Designing the interiors of a new-age Bar+Lounge establishment at the Star Mall in Gurgaon required Sidhartha Talwar, Pankhuri Goel and Ambrish Arora from Studio Lotus to create a contemporary space fulfilling many purposes in-house such as a brew bar, a day and night restaurant, a dance floor and performance stage, all in one.
They responded by placing the brewery on the mezzanine level and making it the backdrop of the customer experience, locating the restaurant in the large cylindrical volume of the site space on the second floor, ensuring sufficient natural light from the north sun filtered in by day and strategically placing the bar/lounge in the darker section of the site.
Low-cost, recycled/ recyclable materials (paper tubes, chain mails etc.) are cleverly contrasted with luxurious materials and finishes (shell clad with stained fire-brick, quilted leather sofas etc.) and make for interesting diversions.
