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Alvan Suen Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Hiyama Restaurant in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Alvan Suen acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Hiyama Restaurant by Alvan Suen, designed for The Food Story HK Limited, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Hiyama Restaurant
Hiyama is a Japanese restaurant interior designed around the ideas of nature, Zen and the traditional Japanese house. A bar near the entrance serves as a welcome area where guests can sit and wait with drinks. A bamboo path with mist creates the feeling of an outdoor garden. The dining areas are treated as separate houses, seen through the bamboo. A pavilion stands at the end of the path, followed by a main hall placed between a wooden veranda and a balcony facing the harbor. Each room is built as an individual structure with beams and columns.
About Alvan Suen
Alvan Suen is the Managing Director and founder of Nameless Hong Kong Limited, graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Art in Architectural Studies. Besides design and running projects, he had been doing research and teaching in the University of Hong Kong as well; his researches and works on the environmental design in the HKU explore the problem of microclimate in the dense cities, solutions for reducing energy consumption in summer through design forms by using air pressure and natural ventilation, reactivating the alleyways between buildings in HK and climate-responsive high-rise residential building design.
Award Record
With this recognition, Alvan Suen is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2018 - 2019 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/80176
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/80176
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!80176
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/243407
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.thefoodstoryhk.com/hiyamahk
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hiyama Restaurant
- Function
- Restaurant
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Saddle Brown, Sienna, Dark Green and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- The Food Story HK Limited
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Alvan Suen
- Country
- Hong Kong (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #80176
Credits
- Team
- Jesie Chan, Hazel Ching, Alan Tang and Brian Hui
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Yui Zhu, Kaman Tjang Video Credits: Yui Zhu, Kaman Tjang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The brand “Hiyama” has a history of 100 years in Japan, own by the Murakami family. In respect to its age and social status of the family, the first branch of Hiyama is designed under the concept of nature, Zen and the traditional Japanese house. In terms of the experience of entering the mansion of Murakami, a bar as the welcome area allows guests to be comfortably seated and waiting with drinks, following by a bamboo path with mist gives a feeling of being in the outdoor garden, different dining areas then have become the varied houses of the family by peeking through the bamboos, then passing by a pavilion at the end of the path and entering the main hall that is sandwiched in between a...
- Inspiration
- The design inspiration in terms of construction, layout, experience and operation flow, was coming from the traditional Japanese house, garden and "Zen"; veranda, tatami mat, pavilion, bamboo, spatial arrangement, spatial hierarchy, water, mist, craftsmanship, etc. By combining all these together to form a traditional Japanese mansion of a noble family, creating the feeling of luxury through the spatial experience, and also the feeling of eating in a Japanese garden outdoor while actually being in a shopping mall.
- Challenge
- Cannot hang anything from the ceiling was the big challenge that we faced in this project, especially for an F&B project that requires a lot of E&M to be installed above the dining area such as air-conditioning, sprinkler, and lightings. To overcome the problem, building free-standing structures like houses and having the equipment laying on the roof was the solution. The second challenge will then be creating an eye-catching bamboo path for Instagramming with day and night, the solution was to have a continuous pure white LED above the bamboo walkway mimicking the daylight by moving all equipment to the side such as the air-con and exhaust.
- Realization and Technology
- In terms of construction, aligning with the concept of having houses in the garden, the "rooms" are actually built as the independent structures with beams and columns due to the fact that the landlord does not allow us to hang anything from the ceiling. For the "Zen" round mirror with a ripple-like feature wall, it was prefabricated in two pieces by CNC. For the check pattern feature wall with plaster finish, it was hand-painted by a very experienced worker. In order to create a realistic daylight effect by having the continuous LED false ceiling, anything such as air-con opening, sprinkler and E-light were installed on the side instead because they cannot be seen on the ceiling.
- Operation and Interaction
- In terms of operation, a welcome bar is designed as a waiting area by the entrance is where the guests can comfortably settle down and wait to be seated with free drinks. Before having the Sukiyaki, the manager will show and introduce to the guests the wagyu beef, then cook in front of the guests and serve immediately.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is located in Harbor City, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The design was started in June 2019 and the construction was finished in November 2019.
- Specifications
- Area: 2690 sq.ft. Capacity: 83
- Keywords
- Japan, Bamboo, Japanese House, Japan tradition, Tatami, Mist, free-standing structure
