NO.10.
Restaurant 'The Jane' Antwerp, Belgium , 2014
•Architects: Piet Boon
•Location: Paradeplein, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium
•Windows : Studio Job
•Chandelier: .PSLAB
•Project Year: 2014
From the architect. Michelin-star chef Sergio Herman and chef Nick Bril created their “fine dining meets rock ’n roll” restaurant vision together with Piet Boon over three years ago in a mythical location in Antwerp; the chapel of a former military hospital. Piet Boon Studio, responsible for the interior design and styling of The Jane, since then collaborated in the chapel’s unique transformation into a high-end, contemporary restaurant with international allure where experience is key.
Based on her belief in authenticity, functionality and materials that ‘age beautifully’ the studio chose to restore only the highly necessary in the chapel and hence preserve the rest. The original ceiling amongst others conveys the pure, understated and respectful environment that serves as the authentic host for the ultimate fine dining experience. The original altar gave way to the kitchen that - just like the atelier- is embraced by glass, like a modern shrine. It allows guests to witness everything the team creates for them.
The shared passion of Herman, Bril and Boon to work with pure, rich materials is expressed in the interior in which qualitatively outstanding natural stone, leather and oak wood are used. Moreover Piet Boon Studio, as with many of her projects, collaborated with a number of leading creative partners to shape the “fine dining meets rock ’n roll” character of the overall experience.
Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job designed the windows consisting of 500 unique panels. Inspired by the chapel’s original function, foam spatulas, sunflowers, devils, skulls, babies, Jezus on the cross, dice, apple cores, wrenches, ice cream cones, a canon, croissants, penguins, trophies, gas masks and birthday cakes portray a contemporary translation of the old stained-glass windows. Archetypes from various worlds each tell masterpiece stories of good and evil, rich and poor, life and death as well as good food and religion.
The ‘piece de résistance’ in the center of the restaurant is a 800 kilograms-weighing gigantic chandelier of 12 by 9 meters with over 150 lights, designed by the Beirut-based design studio .PSLAB. The chandelier was created in such a way that it contributes to the intimate and ambient divinity of the chapel interior. The team, specialised in the design and production of site-specific contemporary lighting, laid out an overall lighting plan for The Jane to accentuate the unique elements of both the building and the interior. It is aimed to create a scenic ambience by seamlessly combining artistry and engineering.
#chapel , #interior_design , #restoration , #compatible_use , #lighting
#preservation , #restaurant , #revitalization , #adaptive_reuse
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Restaurant 'The Jane' Antwerp, Belgium , 2014
•Architects: Piet Boon
•Location: Paradeplein, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium
•Windows : Studio Job
•Chandelier: .PSLAB
•Project Year: 2014
From the architect. Michelin-star chef Sergio Herman and chef Nick Bril created their “fine dining meets rock ’n roll” restaurant vision together with Piet Boon over three years ago in a mythical location in Antwerp; the chapel of a former military hospital. Piet Boon Studio, responsible for the interior design and styling of The Jane, since then collaborated in the chapel’s unique transformation into a high-end, contemporary restaurant with international allure where experience is key.
Based on her belief in authenticity, functionality and materials that ‘age beautifully’ the studio chose to restore only the highly necessary in the chapel and hence preserve the rest. The original ceiling amongst others conveys the pure, understated and respectful environment that serves as the authentic host for the ultimate fine dining experience. The original altar gave way to the kitchen that - just like the atelier- is embraced by glass, like a modern shrine. It allows guests to witness everything the team creates for them.
The shared passion of Herman, Bril and Boon to work with pure, rich materials is expressed in the interior in which qualitatively outstanding natural stone, leather and oak wood are used. Moreover Piet Boon Studio, as with many of her projects, collaborated with a number of leading creative partners to shape the “fine dining meets rock ’n roll” character of the overall experience.
Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job designed the windows consisting of 500 unique panels. Inspired by the chapel’s original function, foam spatulas, sunflowers, devils, skulls, babies, Jezus on the cross, dice, apple cores, wrenches, ice cream cones, a canon, croissants, penguins, trophies, gas masks and birthday cakes portray a contemporary translation of the old stained-glass windows. Archetypes from various worlds each tell masterpiece stories of good and evil, rich and poor, life and death as well as good food and religion.
The ‘piece de résistance’ in the center of the restaurant is a 800 kilograms-weighing gigantic chandelier of 12 by 9 meters with over 150 lights, designed by the Beirut-based design studio .PSLAB. The chandelier was created in such a way that it contributes to the intimate and ambient divinity of the chapel interior. The team, specialised in the design and production of site-specific contemporary lighting, laid out an overall lighting plan for The Jane to accentuate the unique elements of both the building and the interior. It is aimed to create a scenic ambience by seamlessly combining artistry and engineering.
#chapel , #interior_design , #restoration , #compatible_use , #lighting
#preservation , #restaurant , #revitalization , #adaptive_reuse
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NO.20.
G1 George Square, UK, 2011
Type: Office Development
Location: George Square, Glasgow
Client: HFD Group , Dragon Developments
Architect: Cooper Cromar
Structural Engineer: Woolgar Hunter
Services Engineer: Ramboll UK
Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner and Theobald
Main Contractor: McLaughlin and Harvey
Size 131,000 sq. ft.
Details G1, George Square was a £70 million re-development of the former General Post Office in Glasgow. Large scale, high quality office development, awarded the 'Best Commercial Office Development' by the British Council for Offices in 2011.
The development includes 2 large high quality restaurants, Jamie's Italian and Browns.
Scope: Temporary works, piling, deconstruction, maintenance
Programme: 26 weeks
Resources: 50 operatives , 260 tonnes of steelwork , Piling and steelwork subcontractors
Specialist cranage
Tonnage: 12500 tonnes
Neighbours: Lawyers, Barristers, Accountants, Consultants, Glasgow City Council, George Square, Gap & Benetton
The exceptional re-development of the Grade A listed, former General Post Office Building provides 131,000ft2
of luxury office space across nine floors, in George Square, Glasgow's cultural and commercial heart.
A dramatic triple height feature entrance leads to the sophisticated entrance hall, designed in Bavarian limestone. From here, six high speed lifts give access to nine office floors, providing flexible open plan office space.
