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Once a lively hillside settlement of Anatolian Greeks, Kayak枚y鈥攍ocated near Fethiye, Turkey鈥攏ow lies in quiet ruin. Locals call it the 鈥淕host Village,鈥� where crumbling stone walls and overgrown paths whisper of migration, memory, and time. The village lost its Greek inhabitants through violence, displacement, earthquakes, and looting, yet nearly 500 stone houses still stand today, forming an evocative 鈥渙pen-air museum.鈥�

In my reinterpretation of this concept, the 鈥渙pen-air museum鈥� is not a fixed route or checklist of attractions. Instead, four landscapes鈥攔uins, gardens, fields, and the peak鈥攃ompose an experiential journey. Visitors begin among the Greek dwellings, wander through the domestic gardens, cross olive forest fields, and ascend to the hilltop tower where the community once gathered for celebrations. Without a prescribed path, they are free to drift, linger, and immerse themselves in the warmth of sunlight.

Sunlight, in fact, shapes the very logic of Kayak枚y鈥檚 layout. Houses were carefully stepped down the slope to preserve each other鈥檚 access to light. This sensitivity inspired me to treat sunlight鈥攁n omnipresent yet intangible element鈥攁s a primary design material. Through creative use of reflective glasses, light is caught, refracted, and scattered, creating subtle transformations as the sun moves and seasons shift.

At its heart, the project captures time in two forms. The ruins, woven with olive trees, speak to deep, historical time鈥攃enturies embedded in stone. The captured sunlight, ephemeral and shifting, brings time to a human scale鈥攁 minute, a shadow, a flicker.

Where time lingers, among the ruins, in the field, beneath the sun.