Finansbank-Meteksan Office Building is positioned in a triangular shaped property plot to the northern corner of Bilkent Technopark. Two separate wing shaped office groups envisaged to act as separate units were designed parallel to the perpendicular sides of the triangular plot. The L shaped building mass defines a backyard. The office wings have been positioned in levels conforming to the inclination of the terrain. It was aimed in the project to evaluate the special scenery brought about by the positioning of the property, as visual unifying factors between the exterior facades and those of the courtyard, for all the employees to enjoy.
Both wings of the office building have been defined by travertine coated shear walls; the building mass has acquired movement with the placing of fire escape stairs between these shear walls at extremities. The balconies forming the facades of the office space above the ground level, form frame projections of exposed concrete from the travertine coated shear walls; the facades of the offices behind the balconies are completely covered in glass. These offices open on to scenery spanning the Bilkent woods and reaching to the Ankara and Beytepe Campus of Hacettepe University. Metal sun-breakers have been placed in the western direction within the balcony frames.
Common entrance has been placed at the highest level of the property in the Northwestern facade, cutting the L shaped mass in two parts: one short and the other long. The entrance was emphasized by a continuous curtain wall glass facade. The entrance hall is high due to the mezzanine void and its continuation perceives the courtyard from an upper level. Connection to the other floors is provided here with two separate stairs and the lift well.
The office floors were designed in a way enabling the arrangement of the spaces according to requirement, in three different forms: completely open space offices; rooms on one side and open offices in the remaining space; and a series of rooms lined up on both sides of the corridor. Spaces below ground level have been placed as system rooms of required heights and in line with the light criteria. There are five working floors, including the first basement, in each of the two wings. Below this level, car parks with separate entrances covering also the backyard to a certain extent are placed in the two basement floors. In the direction of the main road, behind a frame consisting of columns, we find the social spaces of office unit facing that direction; these spaces have the possibility of using the terrace formed over the other wing.
The annex wing completed ten years after the main structure, strenghtens the courtyard definition with its robust cubic form and adds articulation to the building envelope.
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