Much of the beauty of the building is in the attention to detail, from maximising natural daylight on all elevations to providing
bright, spacious and efficient workspace. External roof terraces on floors six to nine provide a unique view over Glasgow City Centre and offer a stunning backdrop to occupiers.
Taking inspiration from Victorian railway architecture, the glass and metal domed roof re-invents a rich history of grand Victorian
terminus and glass house buildings. The design creates a dramatic statement that harmoniously fuses both contemporary and Victorian architectural styles.
This major facade retention and demolition project to a grade I listed building – The former Post Office building central, challenged our Technical Team to deliver a variety of complex temporary works solutions to meet the clients demanding programme.
The six storey building adjoins another building which provides accommodation for Scotland’s leading Barristers, Consultants and high flying Executives. The three remaining sides of the building are all retained using external structural steelwork.
This in itself presented major challenges with regard to access, traffic and pedestrian management.
Our scope included:
• Service disconnections
• Condition surveys
• Piling and temporary works design
• Traffic management diversion and road closures
• Forming a 5 x 5m opening in the listed facade
• Piling & pile caps
• External steelworks
• Internal demolition / deconstructions
• High spec hoarding and temporary lighting
This facade retention and demolition project required total commitment from our Management Team along with the total support from our partnered sub-contractors and Consultants to deliver a project with such constraints, given two weeks to mobilise and 26 weeks on site remain a challenge to our company.
#restoration , #addition , #conservation , #Office
#redevelopment , #restaurant , #lighting
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G1 George Square, UK, 2011
Type: Office Development
Location: George Square, Glasgow
Client: HFD Group , Dragon Developments
Architect: Cooper Cromar
Structural Engineer: Woolgar Hunter
Services Engineer: Ramboll UK
Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner and Theobald
Main Contractor: McLaughlin and Harvey
Size 131,000 sq. ft.
Details G1, George Square was a £70 million re-development of the former General Post Office in Glasgow. Large scale, high quality office development, awarded the 'Best Commercial Office Development' by the British Council for Offices in 2011.
The development includes 2 large high quality restaurants, Jamie's Italian and Browns.
Scope: Temporary works, piling, deconstruction, maintenance
Programme: 26 weeks
Resources: 50 operatives , 260 tonnes of steelwork , Piling and steelwork subcontractors
Specialist cranage
Tonnage: 12500 tonnes
Neighbours: Lawyers, Barristers, Accountants, Consultants, Glasgow City Council, George Square, Gap & Benetton
The exceptional re-development of the Grade A listed, former General Post Office Building provides 131,000ft2
of luxury office space across nine floors, in George Square, Glasgow's cultural and commercial heart.
A dramatic triple height feature entrance leads to the sophisticated entrance hall, designed in Bavarian limestone. From here, six high speed lifts give access to nine office floors, providing flexible open plan office space.
Much of the beauty of the building is in the attention to detail, from maximising natural daylight on all elevations to providing
bright, spacious and efficient workspace. External roof terraces on floors six to nine provide a unique view over Glasgow City Centre and offer a stunning backdrop to occupiers.
Taking inspiration from Victorian railway architecture, the glass and metal domed roof re-invents a rich history of grand Victorian
terminus and glass house buildings. The design creates a dramatic statement that harmoniously fuses both contemporary and Victorian architectural styles.
This major facade retention and demolition project to a grade I listed building – The former Post Office building central, challenged our Technical Team to deliver a variety of complex temporary works solutions to meet the clients demanding programme.
The six storey building adjoins another building which provides accommodation for Scotland’s leading Barristers, Consultants and high flying Executives. The three remaining sides of the building are all retained using external structural steelwork.
This in itself presented major challenges with regard to access, traffic and pedestrian management.
Our scope included:
• Service disconnections
• Condition surveys
• Piling and temporary works design
• Traffic management diversion and road closures
• Forming a 5 x 5m opening in the listed facade
• Piling & pile caps
• External steelworks
• Internal demolition / deconstructions
• High spec hoarding and temporary lighting
This facade retention and demolition project required total commitment from our Management Team along with the total support from our partnered sub-contractors and Consultants to deliver a project with such constraints, given two weeks to mobilise and 26 weeks on site remain a challenge to our company.
#restoration , #addition , #conservation , #Office
#redevelopment , #restaurant , #lighting
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The architects organised the building's programme as a journey, so the contemporary alterations made become more prevalent as the visitor progresses through the restaurant.
"The spatial sequence allows to transit between the site periods, finishing in the contemporary addition, whose physical and visual integration with the main square and its components closes a cycle of respect and belonging," said the architects
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"The spatial sequence allows to transit between the site periods, finishing in the contemporary addition, whose physical and visual integration with the main square and its components closes a cycle of respect and belonging," said the architects
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NO.63.
THE POPULIST / BOMONTI BREWERY
LOCATION: TURKEY - ISTANBUL
DESIGNER: HAN TÜMERTEKIN
PROJECT YEAR: 2016
Graphic design: Marnich Associates, Lagranja Design
Abbandoned in 1991, the factory has been matter of discussion for long time, until a regeneration process started and the brewary turn into a cultural district, designed by Han Tumertekin.
Founded in 1902 by the Swiss Bomonti brother, this beer factory enbodies the first modern beer production plant in the Ottoman Empire and keeps. Painted mustard yellow with exposed red brickwork, the building stands as a castle in the old periphery of Istanbul and, as new units were added, it became a popular place with beer-drinking society until the 50s.
Almost 2.000 square meters of the very first Turkish brewery, released in Istanbul by the Bomonti brothers one hundred years ago, have been rehabilitated by the Spanish design firm Lagranja. Turned into a craft brewery and a large restaurant, The Populist aims to recall the disobedient atmosphere lead and created by the crowds against political issues.
THE POPULIST CONCEPT
Far from being just plain decoration, The Populist is made of a series of projects ranging from photography and graphic design to custom made furniture and fixtures. All of them weave a unique concept across the space within a political and social Turkish reality. Protest is reflected in a tangible and impressive aesthetic, friendly involving the beer consume. Inspired by the 20’ American Prohibition period, the creative concept shows up in walls, menus and napkins as powerful slogans, whether painted, glued or neon-light-made. A wide photography project portraying Istanbul’s multicultural citizens and several historical documents complete the show. Beyond graphic and photographic visual evidences, other elements have been designed in order to tie the space with its new narrative. Decorative lighting shaped as megaphones, bottles and even a giant megaphone sculpture inject realism and provides an immersive experience to the visitor.
