B2 House Canakkale in Turkey

Collection title

Collection Bibliotheca Alexandrina

ID

BIB00100

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

11/23/2004

Production year

2004

Abstract

Two Turkish brothers, Selman and Suha Bilal, wanted to build a house on Turkey’s north Aegean coast as a place to spend weekends in a spot where they could find beauty, tranquillity and seclusion, without travelling long distances from their homes in Istanbul. They approached Turkish architect, Han Tümertekin, who conceived the idea of creating a refuge for these two widely travelled urbanite "nomads", as he describes them, whose relationship to place is transitory and who seek privacy in the openness of spectacular landscapes. The pure rectangular mass of the house sits on an open terraced site, unmistakably modern and separated from the traditional houses of the surrounding village, but respecting and allying itself with those houses through its use of traditional local materials.

Type

video

Production companies

• Final cut production - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Architecture

Secondary themes

• Tourism and cultural sites / Tourist sites

Period of events

• 2004

Map locations

• Turkey - Aegean Province

Original language

English

Media running time

0m42