54.2 Tacofino restaurant | OAO - Omer Arbel Office

54.2 is an interior for a new East Vancouver restaurant ancillary to a commissary serving two street food trucks. The room was conceived of as a series of stratified horizontal layers: a haphazard bent copper tube suspension system; lit, blown glass pendants designed to have cavities in which succulents and cacti are planted; Reclaimed wood slabs serving as tables, benches and a bar top; a forrest of steel tubes making up the table and bench legs; a concrete floor.The visitor pierces through these layers as they make their path through the room. All furniture is custom made. Walls are coated in burlap and painted white. Wood for tables, benches and stools is reclaimed. White powder coated steel legs.