Outdoor / Shading & Pergola Systems
Contract pergola and shading systems that turn a hotel or restaurant terrace into a year-round, revenue-earning room — aluminium bioclimatic louvered pergolas, retractable PVC roof shading, glass sliding and folding walls, and guillotine windows. Engineered to real wind and snow loads, motorised, and made to your project in Istanbul.
30+
Years Manufacturing
FOB / CIF
Shipping Worldwide
4–8 wk
Project Lead Times
2-Year
Warranty
For a hotel or a restaurant, the terrace is not decoration — it is floor area that either earns money or sits empty. A bare outdoor space is usable for a handful of perfect-weather hours; the moment the sun is too strong, the wind picks up or the rain comes in, the covers are lost and the tables clear. A pergola changes that equation. By putting a controllable roof over the space, it converts an unreliable patch of ground into a room that can be opened to the sky on a fine evening and closed against the weather an hour later, and that controllability is what extends the season, protects the covers and turns the terrace into dependable revenue.
The pergola is the heart of this category and by far its largest demand. The modern contract pergola is an aluminium structure with an engineered roof — most often a bioclimatic louvered roof whose blades rotate from fully open to fully closed, or a retractable fabric or PVC roof that folds away entirely. It is a different object from the timber pergola kit a homeowner assembles in a weekend; a contract pergola is a structural system, sized and engineered to carry wind and snow loads over a commercial span and to run motorised, season after season, on a busy terrace.
Around the pergola, three further systems complete the enclosure and let an outdoor space be used all year. Glass sliding and folding walls close the sides without losing the view or the light; guillotine windows raise and lower vertically to ventilate or seal a bay; and retractable shading manages the sun where a full roof is not wanted. Specified together, these turn a terrace into a genuine all-season outdoor room. We manufacture the complete range to project in Istanbul, engineered, motorised and finished to match the building, and shipped worldwide.
Pergolas
Bioclimatic louvered & retractable
Structure
Engineered aluminium, electrostatic-painted
Roofs
Rotating louvers, retractable PVC
Walls
Glass sliding & folding
Windows
Vertical guillotine systems
Control
Motorised, rain & wind sensors
Integration
LED, heating, drainage
Lead time
4–8 weeks
How We Work A B2B manufacturer — made to project, not to retail.
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Trade & contract only
We work with hotels, developers, interior studios and procurement teams — not the public.
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Made to your project
Every piece is built to your drawings, finishes, fire ratings and quantities. Nothing off the shelf.
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Priced by project
No retail price list and no online shop — each project is quoted from its spec, direct from our factory.
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Delivered worldwide
We crate, ship and install to site across 40+ countries, on a single or phased schedule.
In hospitality, covered outdoor space is one of the highest-return investments a property can make, because it adds sellable area without adding a building. A terrace that only works in fair weather might be open three or four months a year; the same terrace under a bioclimatic pergola, closed on the sides with glass, works through the shoulder seasons and the bad-weather evenings that used to empty it — often doubling or tripling the days it earns. For a restaurant, that is more covers; for a hotel, it is a bar, a breakfast room or an event space that exists on days the weather would otherwise have cancelled.
The control is the point. A bioclimatic roof tilts its louvers to throw shade at midday, opens them for air in the evening, and closes them watertight when it rains, with rain and wind sensors that react automatically so staff are not running outside to save a service. Glass walls slide back to open the space on a warm night and close it against a cold one. Heating and lighting built into the structure extend the usable hours into the night and the cold. None of this is possible with a fixed canopy or a stack of umbrellas — it needs an engineered, motorised system, which is exactly what separates a contract installation from a consumer product and what makes the terrace pay back the investment.
The maths is straightforward for an operator to run. A covered, enclosable terrace that adds even a handful of trading days each month, or holds a service together through an afternoon shower instead of clearing it, recovers its cost quickly against the covers it protects and the events it makes possible. It also lifts the space itself: a well-designed pergola is an architectural feature that improves how the whole property looks and photographs, which matters as much to a hotel's positioning as the extra seats matter to its takings. Outdoor shading is one of the few furniture investments that is judged on return rather than only on cost.
Search for a pergola and most of what comes back is consumer: timber kits and lightweight aluminium frames sold to homeowners for a patio. A contract pergola for a hotel or restaurant terrace is a different class of product, and the difference is structural. It carries a roof full of rain or snow, stands up to the wind that funnels across an exposed terrace or a rooftop, runs motorised mechanisms thousands of times, and does it over spans far wider than a domestic patio — so it has to be engineered, not assembled from a flat pack.
