FAM

North Vancouver, Canada

Located on a prominent site within a new community development, the restaurant is slated to become a new point of gathering for the local community and beyond.
The restaurant concept is inspired by a mixture of the senses that one would experience in New York neighbourhoods as well as upscale Italian restaurants in the 1940’s-60’s with some odes to old world Italy and its countryside.

Credits

Client

Confidential

Office

Sml Studio Architecture

Area

207 m² / 60 Seat Capacity

Status

Ongoing

Visualisation

Rendergram

Concept Axonometric

The Piazza, a central outdoor public square or marketplace, is often the space for gathering for
any Italian town or city across the country. It is often surrounded by classical architecture with arched openings, acting as a device for organising public and private spaces or forming a veranda of a house in this context. This language is also found in a contemporary setting, as it is used as a way of signifying important thresolds and articulating interior spaces.

Using this as a guiding foundation, the design for FAM was conceived based on the Piazza, a place of family and gathering, found within an Italian context. A feature archway is formed as a framing device, like a building’s facade facing the outdoor plaza in an Italian town settting, with a new second storey introduced for the main dining area above the kitchen areas.

Proposed Floor Plan (Left: Main Floor Plan; Right Upper Floor Plan)