A restaurant concept for the top peruvian chef Gaston Acurio opening a new restaurant in Montreal to introduce a Peruvian speciality and ethnic restaurant experience.
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•Interior Designers: Sofia Cardenas
•Area: 3,389.92 sq feet
•Year: 2023
•Location: Montreal
•Typology: Commercial-restaurant
•1level+mezzanine
Ritmo, color y sabor...
Invasion, it’s the name under which the vernacular architecture that has been developing in the hills around what is the Lima Downtown it's called
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This came with the inclusion of the traditions, culinary, artistic and architectural influence.
This new movement and cultural representation is known as Chicha culture. A mixture of the Andean culture and the Lima traditions, nothing more representative of what peruvian food is.
The design is based in 3 main axes of peruvian representation wich contrast is the basis of chicha style HE LIMA HILLS (the Andes migration, THE YUNZA THREE( the Andes traditions), THE LIMA BALCONY (traditional Lima)
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As a representation of the hills, the plans are distributed in levels, created by different platforms that create a different ambience and enviroment along the way.
The hills...
The yunza tree...
Known as one of the main representations of a traditional Andean celebration, is used in the designs a center axes based in which the platforms are arranged, as it also covers the existent structure and make's it part of the whole design
This main structures is the distribution center, as well as the bar main structure, is what reunites the bar as a center of the whole architectural distribution
The predominant material employed is concrete, accompanied by white walls. Additionally, distinct areas within the space are demarcated by the inclusion of various Peruvian chicha murals, each featuring unique motifs. These murals define the separate sitting areas created within the space
