31/23
Ankara / Turkey, 2016

31/23 is designed as a commercial structure allowing different uses in Çayyolu district of Ankara.The building is differentiated with the choice of form and materials between the existing residential and commercial buildings located on the Alacaatlı road and Beyler Street.It is aimed to create a simple but effective language with its façade design, which is designed as much flexible as possible. The façade is also abstracted from the plan without much focus on what the function can be. Therefore, the proposed form is designed to allow other functions that may change in the future, in response to the client’s demands on the project. 

The building is considered as a permeable hall on the ground floor. The hall, which allows passage to a kind of hidden garden created in the rear garden, is sheltered with wide cantilevered areas on the first floor and the building form is marked with these cantilevered areas. The first floor is designed as a completely open and free space and separators are not used on the first floor. In general, brick and black metal surfaces were used in the inner and outer parts of 31/23 and the appearance of the material in the building was balanced on the surfaces in order not to dominate each other.