The Grand Blue Express مطعم by Tetsuya Matsumoto

The Grand Blue Express مطعم by Tetsuya Matsumoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 جائزة A' Design Award الفضية in تصميم الفضاءات الداخلية والمعارض Competition Category.

فضةالتصميم الداخلي· 2022

The Grand Blue Express مطعم

by Tetsuya Matsumoto

Client: Nautilus Ueno

جائزة A' Design Award الفضية Winner in التصميم الداخلي Category

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The Design

About The Grand Blue Express مطعم

The Grand Blue Express هو مطعم فاخر لتناول الطعام في حوض السمك في أوينو، طوكيو. المساحة التي تم تجديدها تقتصر على 95 مترًا مربعًا وتقع في الطابق الخامس من مبنى متعدد الاستخدامات. يحاول التصميم المستوحى من القطارات الفاخرة التغلب على قيود المساحة الصغيرة لاستيعاب أحواض السمك وتوفير الأجواء الفاخرة التي يهدف مطعم إلى تنفيذها. تأخذ غرفة الطعام شكل عربة الممر التي تخدم الكبائن الفردية على كلا الجانبين. تم تجهيز كل كابينة بحوض السمك الخاص بها المثبت لتقليد نوافذ القطار، مما يخلق انطباعًا بأنك داخل قطار يبحر تحت الماء.

The Recognition

About the جائزة A' Design Award الفضية

The Grand Blue Express مطعم هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award الفضية، وهي تقدير رفيع المكانة بصورة استثنائية يُمنح للتصاميم الرفيعة المستوى والجميلة والمبهرة. والفائزون بالفضية هم أعمال لامعة بشدة وشديدة الإبداع تجسّد الخبرة والموهبة وحدة الذكاء المتميزة لدى مصمميها. ويُتوقع أن يكون The Grand Blue Express مطعم عملًا رائعًا يُعرض كنموذج، شديد الاحترافية وعميق الابتكار. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award الفضية اختراع جدير بالذكر ومحل إعجاب، يعود بالنفع ويوسّع حدود الفن والعلم والتصميم والتكنولوجيا. وThe Grand Blue Express مطعم إبداع يغبطه الكثيرون، يثير الرغبات ويبعث مشاعر إيجابية ويشعل الدهشة والإعجاب.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The renovation work for the aquarium dining restaurant took place on the narrow 5th floor of a mixed used building in Ueno, Tokyo. The restaurant is inspired by luxury cruise trains and imitates them to produce a small yet luxurious atmosphere for the dining room. The seats are made into train cabins where the windows are replaced by aquariums. The space turns on to offer an immersive experience with the impression of being inside a train cruising underwater.
Dimensions & Packaging: Gross Built Area: 95sqm
W15325mm x D8300mm x H2390mm
Tags: Japan, dining, aquarium, restaurant, Tokyo, blue, train, immersive, hospitality, commercial
Production Technology: The walls are made using dry wall techniques. The floor is covered in ceramic tiles. While the ceiling is finished in vinyl cloth mainly, except for the central corridor ceiling which is covered in special stainless panels that imitates water waves. The aquariums are surrounded by steel frames with a golden baked painting finish. On the top of the frame another round steel panels that allows access to the aquariums for maintenance purposes.
Design Challenge: The client abstract when starting this project is to produce a luxury aquarium dining experience, however the total floor area to be used, including the kitchen is no larger than 95sqm and the height under the beams is limited to 2.3m. How can such a narrow place offer a luxury experience was the main challenge leading to the concept of luxury cruise trains. the second challenge was to integrate the aquariums in this composition without altering the concept.
Research: The experiment of this project was to find a way to imitate a luxury train experience on a concrete building inside the urban jungle of Tokyo. How can a built interior space offer the same experience than a moving dynamic wagon and how can interior materials be used to simulate an automotive space? The combination of material use, dimensional canons, and geometrical shapes were the core of this design exercise.
Inspiration: The space was inspired by luxury trains rides which offers various services. The trains are composed of several wagons with special functions and special layouts. The restaurant combines two types of wagons, the cabin and the dinner and merge them to create a dining cabin, and since the restaurant theme is aquarium dining, the train windows are replaced by aquariums to create a simulation of a train cruising under the water.
Project Duration: Project start: July 2021.
Construction start: December 2021.
Project/Construction End: February 2022.

Location:
Ueno, Tokyo, Japan.
Operation Flow: Since the restaurant is located on the 5th floor of a building the access is done through the elevator that opens to a small welcoming hall. At the corner a circular shaped sofa. Then the corridor along the space serving the cabins on both sides. on the left, four two-seaters cabins and on the right four other four-seaters cabins. At the end of the corridor the VIP cabin. The kitchen is accessed on both extremities of the corridor on the right side.
Team Members: Tetsuya Matsumoto
Motoaki Takeuchi
Risa Iriyama
Image Credits: Image #1: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.
Image #2: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.
Image #3: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.
Image #4: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.
Image #5: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.