Shaping the Dining Experience

This brief study for a proposed restaurant in Vancouver’s Polygon Gallery started from an existing ceiling detail from the client/contractor team but adapted it to an undulating geometry unique to this site. The study employed a computational workflow to explore a variety of implementation options, then supported fabrication by outputting working drawings and associated metadata.

Work completed with Assembledge+.

Project inspiration derived from the site context. Both the material palette and geometry reference the coastal environment and public boardwalk adjacent to the Polygon Gallery.

The concept was iteratively refined to ensure the system responded to the dining room functions, establishing constraints and success measures for the design.

With construction logic already embedded in the script, outputting process data for cost estimation, material sourcing, fabrication, and install coordination was a natural next step. Since this data became part of the design output, it automatically updated whenever the design changed.

The final design was intended to be experiential: a unique, site-specific element that enhanced the sense of place and user experience.

A late ask to apply a similar treatment to the cookline ceiling was a straightforward extension of the design exploration. Since the dining room design included building the parametric tool that accepted a simple input, this only involved adjusting a few parameters.