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VOYAGE KUNDU

“A Social Spine Between Forest and Sea”

Located along Antalya’s eastern coastline, Voyage Kundu is conceived as a four-season hospitality complex shaped by the region’s intense sun, long summers and humid Mediterranean climate. Rather than accommodating its dense program through height, the project extends horizontally across the long and narrow site, preserving meaningful open spaces and the existing pine landscape.

Location: Kundu, Antalya, Turkey

Program: Hospitality
Project Status: Completed

A U-shaped configuration organizes the 440-key program around a generous central courtyard, forming the spatial and social heart of the resort. Turning inward from the dense tourism strip surrounding it, the architecture creates a protected world of its own—calm, green and visually connected to the sea. Existing pine trees are preserved as part of this structure, allowing the natural landscape to become an active element of the masterplan rather than its backdrop.

Arrival begins through the existing stone pine trees and continues beneath a monumental canopy that defines the threshold of the hotel. Perforated vertical metal fins filter light and air, giving the structure a sense of permeability despite its scale. Towards the sea, the canopy transforms into shaded terraces, extending the lobby into a sequence of semi-open spaces.  The arrival is organized around a deliberate visual connection: the sea is revealed upon entering the building, while looking back from the shoreline, the forest remains visible through the architecture. The building becomes a threshold between the two landscapes rather than a barrier separating them.

From the lobby, a pedestrian-only social spine unfolds through the courtyard. Restaurants, the kids’ club and other shared programs are distributed along this route as pavilion-like volumes, creating a continuous sequence of open, semi-open and enclosed spaces. Variations in scale, façade permeability and shading respond to orientation while giving each volume its own character. Together, they create a spatial rhythm reminiscent of a contemporary marketplace—a place where circulation becomes part of the social experience of the resort.

The social spine culminates in water as the courtyard approaches the shoreline. Pool areas are organized into distinct atmospheres, from active family and recreational zones to a more secluded adult pool and flexible event spaces. Along the outer edges of the resort, 26 lagoon rooms introduce a more private relationship with water. Opening directly onto semi-private lagoons and gardens, these rooms offer an alternative to the social intensity of the central courtyard while landscape buffers provide privacy from the neighboring properties. Across the resort, planted terraces, green façade bands and preserved vegetation soften the architectural mass and extend the landscape vertically through the complex.

The architectural language is deliberately restrained, combining textured surfaces, rhythmic concrete masses and perforated metal elements with climate-responsive shading. Green roofs, natural ventilation, water surfaces and regionally adapted planting support passive cooling, shaping a resort rooted in its landscape and gradually unfolding from the pine forest towards the sea.

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