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index_size ZIRAAT BANKASI SOCIAL CLUB ZRL LEVENT OFFICE PARK AGORAS AUTOPIA MAVISEHIR RESIDENCES PASAPORT TOWER LOGISTIC CITY ONE ORTAKOY
SNP ZEYTINBURNU NILUFER TOWER ESKISEHIR SPA&THERMAL HOTEL NEWADA MALDIVES GA(D)AKOSHINBEE TOPKAPI PARK HYPE II FGA GDKP SWISSHOTEL TURGUTREIS TORBA RESORT MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT UNISITE II SHELL HEADQUARTERS KIEV TR EMBASSY
A + ATAKOY SHOPPING CENTER KUUM HOTEL SPA &RESIDENCE HILLSIDE CITY CLUB PINA GKTRK RESIDENCES EPHESUS FTH UZEL MULTI CASTLEROCK HORIZON POINT SLOPED HOUSE ANDALUS ANGEL BLUE BEKMEZCI VILLA CHANGA ESMA SULTAN
BORUSAN MUSIC&ART HOUSE MDNY HOUSE FLOODED HOUSE YKAD HOUSES YALOVA ELYAF HEADQUARTERS TRUMP CADDE HEBIL PLUS BODRUM EXPLODED HOUSE RAMP HOUSE BUAMA AFM FITAS
CERCLE D’ORIENT BESIKTAS FISH MARKET BORUSAN PARKORMAN- EXPEDITION CENTER HAAZ DESIGN &ART GALLERY KADIKOY CENTRAL PARK PUBLIC TOILET SERRA GATE PRAY SPACE IN KAZAN AUTOPIAN DTA GAD TOWN ANDALUS GAD TOWN KGD KAZN GOLDEN DROP THE ISTANBUL RESIDENCE
Global Architectural Development has been a leader in research and concept design in Europe since 1994. The firm is headed by design principle Gokhan Avcioglu who works with a dedicated international staff of architects and collaborators. GAD believes that current architecture and urbanism are influenced by media, culture, technological innovations, consumer habits and how these factors affect the builded environment at different scales. GAD’s success lies in its methodical research of our client’s programmatic requirements, its iterative process of digital and physical modeling and meticulous process innovation. GAD believes that architecture as a practice relies on understanding historical architecture movements as well as research and experimentation. GAD is continuously finding new ways to combine these issues in compelling and thought-provoking ways. The firm’s main office is in Istanbul and additional offices in New York Bodrum, Kazan and Kiev. GAD & Gokhan Avcıoglu have designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of an urban masterplan. While many of their realized projects are highly recognized public facilities, such as cultural centers, they have also completed several distinguished private projects including apartment buildings, offices and HOTELS. The practice has been awarded with numerous prizes. GAD is a member of the Turkish Society of Builders and Architects (TMMOB), American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
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Born in Ankara, Turkey in 1961, Gokhan Avcioglu completed his architectural education at KSU. He is the principal and founder of GAD which was established in 1985. Among his projects are office, residential, cultural, commercial, public buildings in Istanbul, Bodrum, New Jersey, New York City, Washington DC, Virginia and Conneticut. Among his most recent projects are mixed-use residential and commercial projects in Istanbul and New York, HOTELS and private residences in Bodrum, Kazan (Russia) and Kiev (Ukraine) He has won numerous awards, including the 1997 Turkish Architecture Prize, the 2001 Cimsa Design Prize, and a Bronze medal in the Miami Biennal in 2003. A number of his projects have been short-listed for the Aga Khan award for Architecture, including two projects in Kadikoy Park, completed in 1998 and 2004, Yalova Elyaf, completed in 2001, and Esma Sultan, completed in 2005. Since 2001, Mr. Avcioglu has been conducting studios in the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, Yildiz Technical University, and Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul. Mr. Avcioglu has established offices in Istanbul, New York, Bodrum, Kiev and Kazan. He shares his time between these Istanbul and New York. Mr. Avcioglu is a member of AIA New York Chapter, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Chamber of Architects Turkey (TMMOB).
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GDKP Client: Fatih Municipality
Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Scott Baltimore, Ozan Ertug, Nilufer Karanfil, Muge Tan Start / Compelation: 2010 Building type: low rise Project type: Urban design Project site area: 11.200 sqm Construction area: 22.100 sqm Status: Past
GDKP Gedikpasa is a proposal for a contemporary solution to one of the oldest building typologies- the bazaar. The
bazaar is a fundamental component of Istanbul life and culture, and this proposal seeks to reinvent the bazaar, studying the core principals of the bazaar, and the way in which fundamental architectural forms may be combined and multiplied in new ways. Conceptually, the Gedikpasa proposal begins with a simple structural grid, which is distorted and adapted to the parameters of this particular site. Historic buildings are preserved, and available land is developed as sellable retail space. The result is a system, or component, that stacks & grows as allowed by the parameters of the site. The intention is that this system, as tested by one particular scenario, could be adapted and multiplied in a number of different locations in the city. The arch serves as the elemental form in this proposal, and is combined & multiplied to arrive at an unpredictably complex spatial organization. Green terraces and semi-open spaces fill the void between stacked modules. Wooden panels & colorful enclosures begin to define space, and the distinction between inside and outside is blurred. The result is something familiar, yet a new invention for a historic problem.
