Teknotel has companies named Telehouse, Teknotel Telekomünikasyon and Teknotel Enerji. EETA got the chance to work on the design and application of the two office floors of one of these companies, Teknotel Telekomünikasyon, two years in a row. Emir Elmaslar talks about the building worked on and its context: “This building beloging to Teknotel has been designed some twenty years ago in Kozyatağı then starting to develop as the core business area, MIA, of the Anatolian side, by MİMAT (Abdurrahman Hancı and Yalçın Çıkınoğlu). This eight-storey building lying on Kozyatağı E5 side road was built conserving the trees on the lot. The wide current glazes opened around the trees allow basement floors to get light and also view a green strip. Although it looks like the typical modern office buildings of the 1990s, we can read the refined modernist lines of the architects on the building. Because of all these features, when there was the opportunity in 2014 to do interior designing in that context, I was quite excited as a young designer”. Work was done taking into account the changing needs and conditions at Teknotel Office-1 on the ground floor of the building. This is a space designed for the technical staff of the company. Everybody works at a computer. Internet data going to the customers are monitored on 6 suspended screens. Staff does not really need any cabinets because there are no folders… In 2015, on the other hand, Emir Elmaslar Design Studio has worked on Teknotel Office-2 on the first floor. This place is designed for the administrative staff of the company (general manager, management consultant, accounting, sales and marketing departments). This team needed more storage space than the first office. The other floors of the building are occupied by the other partners of the company. The Teknotel Office-1 floor is designed to allow 19 technical staff to function. When starting to design, the objective was to reference to the company’s intangible functions like data storage and internet providing, to make this intangible system visible, almost giving the feeling that the inner parts of a machine can be examined (like a machine in a glass box). This feeling is given by the floating wooden panels in the open ceiling layout and the presence of the whole mechanical infrastructure on the ceiling totally in the open. The floating wooden panels lying on the gray band axis on the wall bring a restriction to the white wall layer. As the whole space stands, the wooden panels in motion on the ceiling symbolize the data flowing in the machine. Now, the space is not an office any more but is a machine in motion. Here, staff controls the transmission and signals to and from the customers with the aid of 6 screens tied to the ceiling by piping. The desks are situated in groups of three of work stations of six people each. The entire electrical and ups cables are connected to the desks going under the system with raised floor covered by acoustical felt carpet and fireproof calcium sulphate. The space with glazing on three elevations receiving adequate natural light from outdoors in a controlled manner, thanks to reflective glass, is set up to show bare and bold that the machine which is in a glass box, runs totally properly and how this machine operates. 
Natural Stone Flooring: Bilecik red granite Bilecik red granite applied by the architects of the structure on the entrance halls of the floors in the years the building was constructed, was kept to match the other lobbiies of the building when EE TA re-addressed the interior design of the first floor office. The revised covering on the Bilecik red granite lobby was completed with granites kept as spare since the time the building was first constructed due to the changing interior space borders… 
