DESIGN NAME: Blooming Restaurant
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Restaurant
INSPIRATION: In bloom, she's not a flower;
Hazy, she's not a haze.
She comes at midnight hour;
She goes with starry rays.
She comes like vernal dreams that cannot stay;
She goes like morning clouds that melt away.
This is an enigmatic poem by Bai Juyi, a Tang Dynasty poet, whose undelineated imageries of transient beauty as well as the subtle rendering of an indescribable sentiment have inspired the design for “Blooming”.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: If you get down to observing any seemingly ordinary flower, you may marvel at its sophisticated structure and magical colors. Furthermore, through the revealing lens of a microscope, what used to appear as an ordinary flower will be presented as a most wonderful image that is, at a time, extremely logical, abstract and awe-inspiring, as if an amazing kaleidoscope has unfolded itself before your eyes, allowing you to sneak a peek at the wondrous creation of God.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The design of the space is centered on the theme of blooming thoughts, with the output model of immersive emotional experience. The explosive kaleidoscope of light and shadow hanging at the center of the ceiling is the main medium for expressing the three dimensional space, which affects and controls the light and shadow, tone and atmosphere of the entire space. T
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project finished in July 2018 in Beijing, China.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Wood, black iron mesh
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 350 square metres
TAGS: Restaurant Kaleidoscope Blooming Space Thoughts
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The images in the kaleidoscope keep turning ceaselessly, attesting to the constant process of breaking down, restructuring and renewing of living entities. With the perpetual change, breakdown, dissolution and rearrangement of the colors, structures and shapes in the kaleidoscope, the very meaning of life itself is also shifting and gives rise to new meanings.
CHALLENGE: Let the kaleidoscope appear in a dynamic way in space.The prism reflects multiple spatial levels, enabling the users to have more complex feelings on and deeper thinking and emotional requirements for the space where they are.
ADDED DATE: 2018-10-24 03:16:38
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Yi Chen & Muchen Zhang
IMAGE CREDITS: Image#1: Photographer Xiangyu Sun, 2018
Video: Photographer Yi Chen & Wujie Li, 2018
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to Yi Chen & Muchen Zhang, 2018
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