SELCUKECZA HEADQUARTERS

  • Location ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Year 2014
  • Design Office TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS
  • Responsibility  CONCEPTUAL DESIGN, DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, VISUALISATION
  • Type OFFICE
  • Area 26451 m2
  • Status BUILT
  • Winner / WORLD ARCHITECTURE COMMUNITY 22nd CYCLE / Realised Category 2016
  • Winner / MIPIM 2015 / Best Office & Development Category
  • Winner / THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE Awards 2015
  • Winner / WAF 2014 / Office Completed Category
  • Winner / WAF 2013 / Office Future Category

The design strategy of the project is making feel like home the employer and employees when they are working in this office building. The individual blocks integrate to each other either through gardens, roof gardens, upper or lower patios, and paths and atriums. Daylight enters through roofs and all transparent sides, creating a diffused lighting mood in the spacious internal space until the basement floor. To provide the balance of light and shadow and to increase the efficiency of passive climate control, the masses are enveloped with a designed mesh system. Three floors for office use and two underground floors are reserved for car parking of the five-story structure. Above the car park, first basement floor is at the sunken garden level; besides offices, multi-purpose halls, staff dining hall, sports and lounge zone are located, with easy access to the green landscape.