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BERKUDES / PROJECT JOURNALHospitality2025
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A hospitality project shaped by Urla’s landscape, wine culture and shared dining.

Clear zoning links arrival, production, dining and landscape. Fire anchors the social program, while the underground route introduces a quieter exhibition layer.

Year
2025
Location
Urla, İzmir
Typology
Hospitality / Winery + Restaurant
Project Type
Academic / Individual
Status
Concept / Unbuilt
Role
Concept, spatial planning, technical drawings, materials + visualization
01

Brief

Combine wine production, dining and landscape within one hospitality program.

02

Challenge

Connect open, semi-open and enclosed zones while maintaining views and operational clarity.

03

Response

Place fire at the social core and organize the underground level as a chronological exhibition route.

04

Outcome

A legible spatial hierarchy linking production, gastronomy, landscape and collective experience.

Monumental Urla stone threshold at the entrance
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 framed by stone and timber
Quiet corner / A pause between thresholds
Chapter 02BERKUDES / PROJECTS

Concept / Sequence

Memory is translated into movement, threshold and ritual.

Concept / Spatial sequence

Memory is not only recalled.
It is re-experienced.

01MemoryFire + gathering
02Spatial transitionMovement + threshold
03Re-experienceRitual + reflection
04PlaceA new collective meaning
Ground floorGathering / culinary / landscape
İki Deniz Arası ground floor plan
UndergroundWine / memory / exhibition
İki Deniz Arası underground plan and elevation
Stone communal table in a warm timber interior
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.

Conversation pit organized around fire
03Conversation Pit
Quiet timber and stone seating corner
04Quiet Corner
Chapter 03BERKUDES / PROJECTS

Material / Gastronomy

A working interior shaped by stone, timber, steel and fire.

The culinary stage

A working landscape in stone, timber and light.

Open kitchen elevation at İki Deniz Arası
Kitchen elevation A–A′ / Open kitchen + framed landscape
Culinary stage kitchen plan
Counter
90 cm
Island
95 cm
Clearance
110–120 cm
Worktop
4 cm
Material palette
  • Urla stone
  • Natural timber
  • Stainless steel
  • Glass
  • Fire
Exploded axonometric plan and model
Open kitchen and wine wall at İki Deniz Arası
05Culinary StageA warm frame for making and sharing
Chapter 04BERKUDES / PROJECTS

Underground / Memory

Light narrows. Time slows. The final chapter moves below ground.

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.

Chronology and memory tunnel with illuminated historical wall
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 resources
02PersonMeaning created through use
03ExperienceShared moments become ritual
04GatheringCommunity keeps memory alive
The experience sequence
  1. 01First glimpseArrival + orientation
  2. 02Gathering terraceThe first encounter
  3. 03Communal tableFood + wine
  4. 04Conversation pitDeeper talks
  5. 05Quiet cornerPause + reflection
  6. 06Memory tunnelDescending below
Artifacts displayed inside the memory tunnel
07Artifacts of MemoryThe journey closes underground
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