Ankara Office Tower, Mixed-Use Building Development, Incek Architecture Images
Ankara Office Tower in Turkey
Turkish Retail, Restaurant and Office Building – design by Anmahian Winton Architects
23 Nov 2017
Ankara Office Tower
Design: Anmahian Winton Architects
Location: Incek, Ankara, Turkey
Ankara Office Tower
photo © Anmahian Winton Architects
Urbanistically, the project plays an important role in a rapidly developing area west of Ankara’s old city center, knitting together a transit corridor, a pedestrian underpass, an emerging mixed-use neighborhood, and new commercial areas.
photos © Florian Holzherr
In response to this immediate context, the building is set back from the highway, making space for a bamboo grove that buffers a habitable urban garden and provides a much-needed pedestrian connection between the transportation node and the adjacent neighborhood. The tower itself is distinguished by clarity of expression: a simple, geometric glass volume encasing a stack of large scale, horizontal louvers, set in a lush landscape.
photos © Florian Holzherr
At the ground level, the lobby, reception, and a café provide public spaces which scale, enclosure, and use of light reference regional culture. A perforated exterior screen surrounds the café, reflecting traditions for guiding views and creating privacy, and providing a man-made counterpart to the adjacent, semitransparent bamboo “wall.”
photos © Florian Holzherr
The Tower’s innovative cladding system employs horizontal exterior mullions with a variable section, to maximize year-round operational efficiency. Their subtly inflected profiles successively shift as they wrap the Tower, creating a pattern that changes depending on the viewer’s perspective.
photo © Florian Holzherr
Interior wood louvers integral to the curtain wall—mechanically operated but with manual overrides—give tenants individual daylight control within their workspace. They mitigate glare, admit indirect light, and maintain views, while introducing wood’s warm, textural qualities to the office environment.
photos © Florian Holzherr
The outcome is a kinetic facade system that is environmentally responsive, satisfies the workplace preferences of a demanding tenant cohort, and enhances the project’s architectural impact and influence in a newly expanding area of the city.
photo © Florian Holzherr
Over the course of the day and as one moves around the building, this innovative wall assembly produces a transformative effect, drawing the observer in and evoking curiosity. The exterior sculptural mullions create different patterns, depending on the sun’s position and the pedestrian’s perspective. As wood louvers open or close according to interior needs, the Tower itself appears either permeable or reflective, revealing patterns of use and activity within.
photos © Florian Holzherr
Ankara Office Tower in Turkey – Building Information
Owner: Dolphin Overseas
Design Architect: Anmahian Winton Architects
Design Structural Engineer: Richmond So Engineering
Design MEP/FP: Buro Happold
Architect of Record: RGGA Architects
Civil, MEP/FP & Structural Engineers of Record
Yapi Proje Uygulama
MEP/FP & Tel/Data Associate Engineers
MPM
Troy
PMT
Landscape Architect: Stoss
Owner Project Manager: BHP International—Barnard Howell Partnership
Contractors: Tepe-Tesan Joint Venture
AECOM
Façade Contractor: Pimeks Group
photos © Florian Holzherr
About Anmahian Winton Architects
AW Architects is a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary practice committed to design and construction innovation. For more than twenty years, the firm has been producing acclaimed, innovative projects across a broad spectrum of building types, including complex commissions for private and public institutions, both nationally and overseas.
Recognized nationally and internationally, AW has been widely published in American and European media and has received numerous design awards, including the American Institute of Architects’ Honor Award for Architecture, the Society of College and University Planners’ Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture, the Chicago Athenaeum’s American Architecture Award, and the Boston Society of Architects’ Harleston Parker Medal.
photo © Florian Holzherr
Photographers: Florian Holzherr and Anmahian Winton Architects
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