Amar de Lima Restaurant / Barclay & Crousse

Architects: Barclay & Crousse
Location: Chachi Dibós 1201, Distrito de Chorrillos 15063, Peru
Author Architects: Sandra Barclay y Jean Pierre Crousse
Project Manager: Diego Torres Paez
Area: 633.0 m2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma

Structural Engineer: Jorge Indacochea
Client: Club de Regatas “Lima”
Constructor: EITAL

Text description provided by the architects. The restaurant is located in the extension of the sports pier of the regatta club, founded in 1875. The project takes up the elements and materials with which the first nautical venue was built, which remained unchanged until the 1920s:

-Light cover as a horizontal plane.
-Lucernarios as a means of lighting indoor environments.
– Absence of enclosures in its perimeter towards the sea, creating a “large terrace” covered exterior.
-The preponderant use of wood painted white and natural wood characterizing the overall appearance of the building.

The project of the new restaurant takes these elements in contemporary key, without pretending to make a pastiche of the old premises, and setting a benchmark for the future, without renouncing the lessons of the past.