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TED College Performing Arts Center in Ankara
13 Mar 2021
TED Ankara College Performing Arts Center
Design: Uygur Architects
Location: Ankara, Turkey

The project, which won the architectural project competition for the Ted Ankara College Campus with a capacity of 6000 students in 1998, was implemented in 2005 and educational activities have begun. Conceptualized and designed by Semra Uygur and Ă–zcan Uygur, this campus is a city simulation accomplished adopting the principle that education should create its own urban life even if it is in an area remote from the city.

As a result of this design principle, TED Ankara College Campus now operates as an actual city with its functional arrangement, the daily circulation routes designed considering the diversity of common indoor-outdoor areas, and the requirements emerged within the process.
The campus in question needed a multi-purpose performing arts center with a capacity of 1500 people in the process and eventually the designers adopted the necessity of it to dissolve in the campus arrangement without any pretentiousness.

The Performing Arts Center, which was decided to be articulated with the Sports-Art Street in the current campus plan, was placed in the southwest direction at the end of the Sports- Art Street, considering that it promises a use where social relations are perhaps the most publicized. The singularity of...