Ristorazione

Ivy Restaurant and Lounge Bar di NAT Office

Programme: Restaurant, lounge bar
Site: Reggio Emilia, Italy
Client: Private
Area: 465 m2
Volume: 1536 m3
Total cost: 0,28 M€
Project Date: April 2015 - May 2015
Theme: July 2015 - November 2015
Technology: Urban greenhouse and interior design
Sustainability: Indoor air phyto-purification, anti-pollution green façade
Awards: Natural ventilation, thermal insulation, oxygen phytoregulation
Architizer A+Awards New York 2017 Special Mention | American Architecture Prize Los Angeles 2017
Honourable Mention | The Plan award 2016 Selected
Publications: World Space designers Tokyo 2021 | Paysage Giardino Contemporaneo Italiano 5 Milan 2018

IVY represents a new way to experience and enjoy leisure time, being surrounded by the green of nature and the warmth of wood. The interior spaces take back the historical building volume to a single open space, where the kitchen and the dining room connect northwards and the large central bar and the lounge on different levels southwards.

The lounge seatings look out towards the street with a number of two places swings (seesaws), that transform the time shared with other people in a moment of pleasure. the
space is characterized by the interweaving of different materials: concrete walls, the sandy look of floor, floor and ceiling plants. the project set up in the basement the whole system of service spaces and storage. the plane trees on Montegrappa avenue represent the main reference of the project: they are so large to completely cover the building and are a perfect shading system for the facades on the road.

The flexibility of the multipurpose spaces is one of the cornerstones of the project, to ensure in time evolution and expansion both indoor to the historic building, and outdoor, in the open and service spaces
of the plot. the concept envisages the development in the future on the cover of a lounge terrace, while the open air expansion of the project has been completed contemporarily with the opening of Fotografia Europea 2016. the new edge has been defined by a set of corten boxes, which contains bamboo canes and embedded light system.