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Warm amber and burnished gold hexagonal perforated metal forms cascade from a matte black ceiling grid in Steven Hu's Gao Wei Restaurant, creating an extraordinary stalactite-like canopy that…

Gao Wei Restaurant by Steven Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


GoldInterior· 2020

Gao Wei Restaurant

by Steven Hu

Client: Yuxun'ls Design

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Gao Wei Restaurant

Gao Wei is a restaurant interior located on the third floor of a commercial mall in Kunming. The project covers 1100 square meters and presents Yunnan ethnic culture in a modern form. Different materials and colors define the functional areas, so physical partitions are reduced and the layout feels open. Smooth lines run across the walls and the ceiling, while inset lighting highlights the surface texture. The colorful exterior facade connects the interior with the mall and draws the attention of passing diners.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Gao Wei Restaurant is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Gao Wei Restaurant is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Gao Wei Restaurant creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
This case is a restaurant with Yunnan ethnic characteristics, the taste of dishes and feelings of expression is equally important. Its design pursues national style and original ecology, but also runs through a large number of fashionable elements. The designer starts from the inner dimension of environmental construction, through in-depth thinking and combing the relationship between food and culture, fashion and tradition, and disseminates the emotional communication channel to the heart.
Dimensions & Packaging
The project covers a total of 1100 square meters. The pattern design of the main axis makes use of the interpolation and distinction between spaces, smooth lines and functions, meets the diverse dining needs of diners, enlarges the space vision, and devotes itself to creating the restaurant space of modern city.
Tags
Interior, Commercial, Restaurant, Yunnan, Modern, Different Colors, National Style, Original Ecology
Production Technology
The designers uses different materials and colors to distinguish different functional areas, which reduces the physical partition in space and makes the functional layout appear in the invisible partition, and has a great sense of bulk. At the same time, it shows a simple texture in the design. As far as the eye can see, the smooth lines are laid out on the facade and the top, outlining the delicate texture details, and the inlaid exquisite lighting makes the texture sublimate.
Design Challenge
This case is located on the third floor of a commercial mall. Due to the limitation of the project location, it is more difficult to attract the customers and export the brand. Therefore, through the combination and splicing of multiple rich colors, the exterior facade creates rich and varied visual effects, and establishes the interaction between indoor and outdoor, which can easily capture the eyes of passers-by diners.
Research
The quality and variety of products are only the basic demands of diners, while the situational and personalized environment and its brand aesthetics are the important factors of brand circle fans. Therefore, how to have both "authentic Yunnan taste" and a new perspective and thinking has become the focus of space expression in this case.
Inspiration
The interior captures the details of traditional Yunnan architecture, creating a futuristic and trendy space. Designers from the Oriental aesthetic continuation of modern design, with traditional classical elements mirror the temperament of the times, so that the diversified elements of Yunnan better integrate with urban space, giving space a strong visual impact.
Project Duration
The project started in February 22, 2019 in Kunming and finished in March 25, 2019 in Kunming.
Operation Flow
The design team follows the brand's consistent exquisite and colorful approach, focusing on highlighting the virtual and real space and liquidity. With transparent, pluralistic and delicate visual presentation, in a rational and fashionable style, the designers get rid of the public's inherent impression of Yunnan-style restaurants, which is flexible and comfortable.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Steven Hu, 2019.
Team Members
Steven Hu
Crystal Bao
Sherri Dong
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Steven Hu, Gao Wei, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Steven Hu, Gao Wei, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Steven Hu, Gao Wei, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Steven Hu, Gao Wei, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Steven Hu, Gao Wei, 2019.

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