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RETREAT CENTER 2023

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The Cocoon

Design by

Firdevs Aydın, Hakan Koç, Tuğçe Sena Özdemir & Mert Tunay

The Cocoon is an inner city intervention that enables individuals to tailor make their own experience in crowded Istanbul. There is a clever use of space in the tight site and the timber and glass building within a vertical garden offers a contemporary idiom, where the private and larger public functions coexist comfortably. The project is well explained and contextualised both verbally and visually.
-Sand Helsel

Interesting to see that the existing threat of natural disaster has been addressed in the context of Turkey.
-Sidra Khokhar

Firdevs Aydın, Hakan Koç, Tuğçe Sena Özdemir & Mert Tunay

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