스위스 북부 바젤(Basel)에 위치한 Paterre One은 빈티지와 인더스트리얼이 조화롭게 어우러진 상업 공간이다. Basel에서도 가장 중심부인 Kaserne Basel에 자리해 있는데, 이곳은 오래전 군대 막사가 있던 곳으로 군대 철수 이후 지난 50년 동안 문화적 요충지로 기능하기도 했다. Paterre One의 가장 특별한 점은 다양한 액티비티가 가능하다는 것이다. 디자이너는 이곳이 단순히 음식만 즐기기는 곳이기보다는 문화생활과 레저가 가능한 즐거운 공간이기를 원했다. 그러한 이념을 바탕으로 해 기존 건물에서 파사드에 변화를 주어 러프함과 모던함을 함께 느낄 수 있는 외관, 색다른 테마의 내부 공간으로 새롭게 태어났다.

 

Paterre One에는 중앙 메인 공간을 기준으로 식사, 음주, 음악감상 등을 위한 개별 공간이 준비되어 있으며, 자연 친화적인 히든 스페이스 겸 테라스가 존재해 다채롭고 화려한 공간 구성을 자랑한다. 건물 중간에 위치한 육각형 천공은 위압적이고 장엄한 느낌을 주는데, 이는 담소를 나눌 수 있는 1층과 최고의 음질로 음악 감상이 가능한 2층을 연결해주는 통로이자 콘크리트와 목재, 금속 등 날 것의 재료를 그대로 사용해 자칫 단순해 보일 수 있는 내부에 독특한 요소로 기능한다.

 

Parterre One is located in Kaserne Basel, a heritage protected ensemble in the heart of Basel. Kaserne used to be military barracks and has been converted into a cultural hub for the last 50 years, since the army left. Our client had a new vision for his corner: he had a restaurant, a bar, and a venue that were next to each other but never worked together. Our mission was to make one cultural and leisure pole with the three of them. Within this frame the project became an architectural geode: an existing building with refreshed facades and a surprising interior around a thunderbolt gallery. It was obvious to us that the patio had to become a new central space: a meeting room of the different activities (eating, drinking, listening). The patio had always been there but was completely filled up to the point of becoming a hidden space: there is even a small tree that survived the different phases that now sits happily as a protagonist. We cleaned the patio and furnished it with a new dark-colored concrete landscape, not only solving the height difference to the existing floor but also offering sitting spaces. This new discovered space has a cozy touch and sitting benches made with tree trunks, just cut at the right height. The bar needed to be split into two in order to create a wide smoking lounge and a small bar to order your cocktails (by the way, some of the best in town). This smoking lounge is a continuation of the patio, covered with a winter-garden roof that can be opened in summer. The vegetation flows along the space creating a green oasis with wood furniture, including a custom-made wood bench that becomes the star of the night’s conversations. The new venue has very high acoustical standards and provides a new venue for concerts and theater. Its characteristic gallery with broken edge that become meeting niches gives a new strong image, ideal for its use. The upper floor is hung from the new structure, creating a column-free space in the ground floor: almost as if the ceiling were floating. In the upper floor, a custom made element solves the railing, offers a sitting bench, and ends in an extra bar.