Super Pollo

A simple structural frame creates a pavilion that extends the existing dining facilities of a Ecuadorian restaurant in the neighborhood of Ridgewood.

The white painted steel frame creates three rooms – a exterior roof deck above, a glass enclosed interior room at street level, and a patio between the frame and the existing building. The interior room is warm and inviting, bright in color with the texture of painted wood panels. It opens to the patio and the street with large operable glass doors. The patio serves as a transition space between the interiors of the existing building and the pavilion, and the roof deck. An active green wall at the rear of the patio leads the eye to the stair to the roof deck, which is a pergola – a green room combining permanent shading and enclosure from Virginia Creeper and ivy.

The new pavilion also functions as a water collection device – all the water from the roof of the existing building, the patio, and the roof deck of the pavilion will be collected and stored in a cistern at the rear service area of the pavilion, and used in turn of irrigation of the green room above and the plant boxes that extend along the street seating of the existing building. In addition to the pavilion, the existing restaurant dining room spaces are expanded and connected, and the kitchen and bar areas are to be reconfigured to improve workflow and efficiency within the restaurant.