Dutch architecture office KettingHuls has completed a restaurant pavilion in a park in Maastricht, featuring a circular steel canopy that allows trees to grow through its open structure.
The studio headed by architects Daniëlle Huls and Monica Ketting designed the Restobar Mama pavilion for the recently planned Vrijheidspark in the city's Maastricht-East district.
The pavilion is located in a recently planned park
The park was laid out in the Koningsplein area as part of the two-kilometre Groene Loper greenbelt that runs over the new A2 motorway.
Its landscaping by global firm West 8 features several oval green spaces, including one encircled by a low stone bench that marks the site of the pavilion.
Its circular roof makes it resemble a carousel The rectangular building stands in the centre of the oval and is topped with a circular steel structure that gives it what the architects described as its "carousel-like" appearance.
The pavilion rests on a round concrete terrace that provides space for outdoor seating. One facade is angled inwards and lined with full-height glazing to provide views out onto the park from within the restaurant.
Concrete seating attached to the restaurant walls provide meeting spaces
Concrete benches that extend out from two of the building's other elevations provide meeting places for groups of runners or bootcamp participants.
Leftover terracotta bricks from the Janinhoff factory in Munich are applied to all of the facades. Their colour ...