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The Grand Blue Express رستوران by Tetsuya Matsumoto

The Grand Blue Express رستوران by Tetsuya Matsumoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 جایزه نقره‌ای A' Design Award in طراحی فضای داخلی و نمایشگاه Competition Category.


نقرهداخلی· 2022

The Grand Blue Express رستوران

by Tetsuya Matsumoto

Client: Nautilus Ueno

جایزه نقره‌ای A' Design Award Winner in داخلی Category

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The Design

About The Grand Blue Express رستوران

گرند بلو اکسپرس یک رستوران مجلل برای غذاخوری آکواریومی در اوئنو، توکیو است. فضای بازسازی شده محدود به 95 متر مربع در طبقه 5 یک ساختمان مختلط استفاده شده است. طراحی با الهام از قطارهای لوکس، سعی می کند بر محدودیت های فضای کوچک غلبه کند تا هم آکواریوم ها را در خود جای دهد و هم فضای مجللی را که رستوران قصد پیاده سازی آن را دارد، ارائه دهد. اتاق ناهار خوری به شکل یک کوچ راهرو است که در هر دو طرف به کابین های جداگانه سرویس می دهد. هر کابین مجهز به آکواریومی است که برای تقلید از پنجره های قطار نصب شده است و این تصور را ایجاد می کند که داخل قطاری است که در زیر آب در حال حرکت است.

The Recognition

About the جایزه نقره‌ای A' Design Award

The Grand Blue Express رستوران برنده جایزه نقره‌ای A' Design Award است، شناختی فوق‌العاده معتبر که به طراحی‌های سطح بالای زیبا، والا و تأثیرگذار اعطا می‌شود. برندگان نقره آثاری بسیار درخشان و فوق‌العاده خلاق‌اند که تخصص، استعداد و تیزبینی برجسته طراحان خود را نشان می‌دهند. از The Grand Blue Express رستوران انتظار می‌رود اثری شگفت‌انگیز و نمونه باشد که به‌طور چشمگیری حرفه‌ای و عمیقاً نوآورانه است. این طراحی برنده جایزه نقره‌ای A' Design Award اختراعی بسیار قابل‌توجه و ستوده است که سود می‌رساند و مرزهای هنر، علم، طراحی و فناوری را پیش می‌برد. The Grand Blue Express رستوران آفرینشی است که به آن بسیار رشک برده می‌شود، خواسته‌ها را بیدار می‌کند، احساسات مثبت می‌آورد و حیرت و شگفتی برمی‌انگیزد.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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.

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