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Sishi Bajie Restaurant by Darble Kong

Sishi Bajie Restaurant by Darble Kong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


BronzeInterior· 2020

Sishi Bajie Restaurant

by Darble Kong

Client: PoueJing Design

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Sishi Bajie Restaurant

Sishi Bajie is a Chinese restaurant interior covering 350 square metres in Nanning. The design follows a minimalist approach, using simple materials and refined forms. Concrete and wood create a natural atmosphere, while leather and wall painting add detail to the private dining rooms. Different materials and colours mark the functional areas, so physical partitions are reduced and the layout stays open. Screens, medicine cabinets, ceramics and carvings are interpreted in a modern way. A porch finished in black iron marks the transition into the open dining area.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Sishi Bajie Restaurant is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Sishi Bajie Restaurant is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Sishi Bajie Restaurant splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The project is a new four-season Chinese restaurant. Based on the principle of minimalist design and in order to create food and art collide atmosphere, the designer used simple materials and exquisite capable of modeling, which will give you the new-space experience. The designer starts from the inner dimension of environmental construction, through in-depth thinking and combing the relationship between food and culture, and disseminates the emotional communication channel to the heart.
Dimensions & Packaging
The project covers a total of 350 square meters. Creating a flowing connection through segmentation and grille, so that the whole field has more complete continuity. Adornment with medicine boxes, ceramics, carvings and other elements adds nobility and elegance to the space.
Tags
Interior, Restaurant, Commercial, Modern, Simple, Chinese Cultural Characteristics, Oriental Elements, Nanning
Production Technology
In terms of material, the natural atmosphere of concrete and wood elements, it is skillfully matched with a suitable balance. 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.
Design Challenge
The restaurant box constructs the interface relationship with the help of concrete, wood, leather and wall painting, which not only has the transition extension, but also has the level of detail, setting off the rich and diversified space texture.
Research
The alternation of color and shape of the whole space fully mobilizes the visual tension. Activating every cell of the diners so as to Let them just want to return to the nature of color and food and enjoy the foods with pleasure, which can not only allow the diners to enjoy delicious food intently, but also make them feel the charm of art at the moment when they look up.
Inspiration
This case extracts elements with Chinese cultural characteristics, such as screens, medicine kits, ceramics, sculptures and other elements for modern interpretation. Conceptually, through the experience of the ceremonial porch, using the black iron material to create the psychological feeling of key space transformation, passing through the porch into the overall open area, promoting the change with different materials on the large area of the wall.
Project Duration
The project started in July 2019 in Nanning and finished in November 2019 in Nanning.
Operation Flow
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.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Darble Kong, 2019.
Team Members
Darble Kong
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Raymony Long, Sishi Bajie, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Raymony Long, Sishi Bajie, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Raymony Long, Sishi Bajie, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Raymony Long, Sishi Bajie, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Raymony Long, Sishi Bajie, 2019.

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