This project is a restaurant with a research lab that the chefs use for investigating new ingredients that can be used for their dishes. The project's site is in a tundra climate region.The project follows a five course meal, soup, salad, appetizer, main course and desert. Each of these courses have been transformed into a building of its own. Thus, the diner would experience each course in a completely different environment. The site consists of different ecosystems such as riparian ecosystem, meadow, vegetable farm, sugarbush and forest. The buildings have been placed near the ecosystems that would suit them the best. For instance, the desert building is situated in the sugarbush region.
Further, inside of each building, an artificial environment is created that imagines what the ecosystem which surrounds the building would be like in a tropical region. Thus, the chef is provided with both tundra and tropical region ingredients in order to create his dishes. Since the dishes that have been created is the resultant of the fusion of two regions, a special artificial environment is created which contains a mixture of both types of resources grown.
This region is not naturally possible and hence is a unique experience that the restaurant offers. It helps the diner’s experience engage this new, weird environment through taste, sight, smell and touch.
Further, inside of each building, an artificial environment is created that imagines what the ecosystem which surrounds the building would be like in a tropical region. Thus, the chef is provided with both tundra and tropical region ingredients in order to create his dishes. Since the dishes that have been created is the resultant of the fusion of two regions, a special artificial environment is created which contains a mixture of both types of resources grown.
This region is not naturally possible and hence is a unique experience that the restaurant offers. It helps the diner’s experience engage this new, weird environment through taste, sight, smell and touch.