DS Landscape

DS is a leading design office for architecture and landscape architecture, founded in 1994 in Istanbul. With an interdisciplinary approach to complex design issues, DS has extensive experience in master planning and design, landscape interventions, public and private landscapes and historic preservation. We Think- The key motivation in every project is to create a specific […]

The jury recognizes Spaarndammerhart as a biodiverse and socially attuned response to urban densification. Built on the grounds of a former primary school, the project inserts a new residential ensemble within an existing urban block, negotiating the pressures of compact city development without sacrificing spatial generosity or community potential. In its limited space it introduces a range of conditions, from a public courtyard, to collective gardens, to private terraces.

The outer gardens, while currently accessible only to the immediate residents, are constructed as spaces of latent openness. The need for shared decision-making—where any change requires mutual agreement—produces a political condition: the garden becomes at once resistant to arbitrary individual interventions and structurally open to collective reconfiguration. The outer path around the building appears as a comforting living environment and a generous playscape with lots of places to hide and be curious about who is around the corner.

Vertical is the first new building complex in the Sloterdijk district of Amsterdam. This urban area is being developed from a mono-functional office zone into a vibrant, mixed-use neighbourhood. The building complex consists of a plinth and two towers–an urban morphology given by the city, but designed for both humans and wildlife by DS. Wildlife […]

Bostanlı Skate Plaza is the first concrete skate park in Turkey, and as of date the largest. As a result, from the moment design process had started a tremendous public interest has risen. It was the perfect set up for involving the community. Bostanlı Skate Park was designed in collaboration with local skaters, BMX users, […]