THE SPACE
The three floors of the late XIX century factory are organised in six areas sharing the same hero: craft beer. To serve the cause each of them has its own personality, working as single spaces within a great unique complex. Right at the entrance 6 enormous high-raised beer tanks exhibited in a 2 ways glass box and a dj station set in an orange vintage Volkswagen van welcomes the beer drinker. The copper brewhouse and fermentation stainless steel tanks are the main focus of the second space which hosts the megaphone sculpture and an impressive traditional turquoise tile made bar counter too. Providing a lofty floor, an old dark brick and mortar tank is converted into an indoor balcony overlooking the “pide” oven based in the forth area. The ground level is connected with the first floor by an eight meter spanning spiral staircase which recreates a winter garden. Reminding a greenhouse crystal ceilings, exterior concrete and a variety of vegetation and outdoor furnitures create a cozy area besides a little music hall. We tried to modify the least the original walls and ceilings. Spots, creases and fissures remain at sight yet the improvements are radically new. We dressed the space with brand new clothes that although they just cover the minimum still remain eye-catching. After many years neglected, the renewed Bomonti factory aims to become Istanbul’s outstanding F&B complex. It is the first major built project in Turkey by Lagranja Design, a widely awarded design firm, founded in Barcelona in 2002 and already based in Hong Kong and Istanbul too, which is focused in interior and product design.
#Turkey , #factory , #interior , #lighting , #interior_design , #restaurant , #bar
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THE POPULIST / BOMONTI BREWERY
LOCATION: TURKEY - ISTANBUL
DESIGNER: HAN TÜMERTEKIN
PROJECT YEAR: 2016
Graphic design: Marnich Associates, Lagranja Design
Abbandoned in 1991, the factory has been matter of discussion for long time, until a regeneration process started and the brewary turn into a cultural district, designed by Han Tumertekin.
Founded in 1902 by the Swiss Bomonti brother, this beer factory enbodies the first modern beer production plant in the Ottoman Empire and keeps. Painted mustard yellow with exposed red brickwork, the building stands as a castle in the old periphery of Istanbul and, as new units were added, it became a popular place with beer-drinking society until the 50s.
Almost 2.000 square meters of the very first Turkish brewery, released in Istanbul by the Bomonti brothers one hundred years ago, have been rehabilitated by the Spanish design firm Lagranja. Turned into a craft brewery and a large restaurant, The Populist aims to recall the disobedient atmosphere lead and created by the crowds against political issues.
THE POPULIST CONCEPT
Far from being just plain decoration, The Populist is made of a series of projects ranging from photography and graphic design to custom made furniture and fixtures. All of them weave a unique concept across the space within a political and social Turkish reality. Protest is reflected in a tangible and impressive aesthetic, friendly involving the beer consume. Inspired by the 20’ American Prohibition period, the creative concept shows up in walls, menus and napkins as powerful slogans, whether painted, glued or neon-light-made. A wide photography project portraying Istanbul’s multicultural citizens and several historical documents complete the show. Beyond graphic and photographic visual evidences, other elements have been designed in order to tie the space with its new narrative. Decorative lighting shaped as megaphones, bottles and even a giant megaphone sculpture inject realism and provides an immersive experience to the visitor.
THE SPACE
The three floors of the late XIX century factory are organised in six areas sharing the same hero: craft beer. To serve the cause each of them has its own personality, working as single spaces within a great unique complex. Right at the entrance 6 enormous high-raised beer tanks exhibited in a 2 ways glass box and a dj station set in an orange vintage Volkswagen van welcomes the beer drinker. The copper brewhouse and fermentation stainless steel tanks are the main focus of the second space which hosts the megaphone sculpture and an impressive traditional turquoise tile made bar counter too. Providing a lofty floor, an old dark brick and mortar tank is converted into an indoor balcony overlooking the “pide” oven based in the forth area. The ground level is connected with the first floor by an eight meter spanning spiral staircase which recreates a winter garden. Reminding a greenhouse crystal ceilings, exterior concrete and a variety of vegetation and outdoor furnitures create a cozy area besides a little music hall. We tried to modify the least the original walls and ceilings. Spots, creases and fissures remain at sight yet the improvements are radically new. We dressed the space with brand new clothes that although they just cover the minimum still remain eye-catching. After many years neglected, the renewed Bomonti factory aims to become Istanbul’s outstanding F&B complex. It is the first major built project in Turkey by Lagranja Design, a widely awarded design firm, founded in Barcelona in 2002 and already based in Hong Kong and Istanbul too, which is focused in interior and product design.
#Turkey , #factory , #interior , #lighting , #interior_design , #restaurant , #bar
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The entrance of the film house is housed in the neighboring former carpentry workshop. There was previously a lane between the carpentry and the central building which was later built. This padding can be clearly realized by the fact that the old side wall of the center is still visible. This later-filled zone forms the entrance hall of the movie house, from which you get through a new passage and a lazy staircase in the middle of the film house.
Outside the entrance is a public passage made on the ground floor of the carpentry shop, which connects the courtyard to the Bassin via a large staircase. Above this passage lies the office of Lumière, and on the Cour side, where the large height difference joins the ground floor, there is an additional multifunctional space.
The carpentry is one of the earliest and slimmest examples of a 'Hennebique construction'. This construction principle implies that beams, floors and columns were all poured at once, which allowed very slender constructions to be made. The construction of this building has been strengthened especially under the floor, but the slimmest columns on the floor are also visible in the Courgevel after the re-destination.
The large hall of the complex is constructed below the Cour's level using the large height difference between the Cour and the basin at the front of the central. This allows the desired future link with the adjacent Sappi terrain to be built directly behind the complex, leaving room for future developments surrounding the entire Cour.
The complex's extensive and refurbished complex was filled with abandoned technical spaces, some of which have been sealed for years. By combining the basement, which fits into a complex as a machine, it has been possible to give all these spaces a new function, most of which are now publicly accessible. Even the restrooms of the film house are now worth the effort. For example, there were toilets made under the heavily moored vaults of a former railroad raft next to the central station, about which the coal was supplied to the boilers. The toilet next to the restaurant is located in a light high room with beautiful light from above and classic green tiles in which the unit with the toilets and washbasins is now placed in the room. The restrooms at the cinema are located in the former alley between the buildings. The former exterior facade has been visible here, which made the history of the complex visible to the attentive visitor.
