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BEACH SIDE PROPERTY In keeping with the resort’s sleek look, ZKLD’s new, rhythmic light scheme at Nikki Beach Resort & Spa in Bodrum, Turkey, creates a dramatic atmosphere, making guests feel welcome while highlighting the beautiful scenery.
Nikki Beach Resort & Spa, Bodrum is a luxury, boutique beachfront hotel on the southwestern coast of Turkey. The hotel includes 76 suites and villas. Designed to blend into its natural surroundings, the property utilises modern elements to define Nikki Beach’s sleek look, with a nod to local aesthetics and materials. The lighting design concept from ZKLD is shaped in accordance with Nikki Beach’s sleek look and is intended to make you feel welcome from the main entrance and lobby through to guest villas. The rhythmic light beams on pathways, provided by Emfa, create a dramatic atmosphere and guide people to hotspot areas. As the language of architecture obviously indicates organic forms, it provided ZKLD a tool to accentuate these forms. The forms especially used in hotspot areas such as the tent structure in the sunset bar and curvilinear suspended ceiling in the lobby area, are transformed to lighting fixtures in order to light the space besides its sleek look. The challenge of the project is to obtain comfortable illuminated spaces without
using spotlights or visible lighting fixtures. The spaces are illuminated by concealed lighting fixtures. Therefore, the reflection of the material surfaces has been checked and calculated with lighting fixtures to see the light level result whether it satisfies the expectation or not. Sunset bars, which are covered by spiral tent structures, have been illuminated with concealed curvilinear lighting fixtures besides raised floors and are highlighted by concealed lighting fixtures from Archled, alongside Oh Mars and Oh Smash decorative fixtures from Linea Light. Thus, guests can get a sunset view, and see the sea and horizon under a comfortable lit space without having any shadows and glare problems. The budget was another challenge and the lighting designers were supposed to make value engineering in terms of lighting fixtures to realise the project according to client demands. In the beginning, the cost of all lighting fixtures was about three times more than the client’s desire. Without changing the lighting concept and keeping the quality within their given budget, ZKLD chose the best fixtures from the market,
along with some custom-made solutions for specific areas. Exterior lighting was very important due to the location of the hotel. Guests spend most of their time in front of villas or sunset bars, lying on beds and watching the incredible view. Therefore, in order to keep the light under control and create an anti-glare atmosphere, low-level lighting (bollard) from Emfa is preferred along the pathway. In some crucial points such as the pool bar, DJ bar and lobby entrance, RGB colour change LED fixtures, also from Emfa, have been used to attract the attention and also to provide a tool for the DJ to play with the light. www.zkldstudio.com
PROJECT DETAILS Nikki Beach Resort & Spa, Bodrum, Turkey Client: Adilbey Holding Lighting Design: ZKLD Studio Architect: GAD Architects Lighting Suppliers: iGuzzini, Marset, Linea Light, Osram, Arlight, Emfa, Archled