Void Restaurant
Void restaurant poses a stark contrast to the rest of the site, incorporating darker tones that encapsulate the audience within the space and allow for a unique dining experience that can be understood as separate from the education-focused spaces.
It intends to align with the darker materiality and industrial feel of White Bay Power Station to allow a moment of appreciation for the existing building before moving throughout the rest of the spaces. Which focus on materiality creating new experiences and atmospheres which align the audience towards the new ideas and learning intended to occur there.
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Level 0 provides restaurant and cafe-like spaces that have varying levels of engagement and choice in seating. Creating enclosed secure pods, that consume the viewer, contrasted against the exposed seating at the base of the oculus. All are surrounded by banquette seating that allows people to exist in the space without necessarily using the space as a restaurant, instead passively activating the floor as a community space that functions, ultimately for them.
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A place to refresh, connect and support.
A space for nourishment that can provide economical gain to support Overflow and its heritage host to ensure that this new function is able to inhabit the space and support its protection and conversation as a State heritage-listed site. Void Restaurant is a space of nourishment for multiple reasons, it feeds the people and the site, allowing both to co-exist and flourish.
As the inserted architectural gesture of the void lands within Level 0. The internal room it creates becomes a part of the Void. Layering heavy in-situ tables to weigh down the height of the space and integrating the existing design language of the shells through the continuous seating and playful furniture from Design by Them.
In contrast to the open and exposed experience of the void, weighed down but custom tables, the metal shells of the pods allow them to encompass the audience. With the bespoke banquette seating continued within the pods, coupled with further Piper tables and Fenester chairs the pods are able to create a seemingly heavy and light experience through their juxtaposition.
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The detailing combines curved banquette seating that recedes into the floor, creating the sense that the seating is floating and mirroring the same curve in the top cap allows it to bleed back into the metal shell. Layering the backrest of the seat with further curves to soften the shape and add a more human scale to the space.
Curved entry sides are then applied to cover the edges of the banquette, mirroring the created design language and exaggerating entry to the interior dining experience,
