The 65,000sqm environmentally sustainable corporate Operations Centre for Yapi Kredi Bank near Gebze in Turkey is on a steeply sloping site overlooking the Sea of Marmara. It houses 2,500 staff and comprises 10 linked courtyard buildings in a campus setting.

 

The Yapi Kredi Centre includes administrative, operational, training, conference and social amenities, arranged in a series of fabric-covered internal streets. John McAslan + Partners was responsible for the development of the entire scheme, including masterplanning, architecture, space-planning, interiors and its implementation, with Ove Arup and Partners as project manager and multi-disciplinary engineer.