Boca del Lobo Restaurant / Jose Maria Saez & Daniel Moreno

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Text description provided by the architects. Thanks to Abitare who discovered this new project in Ecuador.

Boca del Lobo Restaurant / Jose Maria Saez & Daniel Moreno - Facade, Windows
© José María Sáez

The intervention gives continuity to the restaurant and it is shown as a showcase to see and be seen. The floor works as the same time as platform, scenery and a place to sit. Outwards, a metal box frame the indoor activities that are crossed by an existing tree, a tree that becomes an object with an iconic presence. The project intensifies all the existing, as the tree, or recycles itself almost entirely.

Boca del Lobo Restaurant / Jose Maria Saez & Daniel Moreno - Chair, Table
© José María Sáez

The existing building walls are cut with a grinding machine and moved to become the new walls. The wooden roof rises up and prolongs itself strengthened by external tensors. The structure above the roof allows a large and continuous space in the inside just with a single support.

Boca del Lobo Restaurant / Jose Maria Saez & Daniel Moreno - Table, Chair
© José María Sáez

The strong personality of La Boca del Lobo restaurant is shown in the broadening. As a collage, three strips of different materials (red recycled metal, religious iconography tile, the bar made of undressed lumber) arranges a baroque scenery composed by people and objects designed by the clients themselves.

Boca del Lobo Restaurant / Jose Maria Saez & Daniel Moreno - Beam
© José María Sáez

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Address:Quito Canton, Ecuador

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Cite: "Boca del Lobo Restaurant / Jose Maria Saez & Daniel Moreno" 27 Mar 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/53748/boca-del-lobo-restaurant-jose-maria-saez-daniel-moreno> ISSN 0719-8884

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