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The Rebirth of Bomonti’s Historic Brewery

Prize(s) Honorable Mentions
Company ZKLD Studio
Lead Designers Zeki Kadirbeyoglu & Mustafa Akkaya
Completion Date January 2015
Project Location Ä°stanbul
Entry Description

The Bomonti Beer Factory is the first modern beer factory which has given its name to the district in Şişli Istanbul. Founded in 1809 at Istanbul, Feriköy, it started serving at its current location in 1902. In 2010 the studies started for this factory to be a culture and leisure center.Bomontiada (Bomonti Island) is an embedded city campus that anchors live music, performance (Babylon), exhibition spaces (Alt), and supports thinking, making and enjoying as interdependent activities. These functions are accompanied by green spaces, restaurants (Kilimanjaro), a microbrewery, as well as a space dedicated to the memory of the campus’ earlier function of brewery. The lighting design concept is shaped in accordance with the multipurpose infrastructure of Bomontiada courtyard. The challenge of the project revolved around the prohibition of the intervention to the prior architecture. The overall project became a multi-layered shell and grew upon the designation of this architectural decision.