The project proves that a temporary structure can create a meaningful architectural impact. Its inward-facing environment buffers noise, improves on-site microclimate through landscape and water, and reduces permanent impact with a removable steel-and-glass structural system.
Karthik Hariharan, Krishna Kishore
Bold roof forms, transparent spaces, and water-led courts dissolve the line between inside and outside. The site is framed by low-rise neighborhoods, industrial pockets, and open fields. Because the land is leased, the client emphasized that all structures must be temporary, removable, and reusable. This led to the decision to build primarily with steel and glass, enabling faster execution, future adaptability, and the freedom to explore a more dynamic architectural language.
A defining requirement was to create a dynamic architectural character, highlighted by large, tilted roof planes extending in multiple directions. Conventional edge-supported columns diminished the cantilevered effect, so the design developed a system of V-columns originating from the central floor and branching outward to support the roof. In the indoor dining zone, primary supports were shifted to the perimeter and wrapped in glass, further concealing their presence and reinforcing the floating roof expression.
Fact File
Typology: Restobar
Location: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Project Size: 35,000 sq.ft
Status: Completed - 2025
Photos: PHX India
Concrete Texture Wall Paint: Asian Paints
Ceiling: WPC Board
Wooden Tiles: Kajaria
Jali Blocks: Nuvocotto
Cubicle Partitions: Greenlam
Hardware & Fittings: Dorma
Furniture: BOE
Rules required a large portion of the site at the perimeter to remain open to the sky, limiting construction. This area was reinterpreted as a landscape spine with water bodies, planting, and stepped outdoor dining pockets. What began as a restriction became one of the key spatial features, creating a buffer from the surroundings and giving the project a sense of being enclosed in its own landscape.
A central courtyard with a 23-ft free-standing water cascade and linear water body becomes the core, splitting the built mass into two wings on either side. Both indoor and semi-indoor dining spaces face this courtyard, which incorporates tiered floor levels with dining pockets at different elevations. A floating bridge deck spans above the central pool and is accessed by a spiral staircase.
The project combines timber finish ceilings, concrete textures, floorings made of kota stone, jet black and steel grey granite, walls of rammed earth, rubble stone cladding, Corten steel accents, and large contemporary glass panels. The interiors are animated through suspended installations, focused lighting, Q3 pendant lights, clustered paper lanterns etc which balance the structural expression with a warmer, more tactile character.
