An ambitious addition to the VAKKO Campus in Istanbul, the new office building unites two distinct structures into a singular spatial experience — one that unfolds both above and below ground.

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Sited adjacent to the original VAKKO Fashion and Power Media Center (designed in 2010 by HQ’s founder Erez Ella while at REX), the 4,500 sq.m. expansion crafts a quiet presence at street level — yet reveals its complexity in the terrain beneath. The architecture weaves together visual and physical threads, subtly stitching the two plots into an integrated campus. Below the surface, 2,780 sq.m. of flexible workspace come to life around interior patios, bringing daylight deep into the core. These voids are both environmental and emotional — part of a strategy that transforms the underground into a luminous and inhabitable landscape. Inspired by the “box within a box” logic of the original structure, the new design carries that language forward, layering volumes and circulation to enhance connectivity across three underground levels. At street level, the facade becomes the building’s expressive voice: a rhythmic field of aluminum tubes forming a dynamic wave. This kinetic surface responds to the program within — transparent where activity is communal, more opaque where privacy is essential. Always in motion, always controlled, the facade is both a climatic device and a spatial gesture — a shimmering veil that completes the VAKKO narrative.