Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Nail Çakirhan Residence
Location: Akyaka, Turkey (Asia)Architect: Nail Çakirhan
Client: Nail & Halet Çakirhan
Completed: 1971
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Nail Çakirhan Residence Project BriefNever trained as an architect, Nail Çakirhan's first career was that of a journalist and poet. He had reached his forties before he first became interested in construction while accompanying his archaeologist wife Halet on her field missions. After spending over a decade as a supervisor of construction projects, he restored his mother's old vernacular house with the aid of two traditionally skilled local carpenters. Having thereby learned the necessary arts and crafts, he set out to build an indigenous house of his own. The ideas and forms of the house were merely sketched and then plotted on the ground as traditional master builders used to work.
A raised covered loggia runs the length of the timber house© AKTC
Interior, central hall© AKTC
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Interior
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Exterior view© AKTC
B&W drawing, plan© AKTC
View along covered porch© AKTC
Exterior© AKTC
View to loggia and main entrance© AKTC
Exterior view; main elevation© AKTC
Exterior view; rear elevation with projecting hall© AKTC
Interior view of room with fireplace© AKTC
Interior view of room during construction, with wooden ceiling© AKTC
Exterior view showing side bay and rear elevation© AKTC
Exterior view showing stone walkway next to residence© AKTC
View along covered porch© AKTC
Interior view looking into central hall from side room© AKTC
Interior detail of central hall; wooden shelves and windows© AKTC
View along covered porch© AKTC
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