Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center (SDKM)

In parallel with contemporary developments, Istanbul Technical University has been established as a cultural center building to host important congresses, conferences, seminars, various cultural and artistic events within the university, as well as restructuring and rapidly renewing its research and educational equipment together with its physical infrastructure. He built the Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center.

Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center is located in ITU Ayazağa Campus in Maslak. ITU Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center, designed as one of the representative and reference buildings of the university, is a very easy point to reach in the city with its location close to Büyükdere Street and İstinye Road.

Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center is a structure designed with an easily readable and comprehensible spatial setup, created with the principle of having an “inner street-square” space in order to make the urban outdoor spaces that direct people continuous within the Cultural Center building. Indoor spaces are connected to a three-storey high street-square common space. In the shaping of the center, the values ​​that should be “prestige and reference building” were emphasized.