YumChina Innovation Center Kitchen Lab by Ying Chi Huang - DEVA Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
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YumChina Innovation Center Kitchen Lab
by Ying Chi Huang - DEVA Design
Client: DEVA Design
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About YumChina Innovation Center Kitchen Lab
The Yum China Innovation Center is a 2500 square meter interior design for a food research and development facility in Shanghai, China. The center contains specialized kitchens, a conference room, a packaging design area, offices and a lobby. Each kitchen is planned for efficient, hygienic and comfortable work. Dedicated ventilation, water, power and data systems support the research activities. Ash wood and burl surfaces in gray and white tones create a warm and calm atmosphere. The layout was studied to improve the movement of staff and visitors.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
YumChina Innovation Center Kitchen Lab 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. YumChina Innovation Center Kitchen Lab 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. YumChina Innovation Center Kitchen Lab is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
To use simple and minimalist style to let the functional requirements guide the aesthetic.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
To create an integrated workplace that nurtures the very important tasks of the professionals that are creating the future of food.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
This project has been completed and is functioning.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- YumChina’s new Innovation Center defies limitations while conveying warmth; The efficient office space embraces a clean design aesthetic and is visually appealing; Hearty ash and burl suggests strength and dignity. The exquisitely detailed conference room, public spaces and kitchen innovation center are brimming with imagination, original ideas and creativity. YumChina’s embrace of intelligent design encourages fellowship, sensibility, rationality and food!
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 2500 sq. m. located in Shanghai, China
- Tags
- Innovation center, Kitchen Lab, Office, Conference room, Package design center, Lobby, gray/white tones
- Production Technology
- The Innovation Center is an optimization of the creative food experience. The design team carefully examined the food creation process and optimized the space to enhance the workflow and the movement of staff and visitors through the facility. The materials, colors and textures were selected to create an atmosphere that supports the sensory experience of new food creations.
- Design Challenge
- Yum China’s new facilities defy limitations while conveying
warmth; The efficient office space embraces a clean design
aesthetic and is visually appealing; Hearty ash and burl suggests
strength and dignity. The exquisitely detailed conference room,
public spaces and kitchen innovation center are brimming with
imagination, original ideas and creativity. Yum China’s embrace
of intelligent design encourages fellowship, sensibility, rationality... and food! - Research
- The Yum China Innovation Kitchen facility is tasked with
interpreting, developing and refining the many food products
offered by the Yum China family of restaurants. Everything from
the ingredients, to the look to the packaging are meticulously
considered at this facility. Therefore, all aspects of this facility
were also meticulously considered, refined and reconsidered to
create a workplace that nurtures the very important tasks of the
professionals that labor here creating the future of food. - Inspiration
- Embracing sensibility and rationality: a mixture of functional considerations and innovative creativity
- Project Duration
- Project duration from May 2018 to January 2018. The Innovation Center is located in Shanghai, China.
- Operation Flow
- The YumChina Innovation Center is at the heart of YumChina’s efforts to bring healthy diverse food choices to China. In highly specialized kitchens, foods are researched, developed and optimized. Each of the specialized kitchens has been designed to provide efficient, hygienic and thoughtful workspaces. Everything from materials, equipment and ergonomics was considered. Special HVAC, water, power and data systems were developed to fully support the Innovation Center activities. This cutting edge project resulted from the collaboration of the designers, contractors and food experts.
- Team Members
- Ying Chi Huang
Jui Hsing Sung
Kevin Conway - Image Credits
- Deva Design, Yum China Innovation Center, 2019
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