The frame is extruded aluminium, chosen because it carries load without rusting in sun, rain and coastal salt the way steel would, and it is electrostatic-painted to an architectural finish that holds its colour outdoors for years. Section sizes, post spacing and fixings are sized to the wind and snow loads of the actual site — a seafront terrace, an exposed rooftop and a sheltered courtyard are not the same engineering problem, and a contract manufacturer sizes the structure to each rather than selling one stock frame. Posts are fixed and drained, beams carry concealed guttering, and the whole structure is built to be motorised and to integrate lighting, heating and sensors from the start.
Pergolas come free-standing, wall-mounted (lean-to) against a building, and ganged into large multi-bay runs that cover a whole terrace from a shared structure. The roof is the choice that defines the system — a rotating louvered roof, a retractable fabric or PVC roof, or a fixed glazed roof — and that is where the two flagship pergola products diverge, covered in the sections below. What stays constant is the engineering underneath: a structure made to project, to a real load, for a commercial life.
The Systems
Four systems that work alone or combine into a full terrace enclosure. Select one to see what it does and where it fits.
An aluminium pergola with a roof of rotating louvers that tilt from fully open for air and light to fully closed and watertight against rain. The flagship system — shade on demand, ventilation when wanted, and weatherproofing when needed, all motorised. The single most-asked-for terrace structure.
• Year-round restaurant terraces
• Rotating louvers, open to watertight
• Motorised, rain & wind sensors
• LED, heating and drainage built in
The bioclimatic pergola is the product that defines the category, and the louvered roof is what makes it bioclimatic. Instead of a fixed cover, the roof is built from aluminium blades that rotate on their axis, driven by a motor, so the same structure gives full shade, dappled light, open sky or a sealed waterproof roof depending on the angle they are set to. That single capability — a roof that adjusts to the weather rather than fighting it — is why demand for louvered and bioclimatic pergolas dominates this market.
In use it is simple and that is the point. On a hot afternoon the louvers tilt to cut the sun while letting air move through, so the terrace stays cool and usable rather than baking under a solid roof. In the evening they open flat to the sky. When it rains, they close fully and the blades seal into a watertight roof that drains to concealed gutters in the beams and down through the posts, so a sudden shower does not clear the terrace. Rain and wind sensors close the roof automatically, and the whole system runs from a handset, a wall switch or a building management system.
Built to contract standard, the louvered pergola is an extruded aluminium structure electrostatic-painted to an architectural colour, with the blades, motors and bearings rated for years of daily cycling. It is specified free-standing or wall-mounted, in single bays or large multi-bay runs across a whole terrace, and integrates LED lighting in the blades or beams, radiant heaters, side screens and glass walls. For a hotel or restaurant, this is the structure that makes an outdoor space dependable in every condition, and it is made to project to the span, load and finish the site needs.
Where a louvered roof gives control, a retractable roof gives openness. A retractable PVC shading system is a tensioned membrane — a heavy-duty PVC or technical fabric — carried on a motorised track along the pergola structure, so the roof draws across for shade and rain cover and folds back into a compact stack to open the terrace completely to the sky. It is the system for spaces where the brief is a roof that is genuinely there when wanted and gone when not.
The retractable roof has real advantages on the right project. It spans large widths economically, so it suits big terraces and event spaces where a louvered roof over the whole area would be costly; it is lighter overhead; and fully retracted it leaves an almost uninterrupted open structure. The membrane is tensioned so it sheds water to the gutter rather than pooling, runs on a motor with a rain sensor, and comes in a range of fabric colours and translucencies to control how much light passes through. It can be specified as the roof of a full pergola or as a standalone retractable canopy over an existing structure.
As a contract system it is built on the same engineered aluminium framework as the louvered pergola, with the track, motor and membrane rated for commercial cycling and the fabric specified to weather, fire and tear standards. Many terraces use both technologies — a louvered bioclimatic roof over the main dining area for all-weather control, and a retractable roof over a larger adjacent space for open-sky flexibility — and we make both to project so they coordinate as one installation.
A roof only solves half of the terrace; the sides decide whether it is a summer space or a year-round one. Glass sliding and folding walls close the open sides of a pergola or veranda with panels that move completely out of the way — sliding and stacking to one side, or folding back concertina-style — so the same space is open to the air in summer and sealed against wind and cold in winter, without ever losing the view or the daylight that an outdoor space is valued for.
The systems come in two main forms. Frameless glass sliding walls use toughened glass panels with minimal top and bottom tracks that slide and pivot to stack neatly at one end, giving an almost uninterrupted wall of glass when closed and a fully open side when stacked — the choice where the view and a clean, frameless look matter most. Slim-framed sliding and folding (bi-fold) walls add a thermally efficient frame for better sealing and insulation where the space is heated through winter. Both run on quality hardware rated for daily commercial use, with brush or gasket seals against wind-driven rain, and can be specified with doors within the run for everyday access.
