Rocha Cook Restaurant by Kaifeng Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Architecture, Bâtiment et Structure Competition Category.

BronzeArchitecture· 2023

Rocha Cook Restaurant

by Kaifeng Zhang

Client: Zhangkaifeng Architectural Design Firm

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Rocha Cook Restaurant

Rocha Cook est un restaurant construit dans une dépression montagneuse près de Chengdu, en Chine. Le projet consiste en la reconstruction d'une ancienne maison entourée de forêt, sur un site qui surplombe la ville en contrebas. Les murs blancs sont disposés selon une composition géométrique dispersée et forment des écrans qui laissent passer la lumière et l'ombre à travers les interstices. La structure est coulée en béton et les murs extérieurs sont finis avec une peinture décorative blanche. La surface bâtie est de 266 mètres carrés et la hauteur du bâtiment atteint 6,9 mètres. La conception suit une approche naturaliste.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Rocha Cook Restaurant 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. Rocha Cook Restaurant 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. Rocha Cook Restaurant 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: Back on June 3, 2019, The designer came here for the first time in the scorching summer. After nearly two months of site selection, The designer finally came to this mountain depression, saw an old house wrapped by the forest, climbed up the roof and was pleasantly surprised to see the whole city. Sitting on the courtyard wall, The designer began to imagine what kind of house to build at the designer feet. It should be natural, romantic, naive, quiet and passionate.
Dimensions & Packaging: Floor area: 6000 Square meters
Building area: 266 Square meters
Building height: 6.9 Meter
Tags: White House, The Most Beautiful Sunset Restaurant, Boundless Swimming Pool, Overlooking the City, Romantic Mid Levels.
Production Technology: Simple design materials, the whole is poured from concrete structure, and the outer wall adopts white art paint.
Design Challenge: In the reconstruction of old houses, the designers need to face some government conditions and changes in the nature of land, and meet the building specifications to achieve good design results.
After nearly three years of design and construction, Rocha cook encountered a rare rainstorm that washed away the foundation, experienced the once-in-a-century heavy snowfall and mountain closure in Chengdu, and survived the panic of the outbreak of the epidemic.
Research: The design technique is good at deconstructing a set of expression forms in line with modern aesthetics and cognition in the classical architectural structure based on naturalism and oriental aesthetics. It interprets elegant, artistic and fashionable works through modern materials combined with current popular colors, maintains its own unique aesthetic standards in the field of architecture and interior design, and successfully shapes one modern space with naturalistic charm after another.
Inspiration: White walls grow out of the soil, and they are freely combined into a barrier. The scattered relationship makes the light and shadow have different gaps to drill. Around here, you will be fascinated by a long picture like scenery. In the distance is the city the designers love. Turning around, the designers can see that the geometrically arranged walls sprout in the soil, like growing buildings. In fact, they are also alive.
Project Duration: Address: Chengdu City, China
Design Time: 2019.08
Completion Time: 2022.03
DesignStyle: Naturalism
Operation Flow: Exploration site, design, demolition, structural pouring, facade decoration, interior decoration, soft decoration yard and completion.
Image Credits: ProjectPhotography: ArchImageDengJuntao
Project Video: Zhu Jinfei、Li Yalong
Shooting design: April 25, 2022