DESIGN NAME: Kowloon Restaurant
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Interior Design
INSPIRATION: "Nostalgic"; is the key word of this design. Listening to an old song, walking through an alley, passing a road, and the neon lights everywhere can make people feel the style of Hong Kong.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Kowloon Restaurant which is a combination of Eastern and Western Hong Kong Style Tea Restaurant. The restaurant is a nostalgic themed restaurant. We used elements such as Hong Kong's roads, streets, horizontal pulled gates, retro printed glasses, and the ground with mosaic to create an atmosphere that let foodies get the feeling of Hong Kong Style even if they are in Chongqing. The restaurant expresses these Hong Kong-style features in space and atmosphere.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Customer communication is the premise of design, and all designs are for customer service.Shopping and food, playgrounds and free ports, trends and traditions blend here, it is a small world of Eastern and Western cultures."Nostalgia" is the key word of this design. Listening to an old song, taking an alley, passing a road, the neon lights everywhere can make people feel the style of Hong Kong.Design elements - pull gates, rail trains, floor tiles, city roads, neon billboards, city illustrations.Color analysis - whether it is a rail train, a retro letter box, or Hong Kong's feasting, represents Hong Kong as a highly prosperous international metropolis. Red and green are the colors that best represent Hong Kong.The same horizontal folding gate in Hong Kong Old Street. The glass is separated by a metal skeleton at the window to make a foldable window. There are many old buildings in the modern and prosperous Hong Kong that have printed windows. The blue tile is generally referred to as a clay tile, which uses mosaic tiles to achieve a retro effect.We use the standard color of VI to match the furniture, and the leather sofa looks more retro. In the soft decoration, the old objects of Hong Kong are moved to the store, so that the diners can feel the atmosphere of Hong Kong all the time.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in April 2017 in Chongqing and finished December 2017 in Chongqing.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The doors and windows on the first floor are double-layered, with a folding glass door inside and a horizontal folding gate at the outside. The window is separated from the retro glass by a metal skeleton to form a foldable window. The blue tile is made by roasting clay as the main raw material. Mosaic tiles are generally composed of dozens of small pieces of small pieces of bricks stuck to a thin net, which is combined into a relatively large tile.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The design is divided into three floors with a total area of 237 square feet. The height is 4.5 m on the first floor, 3.2 m on the second floor and 3.4 m on the third floor.
TAGS: Age, memory, resonance, Hong Kong style.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Chongqing is known as “Little Hong Kong” by the public. There are so many Hong Kong-style restaurants in Chongqing. To stand out from these restaurants, what we have to do is to “move” Hong Kong to Chongqing. The designer visited Hong Kong's streets and alleys to collect, experience and integrate Hong Kong into the design.
CHALLENGE: The hardest part of this design is materials and processes. Traditional processes that are not available locally or that are not possible at the processing plant are required and produced.
ADDED DATE: 2018-09-21 11:12:19
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Designer: Huawei Dai
IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Photographer Zhonghai Dai, Kowloon Restaurant, 2017.
Image #2: Photographer Zhonghai Dai, Kowloon Restaurant, 2017.
Image #3: Photographer Zhonghai Dai, Kowloon Restaurant, 2017.
Image #4: Photographer Zhonghai Dai, Kowloon Restaurant, 2017.
Image #5: Photographer Zhonghai Dai, Kowloon Restaurant, 2017.
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