Architects:Yerce Architecture, zaas

Area :200 m²

Year :2016

Photographs :Yerce Art Photography - Emin Emrah Yerce

Manufacturers :  Grohe, Siemens, Adielle, Alumil, Ardex, Infiniti, Infinity, Nano Yapı, Parkett, Vitra & Venezia, bocchiGrohe

Main Contractor : Nano İnşaat, Hilmi Aydın Niğdeli

Landscape Project & Contractor : Nesil Peyzaj

Electrical Project : Nano İnşaat

Mechanical Project : Nano İnşaat

Client : EEY

Team : Nail Egemen Yerce, Ayça Taylan, Zeynep Şankaynağı

Country : Turkey

This is the story of the conversion of a regular, standard flat into a photography studio, private house, and an art gallery. The apartment is located on a quiet street parallel to a busy boulevard in Alsancak, one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Izmir. The brief was to design the ground floor and the upper floor of this apartment which was part of a five-story housing block on this calm and green street, to be used as a photographic studio. During the design process, together with the client, it was agreed upon that this place could go beyond being just a photographic studio.

Besides meeting the demands of the client who is a well-known photographer in İzmir, who wanted to have a place for his own where he could live and work, the idea of integrating an exhibition area to this space was quickly embraced. While enabling his studio to exhibit and share the photographic work that it produces, this space would also host other photography exhibitions and thus become an alternative art exhibition spot in the city. While the ground floor was planned to fulfill the necessities of a photographic studio and an exhibition space, the upper floor was designed to have the office space, kitchen area, sleeping, and private resting zones.