After Life Restavracija, bar by Devesh Pratyay

After Life Restavracija, bar by Devesh Pratyay is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Zlata nagrada A' Design Award in Oblikovanje notranjega prostora in razstav Competition Category.

ZlataInterier· 2020

After Life Restavracija, bar

by Devesh Pratyay

Client: Nexus Design

Zlata nagrada A' Design Award Winner in Interier Category

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The Design

About After Life Restavracija, bar

After Life je tematska restavracija in bar v središču Dubaja. Prostor obsega 500 kvadratnih metrov notranjih površin s pripadajočim odprtim balkonom v velikosti 150 kvadratnih metrov. Vhod tvori tunel s steno, ki spominja na goro, z vgraviranimi ploščami z babilonsko pisavo, dogorelimi svečami na polici in kristali v obliki skal, ki visijo s stropa. Preddverje z drevesom iz naplavljenega lesa in velikim stolom iz debla vodi v glavno dvorano. Otoški bar deluje, kot da je izklesan iz kamna, zaznamuje pa ga vijugasta kristalna instalacija, dolga 30 metrov. Tla v naključnem vzorcu prekriva rustikalni indijski peščenjak.

The Recognition

About the Zlata nagrada A' Design Award

After Life Restavracija, bar je prejemnik Zlate nagrade A' Design Award, neizmerno prestižnega priznanja, ki se podeljuje prvovrstnim, čudovitim in izvrstnim oblikovanjem. Prejemniki Zlate nagrade so izjemno inovativne, vizionarske in bleščeče osupljive stvaritve, ki odražajo genij, modrost in mojstrstvo svojih oblikovalcev. Od After Life Restavracija, bar se pričakuje, da bo zelo hvaljen, trende postavljajoč in monumentalen izum, ki prinaša brezprecedenčno vrednost. To oblikovanje, nagrajeno z Zlato nagrado A' Design Award, je spektakularno, spoštovano delo, ki v veliki meri koristi in premika meje umetnosti, znanosti, oblikovanja in tehnologije. After Life Restavracija, bar ustvarja intenzivna čustva želje, prebuja strast, spodbuja ustvarjalnost in nas prevzame.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The entrance is themed into a galley way has a wall made to feel like a mountain wall with a shelf placed with some burnt out candles and crystals hanging above, low enough just so that they don't touch your head but give a feel that they would, symbolising the need to always protect yourself from the hardships of life.
The entrance foyer is done one with a drift wood tree trunk and a huge log wood chair that symbolises the arrival into the world of after life.
The main restaurant is done with picture portraits of different people with varied facial expressions depicting the joys and sorrows and the tiny things that we missed out. The pictures hanging from the ceiling also make people think and remember some events of their life they may have forgotten or relive some of their best moments.
The centre piece of the space is the bar shaped into a form carved out from a stone wall with a serpentine light fixture hanging from the ceiling in the centre of the island bar, symbolizing the ever evolving nature of life and how always life always goes on.
Dimensions & Packaging: This property is 500 Sq.mt. covered space and 150 sq.mt of open balcony attached.
Tags: Restaurant, bar, night club, dance, disco, downtown dubai, dubai UAE
Production Technology: The design being based on a strong conceptual note required the place to be done up in materials that were earthy and a bit rustic looking. we choose to use fibre reinforced plastic for modeling the stone walls used as panelling material for the bar counter and the walls. Avery rustic Indian sandstone was used for flooring and the flooring has been done in a slightly random pattern with large gaps/grooves between the stones to give a look of certain randomness in uniformity.
Design Challenge: The most challenging part of any concept based design comes to choosing the right material for what the design has been envisioned. each and every material chosen right from the sandstone flooring, light fixtures, stone walls and Babylonian script wall panels had to to be done exactly as visualized in the design drawings for this design to become a reality.
Research: research was conducted to analyse specific use of materials in the project. A beginning of understanding of the concept of the theme stemed from the textual reading of a book by sri aurobindo "the life divine"
Inspiration: There is life…Afterlife. A life that is beautiful, that has what we missed out in life.
Life was happening to us all the while we were making other plans. There was always something that we missed out when we just thought that life was just about to begin, there was always just some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first. Some unfinished business. Some debt still to be paid and then life will begin. Lest we never realise that was life.
Afterlife is all about taking those wrong turns, talking to strangers, opening unmarked doors and going into a field and finding out what that group of people are doing there. the underlaying statement being invoking the feeling that life is all about those little adventures that we miss because we were waiting to think of a plan, to find them, look for tiny interesting choices and remember that we are always making the future with each passing moment.
Project Duration: The project was started in November 2019 and inaugurated in march 2019. Afterlife is located at the level 3, Souk Al Bahar, Downtown, Dubai, U.A.E.
Operation Flow: The experience to after life starts right from the main entry of the restaurant that has been modeled into a mountain walled space with rock shaped podium and loose rocks laid around at the entrance.The main entry has been modeled into a small tunnel that is paneled with engraved Babylonian script on one side and mountain wall on the other side with s shelf that has some burnt candles placed on it. the ceiling here is adorned with a rock shaped crystals that hang at the lowest point at 6'-6" from the floor just barely enough to provide the head height of walking in. a generous foyer is provided at the end of this tunnel with a large chair and a standing tree of drift wood. this space from here opens up into a large hall space that has an island bar counter that has been made to look as if sculpted out from a large rock wall. the bar counter ceiling here is highlighted with a serpntine crystal installation that runs around in a total of 30mts. in length. the space here on opens to a L shaped balcony that has the most breathtaking views of the musical fountain of Dubai and the magnificent Burj Khalifa.
Team Members: Devesh Bhatia
Pratyay Chakrabarti
Image Credits: Devesh Bhatia