Dr. Oktal Duran Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School is just one of the package project named as “45 Public Buildings in Istanbul”. Schools, which are decided to be demolished and reconstructed in Istanbul within the scope of ISMEP (Istanbul’s Seismic Risk Removal Project), are designed on the same site by increasing their capacities.

▼项目概览，general view © Cemal Emden

Dr. Oktay Duran Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School has a particular prominence by being a printing technical high school that also prepares the printed documents for the schools of Istanbul. 1-storey level difference from one end to the other of the corner parcel where the school building is located, played a major role in determining the building tectonics. With its relatively large volume, the sports hall is interconnected to the interior composition on the lower ground level by having a social recreational potential. While the roof of the hall is designed as a square merging into the school garden, with an amphitheater it is connected to the triangular courtyard surrounded by the triangular mass of the school by functionalizing the elevation difference of the land. Around the triangular courtyard indoor social common spaces are arranged by widening and narrowing flow of the circulation spaces.

▼建筑分为下一层和上三层 © Cemal Emden the building consists of one floor below and three floors above

▼建筑一角，corner of the building © Cemal Emden