SERRA DA ESTRELA RESTAURANT, CASCAISHOPPING (1991)

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The project was based on two difficult circumstances: the site of the restaurant-charcuterie - a shopping mall, organized into one broad and extensive corridor - and the client's purpose to associate directly the design of the restaurant with the regional origin of products to be sold and consumed there.

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A dark tunnel was built and was coated - floor and walls - with granite plates from Pinhel mountain.

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The charcuterie counter, covered by a metal grid placed at a low height, for hanging hams and cheese, conceals the dining room from the "perpetual spring" (Baudrillard) of the shopping mall.

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The kitchen, visible at the back of the room, is a concavity coated with dark blue handmade tiles, and the sink, exposed in the center of the room, is a carved block of lioz limestone.

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The dark softened granite, the slate, the kambala plywood, the tiles and the black iron placard contrast with the brightness of materials and the colourful advertisements from neighbouring shops.

 

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Design Team:

Architecture: José Neves and Francisco Freire

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