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Profile
Susanne Fritz, a certified architect and graduate of ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, runs an architectural bureau in Zurich together with Patrick Schöll. For their clients, they provide an integrated service that ranges from the architecture to corporate identity development, all the way to marketing.
Their latest show-case is the Restaurant Hafen in Romanshorn, Switzerland. The restaurant is situated in a former storeroom that, according to the builders’ wishes, was supposed to be transformed into a spectacular restaurant fully symbolic of nautical science. Five portholes inserted into the side walls with diameters of up to 1.4 metres were envisaged to create transparency vis-à-vis the adjacent premises and optically enlarge the space, which is only around 150 m² large. Although a large-scale kitchen to provide catering for the shipping trade is already in place in the rear section of the building, a portion of the restaurant area was sacrificed in favour of a satellite kitchen to keep routes short and workflows efficient. A curved ship’s prow adjoins the kitchen and acts as bar counter and servery in order to integrate the ‘galley’ overlaid with steel bands and metal sheeting painted white. Protruding wooden ribs form an eye-catching design feature. They visually obscure the view of the ceiling installations and merge into the rear wall of the restaurant, where trays and cabinets have been integrated.
All of the restaurant’s pendant light fixtures are flexibly and adjustably mounted on track lighting systems because seating arrangements at the restaurant vary in winter and summer. In the summertime personnel routes lead through windows that fold back to access the large outdoor terrace with seating for 100. The terrace is spanned by a year-round roofing membrane that provides shade in the summer and keeps it usable when it rains. The windows are shut in the wintertime; more tables are placed inside the restaurant to substitute, creating indoor seating for 80.
Profile
Susanne Fritz, a certified architect and graduate of ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, runs an architectural bureau in Zurich together with Patrick Schöll. For their clients, they provide an integrated service that ranges from the architecture to corporate identity development, all the way to marketing.
Their latest show-case is the Restaurant Hafen in Romanshorn, Switzerland. The restaurant is situated in a former storeroom that, according to the builders’ wishes, was supposed to be transformed into a spectacular restaurant fully symbolic of nautical science. Five portholes inserted into the side walls with diameters of up to 1.4 metres were envisaged to create transparency vis-à-vis the adjacent premises and optically enlarge the space, which is only around 150 m² large. Although a large-scale kitchen to provide catering for the shipping trade is already in place in the rear section of the building, a portion of the restaurant area was sacrificed in favour of a satellite kitchen to keep routes short and workflows efficient. A curved ship’s prow adjoins the kitchen and acts as bar counter and servery in order to integrate the ‘galley’ overlaid with steel bands and metal sheeting painted white. Protruding wooden ribs form an eye-catching design feature. They visually obscure the view of the ceiling installations and merge into the rear wall of the restaurant, where trays and cabinets have been integrated.
All of the restaurant’s pendant light fixtures are flexibly and adjustably mounted on track lighting systems because seating arrangements at the restaurant vary in winter and summer. In the summertime personnel routes lead through windows that fold back to access the large outdoor terrace with seating for 100. The terrace is spanned by a year-round roofing membrane that provides shade in the summer and keeps it usable when it rains. The windows are shut in the wintertime; more tables are placed inside the restaurant to substitute, creating indoor seating for 80.
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