Since the complex consists of very different premises with each other a different condition and status, each building is otherwise tackled in a technical sense. In order to be able to repair the heavily dilapidated boiler houses in a sound and durable way, it has been removed in very poor condition and the steel structure as a whole is conserved. The walls are then re-mattened and insulated, resulting in a much more comfortable and durable whole. By choosing for this approach, the entire complex could be maintained, including the slender steel structures. At the same time, this approach made it possible to put under the existing premises a basement for the movie rooms, leaving space in the halls to experience the halls as a whole. The state-of-the-art machine hall has been restored and restored as well as possible. In the base there was chosen to keep up with improvements wherever possible without changing the appearance of the monument.
The whole is a beautiful complex in which the Sphinx industrial heritage is combined with state-of-the-art cinemas and an extensive hospitable hospitality in a great ambiance: a unique film house in a unique place!
The new movie house Lumiere Cinema was opened in October 2016.
#Netherlands , #industrial , #interior, #interior_design , #renovation , #cinema , #complex , #restaurant , #lighting
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Outside the entrance is a public passage made on the ground floor of the carpentry shop, which connects the courtyard to the Bassin via a large staircase. Above this passage lies the office of Lumière, and on the Cour side, where the large height difference joins the ground floor, there is an additional multifunctional space.
The carpentry is one of the earliest and slimmest examples of a 'Hennebique construction'. This construction principle implies that beams, floors and columns were all poured at once, which allowed very slender constructions to be made. The construction of this building has been strengthened especially under the floor, but the slimmest columns on the floor are also visible in the Courgevel after the re-destination.
The large hall of the complex is constructed below the Cour's level using the large height difference between the Cour and the basin at the front of the central. This allows the desired future link with the adjacent Sappi terrain to be built directly behind the complex, leaving room for future developments surrounding the entire Cour.
The complex's extensive and refurbished complex was filled with abandoned technical spaces, some of which have been sealed for years. By combining the basement, which fits into a complex as a machine, it has been possible to give all these spaces a new function, most of which are now publicly accessible. Even the restrooms of the film house are now worth the effort. For example, there were toilets made under the heavily moored vaults of a former railroad raft next to the central station, about which the coal was supplied to the boilers. The toilet next to the restaurant is located in a light high room with beautiful light from above and classic green tiles in which the unit with the toilets and washbasins is now placed in the room. The restrooms at the cinema are located in the former alley between the buildings. The former exterior facade has been visible here, which made the history of the complex visible to the attentive visitor.
Since the complex consists of very different premises with each other a different condition and status, each building is otherwise tackled in a technical sense. In order to be able to repair the heavily dilapidated boiler houses in a sound and durable way, it has been removed in very poor condition and the steel structure as a whole is conserved. The walls are then re-mattened and insulated, resulting in a much more comfortable and durable whole. By choosing for this approach, the entire complex could be maintained, including the slender steel structures. At the same time, this approach made it possible to put under the existing premises a basement for the movie rooms, leaving space in the halls to experience the halls as a whole. The state-of-the-art machine hall has been restored and restored as well as possible. In the base there was chosen to keep up with improvements wherever possible without changing the appearance of the monument.
The whole is a beautiful complex in which the Sphinx industrial heritage is combined with state-of-the-art cinemas and an extensive hospitable hospitality in a great ambiance: a unique film house in a unique place!
The new movie house Lumiere Cinema was opened in October 2016.
#Netherlands , #industrial , #interior, #interior_design , #renovation , #cinema , #complex , #restaurant , #lighting
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NO.82.
Coal Drops Yard / Heatherwick Studio
• Lead designer: Heatherwick Studio
• Location: Kings Cross, Londres, United Kingdom
• Design Director: Thomas Heatherwick
• Project Leader: Tamsin Green
• Area: 100000.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2015-2018
King's Cross Coal Drops Yard
Coal Drops Yard is a vibrant new shopping district at the centre of King’s Cross, home to over 50 stores, restaurants and cafés, bringing together a community of like-minded brands in a reimagined set of historic buildings and arches directly adjacent to Granary Square and Regent’s Canal. Coal Drops Yard was originally established in 1850 to handle the eight million tonnes of coal delivered to the capital each year, and was latterly the location of nightclubs Bagley’s and The Cross. The area is now reopening, reinvented by the acclaimed Heatherwick Studio, which has interwoven a contemporary design with the surviving structures, streets and rich ironwork of the original Victorian coal drops.
Text description provided by the architects. Long-time resident of King’s Cross, the studio has reinvented two heritage rail buildings from the 1850s as a new shopping district with close to 60 units, fully opening up the site to the public for the first time.
The project is the first major building completion in London for Heatherwick Studio and one of several large-scale developments in the capital that the studio is currently working on. These include a new major building for Google in King’s Cross that is currently under construction and the transformation of Olympia London.
In 2014, the studio was commissioned by King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership to radically rethink the site. The pair of elongated Victorian coal drops was built to receive coal from Northern England for distribution around London by barge and cart. But over the years the ornate cast-iron and brick structures had become partially derelict, serving light industry, warehousing, and nightclubs before partial abandonment in the 1990s.
The challenge was to transform the dilapidated buildings and long, angular site into a lively retail district where the public could gather and circulate.
The design extends the inner gabled roofs of the warehouses to link the two viaducts and define the yard, as well as creating fluid patterns of circulation. The flowing roofs, supported by an entirely new and highly technical freestanding structure interlaced within the heritage fabric, rise up and stretch towards each other until they touch. This forms an entirely new floating upper storey, a large covered outdoor space and a central focus for the entire site.
The studio’s design celebrates the specific texture and history of the Victorian industrial buildings while creating 100,000 sq ft of new retail area, as well as significant public space. The units vary in size (ranging from 160 sq ft, 1300 sq ft, 2500 sq ft to over 20,000 sq ft), accommodating a wide range of established and emerging brands, alongside new restaurants, bars and cafes.
