U House / URAStudio

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Ula, Turkey
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U House / URAStudio - Exterior Photography, Facade
© İbrahim Özbunar

Text description provided by the architects. U house consists of two turned over concrete shells that create a multiple array of spaces. The larger shell contains the main living area, kitchen and a mezzanine work space. That smaller shell consists of two identical bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms.

U House / URAStudio - Interior Photography, Sofa, Table
© İbrahim Özbunar
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The central connecting space opens to both front and back of the house to create a multifunctional covered courtyard with an open counter bar. The lager volume counter-levers over the country plain, lightening the concrete mass. The crafted proportions of the building create a sensitive, almost sacred relationship with the human scale.

U House / URAStudio - Exterior Photography, Facade
© İbrahim Özbunar

3 materials are used in the composition, concrete, local conglomerate stone and oak. The broken layout of the building mirrors and pays respect to the traditional vernacular structures of the region. 

U House / URAStudio - Exterior Photography
© İbrahim Özbunar
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U House / URAStudio - Exterior Photography, Facade
© İbrahim Özbunar

The building mainly uses natural airflow for ventilation, a hybrid solar system for electricity and natural water from an artesian well. One could perhaps say it's a contemporary, vernacular, holistic, home, office  solution for the living space of our times.

U House / URAStudio - Exterior Photography
© İbrahim Özbunar

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Cite: "U House / URAStudio" 03 Dec 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/952628/u-house-urastudio> ISSN 0719-8884

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