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Horizon Point Location: Bodrum / Turkey
Client: Monarch Court Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu, Dara K覺rm覺z覺toprak Project team: Muge Tan Start / Compelation: 2009 / 2010 Building type: low rise Project type: Residential Project site area: 6.400 sqm Construction area: 3.400 sqm Status: built
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Horizon Point Given that GAD & Dara Kırmızıtoprak designed this project considering the sun’s path, daylight angles,
and relative position of the sunrise and sunset, the size and location of pergolas, gardens and pools were designed with these issues in mind. As security is a primary concern when the home owners are outside their homes, or are traveling outside the city, they may easily monitor their homes thru a camera security system that can easily be viewed over the internet. Also, all ‘smart house’ systems were considered in the design. Before owners arrive to their homes, the heating and air-conditioning system may be controlled remotely, and the entire electronic system may be turned on or off with a single click. Point Construction will be constructing single and two-storey buildings on the 3,500 m2 area. There are a total of seven housing blocks and 14 residential units on the site, including 12 flats and two penthouse units. In general, 2+1 residential units are designed as 120-square-meter high-end apartments with superior technology systems. It is this integration of high comfort levels and pleasure within the buildings, in combination with the unusually large terraces that respond to the unique unobstructed views of the castle and of the marina, that makes this a truly unique and desirable project in Bodrum.
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Kuum Hotel Project name: The KUUM
Hotel & Residences Location: Golturkbuku / Bodrum / Turkey Client: B覺rtur / Tuncel Group Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Esin Ayar, Ozan Ertug, George, Arzu Meyvaci Start / Compelation: 2007 / 2009 Building type: low rise Project type: Hospitality Project site area: 20.000 sqm Construction area: 9.600 sqm Status: built
Kuum Hotel The different building typologies for the resort are organized to serve various programmatic needs creating zones of heterogeneity. The zones were also further categorized by public and private areas. To further heighten the heterogeneous effect we focused on creating variation through the senses, in particular the visual, tactile and olfactory. The diversity in materials not only responds to the buildings’ various programs and level of publicness of the spaces; but also creates visual and tactile richness. Thus the project creates wholeness through difference. In total, the resort has a 66 room hotel, 13 private residences, a health spa, 2 restaurants, an administration building, 300 meter long beach and other recreational and leisure activities.
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6 hotel rooms 13 private residence health spa & hamam 2 restaurants retail lobby & administration seafront deck bar boat dock
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NewADA Project name: NewADA
Location: Bodrum / Turkey Client: ML Yapi Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu, Dara Kirmizitoprak Project team: Mehmet Baykara, Mert Cigizoglu, Asli Genc, Mustafa Kemal Kayis, Jonas Kirsch, Start / Compelation: 2011 / 2013 planned Building type: high rise Project type: Residential Project site area: 11.900 sqm Construction area: 50.000 sqm Status: under construction
NewADA Capturing views of the Princess Islands is a major ambition for the project. The 800m long southern border
of the site faces the Marmara Sea and is not obstructed by many buildings, so this affords a unique opportunity to see the Princess Islands. A building proposal focusing on a modern lifestyle in Istanbul can not be thought of without considering issues of traffic and car circulation. The project site contains a great opportunity in terms of it proximity to several major road connections, including the E5 which allows for ease of access to many coastal areas. This advantage would alleviate most of the traffic issues for residents. Therefore, the buildings are optimized to obtain the maximum view of the Princess Islands while also obtaining the most sunlight. The balconies surrounding the buildings are located between a semi-open stone facade and a glass inner facade. This provides a cooling effect in the summer and a heat trapping effect in the winter. The project contains two blocks on a shared base. The ground level contains shops, including boutiques, dry cleaning, barbers, and residential services accessible to the residents. The project site is partitioned into two zones, by taking advantage of level differences on the site. While the bottom level is used for the main entrance and public spaces, the upper level is used for private gardening and reflecting pools. Ground and basement levels are connected by an active courtyard and stairs, and lobbies have openings into this courtyard. Protection from the elements is provided by a glass & steel structure above.
