SLOW-FOOD RESTAURANT

A new building for the Boulder, CO restaurant The Kitchen. Embracing the Slow Food movement, the restaurant focuses on using locally grown ingredients from known sources and clean and natural cooking processes. These ideas of knowledge and openness are given architectural form with spaces defined by transparency and solid-void in which all aspects of food preparation and consumption are visible from almost anywhere within the site. This new structure integrates itself into its urban surroundings with a prominent entrance ramp and separates itself through a setback from the sidewalk and a cantilever above the ground while also incorporating an existing historic building on the site.