Soyak Kristalkule | Finansbank Headquarters
A crystalline tower housing Soyak, a company with a large contracting arm, would need to be fully operational even after a major event, so we applied performance-based design (PBD) principles to the project.
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Project Details
Skyscraper Award (#7), Emporis, 2014.
International Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum / European Centre, 2016.
Design Award of Honor, Society of American Registered Architects, 2015.
overview
The focal point of the Soyak Kristalkule complex, the new headquarters of the Soyak Corporation in Istanbul, Turkey, is a 35-story tower with asymmetrically sloping surfaces, crowned by a glass-enclosed roof garden soaring 28 meters tall. The tower sits atop an eight-level, mostly underground horizontal component with open courtyards. During design, seismic structural performance expectations were discussed since Soyak, a company with a large contracting arm, would need to be fully operational even after a major event.
We provided structural design services to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners for the project. To meet this goal within a building featuring unique geometry, we applied performance-based design (PBD) after establishing specific performance criteria, design procedures and analysis procedures.
Highlights
- Using the PBD approach, the team designed a structure that responds to a major quake with acceptable damage in limited, well-defined zones to permit continued occupancy after the event.
- Using PBD on “regular” buildings is a new approach; applying its principles to the unusual shape and complex geometry of Soyak Kristalkule is extraordinary.
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