keyspace6: THE VIEWS

The Views

The Views is the rooftop bar + restaurant. With views of the most iconic landmarks of Sydney Harbour, it is already a space that will attract people to visit it. Its bold glowing nature is clearly visible from the forecourt, and even more bold at night. The daring glow of orange intrigues visitors and lures them up to the space. While the architecture of the rooftop and bar are intertwined, their experience is quite different.

The Bar is a vibrant yet calm and mysterious space that offers a casual lounge like experience for users. The soft set joinery in the space allows allows a more warm and playful nature to the space.

The Restaurant experience is an extension of the Cooking School experience in the Coal Handling Shed. Students from the cooking school exhibit their newfound knowledge and skills by providing a culinary experience for their friends and family or locals. Reservations are required in this intimate chef and diner experience as you watch your food being prepared from start to finish and literally move along with it. All while the sun sets behind the Sydney Harbour.

NOURISH

The Restaurant and Bar is an extension of the experience of the Cooking School in the Coal Handling shed as mentioned above. Having a space that celebrates the skills that were attained from the cooking school experience encourages and excites those who have participated. Having a more intimate relationship between the cook and diner benefits both parties emotional and mental health through the nurture like experience.

Moving along the conveyor belt as the food is being prepared not only mimics the movement seen across all the spaces but allows the diner to have a more educational experience with their food. The dinning experience starts facing away from the Sydney harbour and ends facing towards it so that full focus can be placed on the culinary experience.

Process + Research Gallery

Diner and Chef Interaction

Diner and cook have an intimate and performative relationship. The thick orange band under the diner indicates the slow moving conveyor belt that allowes the diner to move with their meal from preparation to service

Kitchen and Dining Bar Interaction

The dining bar rotates slowly around the kitchen to allow diners to watch their meals being prepared. During this process diners can also learn about the nutrition and cooking process.

Form Placement Experimentation

Moving the bar and restaurant towards the back of the floor allows a skylight to be inserted in the floor, opening the connection from the boiler house to the roof. The skylight looks into the aerial silks and aerial stage underneath.

Bar Joinery Diagram

A seating system that involves a cave like experience creates a feeling of safety and warmth for visitors. Having a safe space within a bar can promote mental and emotional health for those who feel anxious when consuming alcohol.

Colour Justification

Orange is an appetite and excitement inducing colour white red is a bold and urgent colour. The combination of the two in the bar and restaurant creates a high energy atmosphere perfect to prime individuals for consumption.

Diner and Chef Interaction

Kitchen and Dining Bar Interaction

The dining bar rotates slowly around the kitchen to allow diners to watch their meals being prepared. During this process diners can also learn about the nutrition and cooking process.

Form Placement Experimentation

Bar Joinery Diagram

Restaurant + Bar

Bar perspective from the skylight showing the diners moving in the restaurant above.

Restaurant Interior

Restaurant showing the relationship between diner and cook with the Sydney Harbour behind.

Restaurant + Bar

Bar perspective from the skylight showing the diners moving in the restaurant above.

Restaurant Interior

Restaurant showing the relationship between diner and cook with the Sydney Harbour behind.

NOURISH

Material Palette

5mm thick pile plush orange velvet carpet

12mm Grade A Laminated safety glass in warm orange

Brushed copper on table tops and trims

Orange wide open weave linen used in ceiling of bar

10mm deep orange LED hanging lights and strip lights

Plush custom joinery

Local Sandstone tiles used on dining table, pulling in the sandstone seen in Sydneys harbour front

Recycled rubber polyurethane particles in black and orange used on conveyor

Dining Table on Conveyor System

Model of the dining table moving around the kitchen table on a conveyer system. This system promotes food and health education while also maintaining the theme of movement within the site.

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