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A+ Project name:
A+ Shopping Center Location: Atakoy / Istanbul / Turkey Client: n/a Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu, Dara Kirmizitoprak, Ismail Tutenyurt Project team: Ozan Ertug, Nesime Onel, Bruno Stringheta, Ayhan Urgupoglu Start / Compelation: 2008 / 2010 Building type: mid rise Project type: Commercial Project site area: 23.000 sqm Construction area: 97.330 sqm Status: built
A+ Shopping Centre Atakoy Plus [A+] Shopping Center is located in Atakoy, a district of Istanbul, Turkey. Atakoy Plus Shopping
Center provides an alternative solution to the standard shopping experience, and offers a contemporary solution to a rapidly evolving building type in Istanbul. The new shopping center is located in the heart of a growing residential community, and responds to its urban environment by injecting the area with a larger sense of urban refurbishment. The building expresses its many functions through its complex facade, which, while providing a glimpse of the retail stores inside, serves as a constantly changing dynamic surface that keeps up with the changes in its environment at the same time. GAD’s architectural strategy show itself in the façade: The facade of the building performs as a layering of alternating surfaces, including a wire mesh skin wrapping the rigid steel & glass inner structure. The facade performs differently in different orientations. It also responds to the urban fabric surrounding the building, which varies from residential on one side, to a more urban commercial texture on other sides. The program is arranged to actively engage both the customers and merchants within, while also announcing itself to the community on the exterior as a unique and modern shopping experience.
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HAAZ Project name: Haaz Gallery
Location: Tesvikiye / Istanbul / Turkey Client: Haaz Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Melis Eyuboglu, Dusum Sonmezalp, Muge Tan Start / Compelation: 2010 Building type: Interior Project type: Commercial Construction area: 200 sqm Status: built
Haaz Haaz Design and Art Gallery is a space that combines furniture, design objects and art. The owners Özlem
Avcıoglu and Murat Patavi picked a new location for their new concept . This location is in Tesvikiye district – that is the most popular shopping district of Istanbul. Being the ground and first floors of an attached apartment, the space needed a renovation. The area was 200m2 with two stories. The main architectural approach was to produce seperate articulations of one space and give a familiar and cosy feeling at the same time. Materials like wood and stone are used. The idea was to keep the space as flexible as possible; to let event planning or displaying products anytime. A mixture of black steel and led tubes on the facade attract attention from the street. The ground floor is reached through 5 stairs that are also display for the products. The floor continues with solid oak wood herringbone that is a traditional housing floor material in Turkey. Haaz graphics are used not just on the company cards or packing papers but also on the walls by using them as wallpapers, sliding panels and steel concealing panels. The cantilevered steel stairs prevent blocking the view from the street and forward people to the first floor. Upstairs, the old cladding on one of the walls is removed. Beneath the last layer – that was wallpapersome newspapers belonging 70s are found. (This was a technique to hold the wallpaper). That last layer was also removed, and at last, the residues of layers form a new kind of wall. Cable conduits take place beneath the walls, providing flexibility of presentation of lighting products. Mexicana river gravels are used inside the cable conduits. Some of the unfinished carved shelves are great elements to display the antique pieces.
Upstairs, the old cladding on one of the walls is removed. Beneath the last layer – that was w a l l p a p e rsome newspapers belonging 70s are found. (This was a technique to hold the wallpaper). That last layer was also removed, and at last, the residues of layers form a new kind of wall. Cable conduits take place beneath the walls, providing flexibility of presentation of lighting products. Mexicana river gravels are used inside the cable conduits. Some of the unfinished carved shelves are great elements to display the antique pieces.
AFM Fitas Project name: AFM Fitas Cinema
Location: Beyoglu /Istanbul / Turkey Client: AFM Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Start / Compelation: 2013 Building type: low rise Project type: cultural Site area: 400 sam Construction area: 600 sqm Status: past
AFM Fitas Haaz Design and Art Gallery is a space that combines furniture, design objects and art. The owners Ă–zlem
AvcĹoglu and Murat Patavi picked a new location for their new concept . This location is in Tesvikiye district – that is the most popular shopping district of Istanbul. Being the ground and first floors of an attached apartment, the space needed a renovation. The area was 200m2 with two stories. The main architectural approach was to produce seperate articulations of one space and give a familiar and cosy feeling at the same time. Materials like wood and stone are used. The idea was to keep the space as flexible as possible; to let event planning or displaying products anytime. A mixture of black steel and led tubes on the facade attract attention from the street. The ground floor is reached through 5 stairs that are also display for the products. The floor continues with solid oak wood herringbone that is a traditional housing floor material in Turkey. Haaz graphics are used not just on the company cards or packing papers but also on the walls by using them as wallpapers, sliding panels and steel concealing panels. The cantilevered steel stairs prevent blocking the view from the street and forward people to the first floor.
Andalus Project name: Andalus
Location: Libya Client: n/a Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Ozan Ertug, Laura Fink Start / Compelation: 2007 Building type: low rise Project type: Residential, Experimental Project site area: 1.500 sqm Construction area: 2.500 sqm Status: past
Andalus GAD Architecture continues to defy catagorization with its most recent creative endeavor. Ever seeking new
alternatives in the production of architecture, GAD has slipped outside its comfort zone and enter the world of science. Design Principle Gokhan Avcioglu leads his team of designers into adopting and appropriating Mathematician Stephen Wolfram’s, computer program ‘Mathematica’ techniques for new alternatives for making architecture . GAD is interested in the provocatively question about the most private and intimate of cultural typology ‘domestic space’. The featured project ‘Andalus Villa,’ challenges and rethinks our preconceptions of domestic space. Currently in the schematic design phase for a private client in Libya. Andalos Villa uses the cellular automata principles of ‘Mathematica,’ to generate itself. The process calls for active indeterminate modules that organically emerge, morph and propagate while aligned with a set of programmatic parameters to negotiate formal and spatial results. GAD further embraces new techniques by using 3D printing to create quick physical models to study design relationships. Andalos Villa is one of the many experimental projects GAD is testing with this newly adopted technique. The experiments shift scales drastically, from exploring the potential of objects and furniture to studying the emergence of new urban conditions and infrastructures.
