VitrA Çağdaş Mimarlık Dizisi - Arkitera

Designed to be a visual landmark while approaching Bursa from the Mudanya direction,
the architectural concept of the facility consists of a wall that both separates and unites
the service and the served spaces. The placement of the building involves a flexible
approach that allows the existing trees of the site to influence the design. The main
restaurant space is accessed from a pasarella attached to the wall at the upper level.
This level also serves as the view that welcomes visitors. The transparent atrium connects
the upper level with the lower level. The facility consists of a restaurant, cafe, bar,
children’s playground, open-air dining space and other activity areas. In addition, the
basement floor houses the wine cellar, offices and the service spaces of the staff. All of
these functions have been combined in a total indoor area of 500 m 2 .
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First opened in Levent, Istanbul in 1998, Tike Restaurant has become an international
restaurant chain, with 20 restaurants in 8 cities and 5 countries. Initiated with the objective
of presenting local family dining habits and the food culture of Adana to a modern
environment, the company has expanded its gastronomic range to include Turkish and
Mediterranean cuisines in its new branches. In spite of their approach that aims to
present local cultural values and tastes, each new branch of the restaurant has been
designed with a modern approach and has acquired a contemporary architectural identity
that responds to cosmopolitan expectations.
Located at the Bademli junction on the Bursa-Mudanya highway, Tike Bademli Restaurant
is distinguished from the series of meat and fish restaurants along the highway
by its striking architectural identity. In order to preserve existing large pine trees, the
two-story building has been positioned at the far end of the 1,040 m 2 site. The building
also has a basement level that houses the wine cellar, offices and staff rooms. The
reinforced concrete wall that longitudinally divides the site and the building and extends
towards the Bursa-Mudanya highway carries the pedestrian bridge that provides
access to the entrance at the upper level from the road level while also separating the
service spaces from the main hall. This gives the structure an architectural style that
lends discipline to the site visible from the interior space. The strong expression of this
architectural style has also been reflected in the architectural atmosphere of the building,
with the constructive brutalism that exposes the technical installations and creates
a rich architectural tectonic.
The large atrium created inside the building not provides visual and auditory continuity
between the upper and lower levels but also houses the staircase and the pedestrian
entrance bridge, making this void the most important component to physically and
mentally experiencing the building. With the existing pine tree that rises within it, this
void establishes an uninterrupted continuity with the garden through the totally open
transparent surfaces at the ground floor, creating a three dimensional structural permeability
and transparency.
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