Platinum Architecture · 2021
Ormankoy Community Centre Nature
by DAP Yapı
- Platinum A' Design Award 2021 in Architecture
- CLIENT: DAP Yapı
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- Verification code 3E010F4B8E · Verify this award
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About Ormankoy Community Centre Nature
Ormankoy Community Centre is a public building located in Istanbul, Turkiye. A wooden shell defines the character of the community centre, while wide glazed facades open the indoor spaces to the surrounding forest. A steel frame structure creates the distinctive form and rests on concrete beams spanning over 18 metres above the pool space. Two biological ponds on different levels cover 4000 square metres, and hard chemicals were avoided to protect wildlife and pets. The wooden cladding is expected to change colour and texture over time, like the seasons of the forest.
About the Platinum A' Design Award
Ormankoy Community Centre Nature is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Ormankoy Community Centre Nature exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Ormankoy Community Centre Nature is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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- Unique Properties
- Wooden shell forms the building's characteristics. Wide glazed façades expand the indoor spaces to nature.
Within the project area there are 2 ponds in different levels. Water quality of both ponds intended to be potable water. The use of hard chemicals has been avoided to ensure the safety of the guest's pets as well as the surrounding wildlife.
Wooden claddings which is expected to change its colour and texture in time - as seen in the seasonal changes of the forest- are used both in indoor and outdoor façades. - Tags
- Nature, park, biological, pond, architecture, design, wildlife, community, non-profit, istanbul
- Production Technology
- Steel frame structure is what gives the unique shape of the building. From ground to 3rd basement levels, steel structure sits on concrete beams which spans over 18 meters above pool space.
- Inspiration
- Design is an abstraction of surrounding natural environment.
It's aimed to establish an intersection between Ormankoy Community Centre and the surrounded natural park with addition of biological pond which is 4000 sqm in size.
Compared to the natural park level, project building is located on the peak of the land which gives the opportunity of both to see and comprehend the natural park better and also to be seen and comprehended at the same time. - Project Duration
- Design phase started in December 2019 and construction completed in 2020 June in Istanbul, Turkiye
- Operation Flow
- Public, Non-Profit