Upstairs, the old cladding on one of the walls is removed. Beneath the last layer – that was wallpaper- some newspapers belonging 70s are found. (This was a technique to hold the wallpaper). That last layer was also removed, and at last, the residues of layers form a new kind of wall. Cable conduits take place beneath the walls, providing flexibility of presentation of lighting products. Mexicana river gravels are used inside the cable conduits. Some of the unfinished carved shelves are great elements to display the antique pieces. Upstairs, the old cladding on one of the walls is removed. Beneath the last layer – that was wallpaper- some newspapers belonging 70s are found. (This was a technique to hold the wallpaper). That last layer was also removed, and at last, the residues of layers form a new kind of wall.
Yalova Elyaf Location: Istanbul / Turkey
Client: n/a Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Start / Compelation: 1995 / 1997 Building type: low rise Project type: Office Project site area: 168.000 sqm Construction area: 1.170 sqm Status: built
Yalova Elyaf .
Ramp House Location: Bodrum / Turkey
Client: n/a Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Start / Compelation: 2002 Building type: low rise Project type: Residential Project site area: 11.600 sqm Construction area: 620 sqm Status: past
Ramp House
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Pray Space Location: Kazan / Russia
Client: Kazan Municipality Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Start / Compelation: 2009-2010 Building type: low rise Project type: Cultural Project site area: 31 sqm Construction area: 16 sqm Status: past
Pray Space
MVS Residences Location: Mavisehir, Izmir
Client: At覺lgan Construciton Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Start / Compelation: 2012 Building type: High rise Project type: Residence Project site area: 75.400 sqm Construction area: 120.000 sqm Status: Concept
Mavisehir Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia and the third most populous city in Turkey.
Izmir metropolitan area extends along the outlying waters of the Gulf of İzmir and inland to the north across Gediz River’s delta, to the east along an alluvial plain created by several small streams and to a slightly more rugged terrain in the south. The ancient city was known as Smyrna. Izmir has almost 3,500 years of recorded urban history and possibly even longer as an advanced human settlement. Lying on an advantageous location at the head of a gulf running down in a deep indentation midway on the western Anatolian coast, the city has been one of the principal mercantile cities of the Mediterranean Sea for much of its history. Its port is Turkey’s primary port for exports in terms of the freight handled and its free zone. Smyrna Sunset Residences is located in the metropolitan area of Izmir which is close to the north harbour area of Mavi Sehir district. Smyrna Sunset Residences have a wide view due to its location. The project is based on four different zones; four highrises with 300 residences, one lowrise building with 30 residences, a commercial area in underground floor and a platform with gardens, pools, restaurants and cafes. Local Municipality regularities gives an opportunity in order to design a project, which serves both for public and private needs in a more efficient way. A platform at level +2.00 that is used as public space will connect the commercial and private residence areas. Sea breeze is also an important element in cities having warm climate like Izmir, Beirut, Florida, with this we can design self-sufficient buildings with natural ventilations. And also semi-closed balconies which are used ¾ of the year are one of the traditional elements of local buildings, this is because of local weather.
Logistics City Location: Pendik /Istanbul / Turkey
Client: n/a Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Start / Compelation: 2012 Project type: master planning Status: past
Logistics City Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia and the third most populous city in Turkey.
The Logistics City Project is taking advantage of the slope of the land with a variety of landscaping (ramps, waterfalls, bridges) to increase the environmental quality of the region and were intended to develop potential new land uses. The study area in the future will have a high survival potential of this region, suggesting that the aim of the center of attraction is planned to be sustainable.
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Uzel Multi Location: Pendik /Istanbul / Turkey
Client: n/a Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Start / Compelation: 2012 Project type: master planning Status: past
Uzel Multi Uzel Complex, which consists of dwellings, work and shopping centers, especially differentiates from the
existing types of block style plans which commonly seen in Turkey. Main design approach was to shape the triangle formed land three dimensionally, especially formed for this area. Therefore, with its form that starts with a shopping area and concludes with multi-storey dwellings, the Uzel Complex presents its users a peculiarity that sticks in mind. The dwelling area is situated in the long side of the building leaving the below storeys to the use of the parking areas and shopping center, to achieve the best scenic view. There are about 60 different alternatives of single and double storey houses which take an area about 9000m2. Apart from today’s technical needs, the harmony with the green area and the daylight will be an advantage for the dwelling area. The courtyard in the center that the design had created, is a secure green area for its users. With its 4000m2 area, the shopping center consists of a medium size grossery, different kinds of shops that will respond to the needs of the neighbourhood, three cinemas (one of them open air, created by the slope of the roof), sports and health centers. In the area where the dwellings and the shopping center meets, there is an indoor and an outdoor pool and area for the sports activities. We believe that, our approach will bring the area a fresh new look, and become a new point of view for the occurrence of the environment which seem to be planned well, but has a peculiarity problem in reality.
