Acop Planning

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Along with designing a bamboo home for the housing component of the Winaca eco-cultural village, there are plentiful design opportunities to be found on the Capuyan's Acop farm (the village building site). There are already a few structures built in vicinity to the three relocated traditional Cordilleran homes. The Capuyan's vision is to create an extensive restaurant complex which will serve as part of a conference facility, and to also serve as a venue for large social events and weddings. We discussed with Wilson some finishing ideas we have for the space adjacent to the already finished restaurant, as well as his concerns to where the comfort room will be strategically located. The challenge is to place it between the hall area, where the main seating area will be, and the entrance to the restaurant so that it will be hidden away and indiscreet to both. When finished, the space will be an open-air extension of the restaurant that will be roofed with 'creeping lady shoe' vines that bloom and dangle from above.