Gordon Wang · CLIENT: Gordon Wang Design Office
Revived Memory is a restaurant interior in Qinhuangdao, China, covering 1000 square meters. The space combines dining with music and performance. Seating is arranged in separate areas instead of many shared tables, giving each group a quiet and private setting. Large yellow mud walls recall the Loess Plateau, and open blank surfaces reflect traditional eastern simplicity. The banquet hall ceiling uses a wooden sunken panel structure with rounded arcs to increase the sense of scale. The design presents northwest Chinese culture in a modern and simple form.
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- Unique Properties
- The whole space combines the elements of performance interaction to create an atmosphere of music restaurant. In the arrangement of seats, they subverted the idea of multiple tables for diners, mainly reflecting the design intention of precision, quietness and scenery, so that customers in each space can taste delicious food and experience the traditional intangible cultural heritage culture in the northwest in their own seats.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project covers a total of 1000 square meters.
- Tags
- Interior, Commercial, Restaurant, Revived Memory, Oriental Elements, Chinese Style, Dougong
- Production Technology
- A large area of yellow mud wall is introduced, which makes the dialogue between culture and people on the Loess Plateau Based on the flowing time and warm space. The blank space in many places constitutes the Oriental mood, echoing the elegance and simplicity of the traditional East.
- Design Challenge
- In the design method of the whole banquet hall, the classical elements of classical Chinese style are continued. The ceiling on the top is made of wooden sunk panel structure, with arc fillet treatment, which intentionally enlarges the scale, enhances the sense of space and avoids the depression of many people. It can achieve dynamic and static combination with the single stand area outside the hall.
- Project Duration
- The project started in August 2018 in Qinghuangdao and finished in February 2019 in Qinghuangdao.
- Operation Flow
- Without any complicated elements and changes, the design deconstructs the traditional Chinese elements and integrates the modern simple visual image to create the oriental flavor of pure and solid space, ancient and natural.
- Research
- This is a restaurant upgrading project. Because Party A has always had a dream of a century-old restaurant, hoping that the design can break the conventional way of dining, operation and layout, and give customers a fresh feeling, so the designers emphasize highlighting the northwest characteristic culture related to the cuisine and style of the restaurant.
- Inspiration
- The project is located in Qinhuangdao, one of the first coastal open cities in China, a coastal city mainly for tourism, recuperation and vacation. Based on the traditional architectural language, this design ingeniously integrates the feeling of the Loess Plateau, reinterprets the Chinese cultural concept of the northwest cultural memory, shows the unique artistic beauty, and also realizes the return of a Chinese elegant life.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Creator Gordon Wang, Revived Memory, 2019.
Image #2: Creator Gordon Wang, Revived Memory, 2019.
Image #3: Creator Gordon Wang, Revived Memory, 2019.
Image #4: Creator Gordon Wang, Revived Memory, 2019.
Image #5: Creator Gordon Wang, Revived Memory, 2019. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Gordon Wang, 2019.
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