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Restaurants & Cafes

Zooco Estudio design seafood restaurant near Santander’s seashore

Located in Tetuan Street, La Hermosa de Alba is a casual, innovative and fresh environment

by Georgina Johnston 06 October 2021

The place is small and is located in a building between blind walls. It is accessed from the north with a small facade, while the south facade faces a courtyard. 

Treatment of the walls in two colours is proposed; the grey ceramic floor continues through the vertical walls forming a high baseboard throughout the space, whereas the rest of the vertical walls and the ceiling are white, looking for a neutral, bright and functional essence. 

The rectangular floor space is organised with a plot of parallel lines in its longitudinal direction, equidistant from each other. These “lines” are materialised by means of wooden slats that run continuously through the walls and ceiling. 

The "lines" are broken to solve the different functional needs, such as running benches, high tables, storage areas and the bottle rack. At the same time that they order elements, they sculpt the space, generating a multitude of perspectives and overlays of frames depending on the point of view in which we place ourselves. 

A large central bar is presented as the main element of the space, located in the middle of it and becoming the centre of operations of the restaurant. The rest of the elements such as metal carpentry and lighting, continue with the formal linear premise, enhancing the game of overlapping patterns and geometries raised by the wooden slats. 

Only in specific places, such as the façade, the kitchen and the toilets, do the ceramic tiles turn bright and colourful and become eye-catching, as opposed to the neutral and calm composition formed by the vaporised beech wood, the ceramic colour cement grey and white rustic monolayer.

Zooco Estudios
Spain

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