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Inspired by the Impressionist painting of Tainan City, this project aims to create a museum-like dining space with the beauty of nature. We surround the architecture with trees and a large landscaped pool from the outside and the interior patio, projecting water ripples and leaf shadows on the wooden-textured raw concrete façade and the glass windows with natural light. When natural light goes through the architecture, it merges the space and the surroundings with organic patterns, creating an interesting visual effect as if the heavy concrete box is floating on the landscaped pool.
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Belonging to a 50+20-year governmental loaned land, our goal for this project is to exceed its usage and make it more sustainable. Located between an industrial and residential area, we arranged trees and the landscaped pool to form a green barrier with the park to the north. This green barrier purifies traffic pollution from the nearby highway and industrial pollution from the factories. By planting more trees, we hope to achieve carbon neutrality in this high-people-flow space and change the microenvironment, lowering the temperature to 1 – 1.5 Celsius with the building shadows, trees, and the landscaped pool. We hope that this green barrier could bring positive changes to the community, and eventually build up a small ecological area with the surrounding natural fields for local species to thrive.
(Concept Award) 2024 Design Skill Awards Silver Winner for Best Hospitality & Hotel Architecture 2023 APR Global Future Design Awards Gold Winner for Hospitality Architecture Rethinking the Future - Global Architecture & Design Awards Runner-Up for Hospitality APR - Chinese Design Awards Gold Winner for Best of Commercial Concept 2022 Green Good Design Award Winner for Green Architecture World Architecture Festival Awards Shortlist for Commercial Mixed-Use category- future projects (PT)The Plan Award Finalist for Hospitality TAC World Design Awards Winner for Hospitality Concept- Hotel and Resort TAC-Architects of The Year Awards Winner for Commercial Concept The International Architecture Awards of The Chicago Athenaeum Museum Honorable Mention for Restaurant Architecture
Considering the future reconstruction and reuse, we kept everything as simple as possible. We used a raw concrete façade to replace the traditionally preferred tile façade, which is favored in Taiwanese architecture for aesthetic purposes, making the architecture comparably lighter and more adaptable to the seismic zone. Modularized materials, such as decorative steel, recyclable glass, and recycled stone, are chosen for interior design to limit future waste in recycling and rebuilding. Those materials can be used in other construction without further reprocessing. We also select sustainable materials such as FSC-certified wood and other materials that are more tolerant of the weather and environmental conditions to decrease the need for redecoration in the future. In this restaurant project, we try to rethink a new sustainable possibility for a high-carbon-emission space. By changing the physical environment, we balance the waste created in this high-activity area and establish a new natural field that can last longer as long as the project works.
In the restaurant industry, it is not usual for us owners to spend so much money on designing for a leased land. However, after so many years of cooperation, our restaurant has successfully stood out from others, and has made it easier for the company to reach our ESG Goal with the help of a good design.
Space serves as a vital link between people and the environment. A good environment should be designed to encompass both architecture and interior design. Consistent design and the integration of internal and external space can achieve a perfect living symbiosis. It is our hope to create buildings that will bring life closer to nature and allow users to feel the beauty brought about by nature.
