Bowl Fantasy Cantonese Tong Sui Dessert Store by Manuel Lap Yan Lam - The Volks Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
SilverInterior· 2022
Bowl Fantasy Cantonese Tong Sui Dessert Store
by Manuel Lap Yan Lam - The Volks Design
Client: the Volks Design & Research Consulting Ltd.
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Bowl Fantasy Cantonese Tong Sui Dessert Store
Bowl Fantasy is the interior design of a modern Cantonese tong sui store that serves sweet soup as a dessert. The soup bowl, the symbol of the brand, is the main design theme. Bowl forms are split, folded, stacked and regrouped to create a three-dimensional screen, a layered ceiling and large chandeliers. About eighty percent of the design is produced with off-site laser cutting, which reduces cost, construction time and on-site labor. The result is a dessert store where one everyday object shapes every main spatial element.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Bowl Fantasy Cantonese Tong Sui Dessert Store 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. Bowl Fantasy Cantonese Tong Sui Dessert Store 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. Bowl Fantasy Cantonese Tong Sui Dessert Store is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- Entering the “tong sui” store is like wandering in space where fragments of bowls are scattered. "Bowls" fly around appear in different forms and shapes; they are folded and stacked into three-dimensional screen, or they are cut and rearranged as dynamic ceiling design, or even they are sliced and regrouped into giant chandeliers. It is like being in a magical palace sparking our imagination and bringing out unlimited possibilities to this dining experience.
- Tags
- Cafe, Fabrication, Macau, Restaurant, Interior Design
- Production Technology
- In order to reduce cost, to reduce construction time and reduce onsite labor, we limit 80% of our design by utilizing off-site laser cutting technology. Working closely with laser cutting manufacturer, we are able to create different forms and different folding techniques which become the highlight of the spatial design.
- Design Challenge
- This is a low-budget and time sensitive project which challenges us rethink our design logic by integrating fabrication process, on-site installation and transportation limitations into our design operations.
- Inspiration
- Bowl Fantasy is a project for a modern Cantonese “tong sui” store that serves sweet soup as a dessert. The soup bowl that holds Chinese dessert is the symbol of the brand and is our inspiration. We try to dematerialize the physical properties of the “bowl” by using different fabrication techniques such as splitting, folding, stacking and regrouping. These challenge us to rethink the relationship between space and its implements, and to redefine our understanding of essential spatial components.
- Project Duration
- The project is located in the University of Macau at Hengqin campus
- Team Members
- Creative Director : Manuel Lap Yan Lam
Design Team : Scarlett Li - Image Credits
- All images : Photographer Manuel Lap Yan Lam
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