With entrances at both ends of the site and scattered along Stable Street, the yard will become a new permeable and distinctive public space, contributing to the wider transformation of King’s Cross as a vibrant place to live, work, relax and study.
Glass: Scope of work
- 565 m2 graduated “zig-zag” glass facade with 8 m high insulation glazing
- 120 m2 ribbon roof lights
- 200 m2 transom/mullion facades to railway building gable ends
- 80 m2 walkable glass floor
Innovations / Challenges
- Special glass mounting brackets to accommodate the movements and tolerances of the freely suspended connecting bridge aka “Kissing Point”
- High building physics requirements e.g. transparency of the “zig-zag” glazing
- Three-dimensionally curved sheet metal cladding, following the form of the building
- Extremely high level of technical design input as hardly any part of the façade is the same
- Parametric 3D BIM model, design phase
#UK , #shop , #restaurant , #extention , #interior_design , #industrial , #public_space
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Coal Drops Yard / Heatherwick Studio
• Lead designer: Heatherwick Studio
• Location: Kings Cross, Londres, United Kingdom
• Design Director: Thomas Heatherwick
• Project Leader: Tamsin Green
• Area: 100000.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2015-2018
King's Cross Coal Drops Yard
Coal Drops Yard is a vibrant new shopping district at the centre of King’s Cross, home to over 50 stores, restaurants and cafés, bringing together a community of like-minded brands in a reimagined set of historic buildings and arches directly adjacent to Granary Square and Regent’s Canal. Coal Drops Yard was originally established in 1850 to handle the eight million tonnes of coal delivered to the capital each year, and was latterly the location of nightclubs Bagley’s and The Cross. The area is now reopening, reinvented by the acclaimed Heatherwick Studio, which has interwoven a contemporary design with the surviving structures, streets and rich ironwork of the original Victorian coal drops.
Text description provided by the architects. Long-time resident of King’s Cross, the studio has reinvented two heritage rail buildings from the 1850s as a new shopping district with close to 60 units, fully opening up the site to the public for the first time.
The project is the first major building completion in London for Heatherwick Studio and one of several large-scale developments in the capital that the studio is currently working on. These include a new major building for Google in King’s Cross that is currently under construction and the transformation of Olympia London.
In 2014, the studio was commissioned by King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership to radically rethink the site. The pair of elongated Victorian coal drops was built to receive coal from Northern England for distribution around London by barge and cart. But over the years the ornate cast-iron and brick structures had become partially derelict, serving light industry, warehousing, and nightclubs before partial abandonment in the 1990s.
The challenge was to transform the dilapidated buildings and long, angular site into a lively retail district where the public could gather and circulate.
The design extends the inner gabled roofs of the warehouses to link the two viaducts and define the yard, as well as creating fluid patterns of circulation. The flowing roofs, supported by an entirely new and highly technical freestanding structure interlaced within the heritage fabric, rise up and stretch towards each other until they touch. This forms an entirely new floating upper storey, a large covered outdoor space and a central focus for the entire site.
The studio’s design celebrates the specific texture and history of the Victorian industrial buildings while creating 100,000 sq ft of new retail area, as well as significant public space. The units vary in size (ranging from 160 sq ft, 1300 sq ft, 2500 sq ft to over 20,000 sq ft), accommodating a wide range of established and emerging brands, alongside new restaurants, bars and cafes.
With entrances at both ends of the site and scattered along Stable Street, the yard will become a new permeable and distinctive public space, contributing to the wider transformation of King’s Cross as a vibrant place to live, work, relax and study.
Glass: Scope of work
- 565 m2 graduated “zig-zag” glass facade with 8 m high insulation glazing
- 120 m2 ribbon roof lights
- 200 m2 transom/mullion facades to railway building gable ends
- 80 m2 walkable glass floor
Innovations / Challenges
- Special glass mounting brackets to accommodate the movements and tolerances of the freely suspended connecting bridge aka “Kissing Point”
- High building physics requirements e.g. transparency of the “zig-zag” glazing
- Three-dimensionally curved sheet metal cladding, following the form of the building
- Extremely high level of technical design input as hardly any part of the façade is the same
- Parametric 3D BIM model, design phase
#UK , #shop , #restaurant , #extention , #interior_design , #industrial , #public_space
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NO.91.
Empire Stores / S9 Architecture
CLIENT: Midtown Equities, HK Organization and Rockwood Capital.
SIZE: 450 000 SF.
LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY, US
.STATUS: Built 2017.
TEAM: Architects: S9 Architecture, Studio V.
Landscape Designer: Future Green Studio.
Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates.
MEP Engineer: Mottola Rini Engineers.
LEED Consultant: Spiezle Architectural Group.
Lighting Consultant: Tillotson Design Associates.
AWARDS: Urban Land Institute. Awards for Excellence in Development. 2018. NYC x Design On the Boards Awards. 2017.
For over 150 years, between the iconic Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges on the Brooklyn waterfront, lay seven beautiful historic brick structures. These Civil-War-era structures were named after their use as coffee “stores” or storage warehouses, and for the epithet of a growing state: the Empire Stores.
Studio V's designs inject new life into the structures. The designs combine creative contemporary architecture with exacting historic rehabilitation, and combine overlapping uses with public spaces that reveal the inhabitants and historic structures. On top of the building’s extensive green roofs sit two-story glass and steel additions with gardens and terraces frame stunning views of the surrounding bridges. A glass and steel courtyard and passage slices through the historic structures, reconnecting the community cut off from its waterfront. The public passage reveals original sparkling schist walls, around which a spiraling steel and concrete staircase culminates in a public rooftop park revealing a stunning Manhattan Skyline. The unique design combines tech offices and public spaces with cultural and hospitality amenities to create a unique interface between work and play, public spaces and private commerce, that perfectly expresses the ethos of creative contemporary Brooklyn.
Designing an oxymoron isn’t easy: synthesizing old and new, honoring an industrial structure while reinventing it and preserving history while creating meaningful new designed to be representative of our time and culture. This is the design of Empire Stores: speaking to Brooklyn’s historic past, expressing its vibrant culture today, and pointing the way to its future.
1977
The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission designates Fulton Ferry as a historic district, protecting Empire Stores from demolition.
