CLUBMED PALMIYE
Location, year: Kemer, Antalya 2010
Employer: Palmiye Holiday Village Operations Inc.
Business Scope: Landscape Lighting Design and Consultancy
Tourism facilities that welcome their guests with an understanding of quality service seek to provide unforgettable experiences with these beauties at night as well as their architecture and nature during the day.
The French holiday village, spread over an area of 260,000 m² in a bay surrounded by mountains in Kemer, offering a unique nature to its guests with its 1 km long beach, is one of the well-established businesses of the region. The establishment is famous for hosting foreign guests who visit the region over and over with great pleasure for several generations. That's why even the smallest changes can be immediately perceived by the guests.
Due to the size of the facility, the landscape has a significant place in the renovation works carried out in stages. 6500 trees and plants of 10 meters and above height, 6500 trees and a thousand and one kinds of trees and plants, which have been taken care of with great care for years, and the village and hotel facility they hide have a climate independent of its surroundings.
The property welcomes its guests with a unique feeling of paradise during the daytime, with an untouched nature and a deep blue sea. A special lighting design was requested in order to show these unique beauties to its guests at night and to make every corner a separate pleasure area for viewing. First, a master plan was prepared for the area. Functional areas such as welcoming guests, transportation and socializing areas have been determined. Afterwards, artistic areas and places that will show the unique nature are marked. The most enjoyable part was the testing phase after the main planning. Since the tests are mostly for green cover, tests were made according to the main tree and plant groups. In these intensive studies carried out with the employer, the architecture and the electrical group, each location was marked separately and the detailed planting of the land where the surveyors worked, as well as the current situation and the lighting design studied, were visited step by step. It was aimed to capture different perspectives according to different points of view by considering each of the hundreds of special trees with different characters, without damaging their roots, by revealing their different artistic and aesthetic aspects.
The lighting design of the business, which aims to make its guests feel special as soon as they enter the borders of the holiday village, has always progressed in this direction. The palm trees on the road, which is reached by a private entrance from the highways, are illuminated with dramatic effects and direct the guests to the main entrance in the guardhouse. From the main entrance door to the hotel building, the luminous tall trees that cover you as if avoiding the sun and go rhythmically towards each other are majestic as if reaching into the sky.
The palm trees, which are famous for their name, welcome the guests with their special lighting design starting from the main entrance door, while they are illuminated with white lights to emphasize the bright green of the door, which symbolizes the blue of the sea, and the trees on both sides within the general concept. The guests proceed up to the hotel and village reception, accompanied by high palm trees and pine trees that enter deep perspective.
In the facility, which serves all tastes and age groups, it is aimed to intersect the lighting design, which allows different experiences at night, with regional tests. Although the architectural forms of the buildings on the street in 5 different properties are the same, they are equipped with different trees and vegetation in landscape design so that the visitors can easily find their place of stay. Each street in the village has a different name such as banana, rubber, palm, orange, pool. Each street was tested according to its own physical characteristics and illuminated in different colors. The traditionally designed facility has hipped roofs in the common language. All the roofs emphasizing the traditional architecture were illuminated with amber color and it was desired to be perceived through the tall and dense trees.
The most famous road of the facility is the “Champs-Élysées” known as the most beautiful street in Paris. The boulevard, which starts after crossing the bridge over the creek that divides the hotel and the village, gives directions to open restaurants and the poolside. While the palm trees on this road are illuminated with white light, the palm trees on the shoreline add a sense of depth to the environment. The 2000 m² private orange garden on the restaurant road is illuminated with amber and warm white light sources in a sequential manner to give three-dimensional images.