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Here is Ipekyol Textile Factory, designed by emre arolat architects. It features with two courtyards in production area led the natural light & garden in the factory. This must makes workers happy. I love this idea. Followings are from architects;

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For the design of this building, constructed on the outskirts of Edirne, on a tract of land along the road to Kırklareli, effective inputs were the technical descriptions of the cyclic relations of these types of productions, the limited size of the area, and the constraints of service and main road connection possibilities and those of the local production techniques.

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The service entrance leads into the building from the road to Kırklareli and pedestrian access from the busy E-5 Highway on the other side. The sales unit, situated close to the road, again in the direction of the E-5, was connected to the main building by an overhang which covered and thus defined the walkway.

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The administrative section, which commonly is visually detached from the production building through the use of different surface languages, due to the conventional approach to such facilities, was more directly associated with production in this project and thus, instead of different buildings a large mass took shape. This mass, which reaches the outer borders of the lot, because of the constraints of the land, was implicitly loosened thanks to linear gardens located between sections.

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The main purpose of these gardens was that they be used by the staff during breaks and that natural light and air enter work places; it was intended that the gardens separate areas and that thanks to their transparent frames visual fluidity would be achieved. Also due to the limitations of local production possibilities, innovative experimentations in building materials and production methods were especially avoided. As are usually used in similar buildings, here too the main components were the vertical reinforced concrete load-bearing systems, a lightweight steel structure cover placed on top of them, and the coffered system on the façades; and the exterior surface took shape through a grammar established by the clear distinction between areas open or closed to the exterior.

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İpekyol Tekstil Fabrikası
İpekyol Textile Factory

mimari proje  architectural design:   eaa- emre arolat architects
proje ekibi  team:     eda yazkurt, ertuğrul morçöl, meltem emden,
ekin erik
proje yeri location:    edirne, türkiye
proje tarihi  project date:    2004-2005
yapım tarihi  construction date:   2005-2006
toplam inşaat alanı  built area:   20.000 m2
işveren  client:     twist giyim
yapımcı  constructor :    alfa çelik
statik proje  structural project:   alfa çelik
mekanik proje  mechanical project:   toptaş
elektrik proje  electrical project:   galtek