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Restaurants & Cafes

Istanbul’s Zula Zorlu restaurant bucks trend of ‘Instagram architecture’ for a distinctive and calm experience

Set in Istanbul, Zula Zorlu is designed by URBANJOBS and tries to offer one of the most natural expressions of restaurant culture in Turkey

by Andrew McCorkell 24 July 2020

The key concern was whether it was possible to design and plan a controlled space with aesthetic and functional concerns, but in a way that was not overdesigned.

This project tries to offer one of the most natural expressions of restaurant culture in Turkey while considering its most important functions - cooking, serving, washing and eating.

Its areas were carefully allocated with planned spaces, with a core simplicity around four significant spatial elements of strength, function, beauty and emotion that is the exact opposite of so-called “Instagram architecture”.

A spokesperson said: “This may be a restaurant or a store. The sole type of food offered inside, on the other hand, is a synthesis of the idea that space is not required to offer “more than” it should. A volume totally purified from its unnecessities, perfectly simple. Only functions; cooking, serving, washing and eating."

There are plain forms and “naked rhythms” free from assertion and chaos, limited by what the eyes see and ears hear.

The restaurant is the third location of the brand and is rare in Turkey by virtue of its simple and plain design, only showing and illuminating what needs to be highlighted on its tables.

URBANJOBS
Turkey

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