DESIGN NAME: R&D Cocktail Lab
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Bar
INSPIRATION: The merge of the East and the West continues profound culture.
The low saturation gray façade design and the molecular link logo make people unable to peep inside, creating a mysterious sense, which makes urban people’s first impression on R&D Cocktail Lab.
Similar to the deconstruction concept of LOGO, the design merges the English tavern elements with the Oriental vocabulary such as plaques, grilles, Chinese herbal medicine cabinets, red bricks and so on. Under the harmonious reconstructing modern and retro, fashionable and traditional, western and oriental elements, a unique and exclusive style is made.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: There are thousands of bar designs around the world. Under the dominance of modernity and avant-garde spirit, few people introduce profound and traditional culture to the design. As a result, knowing the operator’s operating concept and approach, the use of the engraved phrases in Compendium of Materia Medica, grilles, and Chinese herbal medicine symbolizes the integration of Chinese cultures over thousands of years, which is radically different from the present popular designing concept of bars.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: There are thousands of bar designs around the world. Under the dominance of modernity and avant-garde spirit, few people introduce profound and traditional culture to the design. As a result, knowing the operator’s operating concept and approach, the use of the engraved phrases in Compendium of Materia Medica, grilles, and Chinese herbal medicine symbolizes the integration of Chinese cultures over thousands of years, which is radically different from the present popular designing concept of bars.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in September 2014 and finished in January 2015 in Taipei, and was opened January 2015.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: 1. The merge of the East and the West continues profound culture.
2.Designing unique style, producing the charm exclusively for customers .
The low saturation gray façade design and the molecular link logo make people unable to peep inside, creating a mysterious sense, which makes urban people’s first impression on R&D Cocktail Lab.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 149 Meters
TAGS: bar, light, East and the West, unique
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The scale of the bar on the first floor is not reduced because of the structure of the original inner area measure. Instead, it maintains the original height and depth, making the customers not only experience happy gathering time but experience more profound culture of wine as well. Behind the bar, the plague, “companions of poetry and wine,” decorated with grilles, Chinese herbal medicine cabinet, and mirror displays, researches and developments, and customizes flavor cocktails exclusively for you.
CHALLENGE: light band and mediums solve the flaw of architectural structure
The elongated-shaped architecture with three narrow stairs is decorated by the connection of heterogeneous mirror and metal materials plus the permutation and variation of height of tungsten lightings, which emphasizes penetration and extension. The light band brings forth the openness of circulation and vision, brilliantly improving the flaw of the original architecture.
ADDED DATE: 2015-06-04 07:02:36
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Joy Chou
IMAGE CREDITS: Figure x Lee Kuo-Min Studio
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