2013
After years of failed attempts to revitalize the deteriorating warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Park and developers Midtown Equities announce plans for an adaptive reuse of Empire Stores. “All across the waterfront, we are reclaiming and renewing areas that have long been abandoned or neglected, and Empire Stores and the Tobacco Warehouse are the latest examples of that work,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the time.
2017
Empire Stores opens to the public with 360,000 square feet of restaurant, retail, office, and event space. The building’s historic charm is preserved with original architectural details like the iconic brick masonry and iron-shuttered façade, schist stonewalling, and, as a nod to its heritage, coffee chutes, and hoisting wheels.
#USA , #public_space , #lighting , #stair , #awards, #courtyard , #industrial , #store , #office , #public_space , #restaurant , #interior_design
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Empire Stores / S9 Architecture
CLIENT: Midtown Equities, HK Organization and Rockwood Capital.
SIZE: 450 000 SF.
LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY, US
.STATUS: Built 2017.
TEAM: Architects: S9 Architecture, Studio V.
Landscape Designer: Future Green Studio.
Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates.
MEP Engineer: Mottola Rini Engineers.
LEED Consultant: Spiezle Architectural Group.
Lighting Consultant: Tillotson Design Associates.
AWARDS: Urban Land Institute. Awards for Excellence in Development. 2018. NYC x Design On the Boards Awards. 2017.
For over 150 years, between the iconic Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges on the Brooklyn waterfront, lay seven beautiful historic brick structures. These Civil-War-era structures were named after their use as coffee “stores” or storage warehouses, and for the epithet of a growing state: the Empire Stores.
Studio V's designs inject new life into the structures. The designs combine creative contemporary architecture with exacting historic rehabilitation, and combine overlapping uses with public spaces that reveal the inhabitants and historic structures. On top of the building’s extensive green roofs sit two-story glass and steel additions with gardens and terraces frame stunning views of the surrounding bridges. A glass and steel courtyard and passage slices through the historic structures, reconnecting the community cut off from its waterfront. The public passage reveals original sparkling schist walls, around which a spiraling steel and concrete staircase culminates in a public rooftop park revealing a stunning Manhattan Skyline. The unique design combines tech offices and public spaces with cultural and hospitality amenities to create a unique interface between work and play, public spaces and private commerce, that perfectly expresses the ethos of creative contemporary Brooklyn.
Designing an oxymoron isn’t easy: synthesizing old and new, honoring an industrial structure while reinventing it and preserving history while creating meaningful new designed to be representative of our time and culture. This is the design of Empire Stores: speaking to Brooklyn’s historic past, expressing its vibrant culture today, and pointing the way to its future.
1977
The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission designates Fulton Ferry as a historic district, protecting Empire Stores from demolition.
2013
After years of failed attempts to revitalize the deteriorating warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Park and developers Midtown Equities announce plans for an adaptive reuse of Empire Stores. “All across the waterfront, we are reclaiming and renewing areas that have long been abandoned or neglected, and Empire Stores and the Tobacco Warehouse are the latest examples of that work,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the time.
2017
Empire Stores opens to the public with 360,000 square feet of restaurant, retail, office, and event space. The building’s historic charm is preserved with original architectural details like the iconic brick masonry and iron-shuttered façade, schist stonewalling, and, as a nod to its heritage, coffee chutes, and hoisting wheels.
#USA , #public_space , #lighting , #stair , #awards, #courtyard , #industrial , #store , #office , #public_space , #restaurant , #interior_design
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The Colomadu has faced several architectural problems also in the past. The building brick facade has been replaced several times due to quality issues when the sugar factory still operated. The Colomadu also got structural failure on several sections of the building. Several actions has been taken to save the building. Some sections has been demolished and the addition is taken to fit with old physical building. Fortunately, other parts of the building still survive, hence, retrofit and refurbish are still possible. Windows, doors, awnings, roofs and gutters are retrofitted. Meanwhile, food center, restaurants, exhibition hall and concert hall are refurbished.
Some new facades section use glass-wall in order to give connection between inside and outside experiences for the visitor. In addition, it exposes the giant machinery as a night time exhibition display. The main steam kettle is shown as a display as its structure is embedded to the main chimney. It is transformed to a restaurant with the kettle's cover. So, it integrates the new restaurants concept and historical value in The Colomadu.
#Indonesia, #industrial, #factory , #hall , #restaurant , #interior_design , #commercial #cultural_center, #lighting
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Some new facades section use glass-wall in order to give connection between inside and outside experiences for the visitor. In addition, it exposes the giant machinery as a night time exhibition display. The main steam kettle is shown as a display as its structure is embedded to the main chimney. It is transformed to a restaurant with the kettle's cover. So, it integrates the new restaurants concept and historical value in The Colomadu.
#Indonesia, #industrial, #factory , #hall , #restaurant , #interior_design , #commercial #cultural_center, #lighting
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Secondly, according to our intention to “update” the building in tone with the urban context, we added two new half-transparent filters. With one inside and another outside the original exterior wall, we transformed the space in-between the two layers into a “Loggia” that opens the inside to the surrounding townscape. As a result, the strong identity of the Ben Thanh Market area melts into the architecture and smoothly spreads into the interior spaces. The inside filter, inspired from the high-side windows of the Market, is a large glass-jalousie partition composed of about 1,000 pieces of tempered glass. It breaks the reflection image of the neighboring cityscape and changes its visual appearance with various conditions such as the glass angles, the sun direction, the weather or the seasons - inscribing the building in a slow rhythm. The outside filter, inspired from the steel fences that we can find everywhere in Saigon and re-composed of round steel bars of 4mm-diameter, is a very subtle fence that even swings with the wind. It not only enriches the space’s experience, but also gives it a slightly abstract effect to differentiate the “Loggia” from the building facade and the surrounding scenery.
Through this project, we realized that, in the context of the rapid modernization of Saigon, it is critical to be attentive to the city and its inhabitants, define what kind of “urban intelligence” we choose to highlight, and re-consider how to update our present and future times to flow in co-existence with its historical backgrounds.
#Vietnam , #restaurant , #glass
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Through this project, we realized that, in the context of the rapid modernization of Saigon, it is critical to be attentive to the city and its inhabitants, define what kind of “urban intelligence” we choose to highlight, and re-consider how to update our present and future times to flow in co-existence with its historical backgrounds.
