Ataşehir Timber Office
A nine-storey office building with a cross-laminated timber structure in Istanbul's financial district. Certified LEED Gold; its embodied carbon is half that of an equivalent concrete building.
- Location
- Ataşehir, Istanbul
- Year
- 2023
- Area
- 45.000 m²
- Category
- Office
- Client
- Private
- Status
- Completed
- Orientation
- North-south
- Daylight
- 92% of work areas within 7 m of a window
- Materials
- Cross-laminated timber (CLT), aluminium, glass
- Certification
- LEED Gold
Among Ataşehir's glass towers, a building that shows how timber can be used in a large office. Floors and columns are timber; only the core and foundations are concrete.
Workplace
Floor depth is limited so that every desk is close to a window. The exposed timber ceiling improves acoustics and gives the interior a warm texture. The stepped upper floors have shared planted terraces.
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