Yapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET

Yapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET

Yapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - Facade, WindowsYapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - FacadeYapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - Stairs, Windows, HandrailYapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - Brick, Facade, ConcreteYapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - More Images+ 21

  • Architects: TEGET
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  9500
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2008
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Cemal Emden
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Reynaers Aluminium
  • Project Management: Alev Akin
  • Client: Yapı Kredi Bank, Paolo Mistrorigo
  • Graphics And Object Designs: Meric Kara
  • Architect: Teget Architectural Office
  • Principals: Mehmet Kutukcuoglu, Ertug Ucar
  • Design Team: Alev Dagli, Mert Ucer, Tuberk Altuntas, Hande Koksal
  • Graphics: Meric Kara
  • Object Designs: Meric Kara
  • City: Istanbul
  • Country: Turkey
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Text description provided by the architects. The Academy Building by TEGET Architects is an addition to the already existing banking center designed by British Architect, John McAslan. As an addition, the new building is not simply in continuity with the conglomerate of the existing 10 cubes; but rather an abstract statement of its own using the main complex as a backdrop. It introduces a focal point to an otherwise non-hierarchical organization via a pair of scaleless copper beams extending out to the landscape.

Yapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - Facade, Windows
© Cemal Emden

The program is the academy, the gate for the bank, where new comers will be educated as well as the ‘in-service’ employees. A composition of classrooms, social areas and meeting rooms. It is handled in a straight forward manner as the pair of copper bars are allocated for education whereas the central void for socializing.

Yapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - Facade
© Cemal Emden

It is just another street attached to the street network of the complex; this time an oblique one.

The two program beams, stemming from the complex, stretches out on the plane of a missing cube, cannot be stopped and cantelevers as topography drops. They are covered by stretched copper panels as the outer layer of the facade, stripping it off from any hint of scale. Due to the stretching process, each panel has a doublefold direction from left to right. Making use of it, the panels are checkered with rotations to create the pixelation effect. The double facade controls excessive light in the classrooms. Overall, it is opaque from outside during the day, ambiguous in twilight, transparent in the evening.

Yapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - Shelving, Windows, Facade, Handrail
© Cemal Emden

The central space is treated as an autonomous strip clearly distinguished from outside. Here, the copper peels off, and is replaced by translucent movable fabrics in institutional colors. The interior facade begins earlier and stops before the copper bars. The roof and the facade is sealed with transparent air cushions, ETFE. The void is further accentuated, pushing the feeling of vertigo, by a series of suspended social spaces and their alternative circulation made of steel and glass, filtering light to the street level. The ground, out of concrete, facilitates another level of social life, with volcanoes providing light to the conference room below, water, giant stairs leading to the canteen which turns out to be an informal odeon, and a wood deck as a lounge.

Yapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET - Chair
© Cemal Emden

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Address:Istanbul, Turkey

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Cite: "Yapi Kredi Bank Academy / TEGET" 08 Dec 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/43011/yapi-kredi-bank-academy-teget> ISSN 0719-8884

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Yapi Kredi Bank 学院 / TEGET

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