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Restaurant is a japanese restaurant built in the city of Rennes, west of
France, on the renewed avenue François Mitterrand along the river Vilaine.
The restaurant
takes place on a triangular shaped plot at the meeting of St Cyr quay and the François Mitterrand
avenue, next to a recent collective housing operation. It’s a 3 levels building
plus an attic, above a basement floor.
The volume
arises from the respect for the authorized size, optimized in its height, while
assuring the continuity of the skin treatment in front of the glazed dining
rooms. The dark grey vertical aluminium slats provide the just insertion of the
project while offering changing views playing on the effects of mass and
lightness of the building.
The frontal
views are transparent through the building and offer a view on the
river Vilaine. The diagonal views emphasize the massiveness of the
building, assured by the perspective of the aluminum slats set.
Each
floor corresponds to a particular function : the kitchen at the basement,
a bar on the groundfloor, sushis conveyors (kaitens) on 1st and 2nd floor, a
grill (tepan yaki) at the attic level under a glass roof, they are connected by
a panoramic elevator at the bow.
This
building realized with precision provides at the same time the role of urban
articulation while proposing an unusual and gastronomic quality place.
The panoramic elevator takes place at the thinner part
of the plot forms sign in the daytime and at night. The horizontal notification
is assured by the transparency of the
ground floor.