In development · İncek

A ceramic art wall for a hotel lobby in İncek.

Designed for the wall behind the reception desk — the first surface a guest meets when they enter the hotel.

Status

In development · prototype

Location

İncek, Ankara

Scope

Reception wall, lobby

Modules

63 unique ceramic pieces

Method

Parametric grid transformation

Reference

Inspired by M. C. Escher

Render of the ceramic art wall in the İncek hotel lobby

The brief

A reception wall, designed as a defining moment.

The hotel owner placed great value on the entrance moment and wanted a wall that would immediately define the character of the lobby. The aim was something timeless and distinctive — far from a repetitive decorative surface.

Instead of identical modules, the brief asked for a ceramic installation with variation, movement and a clear identity.

Method

From a uniform grid to a wall in motion.

Inspired by M. C. Escher’s Metamorphosis, the wall is built around a gradual grid transformation. A parametric design method controls how the grid changes across the surface, and how each ceramic piece opens or closes.

The result is 63 unique modules — each belonging to the same design system, each carrying its own variation.

Top-down diagram of the 63 ceramic modules and their grid transformation

Grid evolution

63 modules. No two the same.

Two studies of the parametric system that defines the wall — the grid moving from one configuration to the next, module by module.

Final grid configuration of the ceramic wall

Pattern

The grid is the design.

Each piece is a single step inside a continuous transformation. From open to closed, every variation is specified — never repeated, never approximated.

In place

How the wall sits in the lobby.

Studio renders developed during the design phase, before prototype.

Front render of the ceramic art wall
Spatial render of the ceramic art wall in the lobby

Assembly

Designed for dry assembly.

The pieces were designed with dry assembly in mind, making installation faster, cleaner and easier on site. The result is a complex, site-specific artwork that remains practical for real architectural application.

Project status

  1. 01

    Concept

  2. 02

    Design

  3. 03

    Prototype

  4. 04

    Production

  5. 05

    Install

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