Oyuk

An entry to the national architectural competition for the Social, Cultural and Administrative Services Building opened by Muğla Metropolitan Municipality in 2026, on a plot on Kurşunlu Street in Menteşe. The building completes the missing link in the city’s cultural route of bazaar, han and mosque courtyard with a public void carved from the street into the block. That void is a festival courtyard open at all hours; the stage, workshops, library and café gather around it. The volume is white and quiet, like the limewashed houses of Menteşe; the only moving element of the facade is a set of timber shutters that open and close with the sun. The floors rise from the sound of the street to the quiet of the offices: courtyard and flexible hall at ground level, workshops on the first floor, a library with an inner garden on the second, administration and a terrace facing the square on the third. The total built area is 4,130 m².

For the submitted panels see the competition entry, and for the 25-page printed account of the project the magazine.