Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2017
Suigetsu Japanese Restaurant Japanese Restaurant
by Prism Design
- A' Design Award 2017 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2017
- CLIENT: Prism Design
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About Suigetsu Japanese Restaurant Japanese Restaurant
Suigetsu Japanese Restaurant is a dining interior of 370 square metres in Chongqing, China. The design combines Chongqing and Japanese cultural references. Floor levels change in height to recall the local landscape. The plan follows the meeting paths of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers and also refers to Feng Shui principles. The ceiling is shaped like a folded fan, with an aluminium alloy frame and wood textured surfaces. Acrylic light boxes on the glass facade recall paper lanterns and glow at night.
Prism Design's Suigetsu Japanese Restaurant stands as an accomplished exemplar of contemporary hospitality interior design that thoughtfully synthesizes elements drawn from traditional architectural vocabularies with distinctly modern spatial sensibilities and material applications. The installation demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how light, material, and spatial proportion collaborate to establish atmosphere appropriate to the contemplative rituals of dining. The wall treatment system, composed of backlit translucent panels arranged within dark metal grids, evokes historical precedents including traditional paper screens and lattice windows while reinterpreting these references through contemporary fabrication and illumination technologies. This approach creates what might be termed a lantern effect at architectural scale, transforming the enclosing surfaces into sources of diffused luminosity rather than mere boundaries. The design team has evidently considered how the highly reflective floor surface would contribute to the overall spatial experience, effectively doubling the perceived height of the room through its mirror-like qualities and creating an almost aquatic sense of immersion appropriate to the establishment's name, which references the poetic concept of water and moon. The pendant light fixtures, with their clear glass globes and warm filament sources, introduce a secondary rhythmic layer while providing functional task illumination for dining surfaces below. Material selection throughout reveals careful attention to tactile and visual warmth, with wooden table surfaces providing organic counterpoint to the industrial qualities of exposed ceiling infrastructure and metal frameworks. The overall achievement suggests a sophisticated balance between theatrical drama and intimate comfort, creating an environment that elevates the dining experience through environmental poetry. Visitors are invited to observe how the interplay of reflection and illumination transforms throughout their experience.
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- Unique Properties
- 1. We combined both ChongQing and Japanese culture in this restaurant. Some of the features were coming from ChongQing's traditional culture. While Japanese culture also play an important role in it.
2. You can feel the varies changes of ChongQing's landscape by all the hight differences of the floor.
3. The plan arrangements combined Chinese Fengshui culture.
4. This restaurant can not be defined as a Japanese restaurant, nor a Chongqing restaurant. It absorbed the similar features of these two place. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Total area:370 square meters
- Tags
- Combination, Transforming, Nature-related
- Production Technology
- 1. The shape of the ceiling were inspired by traditional folded fan. It used aluminum alloy as bones, with wood textures on the surface. 2.The connected points were used traditional Chinese Sun Mou technology, in a simplified way.
3.Different angles of the ceiling indicated the traditional Chinese umbrella bones.
4. All the blowing boxes on the facade actually coming from the traditional lamp festival in Chongqing. However, Japanese people also have this tradition. Considering about the semi-transparency of the paper surface of lamp, we used acrylic as a modern metaphor. When the night comes, all the light on the facade can always remind people of the flying lamps shining on the lamp festival day. - Design Challenge
- Two sides of the walls were glass facade. This limitation contributed to huge light differences of the restaurant during the day and on the night. So that we refined the appearance of the acrylic light box. During day time, customers can appreciate the compound of the structure. While on the night, those light provide both light and visual attractiveness.
- Project Duration
- The project was located in 3rd Floor, tower A, Crystal Palace, Xin nan Road No160, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China. It was started in January 2016 and finished in August 2016. The opening time was in September 2016.
- Operation Flow
- The arrangement of the restaurant's plan was referred to the flowing path of Yang Zi and Jia Ling River. People's walking path can be regarded as the trends of water.
- Research
- The research included natural landscapes, Japanese and Chinese cultures' similarities and differences, traditional carpenter technology and Chinese unique Feng Shui culture.
We've done those research by reading books, studying geometry knowledges, interviewing residents and traveling around ChongQing to collect images. - Inspiration
- Chongqing is located right at the crosspoint of Yang Zi and Jia Ling River. This crosspoint inspired us to make a confusion of nature landscape features and restaurant interior design together.
- Image Credits
- Studio W / Wataru Ishida
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