Architects: TSAN architects
Project: SEA CAN
Style: Modern
Architect in Charge: Max Tsybin
Location: VO market, Bolshoy prospect of Vasilievsky island,16, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Area: 110 m
Project Year: 2020
Photography: Dmitrii Tsyrenshchikov
Description from architect TSAN architects:
Harbor restaurant SEA CAN is a small two-storied structure in historical down town of Saint-Petersburg, placed in the courtyard of Vasileostrovskij Market. The place has traditional cuisine of European harbor towns, with modern esthetically pure interior, that reflects marine theme of the restaurant. Exterior is a large shipping container (sea-can) with panoramic low sill windows. On top of the container, construction trailer faced with wood is erected. Marine theme also can be traced in the interior. Background of the interior is white color. Metaphorical references to harbor and sea were created in container’s white minimalistic space. White mash under the ceiling images fishing-net or smooth surface of the sea with drowned floats represented by lights; grey basement of the wall as a draught-line; wooden floor as a ship deck; circular window as a ship port-light; signs on the wall as Morse alphabet; wooden facades of upper trailer represent old wooden boathouse. The main visual attractor of the space is a bar counter as a part of harbor frame crane. At the bar counter there are beer tapes, made of real handles of harbor cranes. Thus we managed to recreate and stylize esthetic of sea harbor herewith to make space bright, clear and without surplus of details.
