VOYAGE TORBA HOTEL, PART 2

Located in Torba, Bodrum, Voyage Torba Hotel consists of 345 rooms with a total construction area of 60,000 m.. To reconcile, at the bare minimum with the existing environment; fragmenting, downscaling, creating building groups, exploring sub/microzones, and leaning toward small structures are the first steps towards reconciling with the town’s landscape, an important decision. The five different zones comprising the project area feature 5 different building typologies, which represent the individual needs and contexts of their zones. Fragmenting, downscaling, creating building groups, exploring sub/microzones, and avoiding the typical hotel scheme organized in separate compartments, according to mass consumption habits, was the main goal.

As per the program, row rooms related to the water are proposed. In the process, the idea of a ‘water courtyard’ tended to create a kind of public space for the inhabitants of this part. One of the important criteria of the project was to establish the water courtyard as a kind of gathering, to create a common space, from the water courtyard to the semi-open area, from the semi-open area to the room, from the room to the inner garden, from the inner garden to the more closed intim areas. While each space became a niche, defining its own entim area, a certain degree of controlled privacy was provided. Intervals/spatial fictions, in which the person gradually participates in human actions, returns to his own space/entim area, himself when necessary, pauses, became one of the main motivations.

The two walls describing the row room typology around the water courtyard and the gaps formed by the walls were gradually placed around the water courtyard with a certain angle/orientation. The unity of the wall element that defines the spaces of the water courtyard, penetrating, reflecting, and multiplying the interior of the building, became the basis for producing a kind of timeless, new space experience. The existing olive tree was preserved in the section near the beach. The olive tree and similar familia were allowed to penetrate into the landscape structure. The use of natural stone and landscape, which is in the memory of this part, was decisive in the new project decisions.

Architectural Design: Baraka Architecture

Design Team: Abdurrahman Çekim, Sevilay Uğur Çekim, Çağla Makara, İrem Cihanoğlu, Kübra Paksoy, Behlül Kıryolcu, Havva Nur Şen, Berkay Öztürk, Birce Tülbez
Employer: Voyag Hotel Management Construction Tourism Management
Main Contractor: Botam
Static Project: Akın Akıncı Engineering
Mechanical Project: Melant Engineering
Electrical Project: Aygun Özen Engineering
Landscape Design: DS Architecture
Lighting Design: NA Architectural Lighting Design
Building Date: 2020
Total Construction Area: 60.000 sqm
Location: Torba, Bodrum
Photographs: Orhun Ülgen / Voyage