#Vietnam , #restaurant , #glass
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NO.151
Hastings Pier / dRMM
PUBLIC SPACE, PIER, REFURBISHMENT
•
HASTINGS, UNITED KINGDOM
• Architects: dRMM
• Area: 11720 m²
• Year: 2016
• Manufacturers: Roles Broderick Roofing
• Client: Hastings Pier Charity
• Cost Consultant: PT Projects
• Structural Engineer: Ramboll
• Service Engineer: Ramboll
• Cdm Coordinator: KMCS
• Joinery Company: Timber Craft UK
• Structural Clt Supplier: KLH
• Furniture: dRMM and Hastings & Bexhill Wood Recycling
Hastings Pier is a public pleasure pier in Hastings, East Sussex, England. Built in 1872 and enjoying its prime in the 1930s, it became a popular music venue in the 1960s. The structure suffered major storm damage in 1990, and was closed to the public for a time before closing completely in 2008, and 95% destroyed by a fire in 2010.
Hastings Pier Charity oversaw a rebuilding project, with the pier reopening on 27 April 2016. The redeveloped pier won the 2017 Stirling Prize for architecture
Text description provided by the architects. The 2010 destruction of Hastings Pier by fire was an oppor-tunity to redefine what a pier could be in the 21st century; transforming the shanty town of commer-cialism it was in the 20th century.
After local stakeholder consultation it was clear the Pier would be expected to host many different populist scenarios. dRMM’s re-design master-move was to create a strong, well-serviced platform that could support endless uses; from big-top circus to major music events, local fishing to international markets. In homage to conceptualist Cedric Price, users bring their own architecture to plug in and play.
This is the first phase of regeneration. Most of the work so far has been up to and including deck level. The HLF grant enabled extensive foundation and structural repairs covering fire, sea and storm dam-age (£9M). Further funding (£2.5M) facilitated two buildings, the first of which, the remaining derelict Victorian Pavilion, was transformed into an open-plan, fully-glazed restaurant. dRMM were responsi-ble for the exterior shell and cores; the interior fit-out was by tenant.
The new Visitor Centre is a cross-laminated timber structure, inventively clad in reclaimed decking. Replacing the weakest central section of the damaged pier, it offers adaptable space for events, exhi-bitions and education, with an elevated rooftop belvedere. Reclaimed timber deck furniture was de-signed by dRMM and Hastings & Bexhill Wood Recycling as part of a local employment initiative.
The pier is an extension of the promenade from which it projects; a large public open space. The expe-rience of free space and ‘walking on water’ is heightened by the optics of a louvred balustrade design and quality timber deck. The new pier is a catalyst for urban regeneration. It offers flexibility, material and functional sustainability, and an uninterrupted vista of the natural and built surroundings of the special seaside town of Hastings.
#UK , #pier , #fire , #visitor_centre , #event , #exhibition , #light ,#regeneration, #restaurant, #promenade , #open_air, #public_space , #landmark , #prize
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Hastings Pier / dRMM
PUBLIC SPACE, PIER, REFURBISHMENT
•
HASTINGS, UNITED KINGDOM
• Architects: dRMM
• Area: 11720 m²
• Year: 2016
• Manufacturers: Roles Broderick Roofing
• Client: Hastings Pier Charity
• Cost Consultant: PT Projects
• Structural Engineer: Ramboll
• Service Engineer: Ramboll
• Cdm Coordinator: KMCS
• Joinery Company: Timber Craft UK
• Structural Clt Supplier: KLH
• Furniture: dRMM and Hastings & Bexhill Wood Recycling
Hastings Pier is a public pleasure pier in Hastings, East Sussex, England. Built in 1872 and enjoying its prime in the 1930s, it became a popular music venue in the 1960s. The structure suffered major storm damage in 1990, and was closed to the public for a time before closing completely in 2008, and 95% destroyed by a fire in 2010.
Hastings Pier Charity oversaw a rebuilding project, with the pier reopening on 27 April 2016. The redeveloped pier won the 2017 Stirling Prize for architecture
Text description provided by the architects. The 2010 destruction of Hastings Pier by fire was an oppor-tunity to redefine what a pier could be in the 21st century; transforming the shanty town of commer-cialism it was in the 20th century.
After local stakeholder consultation it was clear the Pier would be expected to host many different populist scenarios. dRMM’s re-design master-move was to create a strong, well-serviced platform that could support endless uses; from big-top circus to major music events, local fishing to international markets. In homage to conceptualist Cedric Price, users bring their own architecture to plug in and play.
This is the first phase of regeneration. Most of the work so far has been up to and including deck level. The HLF grant enabled extensive foundation and structural repairs covering fire, sea and storm dam-age (£9M). Further funding (£2.5M) facilitated two buildings, the first of which, the remaining derelict Victorian Pavilion, was transformed into an open-plan, fully-glazed restaurant. dRMM were responsi-ble for the exterior shell and cores; the interior fit-out was by tenant.
The new Visitor Centre is a cross-laminated timber structure, inventively clad in reclaimed decking. Replacing the weakest central section of the damaged pier, it offers adaptable space for events, exhi-bitions and education, with an elevated rooftop belvedere. Reclaimed timber deck furniture was de-signed by dRMM and Hastings & Bexhill Wood Recycling as part of a local employment initiative.
The pier is an extension of the promenade from which it projects; a large public open space. The expe-rience of free space and ‘walking on water’ is heightened by the optics of a louvred balustrade design and quality timber deck. The new pier is a catalyst for urban regeneration. It offers flexibility, material and functional sustainability, and an uninterrupted vista of the natural and built surroundings of the special seaside town of Hastings.
