The restaurant Daria is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city of Santander, an area which has hosted several restaurants over time and whose walls were once part of an old fishermen's market; time has since overlapped a multitude of layers on the existing walls.
After clearing the space of coatings, floors, false ceilings, layers of paint and superfluous elements, the original space was recovered. Thus, the mixed stone and brick walls, the oak beams and the plaster vaults give its own personality to the place, recovering its original natural essence.
This shift in personality reorganises the space, leaving in the lower part; the service areas, kitchen, bar and toilets, and in its upper part; the dining room that features a newly created double height. For the double height construction steel was exclusively used but in different formats and based the structure on tubes and profiles and the enclosures on a combination of blind sheets and screens, according to the needs of each room.
To create a spatial and perceptive continuity, a latticework of retro illuminated metal chains were over-layered to have a constant and slight balance. This superimposition summarizes the action taken, fusing the metallic element as a representative of the new intervention and the stone face recovered, establishing an interesting material dialogue that highlights the great difference between the two construction stages.