JDS BUILDS IN ISTANBUL

Istanbul – We’re excited to reveal our first project in Istanbul!   After a selection process, developer Feryapi invited UN Studio (NL),  Massimiliano Fuksas (IT) and Julien De Smedt Architects to compete for a  new 100,000 m2 mix business campus in Kagithane, Istanbul.  JDS was  awarded the contract in January 2013. Construction will start in June  2013.

The Premier Campus Office in Kagithane is a business district that  focuses on the users working and living qualities and addresses its  presence in Istanbul as a new form of contextual and urban approach: The  building is formed by our desire to make it interact with its  environment. It opens itself up to the neighbourhood and offers spaces  to the users and the passers by such as plazas, intimate gardens and  generous terraces.

The volume of the block is literally carved out to invite the  surroundings in. The local hilly landscape, characteristic to Istanbul,  is continued in the meandering of the volume both in plan, adapting to  the site’s edges, and in section, weaving into itself in a series of  gentle curving slopes, echoing the nearby Bosphorus waves. The vibrant  commercial life of the ground floor burst out onto the plazas and the  landscape. Upstairs the offices open out onto the green terraces,  populated with lush vegetation, tempering the hot Springs and Summers.  The volume reads clearly while still opening itself generously to the  city from the far. As one gets closer the interiors become more  discreet, protected by louvers that help shade from the sun.

The project acts as a catalyst of business life for a new Istanbul,  that promotes contemporary culture, architecture and lifestyle. We’ve  thought of a building where inside interacts with outside, where the  plan is flexible to allow for anyone to find its desired space and  place, whether it be a small one man show company or a large corporate  office employing hundreds. We believe life is plural and various  entities should coexist and exchange their experiences. The Premier  Campus Office is where such a rich diversity can find its place.

Istanbul – We’re excited to reveal our first project in Istanbul!   After a selection process, developer Feryapi invited UN Studio (NL),  Massimiliano Fuksas (IT) and Julien De Smedt Architects to compete for a  new 100,000 m2 mix business campus in Kagithane, Istanbul.  JDS was  awarded the contract in January 2013. Construction will start in June  2013.

The Premier Campus Office in Kagithane is a business district that  focuses on the users working and living qualities and addresses its  presence in Istanbul as a new form of contextual and urban approach: The  building is formed by our desire to make it interact with its  environment. It opens itself up to the neighbourhood and offers spaces  to the users and the passers by such as plazas, intimate gardens and  generous terraces.

The volume of the block is literally carved out to invite the  surroundings in. The local hilly landscape, characteristic to Istanbul,  is continued in the meandering of the volume both in plan, adapting to  the site’s edges, and in section, weaving into itself in a series of  gentle curving slopes, echoing the nearby Bosphorus waves. The vibrant  commercial life of the ground floor burst out onto the plazas and the  landscape. Upstairs the offices open out onto the green terraces,  populated with lush vegetation, tempering the hot Springs and Summers.  The volume reads clearly while still opening itself generously to the  city from the far. As one gets closer the interiors become more  discreet, protected by louvers that help shade from the sun.

The project acts as a catalyst of business life for a new Istanbul,  that promotes contemporary culture, architecture and lifestyle. We’ve  thought of a building where inside interacts with outside, where the  plan is flexible to allow for anyone to find its desired space and  place, whether it be a small one man show company or a large corporate  office employing hundreds. We believe life is plural and various  entities should coexist and exchange their experiences. The Premier  Campus Office is where such a rich diversity can find its place.

See the project here.  See a video of the Brussels crew building up the model here and a television commercial for the project here.

Arch2O.com
Logo
Send this to a friend