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Gentle L By Alan Yu Disseny d'Interiors de Restaurant by Peihe Xie

Gentle L By Alan Yu Disseny d'Interiors de Restaurant by Peihe Xie is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronze in Disseny d'Espais Interiors i Exposicions Competition Category.


BronzeInterior· 2021

Gentle L By Alan Yu Disseny d'Interiors de Restaurant

by Peihe Xie

Client: AD ARCHITECTURE (Shenzhen)

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Gentle L By Alan Yu Disseny d'Interiors de Restaurant

Gentle L d'Alan Yu és un restaurant francès situat a Shenzhen, Xina. L'interior ocupa 800 metres quadrats i s'allunya de la distribució tradicional dels restaurants. Al centre de l'espai s'alça una gran columna d'acer revestida d'alumini arrugat fet a mà, i les arrugues suavitzen la columna i creen un punt visual destacat. Uns panells corbats d'acer inoxidable separen les sales privades tot mantenint un camp de visió clar, de manera que el servei es pot oferir sense pertorbar els comensals. La planta semitancada ofereix privacitat i vistes canviants.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Gentle L By Alan Yu Disseny d'Interiors de Restaurant és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Bronze, un reconeixement altament prestigiós concedit a dissenys sobresortints que es distingeixen per la creativitat, l'enginy i l'astúcia. Els guanyadors de Bronze són artefactes ampliament hàbils i sorprenentment creatius que autentiquen la vasta experiència, la imaginació i el recurs dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Gentle L By Alan Yu Disseny d'Interiors de Restaurant sigui un objecte molt apreciat, admirat i estimat, notablement professional i innovador. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora les millors pràctiques de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia i és excel·lent per la seva atenció al detall. Gentle L By Alan Yu Disseny d'Interiors de Restaurant satisfà esplèndidament les necessitats, toca els desitjos, encisa els sentiments i crida la curiositat.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Situated in Shenzhen, China, Gental L by Alan Yu is a French restaurant, co-founded by Leon LI and Alan YU. The letter "L" in the brand name represents the initials of Leon LI, while "GENTLE" indicates a sense of ritual and French elegance, besides, Alan YU was previously the Executive Chef of a three-Michelin-starred restaurant. The restaurant hopes to provide a private and cozy environment for people to enjoy fine French cuisine, regardless of the hustle and bustle of the outside world.
Dimensions & Packaging
Area: 800 sqm
Materials: wrinkled aluminum, carpet, paint, stone slab, lamp (SIKI)
Tags
French Restaurant, private space, AD Architecture, Light, spatial deconstruction, Xie Peihe
Production Technology
At the middle of the space erects a huge steel column made of hand-made wrinkled aluminum featuring wrinkles, which soften the column visually and make it appear more flexible, hence becoming a visual highlight in the space.
Curved stainless steel screens are used to effectively separate private rooms. Such arrangement ensures the timeliness of services since it provides better field of vision, without interrupting diners. The design enables the realization of an attentive service system.
Design Challenge
As the project is a partial transformation of the original restaurant, the challenges are reducing negative effects on the original restaurant and adding more toilets.
Research
The project shows a novel artistic interpretation of aesthetics. In such a space, one table, two persons and delicious food can form a poetic, distinctive and storytelling scene. The project is an attempt to shape the future of the city, and to stimulate people to discover the inner mind and explore playful experiences.
Inspiration
Most French restaurants usually have a traditional spatial pattern. As approaching the project, the design team, however, made an innovative attempt, which broke with the conventional layout while also bringing in French-style elegance and romance. From geometric shapes to natural material textures, dim light and music, all elements are aimed at producing unique and emotion-evoking spatial experiences and allowing people to enjoy the space as if they are appreciating a piece of wonderful music.
Project Duration
Start time: January 2020
Completion time: July 2020
Shenzhen, China
Operation Flow
It is a France restaurant. Slanting curved structures are freely combined in the space. The fluent planes and broken curved shapes create fluid spatial scenes. Floating structures and oblique forms generate a playful sense of lightness and instability. The space is semi-enclosed, which not only ensures privacy but also enables people to enjoy varying scenes and have different feelings when walking in it.
Team Members
Chief designer: Xie Peihe
Design team: AD ARCHITECTURE
Image Credits
Ouyang Yun

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