Residential — Ankara

Garden
Apartment.

Ankara · 2025

A full renovation that reconnects a 1980s garden apartment to its light and its flow, turning it into a contemporary family home.

Sector: Residential
Location: Ankara
Scope: Design + Build
Year: 2025
Area: 185 m²
Team: NADD · 6-person site crew
Photography: NADD Archive

01Brief

The owners came to us with an apartment cut off from its garden and sliced apart by partition walls. The ask was clear: a warm but ordered family home that pulls daylight in and gathers three generations at one table. We chose to keep the shell and rebuild the interior from scratch.

02Concept

We removed the non-load-bearing walls and merged living, kitchen and dining into a single open volume. The garden façade was opened to the floor to bring the space outside in. Warmth comes from oak and natural stone; order from concealed storage and clean circulation.

A completely different life inside the same shell — not demolition, but opening the right wall.
— Garden Apartment

03Material Palette

Brushed oak flooring, a matte travertine worktop, lime-based wall plaster and forged brass details. The palette is deliberately quiet — let the texture of the material speak, not the colour. Linen and wool in the textiles; a warm 2700K in the light.

04Build & Site

The real challenge of a renovation lived in the old services and the warped slab. We replaced the electrics and plumbing entirely, levelled the floor with screed, and set a new lintel into the garden façade. Every trade was our own crew — single responsibility, single schedule.

05Outcome

Delivered in fourteen weeks, the apartment now carries morning light into the kitchen and evening light into the living room. In the owner's words, 'the same square metres, twice the home.'

Before / After