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Ankara Control Center
Ankara / Turkey, 2018
Ofis Gradyan is located on Dumlupınar Boulevard, which is defined as Eskişehir Road in Ankara. Dumlupınar Boulevard, which connects the city center from Kızılay to Eskisehir, has been transformed into a commercial axis dominated by commercial blocks that have rapidly intensified in recent years. While on the south side of the boulevard, other Ministry buildings continue their relative dominance, on the north side, the increasing number of shopping centers competing with each other and the potential urban dynamism they create have brought about different needs or proposals. The gradual transformation of this main boulevard into a commercial axis and the increase in density on the north side can be read in two ways in terms of rapid development urban policies: firstly, the fact that the buildings lined up here are the easiest to reveal themselves due to their location and perceptibility, and secondly, the fact that even if they are interpreted with a modest architectural style, they will form a coherent or incoherent "context" among themselves and feed each other.
Contrary to the above, Ofis Gradyan is a structure that does not need to present itself in a dominant way and is proposed to meet certain requirements with its own reasonable scale. Proposed as an office structure beyond the standards, Ofis Gradyan focuses on the sustainable nature of the space with its own passive air conditioning methods, taking into account the efficiency of working conditions in today's office spaces. The office building, which reaches 11 floors in total, breaks the floor height connection with the surrounding buildings with an independent reference, and the overall mass effect is eliminated as much as possible with a secondary transparent wall. The mass establishes a direct relationship with the main boulevard on the ground floor and the grading effect created in the façade shell by the retraction of the main block with the large resting terrace proposed on the 1st floor is also applied in the general mass.
Thus, the building is removed from the main boulevard as much as possible, creating an effect that becomes transparent and perhaps disappears as it rises without any effort to show itself. This transparent shell, which acts independently of the plan scheme, is read by horizontal registers that can be perceived only in the details and can move on its own. The height-ending effect of this building is avoided through three basic design principles: firstly, the exterior wall is enriched with horizontal registers that act independently of the floor divisions inside, secondly, the gradation effect created by the distribution of transparent and colorless glasses with different transmittance values, and thirdly, the perception of the end of the building is eliminated by hiding the facade elevator and other technical areas within the duplex floor.
The façade system, which moves in the air with the effect of a tulle, is also designed as a double walled system with South, West and East facing balcony areas. While the ground floor is fully functionalized as an exhibition hall, all other floors are designed as office units with flexible plans up to the 10th floor, and the 10th and 11th floors are designed as duplex office units. The parking lot and service areas serving the office are distributed over 4 basement floors. The office units on the east façade create their own internal balconies with a diagonally cut plan that can be read through the secondary wall, and give a facade towards the main boulevard. In addition to its distinctive visual appearance, this specially designed outer shell also creates its own passive air conditioning in the interior spaces and maximizes the use of natural daylight. The plan scheme proposed for the interiors is designed as flexible spaces that can be organized according to different needs.The only movement representing the existence of the mass is the glass canopy that wraps around the building like a "skirt" and can move on the ground floor on the side road facades towards the South and Eskişehir Road. This movable wall, which shows the modest language it creates throughout the general mass, preserves the integrity and architectural language of the building, but differentiates with the new movement system it proposes on the facade. Unlike the strategies followed by other buildings on the same boulevard and similar inviting attitudes, Ofis Gradyan does not take its entrance from the main boulevard where it gives its main facade, and the building entrance, which is not perceived at first sight as much as possible, is solved on the facade facing the green area on the south side. Office Gradian aims to be a new interface at the city level on the most important axis of Ankara with its conceptual and functional sustainability of the working spaces, its variability for future uses and its problematization of its own air conditioning methods through the relative concept of "display".
Project facts:
Project name: Office Gradient
Architect: rgg Architects
Client: Undisclosed
Design team: R.Güneş Gökçek, Ahmet Çağlar, Ozan Burak Güzey
Location: Eskişehir Road (Dumlupınar Boulevard), Ankara, Turkey
Program: Offices, showroom, parking garage, technical areas
Floor level: 11 (4 basement floor, ground floor, 11-storey offices)
Plot area: 5,000m2
Total construction area: 24,735,25 m2
Height: 48,5m
Project design year: 2017
