L’Éclat de l’Art

The project is designed to celebrate the Art Nouveau era through an innovative theater dining experience. Adhering to the principles of making art accessible to all, integrating art into everyday life, and achieving a "Total Work of Art," the design carefully respects the natural contours of the sloped site. This approach led to the creation of a stepped base that supports the theater dining space above.

In this unique dining venue, the concept of theater dining comes to life with food prepared as a live performance. Chefs will craft dishes in an open, theatrical setting, allowing diners to witness the culinary process as part of their meal. This immersive experience enhances the dining process, transforming it into a multisensory event where art and food merge seamlessly.

The elevated building mass allows the site to remain open and accessible, creating a porous environment that fosters community interaction. The ground floor is dedicated to a dynamic community space, designed to host daily gatherings and events. This design not only brings art and dining together but also creates a welcoming space for social connection and everyday use, fully embodying the guiding principles of the project.

3 design concepts 

1. Art is accessible to all

Art Nouveau was the new era where there was an emergence of a new rich middle class due to the age of industrialisation. This made art more accessible to the common man. To bring this accessibilty into the context of Lisbon, which in intself is a very inclusive city immersed in art, we decided to make the ground floor enterance space an urban space. It would feature a stepped landscape, creating multi level green spaces with dynamic platforms. This would create a setting for Community activities, temporary art exhibitions, create reading nooks. The space will feature architectural columns inspired by the form of trees, the steps flooring will be mosaic

2 total work of art

Art Nouveau was the era where artists, designers and architects tried to blur the boundaries between Fine arts and Applied arts. This led to the emergence of the concept of “Total work of Art”. Taking this concept forward in this projects, led to the creation of Immersive Theatre Dining, Where The function of dining meets artistic expression. The space is featured as a A grand theater with an immersive dining experience, The dining space is set on multiple stepped, tiered levels, each level featuring organically arranged dining tables facing a central stage. The stage is slightly elevated with a curved, luxurious backdrop. warm, with dim ambient lighting, soft spotlights, and elements of brass, and marble.

3. art in everyday life

To enable people experience creativity and the true essence of art nouveau, came the concept of a winter garten cafe. people are sitting on the chairs talking to each other, reading books, some people are drinking coffee, some people are walking around. there are a few bookshelves ,workshop space for creatives