The project is based on the reuse of a small chapel, now in ruins. The neo-Gothic building included a church on the upper floor and a meeting room on the lower floor. The new use of the building as a restaurant is intended to give a new impetus to the district in chronic lack of services, through the reactivation of the courtyard, to be used as a summer terrace. The new self-supporting roof in laminated wood does not weigh on the original walls, and while citing the style of the original building it is part of a contemporary discourse.

status: academic project
for: usi Mendrisio
atelier: R. Tropeano
what: restaurant
where: Wrocław, Poland
when: spring 2017
who: Simon Cattaneo