ARCHELLO YOUR CONNECTION WITH ARCHITECTURE

Project description

The competition brief asks for an urban landscape and building proposal for the new Denizli Municipality Headquarters. The proposed design offers a series of public meeting places in the landscape of the new plaza. In this landscape of urban interaction, the role of the building is to define a zone of enclosures; the main entrance, foyer, city parliament, auditorium, exhibition hall, and library.

These spaces of public representation become the ornaments of the building, which is intentionally kept simple in its mass; a 20 m wide bar optimized for office environments with natural light.

Thus the proposal is an attempt to create monumentality not through architectural detailing but through programming and exposure of the ‘ground’ level; the most accessible therefore important part of any building. And the aim of the design is to incorporate the life of the city’s most vital plaza with its most vital function, self-governing.

Credit list
Team:
Selva Gürdoğan, Gregers Tang Thomsen, Marta Marszal, Jonathan Alexander, Yasemin Darbaz, Carsten Dittus, Matthias Jacob, Rance Mok

Type: Competition
Size: 29.700 m2
Collaborators: APCB, AKIM, Esan Muhendislik
Location: Denizli, Turkey
Status: Settled