GF South Facade. Image © Fangfang Tian
- Interiors Designers: House Fiction
- Location: Daci temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Area: 200.0 m2
- Project Year: 2018
- Photographs: Fangfang Tian
GF Entrance. Image © Fangfang Tian
Text description provided by the architects. The site is facing a Tang Dynasty buddha temple.
It is exactly the red wall surrounded of the temple leads the design of a signature view finder, which freezes outdoor scene for interior, also as lens to recording customer’s circulation for passers to better understand interior structure.
GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian
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GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian
Besides, this restaurant mainly provides Japanese fusion dessert, so “coral red” in colour dictionary of Taisho and Showa period was chosen for the passage.
GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian
Corridor Layer. Image © Fangfang Tian
It is mean to emphasise dialogue with the red wall. This passage made up with scissor staircase from GF, interlayer platform and column-free spiral to 1F.
Passage Detail. Image © Fangfang Tian
Metal net and glass curtain wall build up double facade for both GF and 1F. Door frames and window frames pull or push metal net .
Passage View Finder. Image © Fangfang Tian
At the same time when soften indoor-outdoor edge, it also meat to set a swordsmen-image, this is to respond the name of this restaurant which is actually a line of Tang Dynasty poem.
1F Windowsill Cassette. Image © Fangfang Tian
