The restaurant Battibecco in BOLOGNA, ITALY by Andrea Trebbi Architect

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In Bologna, the restaurant Battibecco is surely more famous than the central lane where it is situated and from which it took name.

The restaurant opened in 1978 into a small location and immediately became famous for the excellent quality of its cooking.

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• Architects: Andrea Trebbi Architect
• Project: The restaurant Battibecco
• Location: BOLOGNA, ITA

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The early necessity of extension happened and in 1987 Battibecco took the present size. That extension formed a pair of rooms distinguished by natural wood applied in the ceiling and in all the interior components, and characterized by a wall with niches explaining the basic pencil drawing of houses.
In 2016, the rising generation promoted the Battibecco expected restoration plan and the last January 23 reopening is the result of the work.

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Surely stated also by the elegance and comfortable familiarity of the site also, the consolidated and regular attending of the restaurant couldn’t be an undervalued element; so the restoration plan inspiring principles have preferred to choose the compliance with the found themes and to pursue the difficult aim of improving them.

Preserving the continuity of the existing values, the concept interested therefore the indoor composition perfecting, through the new partitions. Only the wall with niches and the ceiling live again in their whole originality.

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In the entrance room, the work reshapes the outer door space, the wardrobe and the administration office; the desired nr 16 table is situated in a different way, the existing wooden tympanum above the bar-desk shows regular forms and horizontal lines of fillets, and a wide mirror faces completely the background lying down the historical reed bench.

In the restaurant room, opposite the wall with niches, a long shield of couple of panels hides the kitchen and services areas passages. In the first panel the horizontal lines alternate on a vibrant sequence of wooden lines and in the second one they follow each other in turns in vertical sense to comply with the ‘sky’ above the services area entrance.

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Colours, lighting, sitting, curtains …, a pair of sculptures designed by the architect – one of which celebrates the many towers that characterizing architectural history of Bologna -, belong to the complements transmitting the work to posterity.

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Tags: Bologna, Italy

Category: Restaurant

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