Award Winning Yellow Treehouse Restaurant

Award Winning Yellow Treehouse Restaurant:

While the world build skyscrapers and towers of glass and concrete, New Zealand has built a restaurant on a tree. Wooden restaurant project Eyzinga Peter (Peter Eising) and Lucy Gauntlett (Lucy Gauntlett) from the Bureau of Architecture Pacific Environments Architects installed at a height of 10 meters above the ground.

Approached to design an ‘off-the-wall', yet real project as a marketing promotion for Yellow Pages, the concept of a working restaurant up in a large Redwood tree is inspired by a suspended chrysalis, in a fairy-tale environment overlooking a meadow and meandering stream on the edge of a forest.

At 10m wide and over 12m high with split-level floor sitting 10m above the ground, it is sustainably constructed from timber trusses forming the main structure and curved glue-laminated pine fins and poplar slats to give it form.

Windows are created by leaving spaces between the slats/fins that keeps the overall form yet affords a variety of permability for the views and light. Access is via a 60m tree-top walkway - an adventure in itself.

The treehouse is designed to be weather resistant using acrylic sheeting fixed to the roof under the fins with roll-down café-style blinds within. Strategic lighting creates a ‘beacon-like' glow at night.

AWARD WINNING YELLOW TREEHOUSE
New Zealand Institute of Architects Branch Award
New Zealand Institute of Design - BEST Awards; Gold Award
New Zealand Institue of Building; Excellence Award
World Architecture Awards - Finalist

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post on : 07th Apr' 2010,