Restaurant Project: Shinto

          For this project, we were given the task of designing a restaurant for a client. My client was the Harold Dieterle, a famous chef in New York who has an Asian- inspired menu and cooking techniques.  My concept was the Itsukushima shrine in Japan. The shrine is a bright orange color with strict 90 degree angles. The shrine is surrounded by water, making it look as if it is floating. That is how I chose my color pallet for the restaurant: orange and blue. Our constraints were: the restaurant has retail spaces on either side, it had four columns in the center, and the restaurant had to include: a mezzanine, a bar, a take-out area, 2 meeting places, a waiting area, and be wheel-chair accessible.