HUMAN
D Café was designed under the concept of providing a social interaction
space for employees of Dogus Automotive AS in central corporational
campus which is located in Çayırova region of Kocaeli in Turkey.
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implicity, humancentric proportion and transparency are the tools that
make this building inviting. The details on facade surfaces, changing
compositions on coatings, break the solid impression by integrating
building with landscape and providing an eye contact to it’s users with
the green area in front of it.
In order to create user-friendly social space, the designers had
considered easy and flexible use. In addition, the integrated design
approach was supported by creating a design language with the facade
and mass of the building. All interior elements follow the same language
with the building in harmony with their material, texture and colour selections.
Transparency had been one of the key words of the design, while aiming to increase
the relation between the building and its surrounding. This lead to impressive light and
shade movements in the interior and outer space of the building while taking maximum
advantage of the natural lighting.
Details on glass coatings, perforated antasite metal plates, had created a rythmic
composition on the facade surfaces. Also the design shows environment friendly
character by using recycled metal plates and flat textures on its facade while the
expressive eaves completes the contour of the mass of the building. The single-floor
design approach that follows the human scale and recycled material coated defining
surface reflects MuuM’s design flavour.
PROJECT TEAM
The building’s simple but environment-integrated form links it’s users with the
green space in front of it. This extroverted approach defines not only an architectural
mass composition, but furthermore, it builds physical contextual web with the
surroundings. AD
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ARCHITECTS: MuuM
LOCATION: Istanbul, Turkey
SIZE: 150m2
PHOTOGRAPHER: Anday Bodur
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