For hospitality this is the system that earns the shoulder seasons. A restaurant terrace enclosed with glass walls and warmed by the pergola's integrated heating serves through autumn and winter as an indoor-feeling room with an outdoor view; thrown open in summer, it is a true terrace again. Glass walls coordinate directly with our pergolas and guillotine windows as one made-to-project enclosure, finished to match the structure.
Some openings do not suit a sideways-sliding wall. A guillotine window system — a vertical sliding glass panel that raises and lowers like a sash window — closes those bays instead, moving straight up to open the bay fully overhead or straight down to seal it against the weather. Counterbalanced or motorised, the glass holds at any height, so a bay can be cracked open for ventilation or closed completely, all without any panel swinging into the space.
Guillotine windows are the right answer for serveries and bar fronts that open to a terrace, for window openings in a glazed enclosure, and for the gaps between pergola posts where a sliding wall would not fit cleanly. They give the same weather control and ventilation as a sliding wall in a vertical format, run on quality counterbalance or motor hardware rated for commercial use, and seal against wind and rain when closed. Specified alongside the pergola and glass walls, they complete the enclosure — every side and opening of a terrace controllable, from one coordinated system made to project.
What separates a contract terrace system from a consumer one is everything that does not show in a photograph: the loads it is engineered to, the quality of the motors, the way it drains, and what is built into it. These are the questions a specifier should ask, because they decide whether a system survives a decade on an exposed terrace or fails in its first hard winter.
Wind and snow load come first. A terrace structure is exposed, and on a coast or a rooftop the wind loads are serious; a contract pergola is engineered — section sizes, post spacing and fixings — to the loads of the actual site, with a stated wind resistance and, in snow regions, a roof rated to carry and shed snow. Motorisation is the moving heart: contract-grade motors, drives and bearings rated for thousands of cycles, with rain and wind sensors that close the roof automatically, handset and wall control, and BMS integration where the building uses it. Drainage is designed in — louvered and glazed roofs collect water to concealed gutters in the beams and carry it down through the posts to the terrace drainage, so there is no overflow at the edge.
Then there is what the structure carries. LED lighting integrates into the blades, beams or perimeter for evening use; radiant heaters mount into the structure to extend the cold-weather hours; side screens — zip-tensioned fabric or glass — close the lower sides against low sun and wind; and the whole assembly is finished in an electrostatic-painted colour to match the building. Because the systems are made to project, the lighting, heating, drainage and glazing are designed together rather than bolted on, so a terrace enclosure works as one engineered installation.
| System | What it does | Best for | Roof / side |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bioclimatic pergola | Rotating louver roof, open to watertight | All-weather terraces | Roof |
| Retractable PVC | Membrane roof folds fully away | Large, open-sky spans | Roof |
| Glass sliding / folding walls | Sides open or seal, keeping the view | Year-round enclosure | Side |
| Guillotine windows | Vertical raise-and-lower glass | Bays, serveries, openings | Side |
Most hospitality projects combine these: a bioclimatic or retractable roof overhead, glass sliding walls down the open sides, and guillotine windows where a bay needs a vertical opening. Spans, loads, motorisation and finishes are confirmed against your project; we build to the terrace rather than a fixed catalogue.
Every outdoor space in hospitality is a chance to add covers, hours and revenue, and the right combination of pergola, shading and glass changes what each space can do. The systems are specified across the full range of hospitality settings, sized and configured to each.
A bioclimatic pergola and glass walls turn a fair-weather terrace into a year-round dining room, protecting covers through rain, wind and the shoulder seasons.
Engineered for exposed, high-wind rooftops, with louvered roofs and zip screens that hold a rooftop service together when the weather turns.
Shade structures and retractable roofs over pool decks and garden dining that open to the sky in summer and cover guests in the heat of the day.
Large-span retractable and louvered systems over beach-club dining and lounge areas, finished to resist coastal sun and salt.
Wall-mounted pergolas, guillotine windows and folding glass that extend a café onto the pavement and close it down cleanly at night.
Enclosable outdoor event space that works whatever the forecast, with full glass walls and integrated heating and lighting for evening functions.
A terrace system is a site-specific engineering job, not a stock purchase, so the process starts with the space. We work from the terrace dimensions, the orientation, the local wind and snow loads and the look the building calls for, engineer the structure to suit, and return a specification across the pergola roof, any glass walls and windows, and the lighting, heating and drainage to integrate. The system is then manufactured to those drawings in Istanbul.
