Amanruya
A hundred and twenty-three acres of olive and pine valley, built twice by one family of architects.
Amanruya holds a hundred and twenty-three acres on the Bodrum peninsula, in a hidden valley of olive and pine groves, with thirty-six freestanding stone guesthouses set along pebble-mosaic pathways laid by local artisans. The built compound comes to about ninety-seven thousand square feet, which on a hundred and twenty-three acres leaves very nearly all of the ground as grove. The cottages are Aegean vernacular in a rose-coloured slate quarried close by and known locally as strawberry stone, with open-air pavilion lounges in the Turkish manner and interiors of African mahogany and Turkish marble.
The ground had been built on before. Nearly three decades earlier the architect Turgut Cansever developed the same property as a vacation village; Amanruya was designed by his daughter Emine Oun with Mehmet Oun, of their own practice. That is an inheritance of land and of brief at once, and it is why the plan reads as a settlement rather than as a resort. This record notes that the beach arrangements, the opening year and the tenure of the hundred and twenty-three acres are not stated in the material consulted here, and carries none of the three.
A hundred and twenty-three acres, ninety-seven thousand square feet built. Almost the whole of this holding is still olive and pine, which means the territory being counted here is really the part that was deliberately left alone.
Built twice by one family. Turgut Cansever developed this ground as a village, and his daughter designed the hotel that followed on it. The brief was inherited along with the land.
Who it is not for
Amanruya is wrong for anyone who wants a shoreline inside the gate, because the estate lies in a valley and no beach tenure is stated in this record. It is wrong for travellers who want a single building to arrive at, as this is a scattered village of thirty-six stone houses. It is wrong for anyone who needs the season settled, since no opening dates are carried. For a hill estate whose beach is a separate parcel, Amanzoe keeps its club well below the hilltop.
Sources
- Architecture press - Amanruya is on the Bodrum peninsula on a hundred and twenty-three acre property, the resort compound spanning about 97,000 sq ft; thirty-six freestanding stone guesthouses connected by stone pathways; architects Emine Oun Mehmet Oun Architects Co., principals Emine and Mehmet Oun; the property was originally developed by Emine's late father, the architect Turgut Cansever, nearly three decades prior, as a vacation village; built within a hidden valley of olive and pine groves; Aegean stone-cottage vernacular in locally quarried rose-coloured slate known as strawberry stone; pebble-mosaic pathways by local artisans; open-air pavilion lounges with built-in seating; interiors in African mahogany and Turkish marble
- NOT STATED in the source consulted - the opening year, the beach arrangements and the seasonal dates. None is carried, although this house is widely reported to close in winter.
- Turgut Cansever, Emine Oun and Mehmet Oun are not held in the Library; no LHL-P code is linked and codes are requested.
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