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Design Develop LLC
architecture firm, Charlottesville, Baltimore,
rendering,
visualization,
entitlement, master planning, planning, 3D point cloud scanning, Owner's Representative, Zoning, Zoning write, Albemarle county,

Fast Casual Dining
Status:
On The Boards
Charlottesville, VA
This single-story restaurant is organized around light, shade, and a sense of arrival. A deep, cantilevered shed roof extends past the glass line, forming a covered breezeway along the entry and a shaded outdoor seating area beyond it. Full-height storefront glazing wraps the dining room, framed by horizontal black mullions that give the façade a layered, linear rhythm while keeping views open to the landscape beyond. A board-formed wood volume anchors one end of the building, its vertical grain set against a darker brick base. At the rear, the site steps down to a lower parking lot, tucking dry storage and back-of-house access below grade and out of view from the main approach. Inside, the palette stays warm and quiet: light wood banquettes, an exposed dark ceiling plane, and globe pendants that read almost sculptural against the glazing.


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