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2024 GFD 🏆 Awards

Gold Winner | Santra Showroom | ACE Architecture

Envisioned as a harmonious fusion of nature and architecture, Santra Villa Showroom stands as a seamless integration of form and function. The linear design incorporates with the undulating landscape underneath it, and the walls align with natural topography serve as axes of this linearity. Particularly noteworthy is a distinctive wall that dynamically extends towards the adjacent road, evolving from the transparent glass volume.

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Gold 🏆 Winner
Global Future Design Awards 2024

Santra Showroom
Commercial Architecture (Built)

Firm
ACE Architecture

Architect/Designer
Orçun Ersan

Design Team
Orçun Ersan, Esra Toygar, Neslihan Asena Can, Didar Çayır, İlginay Akyol, Fatma begüm Tuncel, Özgün Berk Çınar, Aybüke Öztürk, Aleyna Kalkan

Location
Alacaatlı, Ankara, Turkey

Country
Turkey

Photographer/Copyright
©ACE Architecture

Website
https://acemimarlik.com/

Instagram
@acemimarlik

A transparent glass volume commands attention, affording panoramic views of the project site currently undergoing transformation.  This approach transforms the space into an interactive model and exhibition area, allowing visitors to witness the ongoing construction, fostering a dynamic engagement with the evolving narrative of the project.

This projecting wall, with its pronounced individuality, assumes the role of a discernible landmark, imparting a unique identity to the showroom. Its trajectory from the heart of the transparent volume not only establishes a visual dialogue with the surrounding milieu but also, through integrated singularity, draws attention to the structure. This architectural intervention introduces a dynamic quality to the design, fostering an engaging interplay between the built environment and its immediate context.

Beyond its aesthetic significance, this intentional gesture enhances the project’s prominence and spatial presence, rendering it a noteworthy architectural landmark. Santra Villa Showroom, through its discerning design language and lightweight steel construction, transcends the conventional realm of a sales office, imprinting a lasting architectural identity on its surroundings and enriching the local built environment.

The showroom project not only serves as a functional hub for client interaction but also as a captivating platform that blurs the boundaries between construction and conception.