DE.X founded in 2013 by Berke DeBensason, is a design office that directs its energy to generate and think, in today’s conditions in order to create solutions that are useful, economical, but at the same time open and situation-oriented, solutions to new experiences that are spent on discovering the constantly updated potentials in politics, urban, space and human scale. Our work focuses on urban planning, architecture, interior design and product design.
TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________________________________________________________________________________ KEMER HOUSES / residential / apartment blocks / built ....................................................................................................
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CENNETKOY VILLAS / residential / luxury single houses / on hold ...................................................................................
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AZTEK HEADQUARTERS / office / single building / built ...................................................................................................
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KEMER DESIGN SUITES / residential / apartment block / built .......................................................................................... p.30 HABITAT MIDRISE HOUSING / residential / midrise apartment blocks / built - cancelled.................................................. p.36 MIAMAI HOTEL / hospitality / luxury boutique hotel / built .................................................................................................. p.38 SAVOY HOUSE / interior design / luxury residence / built ................................................................................................... p.46 4 FLATS / hospitality / city hotel / built ................................................................................................................................... p.50 JERUSALEM HOUSE / interior design / luxury residence / built .......................................................................................... p.54 ULUS SCHOOL RENOVATION/ interior design / education / built ...................................................................................... p.58 KEMER CARSI / mixed use / low storey units / proposal...................................................................................................... p.70 BOMONTI TOWER / office / nigh rise / proposal.................................................................................................................. p.74 MUGLA EXHIBITION CENTER / commercial/ exhibiton space / on hold............................................................................ p.78 ALSANCAK BOUTIQUE HOTEL / hospitality / city hotel / built ........................................................................................... p.82 COWORK STATION / interior design / education / built ........................................................................................................ p.84 OTHER PROJECTS................................................................................................................................................................ p.88
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Kemer Houses
Project Details: Client: HIM Construction Company Location: Eyup, Istanbul Year: 2015 Typology: Residential Status: Built Area: 7500 m2 Services: stages 0-4
The project is located in Kemerburgaz, one of the oldest out-of-town settlements of Istanbul. Kemerburgaz, like most of the distant towns, has begun to transform single or double-storey rural vernacular constructions, which have begun to take its course from Istanbul’s intensive urbanization, into rapidly increasing highdensity housing projects. The project, which consists of 4 buildings, is designed on 3000m² plot where the main living spaces of the units will be oriented to the south, the garden and the forest landscape. It is aimed to associate these different sizes of units with the outside space as far as possible by the use of elements such as garden, courtyard, balconies. Gable roofs, which refer to past vernacular architecture at Kemerburgaz, were chosen as one of the main elements that characterize the project.
Left: Project Aerial View
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Left: Perspective View of Site Entrance Blocks are oriented in accordance to the road.
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Above Left :
Above Right :
Module A - Ground Floor
Module B - First Floor
Above Left : Module C - Second Floor
Above Right : Module C - Penthouse Floor
Kemer Houses - 2015
Bottom Left: Front Elevation
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Opposite Above:
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Perspective from Ground Floor
Opposite Bottom: Pool Area
Left: Sample Section Detail
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Opposite Bottom: Entrance Area
Right: Outdoor Patio
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Cennetkoy Villas
Deep in the heart of Aegean coast, Bodrum, Cennetkoy project is creating its own tectonics by the interplay of nature, topography, water, and constructed horizontal plans on the landscape.
Cennetkoy, may be called the last saved bay of Turkey’s world famous holiday town Bodrum. With the turquoise sea ending with a small beach and the hills full of high pine trees surrounding the visitors, it withstands the transformation of Bodrum, characterized by unconsciously placed buildings recently. The project is located on a sloping hillside in Cennetkoy within 300 meters of the beach. As a consequence of owners decision having already begun and suspended the construction, there is not a single tree left in the land. Although it is an unfortunate situation, it has provided us with various opportunities in terms of aligment of the houses. The houses have been reduced in number, but have been enlarged so that special gardens have been created, all of which will leave houses alone with the forest and the sea. Due to the low slope, the second habitat opened to the upper level of the landscape was created and these areas were supported by water elements. Considering the location and landscape direction in the area, 8 villas with different plan solutions are provided. Houses both with their interior and outdoor spaces are designed to a response to demands of a high-end lifestyle.
Project Details: Client: Su Entertainment Location: Bodrum, Mugla Year: 2016 Typology: Residential Status: On hold Area: 8000 m2 Services: stages 0-3
Landscape project was considered as an integral part of the entire project and it aims to capture the green intensity that the land used to have, and this density is also used as a separating layer between the units. Left: Villa no:3
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Left: Project Site Overview Gradually descending levels of houses define a strong relationship with the topography .
