Kama

A restaurant in a countryside hotel is a very specific category involving various work scenarios that alternate throughout the day, and each of them requires its own atmosphere and environment parameters.

A cup of coffee in a hall lit with morning sun or a dinner with muted lighting, a buffet dinner for all the guests or a cocktail in an intimate setting. Such contradictory processes coexist in a single space, which, due to precise zoning, scale and geometry as well as orientation that takes into account natural lighting regimes, becomes a variable public space. At the same time, typologically this is a “third space” with open use scenarios, a public house.

The solution that we found for the shape is based upon the image of a house: a fractured inclined roof covers an integrated flowing space containing reception desk, bar and restaurant hall, resting against a “backbone” made of cast reinforced concrete.Meanwhile the kitchen and service rooms are integrated into the relief, covered with a green roof and hidden from the guests of the hotel.

The workplaces of receptionist, barista and barkeeper are combined into one extended seamless “hospitality desk” which stretches from the entrance into the depth of the hall.

The main hall approaches a triangle in plan, and this lets us create a stained-glass façade opening onto the Kama River that is as extended as possible, at the same time keeping the total area of the hall down to a reasonable size