Wildernesse Restaurant Morris+Company

摘要

The new Wildernesse Restaurant pavilion scheme forms the social heart of PegasusLife's Wildernesse Estate retirement community at Sevenoaks in Kent. It is a contemporary counterpoint to the Grade Ⅱ-listed country estate. Built from timber and with a dramatic sequence of vaulted ceilings, the restaurant offers a new shared dining space and gathering point for the estate and wider community. The light-filled internal spaces are accentuated by a central elevated lantern and richness of finishes that aim to reinstate an earlier pavilion typology to the estate. The restaurant is designed to be free-standing, lightweight and elegant, acting on cues thatthe main estate building evokes. Offsite production of the timber superstructure enabled a rigid and precise 4 × 4m structural grid of arched bays and columns that are exposed internally, providing a striking backdrop. This primary grid is wrapped in a stained timber layer, which is then further dressed in an outer delicate and intricate metal skin, nodding to the windows of the main estate building.