架构师提供的文本描述。厨师餐桌是一家当代餐厅，由著名厨师李小龙(BruceLim)拥有，他主持着世界知名的电视烹饪节目，并为众多食品公司提供咨询服务。他的菜肴基本上是当代菲律宾菜。他以当地的菜肴，食材和食谱，给他们一个令人惊讶但令人愉快的转折。

Text description provided by the architects. Chef’s Table is a contemporary restaurant owned by celebrity Chef Bruce Lim, a well celebrated chef who hosts world-renowned tv cooking shows and consults for numerous food companies. His cuisine is essentially contemporary Filipino. He takes local dishes, ingredients, and recipies and gives them a surprising but pleasing twist.

第一种设计反应自然是利用布鲁斯作为名人的角色，把注意力集中在空间里。第二个目标是在餐厅里反映出一种重新包装的现代菲律宾人的审美，这一策略符合他的烹饪哲学。

The first design response was naturally to capitalize the persona of Bruce as a celebrity, giving focus to him within the space. The second was to reflect a re-packaged and a modern Filipino aesthetic in the restaurant, a strategy that matches his philosophy in cooking.

核心思想是编织。之所以选择这种交织在一起的行为，是因为它在菲律宾文化中无处不在，就像在生活的不同方面可以看到的那样-栏杆、萨拉科特、萨拉卡布、巴龙塔加禄、葡萄酒，甚至土生土长的巴哈，仅举几个例子。这一理念体现在不同层次的设计中-在空间、视图、形式和材料上。

The core idea is that of weaving. This act of intertwining was chosen because of its ubiquity in the Filipino culture as can be seen in different aspects of life – banigs, salakot, salakab, barong tagalog, vintas, and even the native bahag, just to name a few. This idea manifested in different levels of the design – in space, in views, in form, and in materials.

编织空间通常，厨房被认为是“房子后面”的设施，它总是隐藏在封闭的墙壁后面，或者被推回餐厅最不显眼的地方。在这个项目中，厨房被设计成一个开放的厨房，当它被推进到空间的中心时，它是第一个被看到的东西。在厨房的中央，因此整个餐厅都是主厨，这是奢华美食背后的天才。

Weaving Spaces Typically, a kitchen is considered to be a “back-of-the-house” facility, one that is always hidden behind closed walls or is pushed back to the most inconspicuous part of a restaurant. In the case of this project, the kitchen is designed as an open one and is the first thing that is seen upon entry as it was pushed to be right in the center of the space. In the middle of the kitchen and consequently the whole restaurant is the chef, the genius behind the sumptuous gastronomy.

编织的视野现有的空间有一个阁楼，这提出了一个挑战，如何使厨师在下面的地面上可见的深部分的上层。这是通过使用一个巨大的三角形下降天花板从板突出，是一个巨大的反光表面，使厨师和厨房的其他部分从上面可见的答案。

Weaving Views The existing space had a mezzanine, which posed a challenge as to how to make the chef on the ground below visible from the deep portions of the upper level. This was answered through the use of a massive triangulated drop ceiling juts down from the slab and is where a giant reflective surface was applied, making the chef and the rest of the kitchen visible from above.

编织形成木板条，从墙壁上长出来，在整个空间上方上升，在厨房上方汇聚成一个悬浮的团，有效地将表面编织成一个连续的三角形形式，与菲律宾文化中的编织模式相呼应。这也使参观者凝视着空间的亮点-厨房，因为它的平面形式指向它，结束于它的边缘的光束，仿佛在空间中发现的不同的材料和形式被融合在一起，并融合成某种无形的东西。

Weaving Forms Wood veneered strips grow out from the walls and rise above the entire space and converge above the kitchen as a hovering mass, effectively weaving surfaces into one continuous triangulated form, echoing weaving patterns in Filipino culture. This also leads the visitors’ gaze towards the highlight of the space, the kitchen, as the faceted form points towards it, ending with a beam of light on its edge, as if the different materials and forms found within the space are fused together and merged to become something intangible.