A facade of gleaming metal panels envelops this management middle that Istanbul-based studio Bilgin Architects created on the plains of Karapinar, Turkey, for one in every of Europe's largest photo voltaic farms.
Referred to as the Central Management Constructing, it’s designed by Bilgin Architects to behave as a centralized location from which to watch and management the expansive area of three.2 million photo voltaic panels.
The photo voltaic plant is positioned in a area of Turkey with a desert-like local weather, making it unsuitable for agriculture. As an alternative, it’s used as a photo voltaic farm to harness its publicity to daylight.
In accordance with Bilgin Architects, the Central Management Constructing is designed as a research in contrasts, with its shiny metallic facade meant to juxtapose the textures of its arid environment.
The facade consists of seven,200 stainless-steel panels, a few of which have a mirror-polished end to mirror the environment and assist the constructing mix in.
“Due to the excessive reflectance ranges of the facades, the constructing turns into built-in with the geography it inhabits,” founding accomplice Caner Bilgin informed Dezeen.
“The skyline continues on the facades,” he mentioned.
The panels have completely different ranges of transparency as a result of perforations of their floor and are organized in an irregular and layered formation decided by the parameters.
When considered from the within, this design means the panels act as a semi-transparent display, overlaying the skin panorama. As daylight fades into evening, the facade seems to show “inside out” and reveal the inside areas to outsiders.
The association of the panels additionally creates a dynamic play of sunshine and shadow inside, whereas optimizing air circulate, stopping extreme warmth absorption and enhancing the constructing's climatic consolation.
In the meantime, their irregular placement generates a definite and non-repetitive sample on the facade, interacting with adjustments in lighting and climate circumstances.
The central management constructing is rectangular in form to mirror the grid structure of the encompassing photo voltaic panel area. It’s single storey and set again to stop overshadowing.
In accordance with the studio, its low peak additionally goals to attenuate chook collisions with the reflective facade, with the assistance of irregularities and ranging ranges of transparency within the cladding.
Inside, the Central Management Constructing homes places of work and assembly areas for the engineering and administration groups.
It additionally takes on a semi-public function, with public areas to host academic occasions and exhibitions to interact individuals in photo voltaic expertise.
The inside is organized round a central courtyard to assist information circulation and delineate personal and communal areas.
This courtyard is designed as a refuge from the cruel local weather, providing quiet areas for leisure. It has been planted with endemic crops and tree species that require minimal irrigation and upkeep.
The timber are organized to shade the interiors from direct daylight in the summertime. Nonetheless, in winter, after they shed their leaves, daylight can nonetheless enter the constructing to assist warmth it.
“It's nearly like an actual oasis,” Bilgin mentioned. “It's a windy, dust-free and shaded space. It nearly acts like a machine that contributes to the constructing's power effectivity.”
In distinction to the expansive area of artificial photo voltaic panels, the courtyard and interiors purpose to deliver a way of human dimension and nature to the panorama.
Complementing the constructing is a inexperienced roof that gives insulation and incorporates a rainwater assortment system that’s filtered for plant irrigation and landscaping.
Established in 2014, Bilgin Architects is an structure studio led by Bilgin and Begüm Yılmaz Bilgin in Istanbul.
Different mirrored buildings in arid landscapes embrace the Invisible Home within the desert of Joshua Tree Nationwide Park and the Casa Etérea cabin perched on the slopes of Mexico's Palo Huérfano volcano.
The picture is by Egemen Karakaya.
Challenge credit:
Architect: Bilgin Architects
Architectural undertaking staff: Caner Bilgin, Begüm Yılmaz Bilgin, Cem Katkat, Serenay Gürkan, Elif Özüçağlıyan, Yıldırım Erbaz
Shopper: Kalyon Power
Primary contractor: Kalyon constructions
Inside designer: Bilgin Architects
Structural design: Attec Design
Mechanical design: Okutan Engineering
Electrical design: Erke Sustainable Constructing Design Consulting
Panorama design: Bilgin Architects and MY Panorama
Infrastructure design: Challenge Diyap
Facade consultancy: CWG Consulting
Parametric design marketing consultant: Cemal Koray Bingöl
Lighting design: UKON lighting consultancy
Acoustics: Half research
Fireplace security marketing consultant: Fireplace consultancy Mercek
Graphic design: Dilara Sezgin
Architectural marketing consultant: Idil Erkol Bingöl
3D printing reception desk design and manufacture: Rolab Studio
Architectural mannequin: Serdar Albaz
Digital art work: Süleyman Yılmaz, Hakan Yılmaz, Ali Tan Uçer, Ecem Dilan Köse