NEF Urla
- Location
- Urla, Izmir
- Country
- Turkey
- Project Type
- Residential Architecture
- Photography
- Architectural Visualization
- Status
- Completed
NEF Urla is a residential project that reinterprets the idea of neighborhood, belonging, and everyday encounters through a contemporary architectural lens. Inspired by Urla's traditional stone houses, whitewashed stucco walls, shaded alleys, and distinctly human scale, the project creates a living environment rooted in place, memory, and social texture.
Small in footprint but generous in spirit, each unit is extended by shared open-air spaces, shaded walkways, communal seating areas, and semi-private thresholds that invite interaction. Between homes, green islands, pedestrian-first street edges, and shaded paths create a balance of privacy and proximity.
With stone-textured walls, lime-based light plasters, wooden shutters, pergolas, native landscaping, and passive cooling strategies, NEF Urla approaches materiality as both a climatic and cultural response. The result is a contemporary model of urban stillness — where the home does not end at the wall, but continues into the spaces in between.
