Architectural Design of Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation Box Office

Client: IKSV Salon (Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation)
Design Team: Oğul Öztunç & Ertuğ Uçar (Teğet Mimarlık)
Location: Beyoğlu / İstanbul
Status: Completed

The humbly re-designed box office consists of a metal cladded box attached to historical Nejat Eczacıbaşı Building and a small space inside of the building partitioned with party walls. The space is very small and there is no room inside of the building to enlarge it according to needs. So, project proposes not to enlarge the space, but to enlarge the functionality of the modest volume of the space with very small organizational / architectural gestures like relocation of the door, redesigning the archive and storage units, redesigning the ground arrangements, table and window. This interventions ended up with a more spacious use of the inner space. Other than that, inner claddings and outside apearrence has been redesigned; utilities like neon light and a lighted signpost is added to the box.