Enka Power Station

Headquarters
• Architects : GAD Architecture
• Location : Sakarya, Turkey
• Category : Energy Plant
• Lead Architects : Gökhan Avcıoğlu
• Area : 2650.0 m2
• Project Year : 2015
• Architecture for modern infrastructural systems such as transportation, energy or
public utilities has consistently employed industrial materials to achieve material
and structural continuity with the technical infrastructure they serve.
• In this administrative building for a natural gas power station for the ENKA
company in the Adapazari region of western Turkey, a steel and glass architecture
was applied wıth detailed attention to the rural context and operational needs of
its engineering staff.
• The design for the ENKA Station administrative building responds to the technical
requirements for managing the power station while also providing an exemplary
office environment in a rural location.
• This is achieved through a structural aesthetic that provides ecological efficiencies
and an optimal office environment for the staff.
• This architecture, a robust application of a building system in light steel and glass,
generates a contemporary interior enviroment with both aesthetic and
enviormental priorites.
• Sunlight, space and natural elements are balanced in the interior creating a
postivie workplace but also importantly generating savings on electric energy, an
important feature in a building for energy management.
• This orientation of an architecture that priorities workplace well being and
environmental concerns is derived from a thoroughly modernist steel and glass
structures and then optimised for the natural topography of the site and interior
plan.
• The two-storey building consists of a series of staggered glass boxes organised
inside the dramatically visible steel structure.
• These glass boxes are inserted into the exposed structure of arches, braces and
trusses around a series of courtyards.

• 3 different types of glass, opaque and transparent tempered glass and translucent
channel glass are used to mediate sunlight based on functions. Located in a active
seismic area the resulting structure also had to accommodate strict building
regulations.
• The architecture for ENKA Station in this way realises a performative, steel
architecture yet in a original and elegant way not commonly found in buildings for
infrastructure.
• The rural location and technical needs are also subtly balanced to give symbolic
weight to an architecture where perforamnce on many levels is achieved.