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Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR BIODIVERSITY

Erkal Architects

CATEGORY
Museum, Science Center, University

PHOTOGRAPHS
Yercekim Architectural Photography

ARCHITECTS
Erkal Architects

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Emre Erkal

PROJECT YEAR
2018

PROJECT TEAM
Atakan Palaşoğlu, Demet Yüce, Nurcan Bayrakcı, Bekir Aşçıoğlu

LOCATION
Ankara, Ankara Province, Turkey

CONTRACTOR
SMG İnşaat

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Prosel Engineering

CLIENT
Hacettepe University

MANUFACTURERS
Pilkington, thyssenkrupp, ECA & SEREL

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Levent Aksaray Engineering

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Kemal Güravşar, Emrah Güravşar, Promete Mühendislik

COVERED AREA
6500 m2

Text description provided by architect.

Situated at the perimeter of the expanse of Hacettepe University's Beytepe Campus in Ankara, Museum, and Center for Biodiversity building house scientific research facilities and exhibition spaces devoted to scientific materials on the topic of biodiversity.

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography

Beytepe Campus is on the main development axis in Ankara, the westward highway to Eskişehir, which creates severe pressure of urbanization and land fragmentation.

The campus sits on a system of interconnected valleys and ridges that also extend to neighboring campus lands, with several particular valleys which still have a distinct ecosystem.

Several long to mid-term projects are under consideration, aimed at preserving this natural resource within the shifting center of a rapidly developing city of five million people.

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography

Museum and Center for Biodiversity are one of the most concrete attempts within this scope; it will be a contribution to landscape preservation as well as a social stimulus for the scientific community.

The building sits on a slope facing east, itself being grafted within a forestation programme.

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography

The immediate vicinity has connections with a system of plots slated for preservation, which include the future National Botanical Gardens.

The entry platform provides commanding views of these gardens and the city to the east.

As the building yields to topography with a series of platforms with cascading levels, it attempts at introducing greenery within hard surfaces and volumes.

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography

Separate entrances are provided for research and museum spaces, facing each other across the ground plaza, even though these functions are intertwined throughout the building.

The research facilities include collections, laboratories, offices for scientists, administration, library, and a meeting hall.

The museum is composed of exhibition halls for Zoology, Medical Sciences, and Anthropology on upper and ground floors.

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography

The lower floor will house the Botanical exhibit, as these spaces are connected with the gardens in the topography, in which a set of greenhouses are planned for future development.

The architectonic logic of open and closed spaces follows an order of geometric compartmentation which is manifest in numerous biological phenomena.

The exhibition material falling under the topic of biodiversity belong to a very wide spectrum of scientific disciplines and have a broad variety of sizes, dimensions, and scales.

Therefore, the spaces are desired to be fragmented so that they could be thematized separately, yet continuous and connected for coherence.

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography

A significant body of the exhibited materials is planned to originate from the holdings of scientific institutions and leaders of the scientific community.

Therefore, active participation on behalf of the scientific community on biodiversity is expected, upon the inception of the museum.

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography

The Museum and Center for Biodiversity building are poised to go beyond its program that serves science and academia and accept the challenges of landscape preservation and cultivating scientific communities.

Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
© Yercekim Architectural Photography


Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
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Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
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Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
Upper Floor Plan
Hacettepe University Museum And Center For Biodiversity
Upper Floor Plan

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