Hilltown Istanbul Stapleton

Istanbul, Turkey

The design for Hilltown Istanbul Stapleton brings together an open air retail town center concept with two levels of interior retail stores, 3,000 parking spaces, cinema, and 250 key hotel. A naturally sloping site allows the multiple program elements to be stacked on top of one another and provide for access for each element around the site. The result of the program elements and site constraints lead to a hill town concept.

The open air town center is articulated by a collection of main street architectural styles to create a collection of buildings built over time. Public plazas and pedestrian streets organize retail, restaurants and cafes, opening up to panoramic views down the hill side, and creating accent points to naturally connect to lower levels.

Skylights, atriums and entries bring natural light down into the two levels of interior retail, a key design element to keep the multiple retail levels connected to one another. Larger retail tenants occupy the lowest level of the site where natural light and access are limited. This is a mixed use project to be developed over a 100,252 sqm land in Maltepe, Istanbul. The project is planned to comprise a multi-story shopping mall, indoor and outdoor entertainment facilities and a hotel. The project site was leased for 49 years.

*Architect of Record: Elkus Manfredi Architects

AE7 Staff and Role: Philip Wilkinson (Project Design Architect)

Project Size

2.4 million sq.ft / 222,970 sq.m

1 million sq.ft / 93,000 sq.m retail

Services

Concept Design

Architecture

Branding

Landscape Architecture

Programming