Bayroute, Palladium Mall
Bayroute at Palldium Mall is built as a journey rather than a single room, beginning on solid ground and ending in the sky.
The lower level is warm and earthen, built from terracotta and mud toned surfaces with a rustic, handworked quality. Arched openings run through the space, a detail drawn into this outlet specifically, framing a more restaurant forward room than the outlet's upper level, intimate, grounded, and textured underfoot. This is Bayroute close to the earth, materials chosen for warmth rather than spectacle.
A staircase leads guests up and out of that grounded world, passing directly beneath a hot air balloon installation suspended overhead, the same image that gave Bayroute its name now staged as a physical threshold rather than a decorative reference. Climbing through it, the room above opens into something else entirely. Ceilings rise dramatically, the palette turns blue throughout, and the atmosphere shifts into something closer to standing inside open sky than sitting in a restaurant.
The effect is deliberate contrast. Where the ground floor is rustic and rooted, the upper level is expansive and dramatic, the two halves of the same idea, earth below and sky above, joined by a staircase guests pass through the balloons themselves to reach.
Client
The Atlas Project
Year
01/01/0001