Kospark | Trade Center
Collaborator: r.a.f.studio
Location: Konya
Year: 2024
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Kospark is located on a 100-decare site at the heart of the Konya Organized Industrial Zone, envisioned as a trade and recreation hub serving an industrial population of nearly 50,000 people. In response to the overwhelming industrial surroundings, the project adopts a paradoxical strategy: establishing connection by embracing disconnection.
The site sits 4.5 meters below the natural ground level, allowing the social functions to be placed at this lower elevation and offering users a nature-oriented refuge, distinctly separated from the industrial environment they experience for ten hours a day.
The 55-meter-long glass office blocks are positioned perpendicular to the concrete platform above ground, defining new passages, courtyards, and semi-public open spaces. This configuration establishes a continuous pedestrian network and a sequence of recreational paths.
A new axis, derived from the alignment of two existing vehicular roads in the surrounding urban fabric, divides the plot into two. Commercial units are placed along this main axis, while social functions such as restaurants and cafés are located in closer relation to landscaped pedestrian routes.
The basement level is partially exposed to create dedicated outdoor areas for the office units. The concrete platform—traced throughout the project and representing the former natural ground—functions entirely as a green roof.
Openings on the roof bring natural light into the interior and form light wells that act as small and large pauses, pockets, and courtyards within the public realm.
Traces of the soil are preserved both on the façade and ground surfaces, using materials rooted in the color and texture of the site. Interior functions are intentionally terminated at the northeastern edge, leaving this part of the land entirely to landscape. The continuity of the walking routes is reinforced by extending the linear traces of the office blocks into a reflective water surface.
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