Cosmo Grill, Munich, Germany

Cosmo Grill is a blend of the profanity of a fast food snack bar with the sophistication of Japanese dining and a combination of the cosmopolitan and the local.

The Cosmo Grill is the last snack bar on the edge of the universe. Collective memory reminds us of a past future, heroic modernism, and when space was seen as the final frontier and Utopia was just around the corner.

DIAGRAMMATIC DESIGN

Distorted rectangles of MDF produce a sort of curved spatial diagram. This type of relief is reminiscent of 1970s wall designs in Baikonur, the Kazakhstan Cosmonaut city. However, instead of rows of identical elements, the new idea consists of parts that resemble one another and were produced using a CAM five-axis milling machine.

Standardised production as a paradigm of modernism experiences a shift to mass customisation – retro becomes future design.

The shape of the Cosmo wall was modelled using a computer-animated simulation of the gravitational field of our solar system.

Above the entrance is the Cosmo chandelier, the shape of which was also derived from the Swarovski Cosmo wall simulation. Whereas the Cosmo wall presents its material as a positive shape the Cosmo chandelier visualises the immaterial gravitational lines as a negative outline produced from light.

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