An Ulus han rebuilt as a working atelier: studios around a court, a shop on the street, and the original brick left as the primary finish.
Atelier Han occupies a late republican commercial building that had lost its court to later floors. The commission was to return the void, keep the brick, and make rooms for independent studios that share a ground-floor shop.
We opened the centre, inserted a concrete stair, and lined the new workrooms with oak joinery that can be read against the existing masonry. Services run in a single vertical stack so the façades stay quiet. Light reaches the lower court through a glazed lantern set back from the street line.
The existing floors were surveyed and left where they were sound. New concrete is only where the span required it. Windows were remade to the original rhythm, with deeper reveals. The shop front is a single oak plane that folds open to the pavement.
The building is let to five practices. The shop sells work from the studios and keeps the han open to the street during the day — a commercial type that still behaves as a public room.
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