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Koala Bookstore

Sisli Nisantası
2020
PROJECT / CONSULTANCY / CONSTRUCTION
It is a bookstore project located on a moving pedestrian and vehicle axis in the neighborhood of Şişli Teşvikiye in Istanbul. It is the work of organizing the place where a lot of infrastructure and superstructure elements, which previously served as a bank branch, was transferred to the new tenant, while maintaining the quality of the fine construction elements, and arranged as a bookstore. The project program includes 30,000+ book exhibitions, multi-purpose hall, multi-purpose meeting room, quiet reading / study room, Coffee bar, Cafeteria, warehouse / staff and technical rooms. The project area is 520m2 net. The main idea of ​​the concept was to bring an inviting bookstore to life by re-functioning all the infrastructure and superstructure materials remaining from the bank branch, which was the previous tenant of the space, and which could be associated with the bookstore function, in an aesthetic language with newly manufactured fixed and movable furniture. In addition, it is aimed to create a public meeting space as well as a multi-purpose hall, meeting and reading rooms and bookstore function.