Student Center
The project is aimed to revive the social life of the campus by designing spaces for student social activities and student clubs in Gebze Institute of Technology’s Campus.
First step of the designer is to organize a questionnaire among students to get the user's opinions. Identifying needs and demands is very important for the functionality of the project. The survey results of about 200 students showed that the biggest disadvantage is the lack of sense of belonging to the university in students and the biggest advantage is the natural ecosystem of the campus. As a result of these inputs, designer decided to use the existing natural ecosystem as a purpose to strengthen the sense of belonging.
Existing forests and trees are shown colorless. Newly planted ones are shown as green to symbolizing that the green texture is contunued in the south of the campus as much as the north side.
Campus Side Entrance Is Also The Starting Station Of The Electric Tram.
Administrative Buildings
Faculty Buildings Of Architecture And Social Sciencese
Train Station
Student Dormitory
Engineering Faculty Buildings
PROJECT AREA
Main Entrance Of Campus
Bicycle And Walking Ramp Between Faculty Building Areas
Gym
With a concept of green campus starting to design from the larger scale some arrangements were made on the master plan of campus which will set as an example for urban design. As a green campus car entrance was banned and the designer made arrangements to support the use of electric trams and bicycles.
The river and the train line which is located perpendicular to the river divides the campus land into four parts. So the biggest challenge is to provide transportation on campus.
To reduce the energy need of the building living spaces were placed on the east-west axis in order for the building to make maximum use of natural light. Some of the building's energy needs are met by the solar panels placed on the roof.
