Drive Through Restaurant / Paul Dillon Architects

Oct 2010

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Architects: Paul Dillon Architects
Location: Briarhill, Galway, Ireland
Project Architects: Paul Dillon, Zsolt Zsuffa
Project Team: Brendan Horan, Gerard Rainey
Structural: O’Connor Sutton Cronin
Quantity Surveying: Peter Costello and partners
Landscape: ait urbanism + landscaping
Services: Canney Associates
Fire-Engineering: Jeremy Gardner Associates
Main Contractor: Purcell Construction Ltd.
Project Area: 590 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2010
Photographs: Paul Tierney

On this project the challenge was how to build a drive though restaurant on a site just off the M6 motorway on the eastern edge of Galway City. In addition to the motorway and a maze of other roads, the parking lot of Briarhill Shopping Centre, the Clayton Hotel, Briarhill Business Park also surround the narrow site.

floor plans

As well as the restaurant, the building has a small dry-cleaners drop-off unit at street level. The restaurant is on two levels; the kitchen, storage, staff rooms, and a small seating area are located on the ground floor. The first floor has most of the seating as well as a terrace and play area, which is designed as extension of the indoor spaces. Full height glazing wraps around this outdoor space, and protects from winds.

The floors, walls, columns, stairs and roof are constructed from concrete, which is left exposed in many areas. Externally, three materials are used, stone, concrete and glass. The local stone walls are finished flush with the silicone-jointed glazing and the exposed concrete structure. The roof, which is overlooked from the shopping centre and hotel, is finished with a ballast of rounded washed limestone pebbles. Plant is located under the roof at first floor level.

elevations & section 01

As roads surround the building there is no real front of back to the site, and several design studies were made in deciding how the building might respond to its immediate environment. In the end a very simple form emerged, with a solid stone base at street, anchored to the site, and a glazed first floor, like a public stage above the traffic. Since the buildings entrances faced onto the car park small patios were designed to humanize the portals. This is a simple, robust and local architectural response, to an ordinary, everyday public building type.

: © Paul Tierney

: © Paul Tierney

: © Paul Tierney

: © Paul Tierney

: © Paul Tierney

: © Paul Tierney

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: elevations & section 02

* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "Drive Through Restaurant / Paul Dillon Architects" 04 Oct 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 23 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/80295>

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jeff says:

This looks like every bank in every suburb in middle America. Is there a statement here about fast food and the banking system?

I just don’t like this project.

# October 5, 2010 at 00:04

boring says:

You are right. Nothing special – an ordinary suburban project. Actually here’s quite interesting video-speech http://bit.ly/dA1iNM from James H. Kunstler at TED session where he literally kills suburbia. “The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible…”

# October 5, 2010 at 00:20

archi-troll says:

Mmmm, I could get an In-And-Out burger right about now.

# October 5, 2010 at 01:06

up_today_arch says:

They just show clear shape and good selection of finishing materials… unfortunately it will be injured by outdoor advertising…

# October 5, 2010 at 02:28

Quelava says:

stvarno si tužan lik…koju korist imaš da to trubiš po svijetu i spemaš svaki članak na sajtu svojom gorčinom?
ako je i sramota (a je), naša je. time bismo se sad trebali svima hvaliti?

# October 5, 2010 at 04:41

martin says: