Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant by Above Space

Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant by Above Space is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2021

Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant

by Above Space

Client: Above Space

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant

Nanxiang Bailian is a restaurant interior design covering 690 square meters in Fuzhou, China. The interior combines references to traditional Cantonese design with a modern architectural style. Terrazzo is used as the main surface material for its luster and texture. Painted wooden screens add a sense of warmth and enrich the color scheme of the whole space. The indoor lighting uses several groups of point light sources, so that every table is well lit. The number and position of the partitions were adjusted to keep the space open while protecting the privacy of diners.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Nanxiang Bailian Restaurant splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: PartialBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The design of this case not only completes the expression of the restaurant's functional and artistic attributes, but also fully considers the practicality in various details, so that the comfort of customers dining is much more invisible. Silence is more powerful than words. As the saying goes, swords don't need edgy blade for decoration, as absolute strength hidden inside. An efficient operation of the restaurant is fully guaranteed from the design basis.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 690 square meters.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Restaurant, Modern, Artistic, Warm, Terrazzo
Production Technology: The painted wooden screen, with magnificent artistic beauty, not only breaks the blemishes of cold terrazzo color temperature, creates a sense of warmth at home, but also enriches the color ratio of the entire color scheme, thus achieving a visual effect with rich layers and rhythm.
Design Challenge: After multiple changes of the number and location of partitions, the permeability of space was ensured, and privacy of dining was guaranteed as the same time. Even when all the seats are occupied, the dining people still could have a good meal. Good liquidity, clear movement lines, responsible duties are all make good to the restaurant. It is not crowded and messy. From the design point of view, the restaurant's high-end positioning and actual use requirements are once again pinched.
Research: The vertical part of the art roof is made into squares, which can not only be used for artistic display, but also use a fork to lift the glass to form the style of ancient window support.There's no distinct differences between Chinese and Western, as is between tradition and modern. Every detail can be seen here and there, completing the circulation and change of history in time and space.
Inspiration: In this case, the designer took high priority of the reproduction and reflection of the historical traditional Cantonese with modern architectural style when designed the restaurant. After careful consideration, designer first came up with terrazzo, a kind of completely modern building material with super luster and texture as those traditional stones.
Project Duration: The project started in July 2020 in Fuzhou and finished in November 2020 in Fuzhou.
Operation Flow: The indoor lighting adopts the form of matching multiple groups of point light sources, which not only gives the space an excellent light and shadow texture, and makes the facade richer and more dimensional, but also guarantees the needs of each table.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Yongchang Wu, 2020.
Team Members: Kaiwang Zhang
Wen Lin
Guihua Lian
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Yongchang Wu, Nanxiang Bailian, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Yongchang Wu, Nanxiang Bailian, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Yongchang Wu, Nanxiang Bailian, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Yongchang Wu, Nanxiang Bailian, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Yongchang Wu, Nanxiang Bailian, 2020.