Pauli Moto Restaurant

South Windsor, CT, USA
2004 – 2005

This building takes the form of a simple cuboid shell of translucent double-layer polycarbonate walls composing an ambiguous barrier between the restaurants interior and the exterior signaling its presence while also shielding the tranquility of the interior with diverse cut-out window frame openings. Marking the entrance is a slatted ipe wood portico with a large structural trellis over the building, offset extending above the outside dining area emphasizing a towering height. Along the building’s east side is an operable retractable facade dining courtyard sheltered terrace.

Inside, the layout is prearranged relatively with a series of low-screen walls, tables, chairs and timber flooring tiles fabricated from white oiled larch. The ceiling is a generously proportioned wave-shaped extrusion whose warm iridescent diaphanous form illuminates the space, biform accommodating housing the building’s ventilation equipment allowing the dining spaces to remain undefiled and boundless. To the south a pigmented resin mural wall sculpture by the artist Helen Brough, a lowered corner glass window merely serving as a viewing experience for seated guests and visage array claddings of bamboo steamers.

Joint venture with Walker Group CNI