Restaurant Design | By Talha Shahid Architects & Associates -Islamabad,Pakistan

Project	Restaurant
Location	H-13  Islamabad -Pakistan
Architecture Design Firm	Talha Shahid Architects & Associates

This is an Upcoming restaurant project in Sector H-13, Islamabad. (Opposite NUST Gate-II). The story of this project is a complicated one and was a challenge to deal with for a young team like ours.The owner of the land had already established a motor workshop on the site. And to expand his business, he decided to start a restaurant business, while running the same motor workshop business in the same location. The other challenge/constraint of the site was that a structure of 30’x30′ was already built on site which was being used as a real estate office and we had to incorporate this volume into our design, as the client didn’t want to demolish this volume to save cost.

 Following the client’s brief, we have designed the restaurant’s main kitchen and seating on the first floor with a semi-covered terrace space as well. And added roof-top seating with a barbeque area.

The radial landscape design enabled us to add more seating while maintaining privacy for the users. We segregated the restaurant’s lawn and the workshop car-parking by planting bamboos.To balance the energy of the outdoor space with indoor space, we designed minimalist lighting and tried to bring outside inside by proposing green-ceilings.

The facade of the restaurant has been designed with a very minimalist approach, yet keeping in mind that it should look elegant and be able to pull the flux crossing through Kashmir Highway; and for this we have provided enlarged fenestrations.”

The name of the restaurant will be disclosed nearing its opening date.