Leka is a locally manufactured restaurant in the Poblenou 22@ district of Barcelona, ​​developed and manufactured at Fablab Barcelona in collaboration with a local network of distributors and trades. The restaurant is conceived as an open source platform, where all the knowledge involved, and which gives it character, is shared. In this way, all the designs, recipes, and nutritional advice are downloadable from the website.

The project is organized into several families: furniture, acoustic elements, interactive elements, etc. Each of them requires a different construction system. The furniture must be sturdy, prepared for constant movement, the ceiling light, with a geometry that breaks up the sound, the paneling with perforations, etc. For its development, we create a programmed design for each family; obtaining exportable and original systems.

This design is based on developing the common elements in each family. In this way, the furniture shares the same construction system, in turn the different triangles of the roof and so on.

Thanks to access to digital production tools, we can afford the entire prototyping process required for the production of non-standard systems. The design is developed on the basis of prototypes, 1:1 scale models, in which the principles of design, structure or manufacturing process are continuously related. Prototyping allows us to evolve the design based on its manufacturing result, evolve the programming and evolve the details until the system is ready for production. In this way, we replace plans, construction details, models with a series of full-scale prototypes. These non-standard designs are part of the Leka web platform. They can be downloaded and used to manufacture or incorporate them into other projects.