Soran University Faculty of Engineering and Laboratories
Soran / Iraq , 2015
Soran University Faculty of Engineering and Laboratories are located in parallel to the road of the university campus.
The mass play of the building allows the building to create its own façade configuration, as well as the terrace areas and small public spaces for students with retreats on the facades.
The ground floor of the building is designed as double-height and the students are invited to the building with a large entrance hall. The wood and sun-shading panels used in all campus buildings were also used in the same building, acting like as part of the building itself.
Soran University has appointed Austria-based Chalabi Architects & Partners to make a new campus master plan in a difficult topography and in an area with a dramatic horizon and landscape in almost all directions, by the slope of a very deep canyon. With a total closed construction area of 600.000m2 revealed as a result of the needs program made during the design process by the university, the buildings are projected by the cooperation between 4M Salalı Architects and rggA in accordance with the principles adopted at the stage of master plan. Currently, construction of campus roads and infrastructure works are started.
In this context, rgg Architects carries out the Architecture Preliminary, Final and Application Projects of the Faculty of Law, faculty of Engineering and Laboratories, Physical Science and Sci. Labs, East Library and 4 dormitory buildings.
Project facts
Masterplan: Chalabi Architects
Architectural design: R.Güneş Gökçek
Architectural office: rggA - 4M Salalı Architects
Project team: Binnur Aslan, Ph.D Masoumeh Khanzade, Burçin Öğreten, Osman Karaca, Derya Rana Musluk, Yasin Kurmuş, Haktan Aksu, Uğur Durmuş, Mustafa Taşdemir, Osman Kuran, Fatma Sarıbeyoğlu
Project date: 2015-2016
Construction area: 110.000 m2
Structural project: Konkan Müh.
Mechanical project: Bayhan Mühendislik
Electricity project: Pro-Dizayn Müh.
Educational consultant: Prof. Dr. Ruhi Kaykayoğlu