Architecture30 August 2026 · 4 min read
Where walls turn green: the vertical garden of Bodrum Beach
Turkey's largest vertical garden, and one of the three largest in the world, is in Turgutreis. So how does a façade become a garden?
Approaching Swissôtel Resort Bodrum Beach, the first thing you notice is the green mantle covering the buildings' façades. It is Turkey's largest vertical garden project, and one of the three largest in the world.
Why a vertical garden?
Vertical gardens shield the façade from the sun, help balance indoor temperatures, clean the air and create new habitats for birds and insects. Above all, they make concrete part of the landscape.
With this approach, Bodrum Beach is known as Turgutreis's greenest project. With its seafront setting and sunset-facing façade, the architecture sits within nature, never in front of it.
A building can be a garden too.
At Çağdaş İnşaat, we carry this thinking into our other projects as well: preserving mandarin trees in Bitez, reinterpreting local stone at Paradise Bay.
