İstanbul Culture and Congress Center

City
: Ayazağa / Istanbul (with Arup Associates)
Clients
: İstanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts
Capacity
: 67.000 m2
Services provided
: Architectural design, interior design, lead consultancy, project coordination and construction supervision services
Date
: 1995 - 2000

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Interior design : Turgut Alton Architects
Structural design : Aydın Pelin - Can Binzet Engineering
Mechanical design : Giray Engineering
Electrical design : Cedetaş Engineering
Theater Engineering : Carr& Angier
Acoustic consultancy : Arup Acoustics
Fire consultancy : Abdurrahman Kılıç - Kazım Beceren
Consultant of Arts : İstanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts
Kitchen Consultancy : Mimta Tasarım

The Culture Center is in a historical zone, surrounded with woods and 3 buildings under conservation. The concept design of Arup Associates was used as basis. The main scheme of the building is having  various activities connecting  to a linear foyer, covered with a vaulted roof, at varying levels.  All design decisions were created with intense inputs various consultans such as acousticians and theater engineers. The building consisted of a Concert hall with 2 500 seats, a Multipurpose hall for conference, theater, dance and jazz, with 1 000 seats, a Chamber music hall with  450 seats, 3 connectable meeting halls with 200 seats , cinemas with 100 and 200 seats, a restaurantwith 350 seats, a music library, an exhibition halls, rehearsal rooms,  dance rehearsal hall, an open air anphitheater with  450 seats, a closed carpark for 791 cars. Unfortunately, construction of the Project, which was supported by the Presidancy, as the Millenium Project of Turkey, is stopped before completion due to lack of finance.