Soran University Dormitory Building
Soran / Iraq , 2015
Soran University Dormitory Building is located on the steepest slope of the campus. This vast landscape area, which can be called quite flat and the backyard, is recommended by protecting the privacy of the students in between outdoor and indoor area.
It is perceived as a three-storey building with a back façade. Wooden panels are combined with gray stones at the facades and used at minimum rates. The specific-indeterminate rhythm of the façade is defined by facade openings and exploding elements on the façades and allows the structure to be perceived longer.
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