Basta restaurant

The pearl, Doha 2017

 

A spatially-flipped concept "interning outside". 

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The design starts with a streetscape taking us through a traditional Bahraini alley with its elements and urban features: The baker (khabbaz), Juice shop, and doors to houses with traces of life spilling onto the alley (satelite dish, Aerial, water tank, clothes line on the roof,...)

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The design extends to go beyond "the alley" and allows for a realistic journey into the privacy of one of the courtyard houses in the alley, with its semi-private garden, rooms and terrace, to offer variety of seating options within the intimate house details.

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The design is a small sectional cut-out of the urban fabric, placed into the unit, taking us through a space and time journey into our memories.

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The design engages an extra sense, with a soundtrack of alley noise during the day, and another one with night atmosphere...