Yuyuyu Wharekai by Ren Xiaoyu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

HiriwaRoto Whare· 2020

Yuyuyu Wharekai

by Ren Xiaoyu

Client: 1-Cube Design

A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About Yuyuyu Wharekai

He maha noa atu o enei tauira hou i runga i te maakete i Haina i tenei ra, kei te nuinga o te waa i runga i nga hoahoa tuku iho engari me nga mea hou o enei ra, ki nga kupu hou ranei. Ko Yuyuyu wharekai Hainamana, kua hangaia e te kaihoahoa he huarahi hou hei whakaatu i te hoahoa o te rawhiti, he Whakauru hou e hangaia ana i nga raina me nga ira, ko nga mea e tukuna ana mai i te tatau ki te roto o te wharekai. Na te whakarereke o nga waa, kua huri ano hoki te maioha a nga tangata. Mo te hoahoa o nga ra o te Tai Tokerau, me tino tika te mahi whakahou.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hiriwa

Ko Yuyuyu 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 Yuyuyu 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 Yuyuyu 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: This is a Chinese restaurant, the designer have abandoned traditional symbolic elements and boldly used lines and points to design. It is intended to express the oriental mood, and to create a feeling of "peaceful comfort" that could not be experienced in the past traditional Chinese restaurants where the worldliness is far too strong.
Dimensions & Packaging: YUYUYU Restaurant is a 3,700 square feet Chinese restaurant.
Tags: Ren Xiaoyu, restaurant design, 1-Cube Design, Chinese restaurant
Production Technology: We used the array installation composed of lines and dots, those are extended from the door to the inside of the restaurant, which blurred the internal and external boundaries and increased the visibility of the line of sight. The device is used from the door to the partition inside the dining room and the ceiling in the dining area.
Design Challenge: Traditional Chinese restaurant, how to give new features and details, designers have abandoned traditional symbolic elements and boldly used lines and points to design. It is intended to express the oriental mood, and to create a feeling of "peaceful comfort" that could not be experienced in the past traditional Chinese restaurants where the worldliness is far too strong.
Research: The designer boldly used the array device composed of lines and dots, those are extended from the door to the inside of the restaurant, which blurred the internal and external boundaries and increased the visibility of the line of sight. The device is used from the door to the partition inside the dining room and the ceiling in the dining area.
Inspiration: We sets a simple Chinese decoration on the wall of the dining area, which is combined the vertical lines with the outline of the mountain. Meanwhile, the pine, stone and white sand express the simple and restrained Chinese aesthetics. The end of the dining area is made up of a screen, which depicts the picture of a fish passing through the lotuses. It constitutes the center of vision.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2018 in Shenzhen and finished in March 2019 in Shenzhen.
Operation Flow: The entire space is made of the materials that include ferrous metal, wood, and grey stone of the floor. Thus, they are quite in line with the restaurant's steady, restrained temperament. Designers have abandoned traditional symbolic elements and boldly used lines and points to design. It is intended to express the oriental mood, and to create a feeling of "peaceful comfort" that could not be experienced in the past traditional Chinese restaurants where the worldliness is far too strong.
Patents: Xiaoyu Ren
Team Members: Xiaoyu Ren
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Xiaocong Nie，2018.
Image #2: Photographer Xiaocong Nie，2018.
Image #3: Photographer Xiaocong Nie，2018.
Image #4: Photographer Xiaocong Nie，2018.
Image #5: Photographer Xiaocong Nie，2018.