Yazgan Design Architecture

Modsim

Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç

MODSIM

Yazgan Design Architecture

STRUCTURAL
Aydin Pelin - Can Binzet Consultancy Engineering Inc

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Kerem Yazgan, Burak Turgutoğlu

LANDSCAPE
Yazgan Design Architecture

PHOTOGRAPHS
Yunus Özkazanç

CONTRACTOR
Mervecan Construction

AREA
4100.0 sqm

ELECTRICAL
Nuve Lighting Industry and Trading Co

MECHANICAL
Unlu Engineering Mechanical Industry Trading Co

CATEGORY
University

LOCATION
Ankara/Ankara Province, Turkey

PROJECT YEAR
2009

Text description provided by architect.

METU MODSIM is a building situated in a land of 5.200sqm. that is both bound to and diverts from its context.

Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç
Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç

On one hand, it greets contextual values considering the façade color, the building height, levels of the site, the direction of the sun and the pedestrian axis. Being at the midst of a poplar forest, the building façade is a reflection of all greens of the surrounding.

On the other hand, the 4.200sqm. building displays a unique identity by exhibiting a different knowledge in terms of both the formal, spatial and contextual means of production and the choice of materials.

Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç
Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç

Its strict, rectangular-shaped geometry renders the building to be seen from every point within the diversity of forms in the green forested context.This rectangular geometry also harbors a distinctive means of plan development.

Basically, the plan construct is composed of strips that are made up of architectural elements. They are juxtaposed layer by layer, from the outside to the inside and surround the inner atrium.

These strips are: 1.Sun shading steel frame of the outer façade, 2.Facade itself, being composed of enamel painted glass of five different green colors 3.Working rooms 4.Service band that is made up of elements like, storage, shafts and chimneys etc.

Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç
Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç

5.Circulation corridor 6.Atrium void 7.Mirror coated pool base in the middle. Every architectural element has autonomy while they exist within a totality.

The building has a double program; simulation and research center. Although these two different programs do not mix in terms of circulation, they are designed in such a way that they can be integrated in the future.

In order to gain this flexibility in the programmatic development, the layered strip pattern, which resemble Turkish carpet designs’ configurations, are integrated with a grid in the third dimension.

Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç
Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç

The whole structural system and the components that make up of the building are located through a 7m x 7m. main grid and a 1.4m. x 1.4m. secondary grid. A matrix is formed through that development. The smallest common divisor space of this three dimensional matrix is a room.

The components that make up of the building inside, which are, walls, windows, suspended ceilings, shafts, lighting elements, ducts, balustrades, switches, etc., and the outside, which are, canopies, floor coverings of the plaza, entrance doors, etc., find a place in the design through this three dimensional matrix.

Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç
Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç

The constructive elements are brutal, easily demountable and remountable and open to re-structuring. Every future changes in the design, may take place within this grid respectively.

Furthermore, the design was not developed through the architect’s hand alone; it gives chance to a collaborative work with the client and the engineers.

The designed matrix with the strips and the grid gave way to a peaceful working environment between different actors, such as architects, engineers and craftsmen etc., in the process of construction.

Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç
Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç
Modsim
© Yunus Özkazanç

The building is the result of a three dimensional reference system through matrix and its constitutional elements and relations.


Modsim
Diagram
Modsim
Diagram
Modsim
First Floor Plan


Modsim
Section
Modsim
Section

Yazgan Design Architecture
T +90 312 4666530 F +90 312 4666533
Yazgan Design Architecture
Çankaya, Üsküp Cd. 26/A, 06690 Çankaya/Ankara, Turkey