Bike Mimarlık
Bike Mimarlık was established in Taksim, Istanbul in 2008. Since its foundation, it has carried out significant work in the design and construction implementation processes of both historic and modern buildings. Through offices in Istanbul and Varna, it provides services across Turkey and Europe.
Bike Mimarlık adopts a holistic approach in architecture, restoration, survey, restitution and implementation projects, with broad experience in monumental structures, examples of civil architecture and contemporary-modern buildings.
It has carried out pioneering work in Turkey, especially in the three-dimensional documentation of historic buildings with point cloud data, their conversion into survey drawings and their design with scientific methods. It adopts technical competence, academic discipline and ethical responsibility as core principles in the preservation, documentation and transfer of historical heritage to future generations.
We sustain our architectural expertise through a strong founding vision and a specialist team approach.
Senior Architect Aybike Baydar Salar is a graduate of Trakya University Faculty of Architecture. She specialises in survey, restitution and restoration of monumental buildings and in the design and implementation of modern buildings; she has worked on major projects including Fatih Mosque, Süleymaniye Mosque and Ayvansaray. As company director and architect at Bike Mimarlık, which she founded in 2008, she holds the title of Restoration Specialist Senior Architect.
Bike Mimarlık has been actively involved in historic building restorations, healthcare and culture buildings, and large-scale modern projects both before and after its establishment.
In addition to preparing survey, restitution and restoration projects, the practice has extensive experience in project management, technical coordination, site management and site supervision.
We have participated in the documentation and restoration projects of many significant structures such as Fatih Mosque and Complex, Süleymaniye Mosque, Rüstem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul University Rectorate Building, Yıldız Palace, Beylerbeyi Palace and Zeyrek Retaining Walls, as well as preparing conservation projects for numerous civil architecture examples in various districts.
In our work on historic buildings, our core approach is to preserve the building's original identity, interpret period traces correctly and produce scientifically grounded solutions in line with conservation board regulations.
Survey, restitution and restoration projects are carried out through archive research, on-site documentation, three-dimensional measurement techniques and interdisciplinary collaboration. The aim is not only to conserve cultural heritage but to integrate it soundly into contemporary life.
Bike Mimarlık is also actively involved in contemporary architectural projects.
We provide concept development, implementation projects, tender documentation and project supervision services for housing, education, healthcare, culture, tourism and social facility projects.
In modern architecture we address functionality, aesthetics, sustainability and user needs together; each project is developed with original solutions within its own context.
Alongside project production we take an active role in implementation.
We have carried out site supervision and implementation management on restoration sites, office and residential fit-outs, bank branches and public buildings.
Fidelity to the project, quality of detail and disciplined follow-up are among our core principles at the implementation stage.
Bike Mimarlık has demonstrated its design approach through success in architectural project competitions.
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Our competition work adopts an innovative design approach that considers social benefit and prioritises spatial quality.
To contribute to World Cultural Heritage by conserving the works of our culture that have survived to the present within a sustainable architectural understanding; to keep the textures of cultural heritage alive today and carry them into the future.
To be a respected architecture practice at international scale and a leading representative of originality and quality in the world, including through new works produced.
On the basis of respect for people and nature; to transform users' specific needs and aspirations into sustainable spaces through designs that balance aesthetics, function and economy.
To produce lasting solutions by addressing historic and contemporary architecture in line with scientific, technical and ethical values.
Bike Mimarlık sees architecture not only as a design activity but as a process of continuous learning, responsibility and production.
Our practice, built on professional discipline, dedication and a long-term perspective, continues by combining the knowledge inherited from the past with current technologies.