Besiktas Fishmarket Location:
Besiktas / Istanbul / Turkey Client: Besiktas Municipality Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Gรถzde Nur Demir, Ozan Ertug, Tahsin Inanici, Alex Suarez Start / Compelation: 2008 / 2009 Building type: low rise Project type: Commercial, Public Project site area: 260 sqm Construction area: 260 sqm Status: built
Besiktas Fishmarket This Project is a notable effort by
the community of Besiktas to revitalize their neighborhood.Besiktas located in one of Istanbul’s populated and diverse neighborhoods.It is an eclectic area with a hectic yet village like atmosphere that is in the process of urban preservation and renewal. Located on a triangular site in the heart of the neighborhood’s commercial district,the market is very well-known.Throughout the day,it is bustling with people as many locals and visitors buy fresh fish and produce.Since the structure of the old fishmarket was in dire condition,a goal was to rebuild it.The Project team was assembled to work directly with the municipality of Besiktas and the local merchants to organize an effective Project strategy and goal. GAD and Gokhan Avcioglu started the design process with a series of manipulations of the triangular site and its ground surface.The inflating the surface was a quick indicator of the possible symbolic nature of the site and project.To achieve a public and welcoming appearance,the surface was pierced along its periphery. This technique created a hollow,porous form allowing program and circulation to easily mix and flow.The project was developed into a simple yet iconic concrete and steel seashell-like form covering the entire site with large openings at street level.The sturdy porous shell provides a columnfree interior space,optimizing the project’s programmatic needs,while also providing a dramatic market space.Both the underside and top of the shell will be uzed as a platform for artistic interventions; several projects are currently being planned for when Istanbul host the 2010 European Capital of Culture.The interior volume is divided into 6 display sections of various sizes.The 6 sections are joined by circulation that easily connect all the sections and extends to the larger urban fabric.The display cases were hand-crafted by local experts as continuous stainless steel forms.For the lighting system,the design maintains the traditional use of hanging 150 watt Edison light bulbs; this lighting type is common of fish markets in Istanbul. Overall,the new design presents a contemporary and pragmatic solution fort he famous fish market ; it has become a pround beacon of the community’s effort to improve their market and neighborhood..
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Changa Restaurant Location:
Beyoglu / Istanbul / Turkiye Client: Tayfun Bayazit Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Durmus Dilekci, Mehmet Ermiyagil, Idil Ozbek, Ufuk Alparslan, Salih Kucuktuna Start / Compelation: 1999 / 2000 Building type: Interior Project type: Hospitality, Redevelopment Project site area: 400 sqm Construction area: 2.200 sqm Status: built
Changa Restaurant An Art Nouveau building which had been built on the Siraselviler Street in 1903, has been
restorated and refurbished with additions of contemporary elements and annexes for new utilizations. The existing building consists of a basement, a ground floor and three upper floors each with two rooms. The rooms are situated opposite to eachother on both sides of the staircase, one looking towards the street and the other towards the backyard. The basement, ground floor and the first three storeys have been designed as a restaurant. With the additional floors which have been placed in the form of a container over the previous top floor, a different working space has been created. The building which has a facade reflecting the architectural trend of its time, still maintains the 19th century vouge in its ceiling embelishments. None of the original parts such as the expressive main gate, windows, ceiling and floor tiles have been dismantled or changed. In order to support the existing stone\brick building, light steel structures have been used in the additional parts which will contribute air circulation, natural light and new functioning spaces to the building. In connecting the parts and spaces, the old and the new elements have been brought together, clearly stressing the difference. The new restaurant, Changa, which has been opened on the ground floor of the existing building and on the three floors which have been annexed to the back of the building has been a motivation for this restoration. And everything has been developed and designed around the axis of this idea.
Peter Gordon, the chef of The Sugar Club (one of the outstanding restaurants of London), acted as the bar/ restaurant food and beverage consultant of Changa. The fusion style menu was created by Peter Gordon who had expended great effort in accomplishing the creation of this new restaurant. Not only the menu, even the presentation of the dishes was created by him.
