Bronze Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2021

Huixian Lou Restaurant

by Han Ao

A' Design Award 2021 Bronze Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Awarded April 15, 2021
CLIENT: Beijing Hantang Landscape Interior Design Co., Ltd.
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About Huixian Lou Restaurant

Huixian Lou is a restaurant located on Beijing Financial Street. The project covers 860 square meters. The exterior is wrapped in a pale gray metal grid that forms several hazy layers between the street and the dining areas. These layers create a calm transition and leave the noise of the city outside. The interior recalls the elegance of Song dynasty style through a modern expression of traditional culture. One hall is six meters high and shows a video artwork on the wall. A stage surrounded by semi-translucent gauze hosts harp performances each evening.

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Unique Properties: Leisure life in prosperous city
"Small-time hermits hide in the mountains, but the real hermit lives downtown", Huixianlou is located on Beijing Financial Street, the most prosperous place in a city, and the designer wanted to create a feeling of "leisure life in prosperous city".
A leisure life does not have to be found in the mountains and forests. It is a higher level to find peace in a prosperous city, such as Beijing.
Dimensions & Packaging: Project area: 860 square meters.
Tags: Northern Song Dynasty , subtle oriental beauty , literati landscape paintings, gourmet food, amazing scenery, beautiful utensils
Production Technology: According to themodern expression of traditional culture, the entire exterior of the restaurant is covered by a pale gray hazy metal grid, presenting a restrained, subtle oriental beauty. It is these several layers of hazy metal grids that create the most important "space" the exterior and interior. When you step inside, it's as if you are filtered and the noise of the world is left behind. The whole person calms down.
Design Challenge: The atmosphere that designer wants to create is a kind of mistakenly entering the wilderness, the garden, the study room and the Southern Song Dynasty which bring the sense of time-travel, the sense of amazement. This kind of feeling has no violation and pressure, but surprises, happiness and nourishment...
Project Duration: The project started in Beijing on April 10, 2019 and completed in Beijing on December 20, 2019.
Operation Flow: Market survey, Site survey, Layout plan, Simulation renderings, Construction practices and details.
Research: The small hall on the right is six meters high, and the video playing on the wall is a piece of art taken by the designer from the Art Basel in Hong Kong. With the surging of the fog, the whole picture changes from hazy to gradually clear, to full bloom, and then to the haze, which is a metaphor for reincarnations in the world. There is a stage surrounded by semi-translucent gauze in the air, where harp players perform every night. Consumers can only hear the sound but not see the people.
Inspiration: "Huixianlou" wasthe largest restaurant in Kaifeng, Bianliang, Northern Song Dynasty, which a place for gathering place for literati. Therefore, designerjust wanted to create the sameelegance of Song style. The reason for choosing the most prosperous place in Beijing, the Financial Street, is to find an inner peace and the elegant state of the ancients. The hotter and irritable the outside is, the more peace of mind is needed inside.
Image Credits: Photographer Wu Bing, 2019