The Administrative Support Unit located at the southwest end of Ted Ankara College Campus is an annex building. The program content of this structure includes: school bus wash area, storage for snowplow vehicles, warehouse, staff changing and resting rooms, administrative office and school bus companies’ office.
The building mass, which dwells on the slope of the land, extends towards the landscape as if it was rising from the geography itself, emphasizing the existing topographic authenticity. The façade setup with its plain but particular composition, brings a unique identity to this simple rectangular prism building mass. With the help of courtyards, the surface area has been increased and so natural light utilization is optimized.
The project, which won the architectural project competition for the Ted Ankara College Campus with a capacity of 6000 students in 1998, was implemented in 2005 and educational activities have begun. Conceptualized and designed by Semra Uygur and Özcan Uygur, this campus is a city simulation accomplished adopting the principle that education should create its own urban life even if it is in an area remote from the city. As a result of this design principle, TED Ankara College Campus operates as an actual city with the daily circulation routes designed considering the diversity of common indoor-outdoor areas, functional arrangement, meeting of various users, and the requirements emerged within the process.
Merkez Ankara Showroom is a 2.415 sqm building located in Turkey. The building is a sales office for Merkez Ankara, which is a mixed-use project of residences and offices. It contains mock-up apartment flats, administrative and sales offices, and small inner and outer gardens. The principal design idea is to integrate nature into architecture through the use of gardens. The inner courtyards and outer backyards are placed between the open spaces sequentially. The rectangular shaped gardens physically separate spaces that have different functions such as model area, lounge etc. The separation of spaces through transparent courtyards gives way to visual continuity and the increase in the perception of depth. Blurring the distinction between inside and outside, the gardens ensure natural light reach every corner of the building. Nature is integrated into the daily lives of office users that way. Inner courtyards help the users to observe daily and seasonal changes of nature. In that sense, the interior space becomes a dynamic entity in which you can interact with nature.
The project is a cafeteria and co-working space which is designed for Middle East Technical University within the large campus area in Ankara, Turkey. The purpose is to create a high-quality platform for the possibility of interaction, collective and collaborative working amongst the students and academicians. Given that the site location of the project is in close proximity to the research development areas of the university, the building is imagined to become an incubator and support the activities of researchers. By working for 24 hours, the co-working space offers a different ground for the campus rather than another institution. The primary design issues stem from the wish to integrate nature into architecture through passive and active systems and variety of architectural elements.
Cankaya Municipality Sports and Culture Complex, which continues its tender preparations in Karapınar District of Ankara, was designed by AURA Design Studio. The complex, which includes many functions for the social needs of the region such as indoor swimming pool, gymnasiums, library, family health center, plays an important public role between the valley and the dense residential area.
AURA Design Studio, which has many award-winning projects in different typologies in the fields of architecture, city planning, and landscape architecture, has designed Cankaya Municipality Sports and Culture Center. Cankaya Municipality Sports and Culture Center is located close to the Karapınar Valley which is recreation works in progress, dominating the valley and detectable from the Konya Road. The Project is still in the province of Karapınar District in Ankara, has an indoor pool, sports center, library, workshops, multi-purpose hall and family health center. It aims to assume the role of an important public complex between the valley and dense residential area, accommodating many public functions.
Via Green, which is located at Eskisehir Road, one of the busiest boulevards of Ankara, is aimed to be different with its spatial organization, site settlement and the design decisions on the mass.
Elit Manzara Residence is located on an area of 13751 m2 in Beytepe neighborhood, which is developing as a residential area in the capital Ankara.
The project consists of two separate prisms which are connected to each other at the ground level, move vertically and horizontally. This formation of the masses is a result of the dwelling typologies that are developed in the design process.
Tower block offers houses with wide scenery of Ankara while the horizontal block suggests close relation to the nature with more green spaces. In order to increase the relationship of the horizontal block with nature, the parking lot is located at the basement floors. Thus created large usable green areas at different elevations.
Artfully placed in 45,000m2 of manicured landscape, 'ONS İNCEK' is a luxury residential project consisting 3 colorful towers containing 992 residences. Signaling the entrance of the residential complex, the multi-leveled showroom displaying the mock-up apartments, is designed with its contours sitting parallel to the inclined topography. Located under the central atrium, the large model of the residential complex is at the focal point of the showroom. With varying modes of circulation, including ramps, stairs and elevators, the visitors are able to move with ease throughout the free space interior. The private offices are located on the top floor, while the residential complex models and sales associates are located at the ground level. At the basement level, the three fully furnished mock-ups of the apartments are displayed.
Situated at the perimeter of the expanse of Hacettepe University’s Beytepe Campus in Ankara, Museum and Center for Biodiversity building houses scientific research facilities and exhibition spaces devoted to scientific materials on the topic of biodiversity. Beytepe Campus is on the main development axis in Ankara, the westward highway to Eskişehir, which creates severe pressure of urbanization and land fragmentation. The campus sits on a system of interconnected valleys and ridges that also extend to neighboring campus lands, with several particular valleys which still have a distinct ecosystem. Several long to mid-term projects are under consideration, aimed at preserving this natural resource within the shifting center of a rapidly developing city of five million people. Museum and Center for Biodiversity is one of the most concrete attempts within this scope; it will be a contribution for landscape preservation as well as a social stimulus for the scientific community.
The space, within the office, residence and mall complex, is designed as the patent-trademark office of a internationally recognized law firm.
A refined but dynamic approach that users to feel sense of belonging and comfort, is one of the main decisions affect the concept. Whilst the firm’s corporate and ordered structure refers a systematic plan analysis, the flexibility in common areas formed a base for the working dynamics that supports one another in the office itself.
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