Type: Office
Year: 2014
Size: 500 m²
Location: Topkapı, Istanbul
Client: Piri Media
Team: Yasemin D. Karaca, Didem Ateş (Graphic Design)
Status: Completed
Photos: Önder Tür

The interior design of Piri Media, one of the companies of Albayrak Holding operating in its Topkapı campus, was carried out in line with the concept and content of digital publishing.

In the new campus of Albayrak Holding, created by converting an existing building, a 500-square-meter open-plan area on the ground floor was allocated to Piri Media, which provides digital publishing services. Contrary to the static and heavy stance of the building’s overall architecture, Piri Media was in search of a new design that reflected the colorful, dynamic, and digital codes of publishing.

We first defined the functional separations of this wide, open office space. We divided the areas for editors, software developers, English, Turkish, and Arabic publishing units, a meeting room, the general manager’s office, and the managing editor’s office. The meeting room and general manager’s office were enclosed in glass boxes to provide privacy. In addition, each seating group was arranged according to its own work zone. By numbering the columns at the heads of the seating groups, we established starting points for the graphic design. Using carpet tiles in the corporate colors of gray and green, arranged in pixel patterns, we aimed to reference the digital world and carried the same pixelated approach into the graphic design to create continuity. While white and black remained the main colors, we used yellow and turquoise in the space, and highlighted the red from the company’s logo only at the entrance to particularly strengthen brand perception.

The space makes extensive use of plexiglass, with surface reliefs created at various heights, and the graphic language was carried onto glass surfaces with film prints. We used literature related to English, Arabic, and Turkish publishing on the columns, transforming them into a kind of visual display area.

Leaving one of the main walls blank, we aimed to project images onto it, turning the surface into an interactive space for the employees themselves.