Mecha Uma Primary Function: Hoahoa Rō Wharekai by Jorge Manuel Yulo

Mecha Uma Primary Function: Hoahoa Rō Wharekai by Jorge Manuel Yulo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

HiriwaRoto Whare· 2021

Mecha Uma Primary Function: Hoahoa Rō Wharekai

by Jorge Manuel Yulo

A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About Mecha Uma Primary Function: Hoahoa Rō Wharekai

Mecha Uma he rō wharekai i hoahoatia hei wāhi whakaari kuki i Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City, Metro Manila. Ka whāngai te wāhi 64 mita pūrua i te kai Hapanihi auaha ki ngā rōpū manuhiri tekau e rua ia pō. Ka karapoti tētahi paepae i te kīhini tuwhera, ā, kua whakaritea ngā tūru kia tūtaki te tumu tunu kai me ngā manuhiri i te taumata kotahi i te wā e whakaatuhia ana ia rīhi. Ko te kaupapa rawa he mata, me te raima, te maitai, te parahi, te karāhe me te rākau. Ka rewa tētahi kapua whakairo māmā ki runga ake i te kīhini, e whakamahara ana ki tētahi kapua whakaaro i tuhia i roto i ngā pukapuka pakiwaituhi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hiriwa

Ko Mecha Uma Primary Function: Hoahoa Rō Wharekai te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Mecha Uma Primary Function: Hoahoa Rō Wharekai he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko Mecha Uma Primary Function: Hoahoa Rō Wharekai he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Mecha Uma is a culinary performance venue. The Chef is barely into his 20's and serves creative Japanese cuisine in his 64 square meter restaurant four two sets of 10 guest each night. A narrative from the chef accompanies each dish of the tasting menu so it would feel more cordial if neither chef nor guest looked up nor down to the other. The theme of the design is raw as in concrete steel, copper, glass, wood, food and talent.
Inspiration: I imagined the chef thinking of what to prepare next with the ingredients on hand in his little open kitchen surrounded by a counter of the most demanding diners of Manila. How do you capture what is going through his head? Just like in comic books, he should have a thought cloud hovering over him. The cloud would be hovering so it didn't have to be structural. It would billow above like a cloud rather than come from below like smoke. It would have to look ephemeral like a thought.
Project Duration: Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines

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