CHROMA-BITAT

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CHROMA-BITAT
living cores n living shells that breathes, moves, reacts n hosts every kind.


 in sisli ISTANBUL, inside the heavy urban fabric, desperate to breathe houses, in need of balconies which seems to be forgotton in the area... needing a little reminder of the possibilities and stories happening between the inside and the outside
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