Qiantang Primary Function: Mamanu i Totonu o le Fale'aiga by Zhixue Wei

Qiantang Primary Function: Mamanu i Totonu o le Fale'aiga by Zhixue Wei is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ArioTotonu· 2020

Qiantang Primary Function: Mamanu i Totonu o le Fale'aiga

by Zhixue Wei

Client: Wuxing Youxing Space Design

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About Qiantang Primary Function: Mamanu i Totonu o le Fale'aiga

Book Text: O Qiantang o se totonu o se fale'aiga o loʻo i Hangzhou ma e 300 sikuea mita le lautele. O le apamemea, maʻa mamora ma le tioata silika ua tuʻufaʻatasia i le vateatea atoa. O le kopa metotia e faʻamatalaina faʻavaa i totonu o vaega tetele o le efuefu, e faʻatupuina se lagona o le maopoopo. O se faʻailoga apamemea e faʻamalamalamaina le vaega autu o le taumafataga. O luga o laulau maʻa mamora efuefu paʻepaʻe e tali atu i vaeluaga o le tioata silika, ma o le fola ua faʻatuina i maʻa maʻa uliuli. O lau, laulau, nofoa ma meaʻai e faʻapitoa le mamanu. O malamalama e eseese e faʻavae i luga o galuega, o lea e faʻaalia ai e vaega taʻitasi se vaaiga eseese. O mamanu o le pulega o Song ua faʻaliliuina i se faiga faʻaonaponei.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Qiantang Primary Function: Mamanu i Totonu o le Fale'aiga, 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 Qiantang Primary Function: Mamanu i Totonu o le Fale'aiga 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. Qiantang Primary Function: Mamanu i Totonu o le Fale'aiga 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: The designer hopes to present this space with a more contemporary design language. In the overall space, different materials such as brass, marble and silk glass are comprehensively used, and the characteristics of different materials are used in combination with the application and treatment of lighting. It not only carries the historical charm, but also has design innovation, and it is compatible and inclusive to mix different aesthetic elements of time and space here.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 300 square meters. In the restaurant, from screen partition to table, chair, bowl and chopsticks, all are designed and customized according to the overall style and space requirements by the designer.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Restaurant, Qiantang, Modern, Southern Song Dynasty, Simple, Jiangnan, Different Aesthetic Elements
Production Technology: In a large area of gray tones, metallic copper emphasizes the outline and frame, creating a strong sense of order. The brass dome defines the sense of area with the style of the court, creating a beautiful visual effect without losing the simple aesthetic feeling.Gray white marble desktop and metal color with silk glass partition form a response. The ground is stitched with black marble stacked tiles, which is quiet and stable.
Design Challenge: As an important element of space modeling and artistic conception expression, lighting is divided by designers according to different functions. Combined with plane layout, ceiling, wall, partition and dining table, choosing different forms of lighting methods,such as lamps, light source colors, color temperature, which presents different scenes in the same space, and makes the space full of change as well as the experience is completely different when walking and after seating.
Research: As a disciple of the authentic sect of hangbang cuisine, the owner intended to interpret the Song Dynasty catering aesthetics through contemporary art techniques. The designer hopes to present this space in a more contemporary design language, with the coexistence of the East and the West, tradition and modern, fashion and retro.
Inspiration: In the design of the restaurant, a large number of aesthetic elements of Song dynasty are applied to present the cultural charm, as well as modern design aesthetics, and strive to achieve the ultimate in construction technology. Returning to the essence of the restaurant, a good dining experience is always the core of design. As advocated by Qiantang restaurant, returning to nature presents the delicacy bearing historical warmth in the most simple form.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2018 in Hangzhou and finished in October 2018 in Hangzhou.
Operation Flow: On the display, inheritance and innovation are integrated. The plum vase of the Southern Song Dynasty official kiln, the ancient books with blue cloth and thread, the hexagonal Chinese style hole window, the pendant lamp with the shape of Pu fan, as well as the thin gold character and the Ruihe diagram of the Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, most of the design inspiration comes from the style of the Song Dynasty, presenting the historical aesthetic feeling under the modern style.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Zhixue Wei, 2018.
Team Members: Zhixue Wei
Kaiming Xie
Lei Huang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Dachou Wang, Dining Area, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Dachou Wang, Corridor, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Dachou Wang, Entrance, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Dachou Wang, Dining Area, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Dachou Wang, Dining Area, 2018.