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Other Projects by Adnan Kazmaoğlu Mimarlık Araştırma Merkezi
Folkart Highlife
Type
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
The Folkart Highlife Tower is located at the Konak Şaraphane district of Izmir on the upper side of the hill ascending from the Izmir harbor at a point that is dominated by the gulf landscape. This region is the central business district (CBD) that extends from Konak to Bayraklı and is a section with high-rise buildings.
According to the stipulations defined in the development plan, the region has the attribute of a downtown district where buildings of 40 – 50 stories have been constructed and where a large number of buildings will be constructed.
The fact that the design program of the building is for a mixed-use complex that will be partially residences, partially offices and a small-scale group of shops, besides designing a building that will be a symbol for Izmir and providing that it will be perceived from all positions in Izmir, it has been constituted with a decision that aims to realize the highest building in Europe.
The basic problem of the design was how it could reach an iconic form from a prismatic crystal rational geometry without resorting to constrained forms for the building that would enter into the “super-tall” category. In this sense, we formed the tower by joining the tower with an evaginated module that we obtained by beveling the triangle from the 4 sides and transforming the square prism into a cut pyramid. The mass with a total of 3 modules forms an 80-story tower. The crown section of the tower including the point of the tower is at a height of 400 m. The crown and the spire are a conical steel structure designed as a whole with light laser systems, a corona and antennas.
The definite parameters of the circulation solutions of perpendicular buildings at this height, the meaningful construction of the balance of useful areas, is the integration of form and structure with function. The tower, which we have designed by rationalizing all of these, has been planned as houses and residences in the first segment of the tower and as offices in the second and third segments of the tower. The floor gardens and the social areas with the 28-story housing section have been designed with balconies without spoiling the layout of the façade and contour of the tower. There are floor gardens and social spaces located between each segment. There is a cafe, restaurant and observation terrace at the top of the tower. The horizontal block that contains the social club, groups of shops and parking lot layers, wraps around the tower and constitutes a courtyard-square having the attribute of a public area.
A conference center is located on the foundation that broadens below the entrance lobbies of the tower. The atrium and the large store united on the first basement story are used in integration with the conference center.
At the first stage of the structural design, a “shell and core” system was proposed with the core reinforced concrete and the position carriers steel with the objective of providing advantages from the aspect of saving space, decreasing loads and ease of construction. However, a composite reinforced concrete system with the developed reinforced concrete techniques was decided upon due to the implementation practices.
A design attitude was continued that would reduce the static problems in the shaping of the building. It was also provided for supporting structurally the stability of the building with a square foundation and symmetrical central core. It was connected by integrating the structure with transverse ties and triangular beveled slanted corner fittings. Furthermore, besides the depth of the building at the foundation of the tower and the symmetrically broadening stake foundations, it was provided that the moments and horizontal loads assumed an equivalent distribution.
Together with construction techniques for a sustainable building, mechanical and electrical ecosystems, solar panels and photovoltaic façade elements, rainwater and graywater mechanisms, heating pumps which transmitted energy from the delta channels from the foundation and sides, waste purification and waste packaging systems were proposed.
According to the stipulations defined in the development plan, the region has the attribute of a downtown district where buildings of 40 – 50 stories have been constructed and where a large number of buildings will be constructed.
The fact that the design program of the building is for a mixed-use complex that will be partially residences, partially offices and a small-scale group of shops, besides designing a building that will be a symbol for Izmir and providing that it will be perceived from all positions in Izmir, it has been constituted with a decision that aims to realize the highest building in Europe.
The basic problem of the design was how it could reach an iconic form from a prismatic crystal rational geometry without resorting to constrained forms for the building that would enter into the “super-tall” category. In this sense, we formed the tower by joining the tower with an evaginated module that we obtained by beveling the triangle from the 4 sides and transforming the square prism into a cut pyramid. The mass with a total of 3 modules forms an 80-story tower. The crown section of the tower including the point of the tower is at a height of 400 m. The crown and the spire are a conical steel structure designed as a whole with light laser systems, a corona and antennas.
The definite parameters of the circulation solutions of perpendicular buildings at this height, the meaningful construction of the balance of useful areas, is the integration of form and structure with function. The tower, which we have designed by rationalizing all of these, has been planned as houses and residences in the first segment of the tower and as offices in the second and third segments of the tower. The floor gardens and the social areas with the 28-story housing section have been designed with balconies without spoiling the layout of the façade and contour of the tower. There are floor gardens and social spaces located between each segment. There is a cafe, restaurant and observation terrace at the top of the tower. The horizontal block that contains the social club, groups of shops and parking lot layers, wraps around the tower and constitutes a courtyard-square having the attribute of a public area.
A conference center is located on the foundation that broadens below the entrance lobbies of the tower. The atrium and the large store united on the first basement story are used in integration with the conference center.
At the first stage of the structural design, a “shell and core” system was proposed with the core reinforced concrete and the position carriers steel with the objective of providing advantages from the aspect of saving space, decreasing loads and ease of construction. However, a composite reinforced concrete system with the developed reinforced concrete techniques was decided upon due to the implementation practices.
A design attitude was continued that would reduce the static problems in the shaping of the building. It was also provided for supporting structurally the stability of the building with a square foundation and symmetrical central core. It was connected by integrating the structure with transverse ties and triangular beveled slanted corner fittings. Furthermore, besides the depth of the building at the foundation of the tower and the symmetrically broadening stake foundations, it was provided that the moments and horizontal loads assumed an equivalent distribution.
Together with construction techniques for a sustainable building, mechanical and electrical ecosystems, solar panels and photovoltaic façade elements, rainwater and graywater mechanisms, heating pumps which transmitted energy from the delta channels from the foundation and sides, waste purification and waste packaging systems were proposed.
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