01 / Residential
Villa Arca
Istanbul / 2026
Architecture & Spatial Design
Architecture shaped by purpose.
Form. Function. Presence. A studio for architecture, interiors and planning.
12
Years of practice
Studio
Spaces built with intent.
Metria is a contemporary architecture and spatial design studio working across architecture, interiors, planning and built environments. Proportion, material and structure lead every commission.
Expertise
Architecture services
01
Architecture
Buildings composed for site, climate and use. From first sketch to built form.
02
Interior Architecture
Rooms sequenced with material, light and proportion as the primary tools.
03
Master Planning
Urban and campus frameworks that set a lasting spatial order.
04
Spatial Design
Installations and interiors where movement and presence are designed together.
Selected Works
Projects
The Practice
The principals
Elif Karaman
Principal
Deniz Arslan
Architecture
Mira Soto
Interiors
Can Yücel
Planning
Process
How we work
With the site, the brief and a first conversation. We establish constraints before form — programme, orientation, material and budget — then work from a measured concept into drawings and construction.
Interior architecture, furniture strategy, lighting and the sequence of rooms. Spatial design is treated as architecture at the scale of the body, not as decoration after the building is finished.
A typical house runs twelve to twenty-four months from appointment to completion, depending on permissions, structure and the level of interior work. Cultural and planning work follows its own calendar.
Yes. The studio is based in Karaköy and works across Turkey and selected international sites where we can stay close to construction.
Journal
Notes from the studio
Contact
A project on your mind.
Write to the studio with a site, a brief or a first question. We reply with a measured next step.