CACHO RESTAURANT

Emplacement: Llull 27, Poble Nou
Plinth area: 210m2
Property developer: Marandemi S.L.
Date: January 2020–March 2020
Collaborators: Dirty Ducks

Cacho is a spacious and casual restaurant, located in the Poble Nou Barcelonés neighbourhood, located on one of the chamfers at the intersection of Carrer Llull and Joan d’Austria.

The project was born from the desire and illusion of opening a new restaurant by the Foodclub group of restaurateurs, where they could develop a new concept of self-service in an informal setting. The premises where the project was developed is located on a ground floor, with a triangular morphology, typical of the chamfers of the Example Barcelones and a small loft in the deepest part, leaving the rest of the premises with a double height around its perimeter. façade, which gives the space a great deal of light.

The intervention in the premises focused on the distribution of the bar and the productive area of ​​the restaurant as a dynamic element of the space, causing greater functionality of the complex requested by the self-service nature of the restaurant. To do this, both these elements and the service areas were distributed along the dividing wall of the premises, leaving the perimeter area for the development of the restaurant’s public room.

The restaurant is made up of a large perimeter room, completely diaphanous and double height, with great luminosity, due to the large windows on the façade that bathe the entire interior in light, and a more internal service area, where the bar , the kitchen, the public bathrooms and the laundry room, in the upper part of which is the totally private mezzanine and connected through a bar-restricted staircase.

The materials of the envelope are the materials recovered from the construction of the container building of the restaurant, the sanded exposed brick has been left on the walls and the existing terrazzo on the pavement has been preserved, in the new partition constructions the block of exposed concrete and a raw ceramic lattice on the front of the bar. All the furniture in the premises has been recovered, through a rigorous selection of furniture available on online sales portals, which mark the informal nature of the restaurant.