Three distinctive programs are overlapped into a multi-functioning space that transforms over the course of a day. These oscillating activities include a commercial kitchen making up to 2,500 meals per day, a healthfood café servicing adjacent gyms and yoga studios and a function venue.
This is an open kitchen, open in the way it presents transparency to the patrons and customers while incorporating enough opacity to conceal the “not so pretty bits” of food preparation. In response to the brief we distilled the aesthetic into a balance between cleanliness (without appearing sterile) and luxury (without hotel type opulence). A natural reference point was atmosphere of Middle Eastern bathhouses. The form and spatial division grew in response to rationalising and squaring up the existing partition walls, creating subtle visual barriers and incorporating enough realestate to undertake the multidimensional program.
