Ford Otosan Gölcük Recreation Area

This comprehensive landscape design for the Ford Otosan Gölcük campus creates a quality outdoor living environment where employees can rest, reconnect, and strengthen their bond with nature in their free time. Aimed at improving wellbeing and motivation in an industrial setting, the project is shaped by sustainable landscape architecture principles. An organically formed walking trail through the green fabric supports everyday physical activity.

A timber amphitheatre with a plaza at its front creates an ideal setting for outdoor events and gatherings. Social facilities and surrounding rest areas keep the grounds useful year-round. An ornamental pool that cools the microclimate and brings calm forms one of the composition’s aesthetic focal points. A hobby garden and timber tool shed deepen direct contact with nature, offering employees space for growing and for restorative time with the soil.

A shaded outdoor table-tennis zone planned for recreation and sport completes an active social landscape. Custom timber seating and planted urban furniture throughout demonstrate a refined dialogue between architecture and the natural setting. Dense tree planting, colourful flower groupings, and seasonal shrub compositions deliver rich botanical variety. Uniting function and beauty in corporate landscape solutions, the project is a model of human-centred design for industrial campuses. Differentiating factory garden design, outdoor break spaces, and recreational landscape practice, the work elevates the site’s architectural and brand value. With a forward-looking, sustainable ecological landscape infrastructure, the goal is a comfortable living framework that will serve employees for years to come.