VOLARE RESTAURANT - FLORENCE, ITALY
Plus Hostels in Florence, Italy wanted to redesigned their cafe in celebration of Leonardo Da Vinci’s life and the humanist movement. The desire was to work as with a partner to create a space that combined a concept and influences from Da Vinci’s work. A light fixture was also to designed to be unique and fitting for the space.
The project, designed while studying abroad in Florence, Italy, was developed from Da Vinci’s talent of engineering and technological abilites and thus came forth the project concept of invention. Da Vinci’s inventions were used as inspiration to create a space that embraced the past and the age that kick-started innovation as well as being both comfortable and collaborative. The restaurant was titled Volare, meaning “to fly” in Italian, a representation of the humanist idea to explore new ideas and a tribute to one of Da Vinci’s first mechanical invention which also inspired the styled-wing custom light fixture. This final project was featured in the Da Vinci’s Humanism Student Invitational conference.
(Fall 2018)
