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 thresholds 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 setting, 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)
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