Located at One Shelley St in Sydney’s King Street Wharf precinct, Vessel offers a café, bar and dining experience as well as being ideally placed for functions. Owned by the Vardis Group, Vessel also boasts a coveted 6 Green Star Rating.
A competition for Vessel’s design tender was held in the form of a presentation to Macquarie Group against other design firms. Ergo Architecture & Interiors was awarded the project in April 2009. The brief was to accommodate a café, bar and restaurant. Ergo then formulated a concept based on site location, irregular floor plan and targeted clientele.
These irregular internal spaces and footprint allowed for a unique design with each of the three spaces designed individually. However linking elements were used throughout with comprehensive
consideration of services and the function of the spaces. The concept was then revisited and the aesthetics and function were merged as one.
The element that really ties the concept together is the floorscape which follows the fluidity of the ceiling and wall in a curvilinear motion linking the spaces. This is reinforced by the timber slatted ceiling, emulating motion of sea as it merges with the rear curvilinear wall linking the three spaces (café, bar and restaurant). The ceiling space is exposed services reinforcing a ‘machine-like’ response to nautical/industrial design.
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