A hospitality journey through Urla's landscape, wine culture and collective memory.
Rooted in Urla's landscape and wine culture, the project is composed as a sequence of thresholds: the stone arrival, communal table, fire, quiet corners and a tunnel of collective memory.
Typology
Hospitality
Context
Urla
Concept
Converging Times
Designer
Berk Uluışık
01Stone ThresholdThe first pause in the journey
Land / Wine / Memory
Between two horizons, time begins to converge.
Instead of a single room, the project unfolds as a cinematic sequence of arrival, gathering, retreat and remembrance.
Quiet corner / A pause between thresholds
Concept / Spatial sequence
Memory is not only recalled. It is re-experienced.
01MemoryFire + gathering02Spatial transitionMovement + threshold03Re-experienceRitual + reflection04PlaceA new collective meaning
Ground floorGathering / culinary / landscape
UndergroundWine / memory / exhibition
02Communal TableFood as a ritual of gathering
The art of gathering
Fire. Shelter. Food. Conversation.
Spaces are organized around the social rituals that turn a building into a shared memory.
03Conversation Pit
04Quiet Corner
The culinary stage
A working landscape in stone, timber and light.
Kitchen elevation A–A' / Open kitchen + framed landscape
Counter
90 cm
Island
95 cm
Clearance
110–120 cm
Worktop
4 cm
01Pizza oven
02Wine display
03Service counter
04Glass partition
Material palette
Local stone
Burnt timber
Black steel
Glass
Fire
Axonometric plan / Structural rhythm / Interior model
05Culinary StageA warm frame for making and sharing
Journey through memory
Architecture becomes a memory device.
The final chapter narrows the light, slows the body and turns objects, texture and fire into a sequence of recollection.
06The Memory TunnelTransformation of culture
Architecture as a memory device
Materials age. Rituals remain.
The project transforms collective memory into a spatial experience through fire, landscape, wine and gathering.
MemoryThe accumulation of experiences that shape who we are.
01PlaceLand, climate and resources02PersonMeaning created through use03ExperienceShared moments become ritual04GatheringCommunity keeps memory alive
The experience sequence
01First glimpseArrival + orientation
02Gathering terraceThe first encounter
03Communal tableFood + wine
04Conversation pitDeeper talks
05Quiet cornerPause + reflection
06Memory tunnelDescending below
07Artifacts of MemoryThe journey closes underground