my design fix

Yellow Treehouse Restaurant – Pacific Environments Architects

The Yellow Treehouse Restaurant, designed by Pacific Environments Architects, is situated north of Auckland, New Zealand. The project started out as a marketing campaign for Yellow Pages to build a restaurant in a tree using only services and materials listed in the Yellow Pages.

The restaurant is suspended 10m up a Redwood tree and is accessed via a 60m ramp. It can seat 18 guests at one time and still has room for a bar. The kitchen facilities are located in a marquee at the bottom of the ramp.

The form itself was inspired by a number of things found in nature – a suspended butterfly cocoon to name just one.

If you were thinking ‘That’s somewhere I might like to visit’ I’m afraid it was only open for one fully booked out month during January/February 2009 but who knows – maybe its popularity will lead it to be reopened and become a permanent fixture?

Photos: Lucy Gauntlett

To read more visit the Pacific Environments Architects’ website here.

Or visit the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant website/blog at www.yellowtreehouse.co.nz