Zehra Aksu
Founding architect
Organic architecture · Istanbul, since 2013
Design in harmony with nature
Flowing forms, living spaces. We draw buildings that follow slope, wind and light, without carving the land or felling trees.
Wave House · Bodrum
Approach
Before drawing a building 
we spend a day on the site, listening to the slope, the wind, the trees and where the water runs. We derive the form 
from there and choose materials from the earth, stone and timber at hand.
We read the land
Contours, the path of the sun, the prevailing wind and existing trees are mapped before the first sketch.
We use what is local
Excavated earth becomes walls; stone, timber and lime come from within 200 km wherever possible.
The building lives
Planted roofs, rainwater and natural ventilation; over time the building blends into soil and plants.
Projects
Each was born from a form in nature: a wave, a nest, the veins of a leaf.
Sea wave
Earth strata
River flow
Bird nest
Water ripples
Cocoon
Wind
Leaf veinsNo projects in this category yet.
Our philosophy
Architecture should not compete with nature; it should dance with it. Every line, every form should be as natural as the flow of a river.
What we do
From architecture to landscape, from restoration to energy modelling. All at one table, in one flow.
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Twelve years on the map
Read our numbers like a site map: each one an elevation.
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- Completed projectsFrom homes to a library
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- Years of experienceSince 2013
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- Green roofsPlanted roofs in our projects
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- Trees preservedWe designed around them
Studio
Architects, an interior designer and a landscape architect. We draw each project together from day one.
Kaan Yılmaz
Lead architect
Elif Demir
Interior designer
Can Özkan
Landscape architect
Let’s read your site together.
Tell us where your site is and what you dream of; we will plan the first site visit together. The first meeting is free.
Talk to us