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Mardin Cevzat Ecological Hotel Ecological Hotel by Isil Gencoglu Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
Isil Gencoglu acknowledged for cultural heritage and culture industry design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Mardin Cevzat Ecological Hotel Ecological Hotel by Isil Gencoglu, designed for Khg Architecture, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Mardin Cevzat Ecological Hotel Ecological Hotel
Mardin Cevzat Ecological Hotel is a restoration project for two historic stone pavilions, Cevzat Kasri and Su Kasri. Both buildings were constructed as residences at the end of the 18th century and are reached by passing through vineyards. The existing stone texture was cleaned and preserved, and missing stones were completed with local calcite stone and chipped stone. Present-day additions, such as a staircase, use steel and glass so that new work can be distinguished from the original material. The restored buildings provide eleven guest rooms, a reception, a cafe and a restaurant.
About Isil Gencoglu
She has been working as an architect in Turkey for about 30 years. She designs and constructs hotels, schools, hospitals, residential buildings. Also, she has been trying to prevent the destruction of historical buildings by dealing with restoration for many years. She completed her doctoral thesis on the preservation of historical buildings and their re-functioning.She teaches students in design courses at universities. architecture is a passion, and being part of design is the most exciting thing ever.
Award Record
This recognition makes Isil Gencoglu a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award
The A' Cultural Heritage Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good designs that preserve, protect, and promote cultural heritage. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to cultural heritage designers, culture industry professionals, cultural heritage specialists and museum designers from all countries. Entries typically include cultural heritage projects, cultural conversation, preservation and restoration and protection projects. Awarded cultural heritage designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/cultural-heritage
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/120940
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120940
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120940
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/268587
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/3uFjldc
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mardin Cevzat Ecological Hotel Ecological Hotel
- Function
- Ecological Hotel
- Category
- Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Gray, Burly Wood and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Khg Architecture
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Isil Gencoglu
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #120940
Credits
- Team
- İsil Gencoglu (Architect; PhD.), Suleyman Tasar (Architectural Restorator), Team Members:, Basak Gencoglu (Architect, MSc), Gokhan Manastirli (Architectural Restorator), Hasibe Cepni (Architect), Gokhan Cokcetin (Civil Engineer), Arzu Uyar (Architectural Office Assistant) and İsmail Turk (Language Advisor)
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The design project is a restoration project of "2 stone buildings" (Cevzat Kasri (Pavilion) and Su Kasri (Pavilion) located on 174 decares of land. These stone buildings, which were built as residences when first built, will be restored and used as an ecological hotel. The buildings reached by passing through the vineyards were built at the end of the 18th century and preserved their originality. The design was created as an ecological hotel that the region needs.
- Inspiration
- The stone texture and historical background of the buildings and the natural and unspoiled topography of them were the elements that excited and inspired us in the design process. Although the buildings were in ruins, they have reached today by defying the years. With their new function, they have taken the road to reach future generations.
- Research
- The Cevzat Kasri consists of the ground floor, the first floor and the semi-ruined third floor, placed in an east-west extension form. There is an iwan on the ground floor and a room in the west. To the north of the building, there is a carving stone formed by bedrock and called "maasara" where grape is crushed and turned into grape molasses. The rectangular planned iwan space extending in the north-south direction is covered with a barrel vault. On the 1st floor, there are two rooms with niches on the walls. The niche in the iwan has a traditional decoration called "mukarnas" in which the stone is shaped with carvings.
- Challenge
- When the project design was started, an important historical archive research was made because an intervention that would damage this important historical structure would be to damage its precious history. This was the main challenge when the project was in progress.This is why every detail that was founded of the building was so important to finish the conceptual design period.
- Realization and Technology
- The existing stone textures were cleaned and preserved, and the project was created in such a way that the missing stones were completed with local materials, calcite stone and chipped stone. In today's additions, the project was prepared using steel and glass construction to distinguish it from the original material. For example, the staircase element in the Cevzat Kasri is located as a period attachment and the material is glass and steel construction.
- Operation and Interaction
- The stone texture and historical background of the buildings and the natural and unspoiled topography of them were the elements that excited and inspired the team in the design process. Although the buildings were in ruins, they have reached today by defying the years. With their new function, they have taken the road to reach future generations.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design project started in 2018 in Bursa and finished in the same city in the year of 2020. It is planned to be implemented in 2021, in the city of Mardin.
- Specifications
- The design was created as an ecological hotel that the region needs. Cevzat Ecological Hotel has 7 rooms, a reception, a cafe and a restaurant. The Water Pavilion has an iwan, 4 hotel rooms, and a kitchen. In addition, landscaping has been made. The restoration project was prepared by cleaning the stone texture of the building in the form of repairing the existing pools, completing the deficiencies and strengthening them statically.The old photographs of the building, the information obtained from the art historians, were documented by taking into account the verbal statements made by the owners of the buildings, measurements were made with laser total station, photographs were taken and...
- Keywords
- Restoration, rehabilitation, cultural heritage, ecological hotel, natural life, sustainability, adaptive reuse
