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The project provides the museum with a new space on the second floor to house its restaurant and terrace in
Multidisciplinary interior design firm Zooco recently completed its latest project – the Cantabrian Maritime Museum restaurant in Spain. Located on Severiano Ballesteros Street in Santander, Spain, the restaurant was conceived as part of an architectural complex that also includes the Oceanographic Centre designed by Vicente Roig Forner and Ángel Hernández Morales, built between 1975 and 1978.
Part of the pyramidal aluminum structure
The original building consists of two square bodies connected by a canopy, with a concrete structure. The interior is distributed over three floors, around a central courtyard covered by a vault of paraboloid membranes. In 2003, a renovation and an extension were carried out which included the extension of the west façade and the roof of the terrace with a pyramidal aluminium structure, thus altering the initial conception of the building.
The project provides the museum with a new space on the second floor to house its restaurant and terrace in. To accomplish this, the project involved the creation of a new volume that provides a solution to the pathologies present in the roof and façade of the building.
View of the landscape of the Bay of Santander
The square morphology of this volume is the result of the addition of four triangles that regularise and complete the paraboloids of the original building, thus directing the visitor towards the interior, to the rawness of the concrete paraboloids. In a sense, the geometry becomes a recovered element, a vestige of the past and the protagonist of the interior of the restaurant. Treated as an artistic element, the triangular wooden false ceilings frame it.
The exterior features a glass box that provides maximum transparency (nuanced by textiles in the form of curtains, depending on orientation) and allows expansive views of the extraordinary landscape of the Bay of Santander, lending to the feeling of being at sea.
Triangular wooden false ceilings
Photography by David Zarzoso
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