Gentle L By Alan Yu Munus Primarium: Interior Design Cenaculi by Peihe Xie

Gentle L By Alan Yu Munus Primarium: Interior Design Cenaculi by Peihe Xie is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Interior Competition Category.

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Gentle L By Alan Yu Munus Primarium: Interior Design Cenaculi

by Peihe Xie

Client: AD ARCHITECTURE (Shenzhen)

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Gentle L By Alan Yu Munus Primarium: Interior Design Cenaculi

Textus Libri: Gentle L ab Alan Yu est cenaculum Francogallicum in urbe Shenzhen, Sinis, situm. Interior spatium octingentos metros quadratos complectitur et a traditionali cenaculorum dispositione discedit. In medio spatii columna magna ferrea stat, aluminio manu facto et rugoso vestita; rugae columnam molliunt et acumen visuale efficiunt. Vela curvata ex chalybe inoxidabili conclavia privata separant, prospectum autem clarum servant, ita ut ministerium sine convivarum molestia praebeatur. Forma semi-inclusa et secretum et prospectus mutabiles praebet.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Gentle L By Alan Yu Munus Primarium: Interior Design Cenaculi victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Gentle L By Alan Yu Munus Primarium: Interior Design Cenaculi rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Gentle L By Alan Yu Munus Primarium: Interior Design Cenaculi necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Situated in Shenzhen, China, Gental L by Alan Yu is a French restaurant, co-founded by Leon LI and Alan YU. The letter "L" in the brand name represents the initials of Leon LI, while "GENTLE" indicates a sense of ritual and French elegance, besides, Alan YU was previously the Executive Chef of a three-Michelin-starred restaurant. The restaurant hopes to provide a private and cozy environment for people to enjoy fine French cuisine, regardless of the hustle and bustle of the outside world.
Dimensions & Packaging: Area: 800 sqm
Materials: wrinkled aluminum, carpet, paint, stone slab, lamp (SIKI)
Tags: French Restaurant, private space, AD Architecture, Light, spatial deconstruction, Xie Peihe
Production Technology: At the middle of the space erects a huge steel column made of hand-made wrinkled aluminum featuring wrinkles, which soften the column visually and make it appear more flexible, hence becoming a visual highlight in the space.
Curved stainless steel screens are used to effectively separate private rooms. Such arrangement ensures the timeliness of services since it provides better field of vision, without interrupting diners. The design enables the realization of an attentive service system.
Design Challenge: As the project is a partial transformation of the original restaurant, the challenges are reducing negative effects on the original restaurant and adding more toilets.
Research: The project shows a novel artistic interpretation of aesthetics. In such a space, one table, two persons and delicious food can form a poetic, distinctive and storytelling scene. The project is an attempt to shape the future of the city, and to stimulate people to discover the inner mind and explore playful experiences.
Inspiration: Most French restaurants usually have a traditional spatial pattern. As approaching the project, the design team, however, made an innovative attempt, which broke with the conventional layout while also bringing in French-style elegance and romance. From geometric shapes to natural material textures, dim light and music, all elements are aimed at producing unique and emotion-evoking spatial experiences and allowing people to enjoy the space as if they are appreciating a piece of wonderful music.
Project Duration: Start time: January 2020
Completion time: July 2020
Shenzhen, China
Operation Flow: It is a France restaurant. Slanting curved structures are freely combined in the space. The fluent planes and broken curved shapes create fluid spatial scenes. Floating structures and oblique forms generate a playful sense of lightness and instability. The space is semi-enclosed, which not only ensures privacy but also enables people to enjoy varying scenes and have different feelings when walking in it.
Team Members: Chief designer: Xie Peihe
Design team: AD ARCHITECTURE
Image Credits: Ouyang Yun