Anamur Atatepe Community Center Building

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Anamur Atatepe Community Center Building

Firm

Studio EntropIST

Type

Government + Health › Community Center

STATUS

Concept

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET

$50K - 100K

The building is a new icon that gently oscillates between touching onto and taking off from locally symbolic hill. The design approach for the proposed community center building - on a hilltop that is known as the ‘cannon-hill’ - is determined along two major axis; The first one is the abstraction of historical precedents of the symbolic hilltop building typologies, their geometries and proportions as well as their relationship with the urban axes. The second one is the abstraction of metaphors that symbolize genius loci and collective memory of the ‘cannon-hill’ through tectonics and geometry. The intended symbolizm is materialized through a subtle and judicious attitude towards the characteristic natural feature – the hill – refraining from threats of monumentality and bulkieness. It is chosen to leave the minimum footprint of the building onto natural ground via proposed scheme that raises the building from the surface of the hill whereby core of the building constitutes the only part that building touches the earth. Considering local climate,orientation and prevailing winds,the closed,semi-open,open spaces of building brief is interpreted through two inter-nested prisms the outer of which is an urban-scale trellis that envelops the massive inner prism that organizes closed spaces along a linear spine. The tension created through exploitation of the angle between the major axis of approach from the town and the cardinal axis of north-south along which the main body of the building is laid creates the intended dynamism for the new urban icon particularly at plannimetric level. The building is intended to take place on an almost untouched landscape to amplify the drama created through the contrast between purity of the building mass and virginity of the nature. The intended spatial perception is based not only on dramatic effects of light-shade-shadow that are created through articulation of the outer shell but also on the tactile effects created through orchestration of robust textures of the proposed materials.