Delta Machine
SG Factory and Headquartes
Sector
Industrial
Location
Ankara Turkey
Year
2013
Site Area
370,000 m²
Construction Area
23,000 m²
Design Team
Mehmet Mert Işık
The main design criteria are determined as follows: Construction habits of the industrial zone, spatial requirements of the plant for production, spatial relationships between administrative and production units, and quest on land use possibilities.
Unlike the conventional design of industrial buildings where production and administration units are separated on basis of architecture and mass, the objective was to constitute a single structure in visual terms. Spaces such as engineering units, administration, showrooms, dining halls, and dressing rooms were designed so as to grasp the production section from one side. The composition of the facade, designed in consideration of varying area needs and vertical heights of office units, was dismantled so as not to distort the overall geometric perception of the building. Thus, daylight and fresh air can penetrate into office units; besides, a dynamic facade composition is established.
It was decided to categorize office units under 3 titles: Administrative department, showroom, and service spaces. The relation of each of these spaces within themselves and with production sections is determined as the main focus. In this respect, principal data for the planning phase consists of the following: transport of drilling machines, manufactured at the factory, to the showroom; limits of the relation to be established between the factory staff and dressing room, dining hall, and administrative units; access and control of engineering units on production section; definition of the relation of guests with administration and production sections.
The first floor of the administrative section, as well as the spaces around the gallery between floors, is to be utilized as interactive spaces where employers can socialize. It is planned to maximize green fields and play fields to be used by employees, almost pushing the limits of building approximation.
