*아카디아 아파트먼트 [ Inter.National.Design ] Arkadia Apartments

주변 도시환경(70년에 머물러 있는)으로 부터 독립적인 캐릭터를 구축하는 스타일리쉬 공동주거가 제안된다. 엑스포 58` 파빌리온을 대표하는 50-70년대 터키쉬 모던 건축의 정수를 현대적 건축으로 재해석한(로컬환경을) 정제된 건축디자인을 구현한다.

건축물의 입면은 우드패널과 불규칙한? 그리드 패턴의 조합으로 디자인된다. 여기에 비내력 구조체인 스틸프레임이 입면의 최외단부에서 악센트와 디테일을 더하며 리드믹컬한 입면을 완성한다. 여기에 입면상에 펼쳐지는 재료들간의 재질감은 이러한 디자인을 배가 시킨다.

reviewed by SJ,오사

Rotterdam-based firm Inter.National.Design’s (IND) recently completed Arkadia Apartments stands a heraldic monolith in an endless forest of decaying concrete blocks that define many of Istanbul’s southern neighbourhoods. Urban planners of this area are currently seeking to rein in the footprint of the sprawl, densifying and improving the infrastructure of existing structures rather than leaving a trail of neglect behind further new-builds.

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Arkadia itself replaces a complex in the style of its surroundings dating from the 1970s, stretching 4 storeys taller and offering 12 additional units. A competing nominee for the 2015 Mies van der Rohe award, the building certainly embodies traits of the honorary architect’s own high-rise projects such as the Lake Shore Apartments in Chicago. Tenants enter by a permeable ground-floor that facilitates the circulation of pedestrians just as much as that of the region’s varying wind currents. A regimented grid of aluminium and glass overlays a base of reinforced concrete.

Several additional nuances take IND beyond mere apprentice status. On the north and south faces, prefabricated panels of vertically-combed wood overlay the grid with autonomous irregularity. The material produces a textural contrast on the façade and regulates the entry of natural light to common spaces on the floor plan. As head architects Felix Madrazo and Arman Akdogan point out, it is the region’s first contemporary use of a typology common to Turkish modern architecture between the 1950s and 1970s – citing the country’s pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels as a key example. Compared to the terracotta roofs topping the adjacent homogeneous complexes as desultory afterthoughts, the panelling hence offers a more subtle and imaginative integration of its local culture.

A steel frame, freed of structural function, forms the top layer of the exterior. While accentuating and elaborating on the boundary between wood and glass along the north and south walls, it carries the improvised rhythm onto the east and west. The landscape, also part of IND’s commission, echoes the freeform modulation with rectangular patches of alternating grass, wood, stone, and water.

from  frameweb