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A long roof for a vegetarian kitchen

Three ways to finish a half-built steel barn as a restaurant, each under the same Mangalore-tile roof.

Long tiled-roof restaurant with timber columns and a stone plinth in evening light
Job
08
Type
Hospitality
Place
Maharashtra
Year
2026
Stage
Unbuilt concept
Area
3,866 sq ft covered
Our part
Exterior design, interior concept, zoning plans, visualisation.

Walk the plan

This is the project's own plan. Choose a room, on the plan or from the list, to stand in it.

The zoning plan, traditional option. Choose a room.

Dining hall with timber trusses, ochre walls and brass lanterns

Dining hall. Design visualisation.

A building already begun

We came to this building mid-construction. A steel portal frame was up, brick walls had reached the eaves at one end, and the other end stood as open columns. The roof had already been decided: Mangalore clay tile.

The plan is a long barn in three parts: an enclosed dining hall, a service core with the kitchen in the middle, and a covered outdoor dining verandah of almost the same size. The verandah had to be cooled on hot days and still feel like sitting outside. That one requirement shaped every option.

Site photograph: steel columns and roof purlins over a raised concrete plinth with steps
The frame over the plinth, as we found it. Site photograph, July 2026.
Site photograph: the unfinished dining hall under red-oxide steel trusses
The dining hall, as we found it. Site photograph, July 2026.
Site photograph: a concrete wall cast with a wave pattern below the open steel roof frame
The wave-patterned wall had been cast before we arrived. Every option keeps it in view. Site photograph, June 2026.
Site photograph: a red Mangalore clay roof tile held in two hands
The roof was already chosen: Mangalore clay tile, here on site. Site photograph, July 2026.

Three exteriors under one roof

Held constant in all three: the tile roof, the steel frame left visible, and a wave-patterned concrete wall that had already been cast on site.

Traditional option: timber columns, ochre plaster and a stone plinthModern classical option: graphite steel frame on a board-formed concrete plinthDeccan contemporary option: dark stone, grey plaster and brick jaali screens

Deep tiled eaves, timber columns, ochre lime plaster on a stone plinth.

The dining hall, two ways

Drag the seam. Traditional on the left, Modern on the right.

Dining hall with exposed graphite trusses, pale walls and a planted wallDining hall with timber trusses, ochre walls and brass lanternsTraditionalModern
Covered verandah with timber rafters, lanterns and planting at dusk
The verandah, Traditional.
Covered verandah with steel rafters, terrazzo floor and a planted wall
The verandah, Modern.

Images are design visualisations by Voids & Volumes, made from the project's own model and drawings, unless a caption says otherwise.

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