Production generally falls within a four to eight week window depending on size, system and finish. Structures ship worldwide on an FOB or CIF basis, packed for assembly on site, with clear drawings and the motorisation and controls supplied as a coordinated package; we work with the property's local installer or contractor for the fixing and commissioning. A two-year warranty covers the range, and direct factory pricing is provided on enquiry. For a hotel or restaurant group rolling out terraces across several sites, one manufacturer and one engineered standard keep the installations consistent and the spares interchangeable.
Buying direct from the manufacturer also removes a layer of cost and a layer of risk. Working from our factory in Istanbul means the engineering, the electrostatic painting, the motorisation and the glass are specified and made under one roof and quoted at direct factory pricing, with a single point of responsibility for the system rather than a chain of resellers. For a specifier or a hospitality group, that means a clearer brief-to-delivery path, drawings to approve before anything is cut, and a structure built to the project rather than adapted from stock.
A terrace structure is a large, visible part of a building's exterior, so the finish is specified to belong to it rather than sit on it. The aluminium is electrostatic-painted in the full range of RAL and architectural colours, including matt, textured and wood-effect finishes, so the pergola reads as part of the property whether the look is contemporary anthracite, warm bronze or a timber-like frame. For coastal and high-exposure sites, the coating and hardware are specified to resist sun and salt without fading or corroding.
Beyond the structure, the options are what tailor a system to its terrace. Zip-tensioned side screens in fabric or mesh, and glass infills, close the lower sides against low sun, wind and insects while keeping the view. Integrated LED lighting runs in the blades, beams or perimeter, dimmable for evening atmosphere, and radiant heaters mount into the structure to push the usable hours into the cold. For retractable roofs, the membrane is chosen from a range of fabric colours and translucencies to set how much light passes through; for glass walls and guillotine windows, the glazing is specified clear, tinted or low-iron to suit the light and the privacy the space wants. Sensors, handsets, wall switches and building-management control complete the package — all designed in, because the systems are made to project rather than assembled from stock parts.
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Questions
A bioclimatic pergola is an aluminium pergola with a roof of motorised louvers that rotate from fully open to fully closed. A normal or timber pergola has a fixed or open roof and gives only partial, fixed shade. The bioclimatic louvered roof adjusts to the weather — shade on demand, ventilation when wanted, and a watertight seal when it rains — which is why it is the most-specified terrace structure for hospitality.
A louvered (bioclimatic) pergola has fixed-position aluminium blades that rotate to control shade and seal watertight; a retractable system has a PVC or fabric membrane that draws across for cover and folds fully away to open the space completely to the sky. Louvered gives precise all-weather control; retractable gives full openness and spans large widths economically. Many terraces use both over different areas.
Yes. Contract pergolas are engineered to the wind and snow loads of the actual site — section sizes, post spacing and fixings sized to the exposure, with a stated wind resistance and snow-rated roofs in cold regions. This is the main difference from a consumer pergola kit, which is not engineered to a commercial load, and it is what lets the structure survive an exposed terrace or rooftop for years.
A bioclimatic louvered roof seals watertight when the blades close and drains to concealed gutters in the beams that carry water down through the posts to the terrace drainage. Retractable membranes are tensioned to shed water to the gutter. Glass sliding walls and guillotine windows seal against wind-driven rain with brush or gasket seals. Drainage is engineered into the structure rather than added on.
Yes — that is the point of combining the systems. A bioclimatic or retractable roof overhead, glass sliding or folding walls down the open sides, guillotine windows in the bays, and integrated heating and LED lighting turn a terrace into an enclosed, heatable room in winter that opens completely in summer. It is the way hospitality properties earn the shoulder seasons and bad-weather days a bare terrace loses.
Yes. LED lighting integrates into the blades, beams or perimeter; radiant heaters mount into the structure; and rain and wind sensors close the roof automatically, with handset, wall-switch or building-management control. Side screens and glass walls add to the same structure. Because the systems are made to project, these are designed in together rather than bolted on afterwards.
We manufacture the systems to project in Istanbul and ship worldwide FOB or CIF, supplying clear drawings and the motorisation and controls as a coordinated package. Fixing and commissioning on site are carried out with the property's local installer or contractor. For multi-site rollouts, one engineered standard keeps installations consistent across locations.
The aluminium is electrostatic-painted in the full range of RAL and architectural colours, including matt, textured and wood-effect finishes, and coastal sites get coatings and hardware specified to resist sun and salt. Options include zip-tensioned fabric or mesh side screens, glass infills, integrated dimmable LED lighting, radiant heaters, and clear, tinted or low-iron glazing — all designed into the structure and coordinated to the building.
Production generally falls within a four to eight week window depending on size, system and finish. We quote each project from the terrace dimensions, exposure and system mix with direct factory pricing rather than a list price, ship worldwide FOB or CIF from Istanbul, and provide drawings and a specification before manufacture. Talk to us about your terrace for a project quotation.
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