The Life Residences
An architects job is to simplify and bring order to disorder through space and mass, not to ambiguate and complicate the frames that temporarily capture the complex and divine forces of nature.
We have been fortunate enough to be able to employ the use of a platonically shaped void as a key organizing principle within this project. And we have high hopes for it’s success.
The project is located in the Cilician planes of Anatolia in a city called Adana. It is significant in its main idea for the given context where for the first time the building masses in a residential project completely encloses an urban space, creating a distinct discernable spatial volume, mostly comprised of softscapes. The outdoor space is used by the residents of the buildings and has a wide range of possible outdoor activities within its boundaries, as seen in the renderings. With a high consideration of the laws of civic art, the height of the residential buildings are in counterpoint with the great outdoor space which it adjoins to, making sure the proportions in all three dimensions are humane and in harmony.
There are various outdoor urban toys that we have designed specially in order to create a solo role to various structures within the residential background, making sure to not create a hierarchical cacophony.
The project has many amenities and accommodations that would almost make a resident completely independent from the chaotic city life, which is a huge plus for the given back to pack epidemics we are currently experiencing and most likely will continue to experience. Roof tops were designed to house solar panels in order to have an easy shift in the sustainable energy sources once the residents make a decision in that direction.
There is no vehicular access to the outdoor spaces in this project, and the lot is fully gated and secured with walls and professional security. It’s also important to note that The Life Residences was designed to have an additional layer of surveillance by having eyes on the courtyards directed from the balconies and windows of the residents themselves, creating a scenario where Jane Jacobs, an architecture and urban design theorist, would call “Natural surveillance’, a term used for crime prevention through environmental design. It is very important that this main great space is always void from vehicular traffic and parking in order the keep it the way we designed it.
Regarding aesthetics of the building, as the architects of this project we are strong believers of beauty being derived from function. The two are inseparable. We have not implemented a single architectural component within this project that is there simply because we think it is beautiful. Even the colors of the building facades are a product from the marriage between form and function. We believe that white is a very rich color on contrary to those who believe it is simply colorless. The color of white has the characteristics and ability to reflect natures colors through out the day. White is never perceived as the same color, at 18:00 during a summer afternoon compared to noon the white zones of the façade will not read the same. White is perceived in different colors during the day because of the reflective lights bouncing to it from the physical environment, the garden and the sky. The beige colors in the façade has a didactic aesthetic, where it is mainly assigned to the vertical circulation masses and building components which perpendicularly connect with the main white masses of our building blocks. We have strived to achieve an architectural style that is timeless and gains value as different trends in the architectural world come and pass.
Every building component in this project has gone through us, the architects of the project, even the canopy details of the pavilions located by the pool and the sunbeds with their semi private wood deck platforms located across the main pool.
