AMNH – The Restaurant at Gilder
An interior precedent featuring a dramatic yellow hexagonal honeycomb drop-ceiling that integrates lighting and acoustic management over a warm hospitality space.
- What we like about this project
- The honeycomb cells vary subtly in depth and light integration, giving an undulating, organic topography to the manufactured grid.
Materials
- wood
- metal
- acoustic-foam-or-painted-composite
- glass
Visual identifiers
- honeycomb-ceiling
- yellow-acoustic-panels
- suspended-grid
- wooden-dining-furniture
- slat-wall-panelling
Style tags
- contemporary
- playful
- biophilic-abstract
Visual tags
- ceiling-installation
- parametric
- hospitality
- restaurant-interior
- warm-lighting
- modular
- Geometry
- A dense, suspended hexagonal honeycomb grid spans the entire ceiling plane, contrasting with orthogonal wooden dining tables and slat-paneled walls below.
- Structural guess
- Suspended metal grid supporting modular honeycomb ceiling elements from an exposed black structural deck.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled restaurant dining area with a high ceiling plane dominated by the large modular acoustic/lighting installation.
- Lighting
- Integrated linear lighting within the yellow honeycomb modules casts an ambient, warm downward glow across the space.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, warm, and immersive due to the saturated yellow ceiling canopy.
- Environmental context
- Interior restaurant setting featuring communal dining tables and a beverage station against a dark-paneled rear wall.
- Spatial experience
- The illuminated ceiling canopy draws the eye upward, defining the dining room with a vibrant overhead texture while warm wood tones anchor the lower horizontal plane.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive hexagonal tessellation across the ceiling counterbalanced by vertical timber slats on the rear walls.
- Style reading
- Contemporary playful commercial interior
- Program
- Museum restaurant / dining hall
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- wood, metal, acoustic-foam-or-painted-composite, glass
- Visual identifiers
- honeycomb-ceiling, yellow-acoustic-panels, suspended-grid, wooden-dining-furniture, slat-wall-panelling
- Style tags
- contemporary, playful, biophilic-abstract
- Visual tags
- ceiling-installation, parametric, hospitality, restaurant-interior, warm-lighting, modular
- Geometry
- A dense, suspended hexagonal honeycomb grid spans the entire ceiling plane, contrasting with orthogonal wooden dining tables and slat-paneled walls below.
- Structural guess
- Suspended metal grid supporting modular honeycomb ceiling elements from an exposed black structural deck.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled restaurant dining area with a high ceiling plane dominated by the large modular acoustic/lighting installation.
- Lighting
- Integrated linear lighting within the yellow honeycomb modules casts an ambient, warm downward glow across the space.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, warm, and immersive due to the saturated yellow ceiling canopy.
- Environmental context
- Interior restaurant setting featuring communal dining tables and a beverage station against a dark-paneled rear wall.
- Spatial experience
- The illuminated ceiling canopy draws the eye upward, defining the dining room with a vibrant overhead texture while warm wood tones anchor the lower horizontal plane.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive hexagonal tessellation across the ceiling counterbalanced by vertical timber slats on the rear walls.
- Style reading
- Contemporary playful commercial interior
- Program
- Museum restaurant / dining hall
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior