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The Grand Blue Express ريسٽورنٽ by Tetsuya Matsumoto

The Grand Blue Express ريسٽورنٽ by Tetsuya Matsumoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award چاندي انعام in اندروني جڳه ۽ نمائش ڊيزائن Competition Category.


چانديانٽيرئر· 2022

The Grand Blue Express ريسٽورنٽ

by Tetsuya Matsumoto

Client: Nautilus Ueno

A' Design Award چاندي انعام Winner in انٽيرئر Category

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The Design

About The Grand Blue Express ريسٽورنٽ

گرانڊ بليو ايڪسپريس يوينو، ٽوڪيو ۾ هڪ لگزري ايڪريريم ڊائننگ ريسٽورنٽ آهي. بحال ٿيل جاءِ 95sqm تائين محدود هڪ مخلوط استعمال ٿيل عمارت جي 5th منزل تي ورتي وئي. لگزري ٽرينن کان متاثر ٿي، ڊيزائن ننڍين خلائي حدن کي پار ڪرڻ جي ڪوشش ڪري ٿي ٻنهي کي ايڪريريم ۾ ويهڻ ۽ شاندار ماحول مهيا ڪرڻ لاءِ ريسٽورنٽ جو مقصد آهي. ڊائننگ روم هڪ ڪوريڊور ڪوچ جو روپ وٺي ٿو جيڪو ٻنهي پاسن تي انفرادي ڪيبن جي خدمت ڪري ٿو. هر ڪيبن ان جي ايڪريريم سان ليس آهي جيڪو ٽرين جي ونڊوز کي نقل ڪرڻ لاءِ نصب ڪيو ويو آهي، اهو تاثر پيدا ڪري ٿو ته اهو تاثر پيدا ڪري ٿو ته ڪنهن ٽرين اندر پاڻيءَ جي اندر سفر ڪندي.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award چاندي انعام

The Grand Blue Express ريسٽورنٽ A' Design Award چاندي انعام جو کٽيندڙ آهي، غير معمولي حد تائين معزز اعتراف جيڪو اعليٰ ترين درجي جي، شاندار ۽ متاثر ڪندڙ ڊيزائنن کي ڏنو وڃي ٿو. چاندي جا کٽيندڙ تمام گهڻا روشن ۽ انتهائي تخليقي ڪم آهن، جيڪي پنهنجي ڊيزائنرن جي شاندار مهارت، صلاحيت ۽ ذڪاوت کي ظاهر ڪن ٿا. The Grand Blue Express ريسٽورنٽ کان اميد ڪئي وڃي ٿي ته اهو هڪ شاندار نمائشي ڪم هوندو، قابل ذڪر حد تائين پيشه ورانه ۽ ڳوڙهي جدت وارو. هي ڊيزائن جنهن A' Design Award چاندي انعام کٽيو آهي، هڪ انتهائي قابل ذڪر، ساراهيل ايجاد آهي جيڪا فائدو ڏئي ٿي ۽ فن، سائنس، ڊيزائن ۽ ٽيڪنالاجي جون حدون وڌائي ٿي. The Grand Blue Express ريسٽورنٽ هڪ اهڙي تخليق آهي جنهن تي گهڻا حسد ڪن ٿا، جيڪا خواهشون جاڳائي ٿي، مثبت جذبا آڻي ٿي ۽ حيرت ۽ تعجب جي چڻنگ ٻاري ٿي.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The renovation work for the aquarium dining restaurant took place on the narrow 5th floor of a mixed used building in Ueno, Tokyo. The restaurant is inspired by luxury cruise trains and imitates them to produce a small yet luxurious atmosphere for the dining room. The seats are made into train cabins where the windows are replaced by aquariums. The space turns on to offer an immersive experience with the impression of being inside a train cruising underwater.
Dimensions & Packaging
Gross Built Area: 95sqm
W15325mm x D8300mm x H2390mm
Tags
Japan, dining, aquarium, restaurant, Tokyo, blue, train, immersive, hospitality, commercial
Production Technology
The walls are made using dry wall techniques. The floor is covered in ceramic tiles. While the ceiling is finished in vinyl cloth mainly, except for the central corridor ceiling which is covered in special stainless panels that imitates water waves. The aquariums are surrounded by steel frames with a golden baked painting finish. On the top of the frame another round steel panels that allows access to the aquariums for maintenance purposes.
Design Challenge
The client abstract when starting this project is to produce a luxury aquarium dining experience, however the total floor area to be used, including the kitchen is no larger than 95sqm and the height under the beams is limited to 2.3m. How can such a narrow place offer a luxury experience was the main challenge leading to the concept of luxury cruise trains. the second challenge was to integrate the aquariums in this composition without altering the concept.
Research
The experiment of this project was to find a way to imitate a luxury train experience on a concrete building inside the urban jungle of Tokyo. How can a built interior space offer the same experience than a moving dynamic wagon and how can interior materials be used to simulate an automotive space? The combination of material use, dimensional canons, and geometrical shapes were the core of this design exercise.
Inspiration
The space was inspired by luxury trains rides which offers various services. The trains are composed of several wagons with special functions and special layouts. The restaurant combines two types of wagons, the cabin and the dinner and merge them to create a dining cabin, and since the restaurant theme is aquarium dining, the train windows are replaced by aquariums to create a simulation of a train cruising under the water.
Project Duration
Project start: July 2021.
Construction start: December 2021.
Project/Construction End: February 2022.

Location:
Ueno, Tokyo, Japan.
Operation Flow
Since the restaurant is located on the 5th floor of a building the access is done through the elevator that opens to a small welcoming hall. At the corner a circular shaped sofa. Then the corridor along the space serving the cabins on both sides. on the left, four two-seaters cabins and on the right four other four-seaters cabins. At the end of the corridor the VIP cabin. The kitchen is accessed on both extremities of the corridor on the right side.
Team Members
Tetsuya Matsumoto
Motoaki Takeuchi
Risa Iriyama
Image Credits
Image #1: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.
Image #2: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.
Image #3: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.
Image #4: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.
Image #5: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, Nautilus, 2022.

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