Mays Intérieur de restaurant végétarien by Ling Chen

Mays Intérieur de restaurant végétarien by Ling Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Intérieur Competition Category.

BronzeIntérieur· 2021

Mays Intérieur de restaurant végétarien

by Ling Chen

Client: YesDesign Studio

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Intérieur Category

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The Design

About Mays Intérieur de restaurant végétarien

Mays est l'aménagement intérieur d'un restaurant végétarien de 152 mètres carrés. Le projet s'affranchit du vocabulaire religieux souvent employé dans les espaces végétariens traditionnels. Un terrazzo gris-noir, parsemé de particules de cristal bleu et de nacre, habille la façade, le sol, le comptoir et les plateaux de table. Ce terrazzo a été réalisé sur mesure pour le projet. Des chaînes en cuivre suspendues au plafond évoquent des collines ondulantes. Un mur d'accueil métallique incurvé dessine un tunnel qui guide les convives vers la salle de restauration. Des profilés métalliques encastrés dans le sol délimitent les différentes zones. De grandes baies vitrées font entrer la lumière naturelle à l'intérieur.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Mays Intérieur de restaurant végétarien est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Mays Intérieur de restaurant végétarien est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Mays Intérieur de restaurant végétarien satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The YESDESIGN team has broken the conventional design techniques of traditional vegetarian spaces. They avail themselves of the materials of terrazzo, stainless steel and copper chains, adopt bold design technique to integrate the design concept of "inversed time and space" into the whole space design, in a bid to create a unique and comfortable dining space.
Dimensions & Packaging: The area of this project is 152 sqm.
Tags: Vegetarian, Restaurant, Nordic, Modernist, Terrazzo
Production Technology: The YesDesign project team pays high attention to innovation in materials and structures. The gray black terrazzo facade with blue crystal and pearl particles readily catch the eyes of people. The reception area of metal background is presented in a specially designed arc shape, like a time tunnel, directing consumers to the dining area. Grey terrazzo and metal are organically integrated in vision, well coordinated without losing the sense of details. The abundant light shines through large glass windows into the interior space, while showing a glimpse of the internal layers of space.
Design Challenge: In the past, old fashioned vegetarian restaurants were usually associated with the "Buddhist rituals", mostly in the religious realm, but how to combine the brand attitude of a natural space, while subverting people's perceptions and maintaining a sense of space without losing details, was the challenge of this design.
Research: A custom version of terrazzo was chosen for this project. The designer searched almost every available flooring material and traveled to the material markets in 2 cities, Wuhan and Guangzhou, and finally found an inkstone manufacturer in Wuhan who was willing to customize the terrazzo for this design.
Since most regular terrazzo is gray cement with black and white stones, and we needed to use blue crystal particles and pearl particles, every single particle in the terrazzo that ended up being used in this project was chosen by the designer himself.
Inspiration: Vegetarianism is a very healthy lifestyle in modern society, and in Guangdong there are folk customs of vegetarianism on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, and there are even legends that eating vegetarian food all year round will reverse your growth, which is more useful than using cosmetics. So, the designer thought of creating a space that "inversed time and space", together with the dishes, to make a concept space that breaks the rules.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2018 in Wuhan and finished in February 2019 in Wuhan.
Operation Flow: The interior space is fully covered with the gray black terrazzo veneers, extending from the ground to the counter and tabletop. The ceiling reinterprets the natural earth. With carefully arranged copper chains, it transforms rolling hills into a scenery with ultimate beautiful visual effects. The ground lines are carefully arranged with metal edges to define the functions of different spaces. The Nordic decorations are visible everywhere, on intimate terms with people.
Team Members: Chen Ling
Zhu Jiefeng
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer YesDesign, Mays, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer YesDesign, Mays, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer YesDesign, Mays, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer YesDesign, Mays, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer YesDesign, Mays, 2020.