Unisite II Location: Edirne / Turkey
Client: Mehmet Serdar Tavukcu Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Derya Arpac, Muge Tan, Semih Acar Start / Compelation: 2010 / 2012 Building type: mid rise Project type: Residential Project site area: 5.200 sqm Construction area: 16.200 sqm Status: past
Unisite II
Unisite is a dormitory campus for students located close to Trakya University in Edirne, Turkey. The project consists of six separate residential blocks that encompass the land, passages that connect these blocks, a public level on the ground floor, and two inner courtyards formed by the situation of the blocks that are planned to be used for recreational facilities. GAD’s approach for this proposal is to generate dynamic socializing spaces for students while providing private comfort of a house. Since Trakya University appeals to many students around Turkey, not only from Edirne, the university students in TU mostly comes from other cities, and at this point it is very essential for a dorm to provide the domestic atmosphere. Therefore, the site includes 280 rooms (mixture of one-room apartments & two-room apartments), a public use zone consisting a library, studying rooms, cafe, theatre room, fitness area, barber shop and a stationary shop. While the use of the ground floor is encouraged and strenghtened with this program, the courtyards are utilized as the living room of the whole dormitory campus. Also, to obtain more public spaces in residential levels, bridges are used in between the blocks to connect the buildings to each other. Furthermore, to reduce the massive effect of the blocks and to conceive shading, the façades are the triangulated. This generates a unique atmosphere mainly in the courtyards that are created by the placement of the blocks. However, they are kept in relation with the street by forming passages and gaps in between the blocks. By doing that, GAD’s overall approach responds the privacy and socializing necessity of students in a balanced way.
Borusan Music and Location: Art House
Beyoglu / Istanbul / Turkey Client: Borusan Automotive Co. Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Serkan Cedetas, Gozde Nur Demir, Ozan Ertug, Arzu Meyvaci, Ertugrul Morcol, Yeliz Ozsoy, Bora Soykut,Baris Ucar, Ayhan Urguplu Start / Compelation: 2007 / 2009 Project type: Cultural, Redevelopment Project site area:230 sqm Construction area:1.900 sqm Status: built
Borusan Music and Art House
The Borusan Music and Art Center in the historic neighborhood of Beyoglu, Istanbul is a multi-purpose event space for exhibitions and performance. This new space symbolizes the cultural and arts renaissance occurring throughout the city while paying homage to the grand architectural legacy of Istanbul. GAD’s preserved and restored the delicate historic shell typical of the Belle Époque era buildings along the famous Istiklal Caddesi. The building core was carefully removed to reveal a constructible void. Into this, GAD inserted a structural ‘box’ which created the opportunity for a modern program within the building core. This ‘box’ was designed and built using a lightweight steel Diagrid frame system along its perimeter. The entrance level features an exhibition space that greets the public with walking columns lining the perimeter of the space, in direct opposition to the austere street façade. Open performance spaces on the 2nd and third levels can accommodate up to 200 people each. The fourth floor is a rehearsal space, while the 5th and 6th floors are multi-purpose spaces. The rooftop terrace offers magnificent panoramic views of the Istanbul. This strategy allows for an open plan and offers programmatic flexibility between all floors. The inserted ‘box’ seems to defy gravity, framed and articulated from by the historic masonry shell. This juxtaposition activates a playful tension not only between materials and construction, but between past and present. This restoration illustrates the notion of “mask and skull,” calling out the former building’s shell as ornamentation and the program within as a perfectly disconnected space within.
Castle Rock Location: Bodrum / Turkey
Client: Monarch Court Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Arzu Meyvaci, Ertugrul Morcol, Yeliz Ozsoy, Bruno Stringheta, Muge Tan, Baris Ucar Start / Compelation: 2008 / 2009 Building type: low rise Project type: Residential Project site area: 12.000 sqm Construction area: 3.850 sqm Status: built
Castle Rock CastleRock is a 3800m2
residential development located on a 12,000m2 site in Bodrum, a city on the southern coast of Turkey. Bodrum is nestled against the sea, and is characterized largely by its Mediterranean climate. The site is located near the center of Bodrum, perched on a hillside overlooking the city some 65m above sea level. The site is defined by its natural surroundings, and unobstructed views of the sea. The area is also surrounded by a number of archeological sites, including an ancient amphitheater constructed around the fourth century BC, and the Bodrum Castle, which was constructed in the 15th century. CastleRock is thus shaped by the forces that surround it, and attempts to blend harmoniously with the neighboring environment and respond sensitively to the nature slope. As a strategy, the buildings are organized by bending and curving them along the natural contours of the site, thus sculpting the landscape and maximizing unobstructed views of the castle. This process is similar to that of braiding, where an organizational grid is established on the site, and a process of threading is used to organize the structures on the site. As a result, housing types evolve thru a similar strategy, and are organized on different levels to provide a maximum level of variety. There are 16 units on the site consisting of 3 unique typologies. There are both duplex & triplex units, each with their own pool and garden. While sweeping walls provide a level of privacy for the units and maximize views from the houses, openings are punched in the stone walls in order to take advantage of the panoramic views at many different angles. CastleRock makes use of very few materials, in order to respond more sensitively to the local environment and to provide a sense of unity with the natural surroundings. The buildings are constructed from four primary materials: stone, concrete, glass and steel. The natural stone cladding is regional, and is supplied from local quarries.
