European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award
and ITKIB Foreign Trade Complex, 2000, Istanbul, Turkey was nominated in
2001 for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van
der Rohe Award. EAA is one of the few firms in Turkey that has international
recognition while engaged in many projects at the national level in Turkey.
YALIKAVAK’S WINDMILLS AND YACHTS
AYDINLATMA SİSTEMİ, MARİNAYA AİT SADE
YÜZEYLERİ ÖN PLANA ÇIKARTACAK ŞEKİLDE
TASARLANDI.
LIGHTING WAS DESIGNED TO HIGHLIGHT THE STONE
SURFACE GEOMETRIES OF THE MONOLITHIC VOLUMES.
Yalıkavak is a town on the Aegean Sea located 18 km northwest of the city
of Bodrum that has a population of 11,000 inhabitants in its three mahalle
(districts). The town was not effected in as dramatic way as much of Bodrum
city in the 1980s when tourism investments changed the urban context. The
first phase of the Yalıkavak Palmarina was designed and constructed to be
able to expand the existing marina built in the 2000s in the town which was
identified with its windmills and whose traditional economy was based on
its sponge fishers. The first phase extension by EAA of the marina situated
on an artificial peninsula with a road connection between the mainland has
a 90,000 m2 construction site and was designed to increase the marina’s
capacity to be able to host mega yachts.
EAA architectural strategy for this project seeks to establish a direct releationship
to the traditional village morphology in the development of a modern tourism
facility that is a part of the region’s economic expansion. This first phase consists
of a small peninsula that houses restaurants, swimming pools, sea deck,
sanitary and mechanical units to primarily service the clientele from mega yachts
that will dock in the marina. The volumes on the end of the peninsula with
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