TF-KB Headquarters
Works / Architecture
Project Details
Description
While the executive management floor is reconsidered, the main objective is to strengthen the connection between atrium of the meticulously designed building receiving the sun at maximum to the inner courtyards and the entrance part of the floor. While the connection between the triangular formed inner atrium which has openings to the outside air, and the entrance of the floor is strengthened, the reception counter and the waiting area designed in connection with it. It is also aimed to open this area to the inner atrium, having spacious and maximum penetrated natural light into the building. Existing triangular circulation lines are followed and aimed to strengthen, while the atrium is to be perceived from the first moment of entering the executive floor. The other purpose is to reveal the valuable and antique pieces in the bank archive and to relocate them as a landmark of interior.
Starting from the first floor, tower block contains meeting and office spaces of various operational units that planned as open offices. The vertical core of the building is surrounded by hidden cabinets at the open office floor levels to provide space required for future archival load and to prevent intensive usage of storage units between the work stations. Rhombus shaped wall lighting elements are integrated into hidden cabinet systems around the core to enhance consistency in the perception of the brand identity amongst relatively big and seperated spaces through the building. Wooden surface of the cabinets and wall coverings around the core add warmer touch and feeling to the gray color tone used in woven vinyl covering on the office floors and metal mesh suspended ceiling systems. Linear recessed floor parts with pebble stone and hidden lighting lines at the ceiling makes a clear distinction between horizontal and vertical surfaces as of the space.
To plan social interaction spaces at the office floor levels, atriums are formed by keeping floor slabs one axis shorter at every second floor through the facade that faces towards TEM highway. Identical meeting rooms are planned at the middle part of these galleries and two symmetrical interaction spaces were obtained at both sides of the meeting rooms. Singular trees with red leaves are placed into social interaction areas of the galleries to mimic the autumn of Istanbul and the trees are emphasized with dramatic lighting to be observed from perimeter of the building at night time with the goal of featuring the building as a landmark.
There are two bright inner courtyard gardens at the base part of the building covered with glass/steel skylights. One of these inner gardens is left inside the cafeteria as a dining hall to provide natural light to the space. On the other hand, the other garden is designed to act as a foyer of the seminar rooms and entrance lobby while pulmonically carrying the outdoor ambience to flow inside the building. At the same time these inner gardens provide natural light to the 500 seat big conference hall and also to the open offices at the first basement floor.
Vertical glass tubes are designed for natural light that originates from skylights located at the roof garden of the first basement floor to penetrate up to the educational classrooms at the second basement floor. The educational zone is metaphorically considered as the heart of the building and planned as an academy with library, cinema hall, seminar rooms, two conference halls with permanent 200 seats and organizable 500 seats, thematic rooms, a virtual branch office and 15 educational classrooms in various sizes. Also three fitness halls, two large prayer rooms and various rentable areas are planned inside the complex.
