Ricky's Kitchen 餐厅室内设计 by Alvan Suen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

金室内· 2020

Ricky's Kitchen 餐厅室内设计

by Alvan Suen

Client: The Food Story HK Limited

A' Design Award 金奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Ricky's Kitchen 餐厅室内设计

Ricky's Kitchen 是位于香港的一家餐厅室内空间。设计在保留品牌识别的同时，对这座城市进行了重新诠释。特色墙面选用能够营造"混凝土森林"意象的材料，几何造型令人联想到带阳台的建筑立面，灯光则模拟万家灯火的居所。天花板中央的线性LED灯带象征着高楼大厦之间那一线狭窄的天空，两侧的霓虹灯管则唤起长曝光摄影中高速公路车流的光轨。T形布局划分出四个半私密区域，配以卡座与可移动餐桌，适合不同人数的聚会需求。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金奖

Ricky's Kitchen 餐厅室内设计是 A' Design Award 金奖得主，这是授予一流、绝妙而杰出设计的极为崇高的认可。金奖得主是极具创新、极富远见且璀璨夺目的创作，反映出其设计师的天才、智慧与才干。预计Ricky's Kitchen 餐厅室内设计将成为一项备受赞誉、引领潮流、气势恢宏的发明，带来前所未有的价值。这件赢得 A' Design Award 金奖的设计是一个壮观而受人敬重的项目，极大地造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Ricky's Kitchen 餐厅室内设计激起强烈的渴望，唤起激情，鼓励创造力，令我们着迷。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Reinterpreting “Hong Kong”, translating it into visualization while keeping the identity of the brand has become the challenge of designing the Ricky’s Kitchen branch. For the feature wall, the use of materials represents forest of concrete, the geometry renders the building facade with balconies as well as the density of the city, and the lighting mimics the households in the buildings. For the ceiling, the white LED in the center represents the “Linear Sky Exposure” of Hong Kong, the Leon light on both sides imitate the long exposure photography of highway, symbolizing prosperous Hong Kong and heavy traffic. In terms of futuristic touch, linear LED light, the floating-like portal with bamboo and infinity mirror are designed in respect of the original.
Dimensions & Packaging: Area: 1358 sq.ft.
Capacity: 66
Tags: Hong Kong Style, Fusion, Lighting, Leon, Futuristic
Production Technology: For the feature wall, the blocks were not made and installed one by one but in a few prefabricated panels. The pattern was designed with the script, generated and calculated by the computer.
In order to make sure the final result is ideal and everything works and fits, the project was mainly created in the computer; rendering is heavily used for testing different materials and calculating lux as well as color temperature for all lightings throughout the entire design process. For communicating on-site with the contractor, besides the construction drawing set, a virtual reality walk-through was also created for the workers to quickly understand the project.
Design Challenge: To preserve the local elements of Hong Kong on one hand, whilst incorporating Japanese elements on the other has been a great challenge to us in the development of the design as both of these cultures are unique and significant in their own way. We experimented with various expressions on the traditions and cultures with representation in the spaces and choice of materials. For instance, in order to create a large sense of space in the relatively narrow site, a fair amount of mirrors has been implemented.
Inspiration: Advocating the spirit of fusion while reinterpreting and illustrating Hong Kong in the design is what the goal is, which parallels with the goal of the brand.
Inspiring by this unique scenery of the city of Hong Kong, illustrating a “one-line sky” scenery, that represents what people see overhead in the street while surrounded by high-rise buildings.
Contributing to the “one-line sky”, cantilever structure above the walkway is seen very often in the city to further narrowing the street due to highly valued land, which we try to create that feeling abstractly.
The feature wall was inspired by the night view of the city, the use of the material is symbolizing “concrete forest” the nickname of Hong Kong.
LEON light is also used due to the impression internationally, the way of representation is coming from the traffic of highway in the camera under long exposure.
Project Duration: The project is located in K11 Art Mall, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The design was started in June 2019 and the construction was finished in November 2019.
Operation Flow: The "T" layout creates four semi-private zones for different sizes of gathering, including the head, the two wings, and the middle. Bench with movable tables also allows flexibility in terms of operation to cater to different groups of guests.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Alvan Suen, 2020
Team Members: Director: Alvan Suen
Designer: Jesie Chan
Designer: Hazel Ching
Designer: Alan Tang
Designer: Bryan Hui
Image Credits: Photographer: Yui Zhu, Kaman Tjang
Video Credits: Yui Zhu, Kaman Tjang