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Köşk Mimarlık
An editorial landing site for a small architecture practice — image-led, monochrome, and quiet.
Inside the work
The opening spread.
Cover, captioned plan, and the hover-to-reveal project list that runs down the page.
Overview
Köşk is a concept for a two-partner architecture studio in Istanbul. The work is restrained and material-led — terrazzo, plaster, oak — and the site had to behave the same way: confident, slow, and unwilling to shout.
The brief
- Problem
- Small-practice sites look like galleries or templates, not like the work.
- Constraint
- Two partners, no time for upkeep, and the photography they already have.
- Answer
- One editorial scroll where each project is a chapter and the photography sets the pace.
Most small-practice architecture sites are either a Squarespace gallery or a portfolio dressed as a magazine. We wanted neither. The brief was: one long, walk-through page where each project is a chapter, and the photography sets the tempo.
Type is the second voice. A modern serif sits over a neutral sans — wide leading on body, tight tracking on captions, project numbers in mono. The atmosphere is achieved by what we leave out: no testimonials, no awards strip, no scrolling logo wall.
The result reads like a small monograph. A client who lands here knows in twelve seconds whether the practice is right for them — and the practice spends no time on people for whom it isn't.
About this concept
This is a concept build for a fictional client. It shows the process and the standard we bring to client engagements.
Approach
An editorial, not a portfolio.
One page, many chapters
Selected projects unfold as you scroll — opening image, plan caption, three frames, on to the next.
Serif + sans + mono
A modern serif for project titles, neutral sans for body, mono for plates. Three voices, one rhythm.
Photography sets pace
Full-bleed openers, restrained interiors, never a carousel. The image is the argument.
What it does
Quiet things, done carefully.
Figures refer to the concept brief.
Projects
6chapters
Each with an opener, a plan, three interior frames and a single paragraph of intent.
Pages
One scroll
Home, work and studio on a single editorial page. Contact lives in the footer.
Type
Serif, sans and mono
A pairing chosen against the photography, not from a template menu.
Images
A crop for every screen
Art-directed AVIF crops per breakpoint. Phones never load the desktop frame.
Stack
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind
- MDX
- Vercel
Try it yourself
A working build, not a picture.
Open the demo and use it the way a guest or a client would. Every tap and tab works.