Gambero Rosso Restaurant in Brescia, Italy by Studio Artec

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In the heart of Brescia’s city centre, Gambero Rosso Restaurant is situated in an environment where the remains of a porch of a fourteenth-century cloister coexist with spaces built in the 1960s, following the bombings of the convent which happened in World War II.

Dining hall - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

• Architect: Studioartec
• Name of Project: Gambero Rosso Restaurant
• Location: Brescia, Italy
• Design Team: Bruno Tonelli, Massimiliano Gorlani, Marcello Peli, Giovanni Mosca
• Project area: 250 sqm
• Project year: 2009
• Photographs: Bruno Tonelli
• Software used: Autocad LT and Allplan to design and render the project

The space has been redesigned around the medieval vaults, built also with the spolia of Roman columns, so that they remain the core of the main hall of the restaurant, placed on a podium of three steps beyond the entrance.  In the latter we find the bar and the reception. The bar is built in rosewood with a thin top in Botticino Marble.

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

The twentieth century portions of the dining spaces have been treated with a wavy, wooden ceiling that, in a contemporary way, counterpoints the medieval vaults and Botticino marble columns. The ceiling is made of painted spruce fir wood. Light shapes the ancient and contemporary spaces, suffusing the whole atmosphere.

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Key materials and products: Botticino marble for the columns, the top of the bar and the staircase, painted spruce fir wood for the ceiling, rosewood for the bar, plaster for walls’ and vaults’ finishing. Flos ‘Taraxacum’ lamps for the wooden ceiling and ‘Metalspot’ lamps in the other portions of the restaurant.

Dining hall - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Dining hall - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

Interior View - Photo by Bruno Tonelli

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Tags: Brescia, Italy

Categories: AllPlan, Autocad, Restaurant

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