Jacob + MacFarlane Restaurant Georges Centre Pompidou Paris, France

The new concept
Restaurant Georges is located on the fifth floor of the Centre Georges Pompidou with a magnificent view of Paris. The building, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers in the late 1970’s, was recently renovated by Renzo Piano. Jacob + MacFarlane won the competition to design the restaurant in 1998.

The structural grid of the building became the architect’s conceptual grid that, inflated and deformed, accommodated the program. Through working with the space the architects became interested in the idea of an architecture that derived from what existed; an almost non-architectural non-design response to the space. This idea led to working with the floor surface; deforming it in such a way that they could insert a series of volumes beneath; creating a new landscape of both interior and exterior conditions.
The steel framed tables, with battery operated lights, and chairs are aligned with the overall grid blurring the distinction between the interior and the exterior terrace. The terrace platform is raised 70 centimeter above the floor level creating a “sea” of furniture.

Client: SNC Costes / Centre Georges Pompidou
Program: A restaurant with room for 250, a reception room, kitchens and bathrooms.

Design: 1999
Construction 1999 - 2000

Interior Area: 900 square meters
Terrace: 450 square meters

Engineers: RFR Enginieurs
Economy: Forgue economie
Acoustics: Jean-Paul Lamoureux
Inex Fluides
Electricity/Plumbing: Setec

Contractor:
MAG France
Cristal
Cappellini, mobiliers - I Guzzini luminaires
CPLC (rubber)
IDFP (plaster work)
Texaa

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