Location, year:   Bodrum / 2012
Client:                Büyükhanlı Kardeşler
Architect:           Metex Design
Scope:               Interior, Facade and Landscape Lighting Design

Caresse, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Bodrum, which has reconstructed in the most pleasant bay of Bodrum and place of the old Fuga Holiday Village, has begun to welcome guests after 4.5 years of the construction process.

The Luxury Collection, one of the premium brands of Starwood Group, was operated by the ultra-luxury hotel located in Asarlık. The Luxury Collection's first hotel in Turkey as "Caresse a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa" is gets started.

The facility, located on sloping and graded land, was aimed to see the view at the point where everyone is in the architectural design process. The light, designed in integration with the architecture, was planned according to the details and purposes of the spaces. The illumination of the spaces formed by the transitional construction of the architecture; aimed to make the ambiance of the facility attractive at night while it is an invisible part of the building during the day.

Every detail of the facility designed and applied with the sensitivity of home and care has taken to ensure that the products used are long-lasting and sustainable. In the facility, programmed to serve for 12 months, all technical infrastructures and regulations directed to this fiction. The lighting project in terms of energy-saving, flexibility, and sustainability was planned based on the LED light source. Specially luminaires produced for the details integrated into the architecture to standard products in the lighting project.

The lighting of interiors was designed in detail. In the landscape lighting, is shaped lacy on the sloping land, the paths curled with stairs, ramps, and a safe and pleasant road to the beach. Lighting solutions with details that will not affect the visual comfort have produced in the illumination of the buildings located on the sloping land.

Various light scenarios designed for the night ambiance from the entrance to the beach have studied for a long time with employers, architects, and application teams. Thus, it was aimed to contribute to the brand image with pleasant both in the view of the guests and in the opposite direction of the bay.

Caresse is on its way to becoming a kind of volunteer tourism ambassador for our country with its architecture, service, and fairytale atmosphere located in the unique beauty of the Aegean.