Architects: Koichi Takada Architects
Location: Maroubra, Sydney, Australia
Project Team: Koichi Takada, Robert Chen
Construction: Bonar Interiors
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Sharrin Rees & KTA (under construction)
We aim to change the way we eat and chat in restaurants. The acoustic quality of restaurants contributes to the comfort and enjoyment of a dining experience.
We have experimented with noise levels in relation to the comfort of dining and the ambience a cave like environment can create. The timber profiles generate a sound studio atmosphere, and a pleasant ‘noise’ of dining conversation, offering a more intimate experience as well as a visually interesting and complex surrounding.
The series of acoustic curvatures were tested and developed with computer modelling and each ‘timber grain’ profile has been translated and cut from computer-generated 3-D data, using Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology.
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I like this lines:)… concerning to the view exectly upward, I would suggest to install these boards more frequently, but it good in this way too.
i would suggest to instal these wood cutted ribs less frequently, and next instal wood panels on them to make this space more “liquid”
compare (from 1975!): http://www.zenth.dk/research/makovecz/Farkasret/farkasred.htm
@georgecostanza: imre makovecz was too my first thought when I saw this restaurant.
http://www.eloepiteszet.hu/?q=en/makovecz-imre/farkasret-ravatalozo
belly of a whale!
This looks very similar to cre8architecture Art Fund Pavilion (spacewise and concept wise)
http://www.archdaily.com/21947/art-pavillion-cre8-architecture/
Actually it does very much! I must admit I love both schemes
cre8architecture pavilion has an extra perpendicular layer of ribs which actually adds a little more complexity/interest.
the Idea of the ceiling shapes design is very good (but not very new; smth a bit similar I’ve saw somewhere). Anything else – well, modestly/simply. a lack of good design decisions (like ceiling shapes).
Unfortunately, nearly a complete rip off of Office Da’s restaurant in Boston almost 3 years ago -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35331655@N03/4057668003/
I guess it could be coincidental, but similarities this close are bound to be suspect…
@alex, that would defeat the purpose of the ribs, which is to control the sound.
Hey Dan, i have never seen BanQ, (what a cool name), and i buy a lot of arch. publications, and browse a lot of architectural websites, so I think it is entirely possible that KT, being much busier working than me, has also never seeing it. Saying it is “a complete rip-off” is pretty offensive and uncalled for.
Well people check the completion dates and publication dates of all those mentioned projects. Then think about how long it takes to go from first meeting a client to developing a concept . . . then how long it takes for approvals, construction, inspections and all the rest.
Then consider that each project is for a different client with different needs, complieing to different regulations in different sites, before you start thinking one is better or worse.