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Meat Restaurant “Sazha”

Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko

MEAT RESTAURANT "SAZHA"

YOD Group

ARCHITECTS
YOD Group

MANUFACTURERS
Tiger, Slv, Hatria

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Maxim Netreba, Dmitro Chukhleb, Sergiy Andriyenko

PHOTOGRAPHS
Andriy Avdeenko

AREA
330.0 m2

 YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Kharkivs'ka St, 9, Sumy, Sums'ka oblast, Ukraine

CATEGORY
Restaurant

Text description provided by architect.

Sazha - it's a meat restaurant in Sumy, focused on developing the culture of consumption of steaks in the city.

Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko
Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko

The restaurant's building, like the whole architectural ensemble of the street where it is located, is an example of Soviet constructivism.

Therefore, in our opinion, it was the quite logical decision to realize the interior of restaurant in a modern style, departing from the principle of the classic steakhouse.

Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko
Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko

A picturesque Ukrainian name "Sazha" (soot - is a black powder mass that is deposited in the furnaces, chimneys owing to incomplete combustion of fuel) became both a starting point for creating the atmosphere of the restaurant, and bright reflection of its overall concept.

The restaurant's interior is realized in black and gray tones with blotches of bright copper color in the decoration and blue in the furniture. Such color gamma, enhanced by the play of light and shadow, creates the impression of flicker of fire.

Also in the design of the restaurant used materials that have undergone heat treatment similar to the way that meat goes:

Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko
Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko

granite and dry oak tree are heat treated; hot rolled metal with scales, visually resembling meat in the cut of fiber, is burned; and on the glass thermal printing is used.

The anchor element of the interior is a large screen with X-ray images of various animals. It passes along the entire reataurant and zone it into two parts.

On these pictures are depicted the skeletons of animals, and through the prism of X-rays it's possible to see their inherent beauty.

Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko
Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko

Another highlight of the restaurant is the pendant tables, which also are the movable sections. It is possible to link them among themselves depending on the number of people in the company. The line of the pendant tables symbolizes a conveyor for carcasses in the meat department.

Meat and concomitant processes of its preparation are the key elements, around which the whole concept of the institution is tied. 

Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko
Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko

That's why at implementation of this project we tried to reflect fully the entire aesthetics of backstage processes in the culture of meat consumption.


Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko
Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
© Andriy Avdeenko


Meat Restaurant “Sazha”
Floor Plan

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