JDS Architects have shared with us last visuals of KAG/Premier Campus Office In Kagithane,Istanbul.Please take a look at the project with last visuals and detailed information once more!

The Kagithane Gardens is a business district that focuses on the users working and living qualities and addresses its presence in Istanbul as a new form of contextual and urban approach: The building is formed by our desire to make it interact with its environment. It opens itself up to the neighbourhood and offers spaces to the users and the passers by such as plazas, intimate gardens and generous terraces. The volume of the block is literally carved out to invite the surroundings in. The local hilly landscape, characteristic to Istanbul, is continued in the meandering of the volume both in plan, adapting to the site’s edges, and in section, weaving into itself in a series of gentle curving slopes, echoing the nearby Bosphorus waves.

The vibrant commercial life of the groundfloor burst out onto the plazas and the landscape. Upstairs the offices open out onto the green terraces, populated with lush vegetation, tempering the hot Springs and Summers. The volume reads clearly while still opening itself generously to the city from the far. As one gets closer the interiors become more discreet, protected by louvers that help shade from the sun.

The project acts as a catalyst of business life for a new Istanbul, that promotes contemporary culture, architecture and lifestyle.''We’ve thought a building where inside interacts with outside, where the plan is  flexible to allow for anyone to find its desired space and place, whether it be a small one man show company or a large corporate office employing hundreds. We believe life is plural and various entities should coexist and exchange their experiences. The Kagithane Gardens is where such a rich diversity can find its place.''

Istanbul Rising

Construction is well underway at our Premier Campus Office in Istanbul. The 100000 m2 project is composed of a flexible office park, a series of retails and public functions as well as a large amount of public spaces.

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Project Facts

Size:1000m2

Location:Istanbul,Turkey

Creative Authorship:Julien De Smedt

Client:Feryapı

Team:DB Architects, Tavusbay-STATIK,Geodinamik, Dinamik Proje, Pozitif Proje

Project Leader:Kamile Malinauskaite

Type:Invited Competition

Status:On-going 2013

Project Team:Borna Pavicic, Camille Fatier, Emily Pescod, Kazuya Uchida, Laure Vandenbroucke, Melike Ceyisakar,Vincent Macris

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