ARCHITECT KEMALEDDIN: A LIFE AT ONE OF HISTORY'S TURNING POINTS (1870-1927) |
1925-1927 Gazi Ilk Muallim School Ankara
This is one of Kemalettin Bey’s last works. Its design was completed in 1927 and its construction in 1930; the same year in which the school began its educational programme .
The building consists of four storeys including the basement and occupies a large rectangular area. Two inner courtyards symmetrically aligned with the entrance axis are surrounded with a corridor system in the axial plan. The mid section on the axis is five storeys high with a sixth floor over the entrance used as an observatorium.
The entrance porch accessed by wide steps is indicated with colossal columns and high arches. On the upper veranda a distinctive balance and decorative accent pattern is achieved with the lintels of pairs of flat arched dwarf.
The classicist fiction of the ‘losenge’ pattered colonnades in the entrances allow the magnificence of the building to be sensed on a human scale.