Project for the dining area of a fast food restaurant.

Our design for this fast food restaurant in the tropics takes special care of the empirical conditions of the site, considering them as an unavoidable material of the project.

Despite the insubstantial quality of the site where the restaurant was to be built, we found that the two existing palm trees ensured a good amount of shade during the hottest hours of the day and in the afternoon, thanks to the neighboring building, the solar radiation did not fall directly on the area to be intervened.

In this sense, we discovered that it was only necessary to protect ourselves a little from the rain, make the wind a breeze and delimit the dining area to give it some privacy.

A restaurant with a roof of light and a canopy of shade.

Based on these observations, the roof is seen as a translucent screen made of light, whose curved silhouette respects the canopy of the palm trees and receives shade from them, crowned by an opening that stimulates the circulation of the wind.

In this way, material and form optimize the conditions of climatic comfort, giving prominence to the palm trees, which seemed accessory and cumbersome before our intervention.

Originally, it was clothing

Faced with the need to delimit the dining area, the proposal arises from the principle developed by Semper of clothing in architecture, evoking the enclosure whose original form is the palisade built with intertwined tree branches.

In order to provide shade, color and intrigue, we designed an enclosure module composed of two distinct layers, which we distributed by repetition around the perimeter of the required area.

Effective in allowing the passage of natural ventilation, the trellis model proposed for the outer face of these modules consists of wide and slightly warped white metal grilles.

As a complement, the orange-colored synthetic wicker fabric on the inner face helps to mitigate glare, providing a pleasant level of illumination while preserving the privacy of the diners.

This sort of zigzagging screen acts as a signal that can be associated with the repertoire of objects and road codes of the surrounding landscape, given the proximity of a gas station, a large parking lot and two expressways.

As on other occasions, in designing this restaurant in the tropics, we sought to seek maximum simplicity, reverse and take advantage of adverse variables, employ basic means and incorporate environmental considerations in order to build an in-between space where light, shade and ventilation are modulated to provide a pleasant and sensual environment.

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