Cylinder by Moevenpick at Autostadt

Wolfsberg, Germany

A fantasy about auto-mobility at the world’s largest car factory

Cylinder Restaurant was designed to capture the spirit. It is parked at the base of Volkswagen’s car museum at Autostadt (“Auto-city”), the guest-entry to the world’s biggest car factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, an hour from Berlin. The design transforms automobile design into architecture; you’ll find no chandeliers here: they’d crash against the wall in a turn…

‘Parked’ in a glass building at the base of a museum, a rounded object in a box. Inside, the floor, walls and ceiling are a continuous form like those of an auto. It seats 100.

The kitchen façade, the technical interface for a restaurant, borrows from dashboards. Bucket seating is supported by hand carved brackets rendered in aluminum. Acoustic panels and lighting fixtures of cast metal and slumped glass are molded into the ceilings seamless, smooth and aerodynamic.

The curvilinear café and it’s customized streamlined components designed by JMA were prefabricated in towns nearby Wolfsburg, employing local materials and labor. Components include leather upholstered bucket seats with aluminum frames; , a dashboard inspired kitchen façade, flush lighting and textile panels integrated in the contoured ceiling

All of the restaurant components were custom designed by Jordan Mozer and Associates, Limited. The manufacture of the components was managed by Mozer Studios locally in Germany.

The café/diner structure was prefabricated in a shop in steel and erected and plastered on site. Flush lighting composed of cast aluminum and mold-slumped glass, similar in form to automobiles lighting, was integrated intothe plaster forms, as were textile-covered acoustic panels.  Terrazzo floors curve up the walls to form a base. Leather bucket seats with cast aluminum frames are set at cast aluminumtables and with cast aluminum light fixtures.