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General information

  • Location address
    Gebze, Turkey
  • Location country
    Turkey
  • Year of construction
    1997
  • Name of the client/building owner
    Yapi Kredi Bankasi
  • Function of building
    Banks
  • Climatic zone
    Mediterranean - mild winters, dry hot summers

Description

System of flexible membrane roofs covering "internal streets" between discrete air-conditioned buildings. Roof system designed to take up differential seismic movement between buildings.

Description of the environmental conditions

Designed as a "transition space" between outside temperatures and air- conditioned interior of buildings.

General comments, links

The integation of large fabric structures within building projects including the significance of design and procurement methods

Material of the cover

  • Cable-net/Fabric/Hybrid/Foil
    Cable
  • Material Fabric/Foil
    Fiberglass
  • Material coating
    PTFE

Main dimensions and form

  • Covered surface (m2)
    3000
  • Total length (m)
    10
  • Total width (m)
    22

Duration of use

Involved companies

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