The paragon Tower is shaped as a simple rectangular prism rising up from its base. The office building was designed by architect Gokhan Aksoy and is located in the Çukurambar district of Ankara Turkey. It comprises 27 floors of office space and five floors offering social and commercial facilities as well as service areas, parking facilities and gardens.
The office tower is a simple rectangular prism with two interlocking L-shaped floor surrounding the lift shaft and stairwell at the centre. The 27 floors of office space offering approximately 12,000 square metres in a 32-floor structure with a total of 44,600 square metres of construction area including social and commercial facilities as well as services areas and parking facilities. The lower level entrance serves as an entrance to the tower itself, while the upper level entrance provides access to the courtyard, located in the terrace at the base.
Inviting courtyard
The Paragon Tower exhibits many similarities with its siblings scattered around the area. As in many other dense urban locations, the architects had to maximise the floor area in the simplest way, allowing them to show their creativity only through the façade articulation since the volume are partly defined by the restrictive zoning laws. The façade patterns formed by anodised aluminium cladding and Reynaers’ CW 50-SC and CW 50 systems also enhances the dynamism of the tower.
Floating canopy
The two large independent units situated on the edges of the rectangular plot have been designed to be used as large stores, and they are cleverly united with the base of the tower by means of an elegant floating canopy. The interior courtyard formed by these independent units and the canopy is well integrated with the base of the tower, intended to create and effective public place in Ankara.
Location: Ankara, Turkey Photography: Selçuk Çinar Reynaers systems: CW 50, CW 50-SC.