S2OSB Headquarters & Conference Hall
S2OSB Headquarters & Conference Hall
Binaa I Building Innovation Arts Architecture
COMMUNICATION DESIGNER
Yavuz Selim Can
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Sakarya, Turkey
TYPE
Commercial › Office
Situated in the Sakarya region of Turkey - S2OSB is a pioneering management building, headquarters and conference hall.
Uniting the vision of the client, it is also an iconic structure in the area, engaging people into a new way of looking. A new way of looking leads to a new way of knowing as it can reflect the core concept of industrial development.
A new and unexpected presence creates a unique character for the area and provokes people’s thinking: they become curious about the end product: How did this structure come about? What is the story behind it? What collaboration took place behind the scenes?
The façade is very important in triggering these questions. The façade is the interplay between exterior and interior; it opens one world into another.
The envelope is how a building performs, how it expresses itself, similarly to how a garment makes a fashion statement: it is the building’s character and its function.
The façade, made of thoughtfully crafted metal, wraps around the building and helps communicate the structure’s multi-faceted purpose: from head offices to the conference hall.
At the conference hall, the geometrically textured shell starts with mostly solid panels followed by perforated panels, increasing rhythmically until they detach as a double facade that filters controlled daylight to the offices.
The interior is camouflaged by the exterior whereas the users can see outside. Daylight continuously changes the look of the anodized, satinated, folded, and mathematically orchestrated metal exterior.
At night, the lighting design reiterates a dual purpose:
at the solid facades, lighting is integrated into rhythmically distributed perforated panels, which then gets fully perforated at the offices where the internal lighting expresses an alternative perception of the facades’ pattern.
Thus, the façade is dynamic and expressive of the building’s purpose in an artful way.
