Bank Headquarter Proposal
Kocaeli / Turkey, 2010

This is a proposal prepared for an invited competition for building a banking base in Gebze.

It has an intense program that will include a data center to be secured at the highest level as well as high physical security measures. Program has been intensified in the areas where the employees, the majority of whom is living in İstanbul, will meet their social activity needs with its accommodation structure where the ones coming for training and job applications can also accommodate.

A backbone internal street where the forest structure on the northern areas will be moved into the structure has been designed and the office areas have been attached to this backbone.

Energy efficient design in the design of the building has been taken into consideration. Double-walled facade in southern faces has been preferred. The office has been designed so that the light will reach all across the room, which is kept under control by varying solar shading elements according to the orientation.