OAK bar by dePaor Architects

Irish studio dePaor Architects have inserted this oak grid-shell structure into the café area of Dublin Airport‘s Terminal 2, which opened late last year.

The undulating structure sits in the centre of the OAK bar and provides a canopy over the space.

It’s made from strips of veneered plywood that slot into one another.

Perforated wooden vaults frame the entrance into the café-bar.

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Photographs are by Alice Clancy.

Here’s a tiny bit of text from the architects:

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Dublin Airport Landside bar.OAK

The landside bar and cafe in the new terminal at Dublin airport is a n 84mm oak veneered plywood deformed grid shell as a baldacchino over bar and server.

It stands on three stainless steel shoes on the limestone terrace and suspend a murano glass at the limestone stone bar.

The snug is excavated as a series of parallel vaults with service strips between.

These oak veneered vaults are slot perforated to achieve a smoke reservoir.

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