Office Space, Ackerstr. 3
for Setting HQ, Berlin
The concept was designed based on daylight in the transformation of the space which was previously used as a retail shop. Due to longitudinal and thin plan shape, daylighted area is chosen as a working space with twenty five seatings. The presetantation area, open kitchen, lunch area, meeting room and toilets are located at the back area, away from sunlight. The custom-made furniture, a wooden podium with two steps is proposed as a sitting place while the the presentation is happening. There is also storage area in the toilets hall. In the print area, printer is located near the shaft, the chilling corner is created as a transition space with hanging furnitures near the internet box. Phonebooth is located between podium and kitchen desk.
Office Space, Ackerstr. 3
for Setting HQ, Berlin
The concept was designed based on daylight in the transformation of the space which was previously used as a retail shop. Due to longitudinal and thin plan shape, daylighted area is chosen as a working space with twenty five seatings. The presetantation area, open kitchen, lunch area, meeting room and toilets are located at the back area, away from sunlight. The custom-made furniture, a wooden podium with two steps is proposed as a sitting place while the the presentation is happening. There is also storage area in the toilets hall. In the print area, printer is located near the shaft, the chilling corner is created as a transition space with hanging furnitures near the internet box. Phonebooth is located between podium and kitchen desk.
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Uzundere Cemevi Socio-cultural Center National Architectural Competition
Team: Çağlar Barış, Eda Özge Düzgün, Ece Doğan, Nur Gizem Ağırbaş, İbrahim Tolga Han
Turkey, 2018
As a team, while designing the Uzundere Cemevi Sociocultural Centre, which will be able to respond to the needs program without worrying about creating a typology; we tried to create a contemporary space that can work both as a place of worship and a social centre, and at the same time, where these two fictions are nourished from each other.
The basis of our approach to design; it is to create the structure by spreading the elevations on the land where there is a serious elevation difference of sixteen meters and to create a living structure by creating main and intermediate courtyards between these levels and combining these courtyards with an inner street.
At the top level, the trees within the boundary of the area have been preserved, and the main courtyard is located in the middle of the square house, soup kitchen, coffee shop and small chat house. The wooden area at an upper level of the main square was designed as a funeral square; It was designed as a place indirectly connected to the main square and at this level for ease of vehicle entry and exit on funeral days. The flow direction of the water pools in the main courtyard is a guide for incoming people. From the upper main courtyard, you can go down to the culture courtyard at the lower level. The exhibition foyer, which feeds the culture courtyard, leads to the cafeteria and this courtyard. There is an exhibition and conference hall on the level below it.
For the internal dynamism and inner street fluidity of the building, the building can be entered from four different elevations. In Alevism belief, which includes religious contents about shamanism, there is the sacredness of nature and tree; as a place of worship for a tree, a mountain or a hill in the past. It is known to be used. Inspired by this humility and belief in respect to nature, the afforestation of the place given as a park area in the area, the use of the spaces at the lower level as a tree grove is foreseen. The park area was enlarged by removing the road between the current park and the project area. By creating transition axes at different levels from the park to the building, it was aimed to reflect the accessible, transparent and tolerant welcoming of the Cemevi to the space design.
