PLAN-S R&D Building

An R&D building within a dense green fabric, harmoniously integrated with the trees and its surrounding environment.

PLAN-S R&D Building

Plan-S Satellite and Space Technologies is a satellite and space technology company operating in Ankara Bilkent Cyberpark. The building is designed at Bilkent Cyberpark to continue the R&D and production activities of the company that launched the first micro satellite of Turkey into space.

Client

Plan-S

Location

Ankara, CyberPark

Size

7.000 m²

Year

2023

Typology

Workplace

Status

Unbuilt

Design

Fatih Yavuz,
Emre Şavural,
Büşra Asaroğlu,
Güney Gürsu Tonkal,
Sümeyye Nur Kırımlı,
Ramis Çetin,
Fatma İrem Şanlı

Project Team

Structural Project: Ayhan Fazlıoğlu
Electrical Project: Kemal Ovacık
Acoustic and Fire Consultant: Merve Görkem
Facade Consultant : Serdar Bayram
Mechanical Project: Hakan Ercan


The company’s production areas and laboratories are placed in the centre, the core of the building. All other auxilliary working spaces are positioned to surround this core.

NESTLING INTO THE GREEN
Located within a dense woodland area next to the Cyberpark Foundation Building in Ankara Bilkent Cyberpark, this R&D building exists in harmony with trees and the surrounding green.

 

The company’s production areas and laboratories are located at the core of the building, with other workspaces arranged around this central core. This configuration ensures that, within diurnal work routine of the company, employees at their desks remain aware of the pine forest surrounding the building.

For a building covering approximately 2,000 square metres, the relocation of about 170 trees was planned. The building’s orthogonal form, the mass with protrusions and fully transparent facades, intends to enhance the building’s interaction with the environment.