Borusan Parkorman Expedition Center Location: Maslak / Istanbul / Turkey Client: Borusan Holding Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Start / Compelation: 2000 / 2001 Building type: Low rise Project type: Cultural Project site area: 150 sqm Construction area: 240 sqm Construction type: Concrete steel construction Status: Built
Borusan Parkorman Expedition Centre The Fatih forest in Maslak, Istanbul has always been allocated for the use of daily citizens
living within the premises of the city. Known also as Parkorman, the forest has been rented by the local municipality for the use of recreational venues such as leisure activities, concerts, and for party organisations .The aim of Parkorman masterplan was to create an idealised recreational venue open for 24 hours that would host approximately 2000 visitors a day. During the day, the swimming pool, various sports activities, off road races at the adjoining plot, and during the evenings, concerts and party organisations are the proposed uses of the project. The masterplan aimed bringing together the different bars, restaurants and showrooms in Istanbul who intends to join the project, to unite and offer service in this common area. Borusan Automotive company was one of these companies to rent out a plot for the purpose of building a BMW Expedition Center for educational and training purposes for its staff and its visitors. The commission was given to GAD ARCHITECTS. This building would highlight the innovative image of the clients company. The plot is sloped and covered by century old pine trees. The building is positioned as if it has been slotted within the inclination of the site. The position of the pine trees was an undisputedly a major factor for shaping the building, ‘’a bit to the right and to the left that’s it...’’ says Gokhan Avcioglu. Could a form of a building can be shaped so easily?....’’yes’’ says Avcioglu. The positioning of the ramp access on to the first floor’s terrace was again shaped by the position of the pine trees. Consequently, the ramp had to crawl in between the tree trunks until it reached to the upper terrace. Such site conditions were what Avcioglu was looking for. A building that would shape itself with the help of given conditions of the site. During the construction period design decision had to be taken rapidly because of a tight deadline forseen for the construction process. In 45 days the BMW Expedition Center was completed.
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We perceived a building where the glazing would face different angles of the site with different viewing angles that would consequently adapt itself to the condition and topography of the site: like a chameleon. During the construction period some parts of the building were re-thought, for example at one particular point the building had to submerge itself into the ground not to damage the roots of the trees. The choice of materials was a secondary step for shaping the building. Strong, durable and rough materials were chosen. The structure was constructed from steel. The rusted sheet metal cladding on the exterior facades was chosen to give the impression of an aged structure, like a ship left uncared for years in a shipyard. ground floor plan
MDNY House Location:
Mudanya / Bursa / Turkey Client: Recep Aydin Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu, Dara Kirmizitoprak Project team: Derya Arpac, Scott Baltimore, Muharem Cay, Mert Cigizoglu, Mustafa Kemal Kayis, Jonas Kirsch, Muge Tan, Senay Undemir Start / Compelation: 2010 / 2012 Building type: low rise Project type: Residential Project site area: 4.000 sqm Construction area: 1.600 sqm
MDNY House he MDNY House is a residence intended
to serve three generations within one complex, and to re-evaluate traditional spatial relationships within the house. The residence consists of two sweeping residential wings, including a family & bachelor villa, connected by a flexible semi-open gallery with panoramic views of the Marmara Sea. This is a courtyard scheme, anchored on its four corners by the two villas, a guest wing, and an office/workshop. Opposite the approach and views to the sea, the courtyard opens up to a vast fruit orchard to the south, with a view to the valley and to the city of Bursa. A spa & gym occupy the space below the courtyard, and a gentle slope allows these spaces to also benefit from views to the Marmara Sea. The MDNY House is a landscape proposal, rising from the southern edge of the courtyard to allow walkable access onto the roof. The traditional courtyard scheme is distorted given programatic requirements for views to the south, and to allow access to the roof. A communal pool and deck anchor the buildings to the site, and provide a focal point at the center of the courtyard.
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Trump CADDE Location:
Mecidiyekoy / Istanbul / Turkey Client: Capa Marka Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu, Project team: Tahsin Inanici, Jonas Kirsch, Derya Arpac, Goksen Gungor Start / Compelation: 2013 / 2014 Building type: low rise Project type: Commercial Project site area: 2.100 sqm Construction area: 1.040 sqm
Trump CADDE
It’s so ambitious and courageous that the word food court just falls short. Cadde opens in Mecidiyeköy, Istanbul, bringing more than 25 carefully chosen fashion and lifestyle retailers and of course restaurants on Trump Towers’ roof terrace and turns it in to much more than what you might expect from any other mall. In using the container – as an every architects dream, breaking the boundaries of modularity, uniformity and ubiquity – the project combines the individual units into a redundant system to transform and change its character from there. Playing with the positve and negative volumes, alternation of open, semi-open and enclosed space, Cadde becomes more than simple a container transformation, but more an integral master plan, re-adding these qualities that we so familiar with from the ancient model of the bazaar and agora into the introverted shoebox design of today. atmosphere.The simple and imaginative concept brings modular units to the area between the two towers, creating main alleys and secondary aisles. Criss-cross cuts through that primordial mass then maximize the façade, whilst providing short cuts and thereby create exiting space and individuality at every corner throughout the project. Different cuisines in a mix with contemporary retail requires a sensitive design for every single unit, establishing and underlining it’s personal identity, thus contributing to a solid overall appearance. The lower level, holding 18 shops and restaurants, provides an urban setting with plazas, wider alleys, down to more narrow shortcuts. Shared seating as well as adjacent, themed terraces invite the visitors to remain, widely openable façades carry the individual atmospheres outside and erase the boundaries between in- and outside, whilst large glas façades provide transperancy and gorgeous displays. The second, upper level is much less dense. Green and large deck spaces invite to remain and observe from above. Five restaurants invite to their generous terraces, green areas offer an agreeable sojourn and connect several units. The unifying design approach also becomes most obvious on the terrace level. Each unit resembles outworn shipping containers folding, sliding and swinging open. Where on the lower level corrugated steels facades hold menus and infographics but in general fall victim to the high density and desired transparency - the container facades on the upper level entirely become the expressive and functional shell of each unit.Structural & technical. A steel frame construction paired with an underfloor technical layer provides the flexibility of layouts for each unit. Fresh and waste water, electricity and climatization are delivered to the exact point they are needed. This matrix furthermore offers opportunity for a great variety of applicable materials for the individual modules, ranging from 15 to 90 m2, each with a clear 3.00 m head height. To maximize the usability of the development, the corridors and terraces are openable in the summer, protected from intense sunlight, but entirely closed and heated in the colder period of the year to cultivate the space. The hidden service corridor, as well as a buffer zone to hold goods temporarily during re-stocking, connects to the service elevator and storage areas in the basement; refrigerated trash storage is available both in basement and on site level.
