THE LABORATORY OF TASTE

BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIT 13, YEAR 3 ACADEMIC WORK

HIGH CUISINE RESTAURANT/MUSEUM THE TASTING ROOM

LOCATION: LYON, FRANCE

Upon entering the fig and fois gras room the diner realises the room is less of a room and more of podium. A small platform sits in the centre of the room surrounded by a shallow pool of water.

Entrance Room Bread And Butter Room

Golden flutes supporting a handrail leading to a space that delights with fizzing atmosphere and golden liquidy walls. An architecture of exhuberent delight.

Melting walls meet rising floors. The kiln becomes a known mantlepiece vernacular within the space that softens to a creamy architecture. Copper columns hold the spread.

Eventually the bread cracks and opens to a velvet space. The diner is absorbed in wine-stained walls that leave the eyes drunk from chamfered pattern.

High polished chrome, patinaed bronze and handblown glass champagne flute.