Yufengyuan Primary Function: Mamanuga o Totonu o le Faleaiga by Xiaobo Ye

Yufengyuan Primary Function: Mamanuga o Totonu o le Faleaiga by Xiaobo Ye is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ArioTotonu· 2020

Yufengyuan Primary Function: Mamanuga o Totonu o le Faleaiga

by Xiaobo Ye

Client: Zmake

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About Yufengyuan Primary Function: Mamanuga o Totonu o le Faleaiga

Yufengyuan o se totonu o se faleaiga e aofia ai le 1100 sikuea mita. O le mamanuga e faasino atu i le aganuu o le Vaitafe Samasama. O se ala e 50 mita e mulimuli i le laina o le vaitafe e ala atu i le avanoa. E valu pusa uʻamea o loʻo eseese le maualuga o loʻo tuʻu i luga o le ala. O pusa taʻitasi e nofoia e le tasi aiga ma ua faaigoa i se tamaʻi meaola, e pei o se pepe, o se rane po o se pi. O le faapotopotoga o pusa taʻitasi e mulimuli i le uiga o le meaola. O pusa uma e siʻitia i luga, o lea o le ulufale atu i se pusa ua avea ma taimi o le sauniga. O materiale autu o le terrazzo, o le ʻapa uʻamea, o le ofe ma le vali latex.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Yufengyuan Primary Function: Mamanuga o Totonu o le Faleaiga, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Yufengyuan Primary Function: Mamanuga o Totonu o le Faleaiga e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Yufengyuan Primary Function: Mamanuga o Totonu o le Faleaiga o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Each metal box represents a family and named after a kind of insect, such as butterfly, frog, bee, or others. And the finishing is also as different as the characteristics of each insect accordingly. The designers lift up all the boxes in order to give visitor a sense of ritual upon entering the box.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 1100 square meters.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Restaurant, Modern, Fashion, Yellow River, Wheat Fields, Insect
Production Technology: The main materials in this project are terrazzo, steel plate, bamboo and latex paint.
Design Challenge: It was a project full of joy and frustration, but mixed with confusion and regret at the same time. They truly believe that it is so called the ultimate process of design. It was filled with reality and challenge. It is also their greatest privilege to be part of this project.
Research: The designers imagine that on the both side of Yellow River at ancient time, where lived many peasant families for generations, they were nurtured and breed by it. The boundless wheat field are located in the valley of Yellow River, where many insects live and enjoy the maternal love of the river. This is the designers' cultural expression of this restaurant.
Inspiration: The designers are dedicated to present a unique design to everyone, and have implied cultural elements of the Yellow River into the design concept. They designed a 50 meters long passage in according with the track of the Yellow River throughout the space. Eight metal boxes with different heights are attached along the passage.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2019 in Zhengzhou and finished in December 2019 in Zhengzhou.
Operation Flow: The whole process of accomplishing is in the way of EPC by the designers.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Xiaobo Ye, 2019.
Team Members: Xiaobo Ye
XiaoJing Feng
JingLi Zhao
Zongqi Zhao
Changyuan Su
Peng Wang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Ming Guo, Yellow River Street, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Ming Guo, Box, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Ming Guo, Box, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Ming Guo, Box, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Ming Guo, Toilet, 2019.