Focusing on the function of documentation, Bilgiç departs from the idea of placing the main archive under the ground and relating it with every floor through cores, which are also structural elements. The ground floor acts as an extension of the street. The structural system is composed of the load bearing service block on the east and two load bearing cores that embrace significant functions related with research in each floor. Floor plans are successfully arranged freely around these cores according to functional requirements.

A flexible space that runs through the building constitutes the backbone of space organization. Erkiliç proposes that many different activities related with research can take place in and on this flexible space, which is a linear space, and differentiated by level differences. This linear space also provides an alternative route between the floors of the building and therefore different functional sections of the program. It is the continuity of the street to the roof going through each and every space in between.

Krusa’s main idea is to create an urban void between the building and the street that regulates the formation of CSMT while relating the building to Bahçelievler district. This properly scaled urban void supports the public functions of the program while enabling strong visual and physical relationships between the building and the immediate environment (i.e. the garden next to it) and the district in general. The interior spaces are organized around the urban void both in plan and section and act as the defining boundaries of the void.