Article source: MANÇO ARCHITECTS Inc. 

When viewed from the sky it is noticed that the green tissue cuts through building islands and reaches the shore in the east of the center of Tekirdag, a city in Thrace region of Turkey surrounded by agricultural land on the north and Marmara Sea on the south. The competition plot is located right next to this intersection where the urban meets the rural. There the sloping topography is sliced with retaining walls reaching 14m height on the northern corner of the plot, in order to create a bus station on the same level with the avenue. The thought that emerged in response to those walls bordering the green and built areas has been the starting point of the architectural design: “Eliminating the walls of the dam so that the buildings from one side and the greenery from the other mix and flow toward the street level; recreating the destroyed part of the topography with the emerging hybrid tectonic pile.”

The functions of the building program were solved as floors with differing sizes stacked on top of the other according to parameters such as, the level of connection with the street, interrelations among the municipality units and load bearing structure concerns. The building mass was shaped as cascades parallel to the retaining walls, in order to refer to the slope of the topography.

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• Architects: MANÇO ARCHITECTS Inc.
• Project: Municipality of Suleymanpasa
• Location: Tekirdağ, Turkey
• Software used: Autocad, SketchUp, V-Ray, Photoshop
• Design: Ali Manço, Zuhtu Usta
• Design Team: Ali Manço, Zuhtu Usta, Baris Demirsoy
• Area: 23.134,3m²

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