Şehit Cennet Yiğit Special Education Centre

A compact, high-quality multi-purpose hall within a primary school, featuring colourful acoustic panels, coordinated seating tones, and dynamic LED lighting for varied atmospheres, delivered as a fully integrated design-build project.

Educational Environments

Planning & Design

On Site Execution

Project

MP Conference Hall

Location

Kayseri / Turkey

Client

M.E.B.

Capacity

290

Completed

October 1, 2013

Space

Educational Environments

Executed Materials

Acoustic Solution

Stage Mechanic

Pro AVL Systems

Project moments

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A colourful, high-capacity hall for early years education

Built for a new primary and pre-school education facility, this hall's brief was to achieve the maximum practical seating capacity within the existing building envelope, while giving the room a dynamic character in keeping with the playful, energetic nature of early years education.

The design needed to balance acoustic performance with a visual identity suited to young children, avoiding a purely functional or clinical finish.

High-specification acoustic timber panelling was overlaid with acoustic fabric panels in a custom geometric pattern, each panel selected in a different colour. Seating followed a dominant camel-tone palette, with individual seats in colours matched to the wall panels scattered at random through the rows to echo the wall design.

The finished 290-seat hall reads as bright, considered and distinctly suited to its young audience, while meeting the acoustic standards expected of a full-capacity multi-purpose space.

Challenge

A special education centre needed maximum seating capacity within its footprint, alongside a visual character suited to early years learners.

Solution

Acoustic timber panelling was combined with a custom geometric pattern of coloured acoustic fabric panels, echoed by randomly scattered coloured seats within a dominant camel-tone seating palette.