Scientific Research Centre

Scientific Research Centre is an architectural project that envisions a cluster of research buildings and a library in Ankara's steppes, designed around interconnected courtyards to foster collaboration and reflect the organic growth patterns.

METU 2016-2017, 2nd year - Spring, Architectural Design II
Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ela Alanyalı Aral, Asst. Prof. Dr. Marco Bruno, Res. Asst. Yiğit Acar, Res. Asst. Nadide Gür
Exhibited in the TSMD Basamaklar 2017 Exhibition

Located in Ankara's steppes, the project includes three research buildings and a library as a part of a Scientific Research Center. Science arises from nature, and structures can be in touch with nature through courtyards. In the design, buildings embodied nature, and they also intervene by shaping and enhancing the existing natural elements. Courtyards connect one to another, so that enabled collaborative and interrelated design. A continuous courtyard pattern generates alive and developable organisms that can grow in the future. Biology is the science of life, and the smallest entity of life is the cell. As the cell's organization around a nucleus, around a courtyard, functions for a living are set.

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