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Villa No.2
Above Left: Villa No.2 Ground Floor
Cennetkoy Villas - 2016
Bottom Right: Villa No.2 First Floor
Opposite: Entry patio to the Villa No.2
Cennetkoy Villas - 2016
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Opposite: Villa No.2 Perspective View
Above: Villa No.2 Interior Design
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Cennetkoy Villas - 2016
Villa No.8
Top:
Top Left:
Villa No.8 Elevation
Villa No.8 Ground Floor
Bottom Left:
Bottom Left:
Villa No.8 Section
Villa No.8 First Floor
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Aztek Technology Company Headquarters
The street corner takes on the meaning of publicity created by metal shade and shadowy entrance area under the building without the garden walls.
Etiler neighbourhood is established by the initial of housing development project in 50’s which consists of 192 villas in total. This area which is made up of low-rise and garden houses on the (once) periphery of the city, dissociates itself from the rest of the city, so it has been registered as a qualified urban environment that needs to be reserved due to the built environment of villas each with different typologies and the regulated urban space that connects them. In the process, commercial activity spreading from around Bßyßkdere street is also incorporated in the neighbourhood and this led to a change in the residential area, resulting in incorporating new programs such as health, entertainment and commercial activities inside these villas. This project, which will host a technology company, aims to take part in such an urban touch and enrich it with new qualities. The building, which sits at the intersection of two streets and on one side with a sloping corner, has showroom places around a courtyard that opens to the ground floor, and administrative places on the first and second floors. The showroom, the courtyard and the study areas are considered to be interconnected vertically, alternatively both inside and outside. Thus, apart from neighboring parcels on its back, a structure that gained importance from 3 directions emerged. Above: Perspective from the Street
Project Details: Client: Aztek Tech. Company Location: Etiler, Istanbul Year: 2014 Typology: Office Status: Built Area: 800 M2 Services: stages 0-4
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Above: Back Elevation
Bottom:
Aztek Technology Company Headquarters - 2014
Section View
Above: Perspective from the Courtyard
Bottom: Facade Detail
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Bottom:
Aztek Technology Company Headquarters - 2014
Photo from the Courtyard
Above: Courtyard Entrance Door
Left: Front Facade Detail Maze Pattern can be read as an analogy to the Azteks.
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Kemer Design Suites
The project is located in Kemerburgaz, one of the oldest out-of-town settlements of Istanbul. Kemerburgaz, like most of the distant towns, has begun to transform single or double-storey rural vernacular constructions, which have begun to take its course from Istanbul’s intensive urbanization, into rapidly increasing highdensity housing projects. Considering the proximity of the area to the new airport and public design projects at the surrounding area, it was thought that it would host an increasing working population and it was decided that the project would be made up of small units.The structure is designed in such a way that it will respond in this way with its massive shape, both occupancy and space ratios. By use of the brick on the facade and the green cover that will settle on it over time, the building will be will be embraced by its place and residents.
Above: Perspective from the Street
Project Details: Client: HIM Construction Company Location: Eyup, Istanbul Year: 2016 Typology: Residential Status: Built Area: 3500 m2 Services: stages 0-4
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Above: Perspective from the inner courtyard
Opposite: Perspective from the intersecting roads
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kemer Design Suites - 2016
Type A Module
Above: Interior Design - Hallway
Type B Module
Type C Module
Type E Module
Type D Module
Type F Module
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Habitat Midrise Housing Projects
The Anatolian side of Istanbul has been subjected to an unprecedented urban renewal in Turkey in the last 5 years. The renewal, which started under the name of urban transformation, is actually limited to the destruction & construction of the individual buildings. These two projects brought to us by our customers were shaped within these dynamics and completed the legal application process. In the context of these projects DE.X has worked on how the interior design of the building will be more functional, how to solve the interior installations in the most economical and correct way, and how the building, which gives the building its character, can be more urban and environmentally compatible and makes the projects marketable.
Project Details: Client: Habitat Construction Company Location: Kadikoy, Istanbul Year: 2016 Typology: Retail, Residential Status: Built - Cancelled Area: 3000 m2 Services: stages 0-4
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Miamai Hotel Above: Project Aerial View
Miamai Boutique Hotel was built on the idea of maintaining the vitality and serenity of the region and integrating its guests in the most perfect way with this geography.
