Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Bodrum House Turkey 2006



Bodrum house is a proposal for an unknown land in bodrum , Turkey.Michael & Vinh has moved to Bodrum from Los Angeles.They have decided to pack and leave to find an exotic place in the world to build a modern house to live the rest of their life.The land has not been bought but the characteristics of the site was anticipated.It had to be close to the medeterranian coast without any developed civilization around it.
In order to propose to undetermined site , the project has to be very flexiable to fit in various conditions.So that Bodrum house has an '+' shape.It can be rotated per the prospective site conditions.Bdrim house has big openings on every end in order to bring exterior to interior without distracting its continuation and to be able to capture different frames of nature.
The center square piece functions as an interior courtyard with semi open ceiling to provide remenicents of the nature inside the house in the cold winter days.