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The synthesis of the container theme and the eclectic and colourful interiors define the nature and charm of the project – providing different qualities on the two levels, throughout 25 units, each with it’s own character and style. Wellarranged and staged on the users end, creating a unique urban atmosphere, and orchestrated behind the scenes, providing a strong service infrastructure on the operator’s side, Cadde is an innovative, new concept creating an added value and taking the concept of a food court to a completely new level.
Mandarin Oriental Location:
Mecidiyekoy / Istanbul / Turkey Client: Capa Marka Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu, Project team: Tahsin Inanici, Jonas Kirsch, Derya Arpac, Goksen Gungor Start / Compelation: 2013 / 2014 Building type: low rise Project type: Commercial Project site area: 2.100 sqm Construction area: 1.040 sqm
Mandarin ORIENTAL
Located on one of the marvelous bays of Bodrum, CNNT_KY is a mixed use project including residences, a hotel, recreation areas and a protected natural zone on approximately 600 acre area. The aim of the project is to generate a continuous annual use in Bodrum where people mostly inhabit during summers. In relation with the renovation constructions of Bodrum Airport, it is thought that the air traffic will increase and Bodrum will start to be used in other seasons as well. Therefore, GAD approached to provide a background to this target by designing a complex with different functions and can be used during the whole year. The hotel in CNNT_KY consists of 70 comfort rooms with varying sizes and allows visitors to integrate with Mediterranean presenting leisure activities on an intersection of the beaches and protected green zone. The total construction area of the hotel building is approximately 20.000m2.
Autopia Project name: Autopia
Location: Beylikduzu / Istanbul / Turkey Client: Kelesoglu Gul Group Architect: GAD & Gokhan Avcioglu Project team: Aysu Aysoy, Ozan Ertug, Ali Genc, Gizem Kiroglu Nesime Onel, Ali Ozgur, Burcak Pekin Start / Compelation: 2009 / 2012 Building type: low rise Project type: Commercial Project site area: 46.750 sqm Construction area: 170.650 sqm Status: built
Autopia
Autopia is currently the world’s biggest auto mall. It’s was designed around the automobile- not the humanas the modulator. As discomfiting as this may initially seem, GAD’s design brief was to create, quite literally, a shopping mall for cars, with the automobile being both the object of desire, as well as the end user. Imagine the circulation of the parking garage combined with the program of a shopping mall, and you have a general idea of GAD’s starting point in designing this extraordinary place. As a parking garage, the circulation is drivable. As a shopping mall, all programmatic space has been effectively doubled to accommodate the automobile, with expansive 6 meter floor-to-ceiling heights and capacious indoor spans which create a sense of the outdoors within. There is a test track at the top of building. The building facade uses heat-resistant glass curtainwall construction, with galvanized stretch metal screening, which serves to blur and diffuse the building mass, as well as provide surface opportunities to embed graphics and lighting. An 800 meter automotive test track on the roof completes the program to create one of the most unique shopping experiences in Europe.
“Speed creates pure objects. It is itself a pure object, since it cancels out the ground and territorial reference points, since it runs ahead of time to annul time itself, since it moves more quickly than its own cause and obliterates that cause by outstripping it. Speed is the triumph of effect over cause, triumph of instantaneity over time as depth, the triumph of the surface and pure objectality over the profundity of desire. Speed creates a space of initiation, which may be lethal; its only rule is to leave no trace behind. Triumph of forgetting over memory, an uncultivated, amnesic intoxication.” Jean Baudrillard
“Beyond a certain scale, architecture acquires the properties of bigness. the best reason to broach bigness is the one given by climbers of mount everest: ‘because its there.’ Bigness is ultimate architecture.” Rem Koolhaas