Bozburun is a settlement that has not embodied its awareness in the meaning of structured environment because of its distance to the center of the country and the distance to the airport, which maintains its virginity in every sense. Because the town’s main economic resource is seaside tourism, it is not possible to find anything other than a few small tourism runs along the bay. It is a privileged place far away from Marmaris’s bustle with its immaculate, blue sea and quiet nature. In such a context, Miamai Boutique Hotel was built on the idea of maintaining the vitality and serenity of the region and integrating its guests in the most perfect way with this geography. The plot of the project is one of the rare spots in the shoreline with the pine trees, despite the barren Bozburun flora. Employers’ approaches to create value from these natural beauties instead of creating a value in square meters enabled a construction to be made well below the permit that the plot can afford, so that spaces were created without cutting even a single tree. Situated on a steep hillside and positioned according to the trees, each room in the hotel needs to be designed differently and independently from each other. Thus, these fragmented and single storey structures have transformed themselves into shaded living spaces that hide themselves in the greenery when viewed from the sea front. The beach is the main living area of the hotel. This area is spread over three quarters, social activities such as relaxation, food, bar. Every cottage benefits from the view of the bay as much as possible. The rooms view open up over each other and between the trees to the bay. For this reason, the internal arrangements of the rooms and the bathrooms were made so as to integrate with the sea as much as possible. Except for the old building in the plot which is also renovated, these small buildings, all wooden, reminiscent of a modest local settlement beneath tree shadows, creating their own alleys.
Project Details: Client: Confidential Location: Marmaris, Muğla Year: 2015 Typology: Hotel Status: Built Area: 2000 m2 Services: stages 0-4
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Opposite: Interior Design
Above: View from Top
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Left:
Above:
Room Type 01
Interior Design
Right: Room Type 02
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Above: Massage Room Perspective
Right: Poolside Overview
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Savoy House
Project Details: Client: Private Location: istanbul, Turkey Year: 2018 Typology: Luxury residence Status: built Area: 130 m2 Services: interior design
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Above Bathrooms
Right Above: Bedroom
Right: Details
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4 Flats
4 Flats is a project that explores how to use short-rent apartments in a practical and spacious way in a 4 x 12-meter plot and tries to reconsider the “outward reflection” of furniture, one of the backbone of modernist discourse at the beginning of the 20th century. The living area on the façade is connected to the back bedroom and bathroom through a kitchen pass. This continuity supports a furniture (cabinet) that has been placed from the beginning to the end of the room and transformed into different functions according to the area in which it is located. It gets light from the small holes in the furniture, and mirrors the inner life at the same time. It is expected to have this type of interaction to last until the new owners of the buildings located in neighboring parcels begin to dwell in.
Project Details: Client: SLN AS Location: Beyoglu, Istanbul Year: 2010 Typology: Hotel Status: Built Area: 250 m2 Services: stage 0-4 Collaborators: NOBON
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Left: Interior - Kitchen
Opposite: Interior - Bathroom
Above: Small holes on the furniture and wall behind
Left: 4 Flats - 2010
4 Flats - 2010
Interior - Kitchen
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Jerusalem House
Project Details: Client: Private Location: Jerusalem, Israel Year: 2018 Typology: Luxury resience Status: Built Area: 80 m2 Services: Interior design
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Left: Bedroom
Right Above: Bathroom
Right: Terrace
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Ulus School Renovation
DEX was assigned to structure the renovation process which would eventually be realized in several years. Several parts of the school were redesigned in order to supply the demands of the new educational system. Firstly, entry hall of the school was converted to a multi functional exhibition space which is characterized by the use of hanging panels suspended by the lightning grid. At the end of the hall, a small heritage corner was created. A year after, upper floors were renovated in order to gain new spaces for classrooms and a conference room. In addition to this, a new building was added to the courtyard which accommodates new laboratory spaces of the school.
