Ankara, Turkey
Terrace ©2012 Cemal Emden 
Corridor ©2012 Cemal Emden
Kolej-In, designed as an independent structure in TED Ankara College’s campus, serves as Graduates’ Association social center and it is placed in the campus’s south corner at the highest level of the topography. The building, which has a Central Anatolian vista stretching out to the West and the view of Lake Mogan in the South, incorporates its functions nested under a floating wooden roof. Some blocks occasionally protrude from the roof’s outline and reveal themselves.
Partial view ©2012 Cemal Emden 
Partial view ©2012 Cemal Emden 
Partial view ©2012 Cemal Emden 
Partial view ©2012 Cemal Emden
As an important piece of the design, the pool appropriates the overall structure’s domain. All the other units of the building are both in visual and physical relations with the pool and the open spaces. The user can follow the physical and visual route between the inner and outer spaces; which mean the inside can be outside while the outside can join the inside.
The building is placed in a steep land and has its main entrance on the higher elevation. The user can find the spaces and the functions as a whole when accessed through the main entrance. The spaces embedded in the building’s transparency, create an easy perceptibility and relation with the vista; that sets the visitor free. The upper floor exhibits the overall integrity while the ground floor mixes functions with the user’s moves, and creates a relation with the green and the water.
Project information
| Architects | Uygur Architects |
| Project size | 7871㎡ |
| Completion date | 2012 |
| Building levels | 3 |
| Photograph | Cemal Emden |
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Uygur Architects, founded in 1986 by Semra Uygur and Özcan Uygur in Ankara, design urban and architectural projects for almost 35 years. Alongside with remarkable works on cultural and educational buildings, Uygur Architects also have notable experiences in large-scale prominent private and public office buildings. Interpretation of the requirements and the function is an important phase of the design process for Uygur Architects. In most of the cases requirements and programs are developed and modified together in discussion with the clients as well. According to the Uygur Architects’ main approach, spatial design is not only for the users but also for the society around. This is “Intermutual Architecture” as they call. Besides offering a utilitarian shelter, space is composed and constructed to interact and communicate with humans while potentiating introspection, imagination and daydreaming.
