A leading Slovene restaurant and catering chain commissioned
us to develop a new, larger-type restaurant in the DSU Palace
Building in Ljubljana: a daytime restaurant in a building
with 1500 public administration employees. Basic volume, installations
and construction of the restaurant space were predefined with
the building project, our task was to optimize the secondary
space areas and create a new, distinctive restaurant ambient
which would serve as a basis for further chain expansion as
well as for renovations of existing restaurants. We developed
a concept of a series of smaller ambients - guests mentally
connect their size to a more intimate restaurant ambient where
they like to linger. Ambients differ in colour tonality, lightness
and light source type. We designed a table for two as modular
element which can be combined into various table groups according
to need. We are aware that this type of restaurant cannot
have many fixed partitioning elements to provide intimacy,
because it would lose the necessary flexibility. This brings
about the danger of empty volume, which is eliminated with
the stronger planar design of table bases and voluminous lighting
elements.
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