Yufengyuan Restaurant by Xiaobo Ye is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

SilverInterior· 2020

Yufengyuan Restaurant

by Xiaobo Ye

Client: Zmake

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Yufengyuan Restaurant

Yufengyuan is a restaurant interior covering 1100 square meters. The design refers to the culture of the Yellow River. A passage of 50 meters follows the line of the river through the space. Eight metal boxes of different heights are placed along the passage. Each box seats one family and is named after a small creature, such as a butterfly, a frog or a bee. The finish of each box follows the character of the creature. All boxes are raised, so entering a box becomes a moment of ritual. The main materials are terrazzo, steel plate, bamboo and latex paint.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Yufengyuan Restaurant is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Yufengyuan Restaurant is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Yufengyuan Restaurant is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Each metal box represents a family and named after a kind of insect, such as butterfly, frog, bee, or others. And the finishing is also as different as the characteristics of each insect accordingly. The designers lift up all the boxes in order to give visitor a sense of ritual upon entering the box.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 1100 square meters.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Restaurant, Modern, Fashion, Yellow River, Wheat Fields, Insect
Production Technology: The main materials in this project are terrazzo, steel plate, bamboo and latex paint.
Design Challenge: It was a project full of joy and frustration, but mixed with confusion and regret at the same time. They truly believe that it is so called the ultimate process of design. It was filled with reality and challenge. It is also their greatest privilege to be part of this project.
Research: The designers imagine that on the both side of Yellow River at ancient time, where lived many peasant families for generations, they were nurtured and breed by it. The boundless wheat field are located in the valley of Yellow River, where many insects live and enjoy the maternal love of the river. This is the designers' cultural expression of this restaurant.
Inspiration: The designers are dedicated to present a unique design to everyone, and have implied cultural elements of the Yellow River into the design concept. They designed a 50 meters long passage in according with the track of the Yellow River throughout the space. Eight metal boxes with different heights are attached along the passage.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2019 in Zhengzhou and finished in December 2019 in Zhengzhou.
Operation Flow: The whole process of accomplishing is in the way of EPC by the designers.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Xiaobo Ye, 2019.
Team Members: Xiaobo Ye
XiaoJing Feng
JingLi Zhao
Zongqi Zhao
Changyuan Su
Peng Wang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Ming Guo, Yellow River Street, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Ming Guo, Box, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Ming Guo, Box, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Ming Guo, Box, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Ming Guo, Toilet, 2019.