Hakan approaches the project brief critically in the belief that mass housing projects suffer from “lack of socialization, sensibility towards the context and the right human scale.” The project searches for a synthesis of values of social patterns of squatter housing and the rationality of tall housing blocks. The south facing linear housing block is segmented to appear less imposing and to comply with the topography. Project aims to create social spaces, provide privacy, enrich the existing landscape and sustain positive relationships with the surrounding building context. Eight alternative plan types are offered. Entrance floors are reserved for social and shopping facilities. Offices are situated in the point block at the lower corner of the site.

The guiding concept of the project is the strips based on specialized functions. Making use of the natural slope of the site, the upper two slabs contain larger and smaller residential units. These blocks are placed far from each other, in order to maximize the sunlight and the view. Sports facilities are inserted under these blocks. U shaped lowest strip contains commercial activities. Offices are on the upper floor of this mass encircling a wide courtyard. Utilizing a pure architectural language, project brings a simple and holistic solution to the complex and difficult program and site.

Housing units are designed within a multi-storey block close to the adjacent existing high office blocks to leave the rest for the peripheral low rise shopping and office blocks. This housing block steps down over the topography and this stepped configuration is repeated in the silhouette thus providing private outdoor terraces for the housing units. The block that houses the apart suites faces the interior court defined by the peripheral blocks, and through its recreational and sports uses at the ground level partakes and contributes to the social outdoors life.