*테라스 레스토랑 리노베이션 프로젝트 인 런던 [ SHH Architects ] The Terrace Restaurant, London

리노베이션 프로젝트는 기존공간과 새로운 공간, 두개의 이질적인 공간이 얼마나 같은 공감대를 형성하는가에 따라 성공여부가 판가름 난다. (때로는 이질적인 대비감을 일부러 형성시키며 공간에 캐릭터를 부여하기도 한다. 공간에 성격에 따라 다르다.)

5개의 대형 아치 윈도우가 위치한 전면부에 수평으로 접합된 증축공간은 기존 건축물의 재료 -적벽돌-와 상이한 재료 -글래스, 스틸-를 사용하며 특색있는 상업공간을 창출한다.

도시컨텍스트와 법규 테두리 안에서 생성된 볼륨은 총 6미터 높이의 크기로 저층부는 1,196㎡ 면적과 중층의 445㎡ 면적으로 생성된다. 이곳을 찾는 방문객들을 위한 레스토랑과 직원식당이 위치한 저층부는 3개의 기존 대형아치 윈도우와 나란히 접합, 기존공간과 긴밀히 연결되며 그 위에 직원들의 탈의실을 비롯한 직원지원시설로 구성된다.

특히 스틸로 이루어진 주요 구조부재와 글래스는 증측공간과 기존공간 간에 대비감을 불러 일으키며 증축공간에 경쾌한 이미지를 형성시킨다.

reviewed by SJ

The project began by assessing the original building, made up of ground, mezzanine and first floor spaces. The 1,196 sqm ground floor offered assisted restaurant service for visitors and a staff canteen area.

The 445 sqm mezzanine floor was comprised of a staff changing area; offices and support space, along with public toilets for the first floor hospitality – private hire space, the Prince Albert Suite (the interior of which was to remain outside of the brief for the new building). Whilst a 1960s, single storey, timber frame extension at the front (extending just beyond the wings of the original red-brick building) had allowed for increased visitor numbers, it was no longer adequate to cope with the current levels of demand.

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The Terrace Restaurant, London
Programme: restaurant
Area: 1000 sqm
Architects: SHH Architects
Client: ZSL (Zoological Society London)
Cost Consultant: WT Partnership
Mechanical & Electrical: ME7
Structural Engineers: HRW
Main Contractor: Buxtons
Kitchen Layout, Counters, Signage: Design Front
Landscaping: James Aldridge Design
Completion: september 2013

The architects demolished the 1960s extension back to its foundations and created a brand new tiered extension to the front of the building, increasing the ground floor area with a new 6meters-high, double-height space at the front, new stairs up to an expanded mezzanine level, a well as a generous new mezzanine terrace deck and a smaller first floor terrace directly above. They also built a small extension to the rear of the building to create new storage space for food. After ripping out a series of suspended ceilings on the ground floor, the building was took back to its original structure, revealing three of the original five arched windows, which now link the new extension to the original ground floor space as a dynamic connecting feature, visible from the building’s exterior.

The overall feel of the newly-remodelled building is clean, raw and urban in glass, timber, exposed brick and steelwork columns, with a striking ribbed deck ceiling in the double-height extension. The huge amount of Mechanical & Electrical required for the building for air handling, cooling and heating is mainly located in the building’s rear service yard, with a further two air-handling units set within two long, thin plant rooms alongside the building’s wings at mezzanine and first floor levels, clad in Parklex with hidden flush doors. Visually, the plant rooms seem to puncture the floor (although structurally they do not), but they extend a clear visual line up through the two levels.

Externally, soldier course block paving announces the new building and separates it off from the herringbone paving of the external square. Outside seating and tables are part- canopied by the building’s overhang for maximum solar shading. South- facing, full-height curtain wall glazing to the front of the extension is punctured by six 2,5 meters-tall doors. At the centre of the glass front to the extension sits a double-sided and folds upwards on opening to create a canopy. When closed, it looks to disappear into the building. Steel-framed, cantilevered stairs with glass balustrades for an open feel lead up from both sides of the ground floor to the extensive mezzanine seating area and the terrace beyond, but barely impinge on the stunning, spacious and transparent feel of the building’s interior.

from  domusweb