The Craft Collective / Meryem Aksamaz

The project area, which has a very valuable past in terms of history and architecture, continues to have many opportunities to take references. The most important of these is the architecture of the Boys’ Art School. While designing the project, the idea of ​​a building design that does not spoil the historical texture of the area and is positioned in the area as if it were one of those buildings was followed based on the rectangular and modular architecture of the technical school. The aim of the project was to bring together different branches of the technical school at a common point and create a valuable art. Thus, students will have more common areas and their interaction will increase. Common areas, flexible workshops, and open areas where they will work together were designed. With the exhibition halls connected to these workshops, it was tried to increase the place of this area in urban memory. An entrance was taken from the north and a square was created where many important axes meet and public areas were determined. While the architecture of the school was followed in the plan configuration, a different touch was made by using a three-dimensional aluminum design on the facade.