A 3-D frame is the solution to a restaurant's irregular geometric space.
Movable partitions divide the large volume of space.
The building has 15-foot ceilings and walls that do not meet at right angles. However, looking around the restaurant with its vaulted ceiling, colonnade, pilasters and wall niches, one would not guess that there is an irregular geometry to the space. According to James Knafo, project designer, Inside Architecture P.C., Hopewell, NJ, the solution to this irregular geometry was to seemingly insert a three-dimensional frame that was regular in geometry into the space. The straight and repetitive rhythm of the pilasters and a colonnade on either side of the restaurant are the major elements of this frame. The vaulted ceiling above springs from a height of eight feet at the colonnade to the full 15 feet at the pilasters.