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Bin Liu's Tarentum Restaurant with Bar presents an extraordinary spatial composition dominated by sculptural plaster formations that cascade from ceiling to walls, creating an immersive cave-like…

Tarentum Restaurant with Bar by Bin Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


SilverInterior· 2023

Tarentum Restaurant with Bar

by Bin Liu

Client: Rbd Design Box

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Tarentum Restaurant with Bar

Tarentum is a Greek-themed restaurant and bar interior in Wuhan, China. The design covers 386 square meters of indoor and outdoor space, including a customer area of 276 square meters, a bar of 20 square meters and a kitchen of 40 square meters. The indoor area holds 36 tables and 104 seats, and the outdoor area holds 6 tables and 24 seats. The main theme is drawn from the karst caves of Mykonos. Artificial caves are formed on steel skeletons covered with fabric, foam and concrete, then sprayed with white cement. Micro-cement, tile and marble complete the space.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Tarentum Restaurant with Bar 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. Tarentum Restaurant with Bar 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. Tarentum Restaurant with Bar 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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Unique Properties
Tarentum, a brand of Greek-themed restaurant chain from Shenzhen, recently opened its first store in Wuhan. The brand delivers the Mediterranean ocean style to the city streets of Wuhan, which brings a day-and-night lifestyle. The intention is to create the ultimate space of immersive cultural experience, which help customers enjoy an exotic style and taste the delicate and elegant Greek cultural style in a panoramic way, from the whole to the details and from the structure to the furnishings.
Dimensions & Packaging
The whole area for design is three hundred and eighty-six square meters, including indoor space and outdoor space. Indoor space is made up of the customer area of 276 square meters, the bar of 20 square meters and the kitchen of 40 square meters. The dining-tables are different in shape and size so that they can satisfy various needs. The amount of dining-tables in the interior space is 36, which could hold 104 customers. The number of dining-tables in the outside area is 6, which has 24 seats.
Tags
Karst Cave, Greek , Innovation, Romantic, Comfortable, Dream, Harmony
Production Technology
I Design materials: micro-cement / mattile / marble / Xintong lighting.
II Technology: cave production
1. Building foundation: steel skeleton with steel and wire
2. Fix flexible fabric, foam plastic and plate on the steel skeleton
3. Concrete over the foundation skeleton, so that it constitutes the three-dimensional artificial cave of natural image of karst cave.
4. Colouring: spray the white cement slurry on the surface of the artificial karst cave.
Design Challenge
The Greek culture is colorful, but it is not easy to find and conceive the materials needed to create the artistic conception, and it is also difficult to conduct spatial interpretation. On the other hand, cultural differences may pose a certain challenge for designer to pursue that the Greek-themed catering space can be widely recognized and loved.
Research
Through the investigation and interview, information about Wuhan regional cultural characteristics, catering consumption habits and aesthetic preferences is collected by using Internet and other technology methods. On the basis of accurate regional people's consumption characteristics, the innovative space design realizes the fusion of brand and consumer culture ,improves the cognitive acceptance of brand and provides people with a leisure space to understand and experience exotic food.
Inspiration
Mykonos, an Island lying in the southeast of Athens, is unique among many Aegean islands with its special dreamy temperament. The innovation inspiration of the design is from the natural karst cave of Mikonos Island. As the theme element, the island cave could foil the unique Greek cultural and highlight the cultural gene of brand.
Project Duration
The project started in February 2022 in Wuhan and finished in May 2022 in Wuhan.
Operation Flow
Exploration-Space Analysis-Conception-Design Draft-Design Modification-plane graph-impression drawing- Feedback-Design Finalization-Construction Drawing-Construction-Soft decoration-Inspection-Completion
Image Credits
Photographer Ben FoTo, 2021

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