the surrounding trees.
Local sandstone in random coursing forms the podium, while a smooth white render in a warm grey undertone wraps the upper volume. The flat roof carries integrated planters that soften the silhouette and complete the dialogue between built form and landscape.
From the street the villa reads as a quiet stone wall; from the garden it opens completely. The family's daily life moves freely between interior and terrace, and the pool reflects a piece of forest the house was designed never to hide.
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