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Architects: Lagranja Design
- Area: 8400 m²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Ali Bekman
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Manufacturers: Kale, AGK, Akdo, Dekotek, DemCam, EGE, Format A'$, Gunes Kabin, Lagranja, NedOffice, SFX Sertex, Scheucher, Sepa Aluminyum, SonaSpray, Vescom
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Lead Architect: Gabriele Schiavon
Text description provided by the architects. The challenge behind the new HQ for Petrol Ofisi, Turkey’s leading fuel distribution company, is creating a concept as natural as geology in a manmade structure. As a starting point, Lagranja Design has come up with stylish new corporate offices for the company in Istanbul. The Lagranja team had many factors to consider; namely timelessness, well being for the company’s employees, and optimal organisation of over 8,000 square metres of office space. Visually, the driving force behind the project is layering, a reference to the geological nature of the oil industry. Stonewalls, tectonic plates and stratification were the visual cues for the project, executed in natural and manmade materials with a ‘sexy’ sensibility and colour scheme that draws from the murky, mysterious palate of the earth sciences.
