The former Sümerbank Kayseri Textile Factory Complex (I. Nikolaev and Turkstroj, 1932-1935), abandoned due to privatization policies in 1999 and listed in the national inventories since 2002, was allocated to Abdullah Gül University, a new institution of higher education, in 2012. The master plan focusing on creating an open city campus that will become the interface between the academia and students and the citizens of Kayseri, in accordance with the education, research and societal service mission of the institution, designed by Burak Asiliskender, Nilüfer Baturayoğlu Yöney and Özlem Kevseroğlu Durmuş (for the AGU School of Architecture, was completed and ratified in 2014.
The implementation of the adaptive reuse project for the Main Entrance Facilities, designed by Burak Asiliskender and Nilüfer Baturayoğlu Yöney (for the AGU School of Architecture), is continuing and will be completed in 2018. This building group, composed of three separate blocks and between which the main pedestrian and vehicular access points to the campus are located, will become the interface between the university and the city, including university store and promotion offices and exhibition spaces as well as commercial functions including a café and market. The buildings are composed of simple rows along continuous corridors with colonnades facing the street outside with the main entrance emphasized with a higher colonnade. The restoration and adaptive reuse project proposes spatial alterations and contemporary additions to the blocks on either end while the central block is preserved with minor changes and simple repairs. The contemporary addition to the linear northern block is designed as a reinforced concrete cube, enlarging the café located at this end. The additions to the L-shaped southern block consist of a permanent exhibition hall, designed with a steel-framed structural system made up of triangular surfaces, and multi-purpose hall, designed as a reinforced concrete rectangular prism. These additions are designed for the western side of the building group, and do not alter the original architectural composition of the eastern façade, being minimally visible from the outside, symbolizing the transformation of the campus and aiming to surprise the visitors once they enter the site.