New Shandao Restaurant

New Shandao Restaurant
Facade. Image © Quan Zhang

PHOTOGRAPHS
Quan Zhang

AREA
2000 m²

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Fuzhou, China

CATEGORY
Restaurants & Bars, Interior Design

New Shandao Restaurant
Lobby seating area. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Elevator hall. Image © Quan Zhang

Before working on this project, Mr. Xu has been thinking about the future development of restaurant, as well as new ideas of restaurant design.

New Shandao Restaurant
Lobby. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo corridor. Image © Quan Zhang

He wants to design a restaurant which gets rid of the stereotype and being innovative .In this case, Mr. Xu, as space magician, proves again there are new breakthroughs in blending nature into a restaurant.

For a long time, there is no breakthrough in field of restaurant design or even in the whole design industry.No innovation could be found in designs of different industries.It is the same with new restaurant designs,

New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo mezzanine. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo corridor. Image © Quan Zhang

Most of them are just about shaping or the arrangement of furniture, which are neither attractive nor have features that could touch people’s heart.

Designers have the responsibility and should play a leading role in improving the quality of future life and living environment.Mr. Xu applies natural bamboo to the dining space creatively, thus combines healthy food with environment organically.

New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo basket. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Staircase in the bamboo mezzanine. Image © Quan Zhang

The whole building consists of 4 floors. The 1st floor is reception lobby and kitchen, the 2nd floor is banquet hall, the 3rd floor is the private rooms, and the 4th and 5th floor is social catering. Because there is an mezzanine above the 4th floor.

Entering into the space, you will be shocked by the magical bamboo forest. You will feel peaceful and refreshing in this space with a breath of nature.

New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo basket. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo basket. Image © Quan Zhang

Because the original building is an office building, whose nature is hard to be associated with restaurant.

So tiles are used on the exterior facade from the 1st floor to the 4th floor to connect the whole building. Great "magnetic field" is generated in this way, which could leave deep impression to people.

New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo stairwell. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Stairwell. Image © Quan Zhang

The designer made the 4th and 5th floor as independent social dining area boldly.Bamboo is the element that applied across the whole building and connects every floor.

Two staircases are designed between the 4th and 5th floor in particular, which makes the space coherent vertically and allows more interaction.

People in it will feel peaceful and contented. Materials used are simple and natural, such as: tiles, phyllostachys praecox, straw walls, plain cement, etc..

New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo stairwell. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Box. Image © Quan Zhang

The whole space is interpreted based on the internationally advocated Eco-friendly concept. It presents a sense of transparent while being winding and has partitions; it is private but not depressed, which is very different from traditional space division.

The creative bamboo-baskets-shaped dining area is the highlight of the design.The staircases and dining areas are all hidden in the bamboo baskets as if the whole restaurant is hidden in bamboo forest.

The bamboo baskets could let in light layer-by-layer, making the restaurant more graceful, natural and simple, thus creates a space which returns to purity and simplicity.

New Shandao Restaurant
Staircase. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo basket. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Bamboo mezzanine. Image © Quan Zhang


New Shandao Restaurant
Lobby ceiling. Image © Quan Zhang
New Shandao Restaurant
Corridor to banquet hall. Image © Quan Zhang


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1F Plan
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1F Plan
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3F Plan
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4F Plan
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5F Plan


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Elevation
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Facade
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Facade