Monochrome Luxury Villa by Emel Balcı

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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

EB : İ always get inspired of my customers İ need to know every single details about people who will live in that project

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

EB : My first aim was to be uniqe in design , i wanted to surprise people with the design and see the smile of happiness to have this house

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

EB : İ want more awards , i want to design lots of projects all over the world

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

EB : İt took 1 month to design this project

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

EB : My customer told me that they hate fabric curtains and need something different except fabric And i then decided the wood sliding curtain system

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

EB : No its going to be custom made for my customer but i sometimes see other projecets getting inspired of them

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

EB : My customers I always say and explain that people who will use what i design, are my most inspiration

DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?

EB : Sometimes i can get influenced of other projects or designs

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

EB : Who loves to live in a uniqe, simple, chiq design house

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

EB : As i told before the wood sliding curtaian system is the most different part of this design

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

EB : İ used the smilar tones and materials fir the design thats why i called it monochrome

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

EB : there are lots of tools we use ,everything we need to design

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

EB : ın my opinion covering the walls and sliding wooden curtains

DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?

EB : yes ı got help from technical people for rendering and design

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

EB : ıt is a smart house so you can control everything form a commander and mobile phones

DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?

EB : ıt doesnt infleunced by a spesific research , it came from hearth

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

EB : there wasnt any challenges in the project because the architectural plans were so reasonable and were enough for our designs

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

EB : you saw my project in a magazine and after that your advice i decided to submit my design

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

EB : every project of mine teaches me new things and aspects every project owner is different characters and teaches us alot

DI: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?

EB : i want to thank all the jury members and appreciate