Ankara, TR | Arbil, IQ | Milan,MI
The Sapphire is located in the 60's ring, which is identified as a developing zone of the city in Arbil in İraq. Sapphire is a mixed project consisted of hotel, office and retail units and it has 110.000-meter square of construction area. The mixed usage of structure of Sapphire takes part as an ''Architectural Wall'' on the Ankawa avenue which is the strategic and popular place and through turning out the media facade on the only parcel it is designed to make the symbol of the maximum interaction of the territory.
There are 9 trade units on the ground floor and other 21 floors have 357 office units on total. The specific ‘’Digital Screen’’ is used on the designing of Sapphire facade which is called ''Media Wall'' to display or exposure various interaction contexts and also the different facade configurations have been become as an arhitectural element. The facade of the structure have been promoted with motions on the third dimension of the terraces on the the office floors and it is tried to be made a live and active building to stimulate the dynamism of the area. The trade units and socail domains on the ground floor are identified as a vacancy; that transparency breaking the structure heaviness . Therefore, the wall effection of the structure is broken and the mass is not seen as ''huge'' dull or heavy block.
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Arbil, Iraq
Firm Role: designer
Additional Credits: Project Name: Sapphire
Project Location: Arbil / Iraq
Service:Consept
Client: Signature Holding
Total Construction Area: 110.000 m²
Project Date:2014
Design Team:4M Architecture&Pro-ge Architecture
Renderings:4M Architecture