Above: Perspective from the School Entrance
Project Details: Client: Ulus School Location: Besiktas, Istanbul Year: 2015 Typology: Education Status: Built Area: 950 m2 Services: Interior design
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Opposite: Perspective from the Laboratories
Above: Corridor Perspective with Classroom Entrances
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Above: View through Exhibition from the Entrance
Right: Exhibition Perspective
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Left: View from the Conference Hall
Right: Furniture Detail from the Entrance Exhibition
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Opposite: Perspective from the Conference Hall Entrance
Above: Detail from the Confrence Hall Entrance
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Kemer Carsi
Carsi (the market), is a turkish word to define the main trade activity zone of a settlement. The project proposed in order to activate the commercial activiy in the development area of Kemerburgaz. Its aimed to combine open air shopping acitivites, medium sized public square and housings together. As a respect to surrounding building masses, the program divided in 3 blocks , which are arranged to shape a semi closed courtyard. Wooden elements are used to dialog with the forest zone nearby
Project Details: Client: HIM Construction Company Location: Eyup, Istanbul Year: 2016 Typology: Mixed use Status: Proposal Area: 5500 m2 Services: stages 0-2
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5 whıle facades of the commercıal spaces are facıng to zumrut street
Bottom:
whıch ıs a relatıvely denser street, facades of the housıng unıts are
Programmatic Schema
facıng to a more quıet cılek street. wıth a well desıgned landscape kemer carsı will be an appealıng space for the vısıtors.
lower square
upper square
brıdge cılek street
functıonal dıagram
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housıng housıng or offıces
commercıal zones gatherıng space
Above: gatherıng space
MARKET/sports area
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car parkıng car parkıng
commercıal zones
cafe / restaurant
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Programmatic Schema
Right: Front Facade Detail
zumrut street
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Bomonti Tower
The Tower Project is located at the point where Bomonti comes into contact with the old residential texture. In this context, due to the scale of the neighboring street and the publicity it has hosted, it has been pushed behind the high building site and an open space for public use has been created.
The district, which is named after the Bomonti Brewery, which was founded at the end of the 19th century, is now the focus of investors, as is the case with other old industrial areas under the transformation of Istanbul. These areas, which are considered as large residential projects, hotel or office complexes, contact the city in different ways. The Tower Project is located at the point where Bomonti comes into contact with the old residential texture. In this context, due to the scale of the neighboring street and the publicity it has hosted, it has been pushed behind the high building site and an open space for public use has been created. It was aimed to refine the building aesthetically as the mass orientation and the facade placed on the south-western axis so as to take in the scenery, and to divide the floor gardens that are illuminated by this movement horizontally.
Project Details: Client: Gureller Location: Bomonti, Istanbul Year: 2013 Typology: Office Status: Proposal Area: 17000 m2 Services: stages 0-2
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Opposite Left: Overview Day Perspective
Opposite Right: Overview Night Perspective
Above: Perspective from Entrance
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Mugla Exhibiton Centre
Structure itself, will be a protest againts the insensitive construction activity in Turkey and designed to embrace everyone who approaches the city. With the serenity phenomenon, the structure is everywhere, not on the mountain, on the top, on the inside, or in the center.
Design of the building is to be reinterpreted by considering the current needs of Mugla city and the exposition center which is desired to be built in MuÄ&#x;la, which is a quite contrary considering the plot (high slope and intense natural texture). Structure itself, will be a protest against the insensitive construction activity in Turkey and designed to embrace everyone who approaches the city. With the serenity phenomenon, the structure is everywhere, not on the mountain, on the top, on the inside, or in the center. The project is very sustainable, modest,
Project Details: Client: Mugla Municapilty Location: MuÄ&#x;la Year: 2012 Typology: Commercia Status: On hold Area: 30000 m2 Services: stages 0-4 Collaborator: Team Fores
distinctive, yet intimate, with natural, stylistic and unconventional placement of the city platform and associated urban park to be built with only 400 trees relocating. The approach that respects what exists is an unstressed and easy-tosolve architectural conception, realist orbit.
Left: Project Overview Perspective
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Above: Perspective View from the Hill
Above:
Above:
Perspective View from the Hill
System Section Detail
Above: Above: Interior - Main Hall
Longitudinal Section
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Alsancak Boutique Hotel
Alsancak in Izmir, is famous for its notably well organized urban pattern which is defined by the roads with palm trees, monochrome light brown same height buildings covered by characteristic sun-shading details. Starting from this context, the hotel building is composed by the elements of scale, color, voids and sun shades. Folding mesh panels provides intimacy as well as enviromental control in this southern city.
Project Details: Client: Ozen AS Location: Alsancak, Izmir Year: 2012 Typology: Hotel Status: Built Area: 2000 m2 Services: stages 0-4
Left: Perspective View from the Entrance.
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Cowork Station
A co-work space project that allows Project Details: short-term rentals. Other functions Client: Private (storage, telephone club, coffee Location: Ulus, Istanbul corner, etc.) have been resolved Year: 2013 Typology: Education around the edges while the main Status: Built area has formed around a large Area: 80m2 Services: interior design table for 8 people, which is also the main element of its function.
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Other Projects
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