Incorporated from the beginning into the list of Parisian architectural icons, the Centre Pompidou is with its mechanistic framework a building in which it is difficult to intervene. Straying from the museum’s vocabulary, the project for a restaurant on the fifth floor amounts to an aluminum carpet – whose tiles follow the 80 x 80 grid regulating the entire building – that is expanded here and there to accommodate the needs of the program. The kitchen, bar and private dining room come in bubbles clad on the exterior with plates 4 millimeters thick, each presenting a differently colored reverse, depending on the function. The constructive grid of the building – where all kinds of fluids are supplied from the roof – becomes the conceptual grid of the new restaurant, which appears like a landscape of boiling magma, frozen in its movement...
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