Kazım Aydın Villa
A compact, considered villa for a single owner — every square metre serves a clear purpose, and the small footprint allows the garden to do most of the architectural work.
A compact two-storey villa drawn around a small garden pond with a timber-accented facade.
- Location
- Beykoz, Istanbul
- Client
- Kazım Aydın
Project Narrative
The brief was a small house for a client who entertains rarely but values quiet routine. We drew a simple rectangular footprint and offset its rear wall to create a private courtyard with a reflecting pond — the visual centre of the home.
The plan was developed in a single iteration — the client knew his needs precisely. The few decisions that mattered most concerned the height of the cantilevered roof and the framing of the view from the upstairs reading room.
Light grey render and slim aluminium reveals dominate the upper level, while the ground floor receives a darker, more tactile basalt cladding. The pond is finished in the same basalt so water and stone read as a single continuous plane.
The villa proves that a modest brief, met without compromise, can yield a deeply personal home. The owner reports that mornings begin at the courtyard window with coffee and the sound of water — exactly as he imagined.
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