The design proposes housing for athletes near a sports club in Ankara, Turkey. Named "pivot", the design revolves around a central multipurpose hall and separates into linear masses that create openings for vehicle, bike, and pedestrian access. The rotation around the pivot varies densities of housing, green spaces, and recreational facilities. It forms a permeable connection between the sports club and public areas while blocking urban and mountain views with dense greenery.

1. type sports housing
location Çayyolu, Ankara, Turkey
studio architectural design IV
instructors Erkin Aytaç, Pelin Yoncacı, Serdar Erişen
communallivingforathletes
Northwest of the sports club, Çayyolu Spor
Külübü, lies an almost triangular plot of land suitable
for housing of athletes and other sport-oriented
individuals, who’d wish to use the facilities of the
sports club, as well as be in proximity to recreational
and sport facilities, as well as green areas.
Named ‘pivot’, for the way the linear masses
emerge from and then revolve around the central
multipurpose hall, the mass separates at certain points
on the ground, creating openings for vehicular, bicycle
and pedestrian circulation to seep in.
The rotation of the design around the pivot
is not constant; this creates a gradual variation in
density of housing, as well as green areas, social spaces
and recreational/sport facilities.
pivot.living

2. The line of the design goes around the site, fragment-
ing more and more frequently, making increasing the
permeability towards the sports club to the southeast,
and blocking off the urban and mountainous areas to
the southwest and northwest, with its higher density
of green areas and impermeability.
The commercial and social zone are at the most
permeable point, acting as connectors to the public
sports club, a buffer zone to the outside world.
Each opening in the ground, leads to different areas
within the site, creating circulation for bicycles as well
as pedestrians.
site plan
the line of housing/
zoning
peaks and valleys ensure
that sun reaches courtyards
peaks contain penthouses
with better views
voids beneath the valleys form
pathways for people to enter the site
valleys form social
terraces
fragmen
ta
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on
deep green
park
social plaza/
flower garden
outdoor
sports
commercial
zone
public
green

3. isometric massing/activities
commercial zone
social park/flower
garden
deep green zone
public
fragmented
light vegetation
private
dense
heavy vegetation
deep green zone
multipurpose central hall
social park
commercial plaza
typical circulation
core/entrance
typical opening
outdoor sports court

4. southwest elevation
50 sq. meters
75 sq. meters
double storey
75 sq. meters
single storey
100 sq. meters
double storeyThe housing units are designed as modules of
5x10m, the smallest of which is 50 sq. m and
designed for 1-2 people; this unit is made
into an L shape either in the horizontal or
vertical plane to become 75 sq. m, or made
into two storeys for the 100 sq. m unit.

5. possible combination of
housing units
tetris

6. partial plans physical model
0.0m plan +0.3m plan