Rosso Restaurant / SO Architecture
Architects: SO Architecture
Location: Ramat Ishay, Israel
Project Team: Shachar Lulav, Oded Rozenkier, Eran Mebel
Project year: 2007
Constructed Area: 60 sqm
Photographs: Asaf Oren
The Rosso restaurant is situated in Ramat Yishay, a town in the valley of Yezre-el in the Northern part if Israel.
The beautiful scenery of the Northern part of Israel, with its landscapes of green and red fields, covering the low hills, is a popular tourist attraction, inviting visitors to excursions, with quiet fields, and inviting places to rest in the shadow of oak trees.
The brief seeks to enlarge the existing restaurant space (also designed by SO Architecture) into a back room with proportion of five to two that should allow the arrangement of intimate functions and parties, as well as being integrated as part of the restaurant.
The green hill around the place influenced the design of the place. The planning seeks to explore – How to give to the restaurant space the feeling of its surrounding. The design checks in what manner could it produce an atmosphere, or feeling, of being outside while sitting inside. The designers checked in depth on how to give the diner a feeling of an agreeable space that on the one hand embarrasses, and on the other let it feel airy.
The atmosphere in the restaurant is pleasant. The furrowed fields, which are framed by the strip of windows, find its continuation in the ceiling, and embrace the diner as if by the foliage of trees, with the furrows flowing to the horizon.
The walls are covered in softly textured upholstery – dark gray near to the view, and a light gray at the interior walls – to enlarge the feeling of space. The ceiling is built of thirty-six steel contoured structures, and covered by painted wood. The chairs and the wide windows are decorated in plant motives to enforce the connection with the surrounding scenery. When night falls, the lighting, which is between the ceiling beams, forms a warm and somewhat mysterious, atmosphere.
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- photo by Hayuta Dubnov
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- ceiling elements
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- ceiling computer model
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cool
it may be very romantic to have a dinner in there!
Just wondering what it looks like from the outside…?
it looks like Eric Owen Moss designed office building – 3555
Culver City, CA,
interesting
good
come’on the only thing that can be served in isreal is innocent palestine people’s blood
good amazing felling space
NIUBI
we seem to get back to victorian style and loads of reinterpreted decoarations, hmm good or bad? useful or wasted?
I love it
looks like the banq restaurant in boston.
wondering how is it from outside.
beautiful ceiling treatment…other surfaces seem less considered…acoustically it must be brilliant…gives a lively room without blaring reflections and overwhelming white noise…graft does some ceiling treatments like this and they are gorgeous…
as a follow-up to my previous comment, the treatment of the rest of the room seems a bit weak and insipid, but i need to actually be in the room to substantiate this…i am probably wrong…
roof’s very interesting…but where’s photos of the exterior?
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