#UK , #pier , #fire , #visitor_centre , #event , #exhibition , #light ,#regeneration, #restaurant, #promenade , #open_air, #public_space , #landmark , #prize
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NO.155
Ryoutei Matsuko + Matsuko Fast Food / Tsutsumi and Associates
RESTAURANT, INTERIORS ARCHITECTURE
•
HANGZHOU, CHINA
Space name: "Ri Ting Song Zi" Japanese Restaurant
Space type: dining space, Japanese restaurant, restaurant renovation
• Interior Designers: Tsutsumi & Associates
• Area: 260 m²
• Year: 2020
• Interiors Designers:Tsutsumi and Associates (Yoshimasa Tsutsumi, Xiuxiu Hong, Shuaipeng Luo, Yaojun Peng, Silang Zhang)
• Lighting Design:Ljus Design (Makiko Ishioka)
• Facility Planning:Beijing Dongzhouji Technical Consultation (Hoshiaki Ishikawa, Katsunori Takebayashi, Ryuji Yamazaki)
• Construction:Hangzhou Fengyuan Zhuangshi Sheji Gongcheng Youxian Gongsi
Main space materials: double-layer wooden grille, rattan weave, hemp slate, taikoo, tex-ture coating
Ryoutei Matsuko
3 stories old house on the Xihu lakeside was renovated to 2 types of Japanese Restaurant. We planned traditional Japanese restaurant on the second and third floor which has calm atmosphere.
The entrance of restaurant is planned on the second floor where it has low ceiling height, so it is very important to design the walls as eye-catching ones. For the entrance wall, we disassembled the traditional ASANOHA pattern to two different geometric layers, one layer has diamond pattern and the another has the equilateral triangle pattern. In front of the wall we can recognize it as ASANOHA, but it gradually shifts toward the periphery. On the shoe box panels, they were carved by Japanese traditional technique called as NAGURI, and it had the beautiful shaded expression,
On half of the second floor, there planned private rooms in which the both side of partition was put by washi paper called as TAIKO-BARI. On the other half of the second-floor, there planned dining hall in which the double ASANOHA pattern on the back wall of the tables. At the openings, to keep the daylight and block the realistic scenery of the outside, also feel the greens on the balconies, we used the bottom opened washi partition called as YUKIMI-SHOJI.
On the third floor, there planned VIP rooms of calm atmosphere. For using enough height of attic, we expanded the set of staggered shelves called as CHIGAI-DANA up to the ceiling, and put the indirect lighting on them. This technique is reference of KASUMI-DANA at SHUGAKUIN imperial villa in Kyoto.
Matsuko Fast Food
Many tourists are usually walking around there, so that on the first floor we planned the fast food style which provides low price and keeps high rotation.
Because on the first floor of this old house its ceiling height is very low, so we can’t change the height too much. Also due to satisfy the requested programs, the shape of the space is very irregular so that it’s difficult to attract the tourist around there. Then we referred to “HUNAZOKO” ceiling that means bottom of the ship, which is usually used in the traditional Japanese house. The center line of the ceiling being raised up only a little, we can feel the extent of the space even if it’s very low ceiling height. In addition, using wide wooden colored ceiling panel alternately up and down, the tops of ceiling were connected from entrance to back of the space drawing a curve. On the wall where ceiling panels end, they directly fall down with keeping its strip design.
In Japan, the narrow and long room is called as “eel’s bed room”. Later this restaurant started to provide eel food, so this space design like a “eel’s bed room” matched with the provided food unexpectedly.
#China , #restaurant , #fast_food , #house , #interior_design , #lighting , #Japan
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Ryoutei Matsuko + Matsuko Fast Food / Tsutsumi and Associates
RESTAURANT, INTERIORS ARCHITECTURE
•
HANGZHOU, CHINA
Space name: "Ri Ting Song Zi" Japanese Restaurant
Space type: dining space, Japanese restaurant, restaurant renovation
• Interior Designers: Tsutsumi & Associates
• Area: 260 m²
• Year: 2020
• Interiors Designers:Tsutsumi and Associates (Yoshimasa Tsutsumi, Xiuxiu Hong, Shuaipeng Luo, Yaojun Peng, Silang Zhang)
• Lighting Design:Ljus Design (Makiko Ishioka)
• Facility Planning:Beijing Dongzhouji Technical Consultation (Hoshiaki Ishikawa, Katsunori Takebayashi, Ryuji Yamazaki)
• Construction:Hangzhou Fengyuan Zhuangshi Sheji Gongcheng Youxian Gongsi
Main space materials: double-layer wooden grille, rattan weave, hemp slate, taikoo, tex-ture coating
Ryoutei Matsuko
3 stories old house on the Xihu lakeside was renovated to 2 types of Japanese Restaurant. We planned traditional Japanese restaurant on the second and third floor which has calm atmosphere.
The entrance of restaurant is planned on the second floor where it has low ceiling height, so it is very important to design the walls as eye-catching ones. For the entrance wall, we disassembled the traditional ASANOHA pattern to two different geometric layers, one layer has diamond pattern and the another has the equilateral triangle pattern. In front of the wall we can recognize it as ASANOHA, but it gradually shifts toward the periphery. On the shoe box panels, they were carved by Japanese traditional technique called as NAGURI, and it had the beautiful shaded expression,
On half of the second floor, there planned private rooms in which the both side of partition was put by washi paper called as TAIKO-BARI. On the other half of the second-floor, there planned dining hall in which the double ASANOHA pattern on the back wall of the tables. At the openings, to keep the daylight and block the realistic scenery of the outside, also feel the greens on the balconies, we used the bottom opened washi partition called as YUKIMI-SHOJI.
On the third floor, there planned VIP rooms of calm atmosphere. For using enough height of attic, we expanded the set of staggered shelves called as CHIGAI-DANA up to the ceiling, and put the indirect lighting on them. This technique is reference of KASUMI-DANA at SHUGAKUIN imperial villa in Kyoto.
Matsuko Fast Food
Many tourists are usually walking around there, so that on the first floor we planned the fast food style which provides low price and keeps high rotation.
Because on the first floor of this old house its ceiling height is very low, so we can’t change the height too much. Also due to satisfy the requested programs, the shape of the space is very irregular so that it’s difficult to attract the tourist around there. Then we referred to “HUNAZOKO” ceiling that means bottom of the ship, which is usually used in the traditional Japanese house. The center line of the ceiling being raised up only a little, we can feel the extent of the space even if it’s very low ceiling height. In addition, using wide wooden colored ceiling panel alternately up and down, the tops of ceiling were connected from entrance to back of the space drawing a curve. On the wall where ceiling panels end, they directly fall down with keeping its strip design.
In Japan, the narrow and long room is called as “eel’s bed room”. Later this restaurant started to provide eel food, so this space design like a “eel’s bed room” matched with the provided food unexpectedly.
#China , #restaurant , #fast_food , #house , #interior_design , #lighting , #Japan
@revitalization