project by Studio DiDeA + Arch. Dario De Benedictis
The concept of “U’ Coppu” borns from the will to bring the tradition of Sicilian Street food within a shop.
The project integrates within vaulted spaces without altering the original volume and the legibility, maintaining the characteristic of spaces in succession in the distribution of new functions also in succession, like: the sales zone, the cooking area and the laboratory area.
Inside the sales area, there is a counter that by form and function takes the typical characteristics of the street food's counter. This is made of strips of larch and glass and from an overhead structure in iron from which hang the lamps that illuminate the entire space.
The sales area is divided from the cooking area by the resin panels and iron uprights in which a pane of glass allows the public to see all stages of food processing. The food is served in the "tile"- coppu - typical cone of paper for take-away food.
In the sales area, the floor slats of larch natural continue along two opposite walls ending in shelves: one of these for support for the public and another, on the wall behind the counter, for the products' exhibition.
To complete the design of the paving is a band of resin that marks the entry threshold and invites to enter.