Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Aranya Cafeteria 6 Restaurant by Yiming Zhu
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yiming Zhu for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Aranya Cafeteria 6 Restaurant by Yiming Zhu, designed for Y Space Design Consulting Firm. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Aranya Cafeteria 6 Restaurant
Aranya Cafeteria 6 is a restaurant set in the underground space of a pet hotel. Seven light patios bring daylight inside and hold green planting, creating a natural atmosphere. Exposed concrete walls, ash wood furniture and plants define the brutalist character of the interior. Cool spotlights echo the steel pipes and air conditioning boxes on the ceiling, while warm light marks the dining tables. Storage for pets, a vending machine with pet snacks and a water dispenser for pets are placed near the entrance. Two hand washing areas serve the two entrances.
About Yiming Zhu
Y Space Design Consulting Firm was founded in 2016. It is a design consulting firm with "beautiful insight and virtue".The firm is active in residential, commercial, cultural tourism estate industry, office, hotel, cultural and educational projects and other types of practical exploration. The scope of services covers interior design, brand visual identity design (combined with space), soft decoration，furniture design, etc., as well as design consultng and business operation consulting services.
Award Record
Yiming Zhu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2021 - 2022 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/128213
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/128213
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!128213
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/309958
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/37Lqwql
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Aranya Cafeteria 6 Restaurant
- Function
- Restaurant
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Black, Slate Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Y Space Design Consulting Firm
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yiming Zhu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #128213
Credits
- Team
- Zhicheng Jiang and Yilun Yang
- Image Credits
- Photographer / Xuguo Tang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Aranya Cafeteria 6 mainly responded to the special light conditions of an underground space and the existed concrete walls. Daylight can penetrate into the underground restaurant through 7 light patios with green landscape placed in, to create an ecological and natural atmosphere. Undressed concrete walls, log materials, along with green landscape, make the space in a natural and brutal way. To echo with the pet hotel upstairs, storage space has been specially marked off for pets keeping at the entrance, accompanied with humanized vending machine that sells pet snacks and pet-used water dispenser, to be easy to use for customers with pets.
- Inspiration
- This project is located at the underground space of a pet hotel. Hence, a restaurant for customers with their beloved pets became the main inspiration. There are multiple concrete walls left in the original underground space, and electrical equipments from above pet hotel has completely covered the ceiling. These elements brought the space a harsh and rustic appearance, reminding people of the cold industrialization. YSPACE wishes to expose these original elements, and treat this sense of brutalism and industrialization as a main concept of the interior finishing.
- Research
- In-depth research has been conducted on the texture of materials and the psychological effects caused by lighting on people. Great efforts has been put on matching the brutal concrete walls with other materials and elements to create a stronger contrast.The design team decided to use logged ash wood with comfortable tactility as the main material of furniture, to warm up the interior environment. Cafeteria 6 has been shaped to a creative dining space with cleanness and coziness, by showing people strong contrast between vision and tactility.
- Challenge
- 1. Under the circumstance that natural daylighting is insufficient, how to realize the best lighting condition for dining incorporate artificial lighting with the limited natural daylight? 2. How to make the excessive inclined wall existed in the original underground space integrated into the restaurant? 3. In what way does the rough concrete of the building combine with the delicate spatial elements?
- Realization and Technology
- The lighting of Cafeteria 6 combines warm and cool lighting source, as proper lighting not only helps shape the atmosphere, but also has positive impacts to people moods. Primary circulation lighting applied 4000k spotlight in cool tone on rail to echo with the steel pipes and exposed air-conditioner boxes on the ceiling, highlighting the cleanness and coolness of the concrete walls. While the decoration lighting and key lighting for the dinning tables utilized 3500k warm light to visually make people focus on objects in short distance, such as delicious food on the table and natural beauty of people sitting opposite.
- Operation and Interaction
- Influenced by COVID-19, we took more care of meal hygiene and food safety. Therefore, the design team set two hand-washing area at each entrance to Cafeteria 6. One of the hand-washing area connected to lifts of Quanshe hotel is closed to the toilet, which is distant to the one by the escalator. In this case, two hand-washing area can effectively avoid the chaos circulation during the rush hours.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in December 2020 and finished in June 2021. Located in Aranya seaside resort community, Qinhuangdao, China.
- Specifications
- The interior area of Cafeteria 6 is 2833sqm, the kitchen area is 617sqm, the pick-up area is 150sqm, the service area is 210sqm, and others are dining area for customers. YSPACE utilized the area that has most columns and irregular corners as the kitchen, while the service area spreading to all direction around the whole space. Moreover, the wider space in the middle where lightwells located is designated as customers activity space.
- Keywords
- Pet, Brutalism, Underground Restaurant, Concrete, Wood, Lightwell
