Cafe Murano | Angela Hartnett
An interior precedent for hospitality spaces showcasing a dramatic timber-trussed glass ceiling and integrated booth seating, creating a luminous, welcoming dining environment.
- What we like about this project
- The complex overhead timber framing doubles as a sun-shading louver system for the skylight above.
Materials
- timber
- leather
- marble
- glass
- steel
- brass
Visual identifiers
- timber-roof-truss
- gridded-skylight
- leather-banquette
- industrial-pendants
Style tags
- contemporary
- rustic
- hospitality
- warm-minimal
Visual tags
- hospitality
- restaurant-interior
- daylit-roof
- custom-millwork
- warm-lighting
- Geometry
- Symmetrical longitudinal space anchored by an intricate timber roof truss and clerestory system overhead, with a central dining corridor flanked by curved booth seating.
- Structural guess
- Exposed steel-reinforced heavy timber roof trusses spanning the dining hall.
- Spatial scale
- Generous single-story hospitality hall with an elevated gabled ceiling providing substantial vertical volume.
- Lighting
- Natural daylight filtering down through gridded overhead glass and timber louvers, supplemented by low-slung industrial pendants and warm wall sconces.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, inviting, and luminous, blending the structural honesty of timber framing with refined dining intimacy.
- Environmental context
- Interior hospitality venue; ambient street or exterior light is entirely mediated through the overhead roof glazing.
- Spatial experience
- A warm, enclosed dining hall where high overhead daylight through a gridded timber structure contrasts with intimate, low-slung table groupings.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating timber truss units and alternating rows of circular and rectangular table settings establish a steady longitudinal perspective.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rustic hospitality interior
- Program
- Restaurant / Cafe
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- timber, leather, marble, glass, steel, brass
- Visual identifiers
- timber-roof-truss, gridded-skylight, leather-banquette, industrial-pendants
- Style tags
- contemporary, rustic, hospitality, warm-minimal
- Visual tags
- hospitality, restaurant-interior, daylit-roof, custom-millwork, warm-lighting
- Geometry
- Symmetrical longitudinal space anchored by an intricate timber roof truss and clerestory system overhead, with a central dining corridor flanked by curved booth seating.
- Structural guess
- Exposed steel-reinforced heavy timber roof trusses spanning the dining hall.
- Spatial scale
- Generous single-story hospitality hall with an elevated gabled ceiling providing substantial vertical volume.
- Lighting
- Natural daylight filtering down through gridded overhead glass and timber louvers, supplemented by low-slung industrial pendants and warm wall sconces.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, inviting, and luminous, blending the structural honesty of timber framing with refined dining intimacy.
- Environmental context
- Interior hospitality venue; ambient street or exterior light is entirely mediated through the overhead roof glazing.
- Spatial experience
- A warm, enclosed dining hall where high overhead daylight through a gridded timber structure contrasts with intimate, low-slung table groupings.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating timber truss units and alternating rows of circular and rectangular table settings establish a steady longitudinal perspective.
- Style reading
- Contemporary rustic hospitality interior
- Program
- Restaurant / Cafe
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior