Bronze Interior · 2020
Aplus Seafood Bar and Restaurant
- Bronze A' Design Award 2020 in Interior
- CLIENT: A-plus Dining
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About Aplus Seafood Bar and Restaurant
Aplus is a seafood bar and restaurant located inside a department store in Taipei. The interior covers 4520 square feet and is inspired by the elements of the ocean. Waves are interpreted through flowing forms and shades of blue that move from dark to light. Customized decorative light fixtures are mounted on the ceiling to suggest the continuity of waves. A Japanese graphic of a geisha with an octopus decorates the bar area. Western and eastern materials are combined to reflect the fusion cuisine served. The bar is placed in the center so the space can host both small and large groups.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Aplus Seafood Bar and Restaurant is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Aplus Seafood Bar and Restaurant is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Aplus Seafood Bar and Restaurant splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Linkform design's aim is to express the liveliness of the ocean by creating a dynamic environment to give life to the seafood restaurant. The materials and methods to make the entire interior has its flow mimicking the waves of the ocean. Additionally, by the philosophy of the restaurant -a creative seafood cuisine that has a sense of western and eastern fusion, some materials that was used were to completely convey the concept of both western and eastern culture.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 4520 square feet
- Tags
- Seafood, bar, restaurant, creativity, conceptual, industrial, oriental, modern
- Production Technology
- For the seafood restaurant, the design used customized, decorative light features mounted on the ceiling to showcase the continuity and projection of the waves that enhances the dynamic feel. The bar's interior was collaborated with a well-known Taiwanese tattoo artist to finish the Japanese geisha graphic which perfectly convey the oriental style.
- Design Challenge
- the greatest challenge of the seafood bar and restaurant is the arrangement. The place also accommodates special events. The project should fit for both small and big crowds without sacrificing the design. Thus, bar was placed in the middle.
- Research
- The main research of the project focused on how to connect western and eastern culture by using several materials and different ways. Linkform design focuses on making details to convey the dynamic concept and make the entire space has visual multilevel while making sure the company still abides on the rules of having construction in a department store and finished on schedule.
- Inspiration
- The concept was inspired by the elements of the ocean. Linkformed Design isolated the process of waves which can be divided into color, shape, and conveyed these elements to the entire space by the transformed color and shapes, such as the blue color from the dark to shallow. In the end,the project used the projection of waves and the traditional Japanese graphic of geisha with octopus to bring out the overall atmosphere.
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2018 Taipei and finished in June 2018 Taipei.
- Operation Flow
- The restaurant is located inside a department store in the heart of Taipei. First of all, to engage with a city, Linkform design used contemporary methods and techniques, as well as playing with the lighting. To showcase the balance between variety of cultures, quality and stylish materials were played with a mixture of different techniques and method to make a unique sense of cultural fusion.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Kung-Chao Huang, 2018.
