WAT Green Urban Jungle Interior comercial, bar de cócteles by Chen Lin

WAT Green Urban Jungle Interior comercial, bar de cócteles by Chen Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Plata in Diseño de Espacios Interiores y Exposiciones Competition Category.

PlataInterior· 2022

WAT Green Urban Jungle Interior comercial, bar de cócteles

by Chen Lin

Client: Chen Lin

A' Design Award de Plata Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About WAT Green Urban Jungle Interior comercial, bar de cócteles

WAT Green Urban Jungle es un espacio comercial social y bar de cócteles en Shanghái, China. La sala rectangular mide 8 metros de largo, 5 metros de ancho y 4 metros de alto. Las paredes y el techo están revestidos de terrazo verde, cortado en láminas delgadas y fijado a paneles de aluminio tipo panal de abeja para que este material pesado pudiera emplearse en el plano superior. En el centro se dispone una barra alargada con una cinta giratoria que transporta los cócteles, bajo un panel electrónico de mensajes suspendido que reproduce su forma. Los grandes ventanales que dan a la calle aportan luz natural y enmarcan una zona de asientos con una barra y siete taburetes sin respaldo.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Plata

WAT Green Urban Jungle Interior comercial, bar de cócteles ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que WAT Green Urban Jungle Interior comercial, bar de cócteles sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. WAT Green Urban Jungle Interior comercial, bar de cócteles es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The project is a social retailing and bar for the young generation. This rectangular space entirely clad in green terrazzo tiles. A small section directly opposite houses An elongated counter with a rotating belt laden with cocktail drinks literally takes center stage, and comes with a suspended electronic message board canopy following its contours. Large windows on the street side allow in floods of daylight, but also provide for a seating area with a counter and seven stools.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project is along the street, but there is no independent entrance along the street. The boundary of the site creates a rectangular space of 8 meters long, 5 meters wide, 4 meters high and 160 cubic meters in volume.
Tags: Social Retail, Cocktail Bar, form follows fiction, young generation
Production Technology: Materials：Terrazzo，galvanized sheet，stainless steel，acrylic plate the technology of terrazzo ceiling: thin type of terrazzo, using aluminum honeycomb board as the base, and hanging with metal keel
Design Challenge: It is difficult to use terrazzo which is a kind of heavy material and mainly used on the ground on both the ceiling and the wall. Under many tests, finally a terrazzo could be cut into three sheets of the same thickness and these laminas could be attached to the entire space.
Research: In keeping with the spirit of urbanism proclaimed by Venturi in Learning from Las Vegas, it is important to learn from the great city, Shanghai. Through the narrative reconstruction of old buildings and new Spaces, the designer hope to elegantly intervene in the space-time fabric of the city with the design which is full of the spirit of the Times. Therefore,the designer used a minimalist spatial narrative to inject great vitality into the tiny volume.
Inspiration: Mr Tschumi says, Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action and what happens in space. Form follows fiction. The design team plan to use a minimalist spatial narrative to inject great vitality into the tiny volume. In this small square box, we redefined boundaries, scale and function, and created a green jungle which was full of the spirit of urbanism with restrained but balanced design.
Project Duration: The project is located at 758 Julu Road, Jing 'an District, Shanghai, China. And the project started in January 2021 and finished in July 2021.
Operation Flow: The style of day and night is different. The style of the day need to maintain retail like WAT products and peripherals to reduce the pressure of the rent and make people feel relaxed and pleasant. However, the bar style need to transform the atmosphere which get customers excited. So the material, color, and style of the soft outfit on the vision were chosen celadon terrazzo and snowflake metal plate. And lighting, music and wine decoration are used to distinguish different business hours.
Team Members: Principle Architect： Chen Lin
Project Architect: Zixiang Feng
Design Team Member: Zijie Xu
Image Credits: Photographer Runzi Zhu, all images, 2021