Sütre is an award-winning design entitled as runner-up in the student design competition established by a door company (Artella), under the theme of sustainability (2019).

Let’s firstly listen to this memory of my childhood,

In my grandmother’s house, there is a room

In where she stocks what she buys from the bazaar...

But this room does not have a door...

And she can not afford to buy a new door.

Then I see my uncle,

He hammers three nails to the wall; then hangs a white curtain.

Such a door that it has neither a handle nor a case,

Was both simple and modest.

Here is a design idea that solves the problem.

An idea that is actually a tradition;

And many more like my grandmother,

Hangs a curtain to rooms without doors.

This must have been a “sustainability” back then;

Making shift with what you have.

You listen to the story of this design,

Let this door be dedicated to my precious grandmother..

A curtain that turns into a door for a room without a door.

Gives an inspiration and becomes; “Sütre”.

— Sütre was inspired by a tradition from a childhood’s memory; an effective, simple, sustainable solution of Anatolian people using hung curtains for doorways at their home. It is designed to preserve this tradition alive today.

Hung curtain on the doorway has a cognizance that shows the door-wall relationship holistically and it reflects simplicity and modesty. When entering a room with a curtain, people instinctively reach out to push it aside, and Sütre mimics this interaction by shaping the door with a curved form that resembles the outline of a curtain.

‘The door’, by opening and closing;

both separated the spaces from each other

and connected them to each other:

With this design; it built a bridge to the past,



Connected to tradition and reached to its future..