The Wonderland.

Drawing on the idea of Surrealism and taking in to consideration the variety of people who pass through my site on a regular basis (young children and families), I have decided to use elements from the story ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to create an interactive and entertaining dining space. Because I have chosen a site with three tunnels I feel that I should make use of the separation and create three different dining sections for the starter, main course and desert. As a result of the separation, the idea is that the diners enter the first tunnel to have their starter and then after a set amount of time all the diners then get up and move to the next tunnel to have their main course and again, after a set time, they all move to the final tunnel to finish the dining experience and have desert; consequently creating a ‘performance’ will involve the diners…

I will have to take into consideration how people currently use the tunnels, because the tunnels act as a pedestrian passageway from one side of the bridge where there is housing and parking, to the other which leads onto a main road and a pub.

As a result, I intend to create a space for pedestrians to pass through that will link in with the theme of Alice in Wonderland/Surrealism and the space will have the potential for the passers by to see through into the restaurant, therefore making the pedestrians the audience and the diners the ‘performers’.

To be continued...