Explore sustainable and self-sufficient gastronomy at Cascading Glazed Restaurant,
There is a glass tiered restaurant, gently located on a hill set in farmland,
It combines a guesthouse with sleeping in a greenhouse and dining inside a funky gazebo in Pogusch, Austria.
The 2,957 square meter building is named Steirereck am Pogusch.
It has emerged as a new addition to a former rural building
on the site for a look at new avenues for sustainable business and self-sufficiency.
In the course of tackling the project for transformation and extension,
gourmet chef Heinz Rietbauer and his wife Birgitte approached Viennese architects
and Berlin-based PPAG to designate a restaurant project that would demonstrate the innovation and sustainability of the gastronomic business.
Pogusch is a 1,059-meter-high pass through the Austrian Alps.
Steirereck am Pogusch is located at the top of the pass, surrounded by its own farmland.
Design features
According to the company, the challenge was to blend a natural setting with a modern,
ultra-contemporary catering business to ensure a harmonious future.
Through various interventions, pre-existing buildings and additions form a village ensemble on the scale of a rural development in a mountain landscape.
For the most part, the striking new buildings are built into the hillside,
strikingly blending into nature’s surroundings and the traditional built environment.
The pre-existing buildings – a kitchen, a lodging, a stone house and a log house,
besides farming – have been supplemented by new, related buildings.
The new buildings include new catering areas that include a “Saletl” for fine dining,
grill, steam counter, farm shop, regulars table – distillery,
Kitchens with a comprehensive setup – and staff spaces,
and a garden kitchen in a small glass house, and private staff and guest accommodation,
and an extension of the visible and invisible infrastructure.
In the large glass house, which is a combination of a sophisticated greenhouse
and living space fertilizing each other in the atmosphere,
There are integral sleeping berths, as well as a wellness area with sauna and fireplace.
PPAG Architects also designed many details and furnishings to provide the project
with ultra-modern Gesamtkunstwerk proportions – transporting the visitor into an extraordinary mountain world.
Self-care also means caring for the planet: emphasis has been placed on renewable energy supplies (heating, cooling and electricity),
complemented by measures to reduce resource consumption
(on-site food production, circular economy, composting, ecologically selecting building materials)
and reducing energy and carbon dioxide consumption associated with commuting.
