Birdie's Lounge Golf Club Lounge by Mario J Lotti is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
IronInterior· 2014
Birdie's Lounge Golf Club Lounge
Client: Montgomerie Links Golf Club
A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Birdie's Lounge Golf Club Lounge
The lounge for a golf club had be designed and constructed in 6 weeks, in time for opening day. It also had to be beautiful, functional as a lounge and appropriate for occasional golf competition awards ceremonies and other smaller events. For a 3 sided glass box in the middle of a golf course, this approach brings the greens, the sky and some notion of golf into the bar, in the colors of the furnishings and the reflections of the course in the mosaic mirror back bar. The outside views are very much a part of the interior design and experience.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Birdie's Lounge Golf Club Lounge is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Birdie's Lounge Golf Club Lounge is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Birdie's Lounge Golf Club Lounge is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
To bring the golf course into the lounge and at the same time create a cool respite from the hot sun and heat outside. Create a space that was not sedate, but lively, and reminded the golfer of the game just played in a comfortable way.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
To design a space with a suitable environment for the Montgomerie Links Golf Club that satisfies the need functionally and will be a place people enjoy and will return after their next visit to the course. The project had to be completed in 6 weeks.
How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
The bar had to be designed, construction completed, furnished and ready to operate in 6 weeks. It took 3 days to design the concept and produce the design presentation. The construction drawings were completed 2 weeks into the short construction process. The first issued construction drawings were of the bar and furniture 3 days after concept. the construction started immediately following, the contractors were already on site working in other areas of the building to complete to the same deadline. Construction completed on time including furniture.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The space for the bar is a box with 3 glass walls and expansive views of the golf course. The project was to design a lounge for a golf club that could be designed and constructed in 6 weeks. It also had to be beautiful, functional as a lounge and appropriate for golf competition awards ceremonies. For a 3 sided glass box in the middle of a golf course, the best approach was to bring the greens, the sky and some notion of golf into the bar, by the colors of the furnishings and the reflections in the mosaic mirror back bar.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The space is approximately 400 square meters.
- Tags
- Golf, Golf Club, bar, lounge, links
- Production Technology
- In designing the bar, I had to consider how it would be constructed within 6 weeks. To accomplish this, the carcass for the bar was constructed of Brick masonry while the stone materials were ordered. The yellow onyx cladding was critical to completing the bar on time. The attachment of the Yellow Onyx is by a single large ornamental bolt. The Onyx stone slabs overlap each other with every other panel behind the other sets of panels and overlapping slightly to allow for the carcass and other construction tolerances generously.
- Design Challenge
- Although the views are really striking from this location, planning in a space with 3 glass walls and traffic paths through the middle doesn't leave many options. The shape of the space had a stagnant feeling. To break this up, a curve was introduced in the bar. The kitchen and entry/exit paths crossed the middle of the space and created a dividing line. The curve in the bar enhanced the flow through the space and created a more natural appearing path.
- Research
- To design this bar, research on the existing facility design need to be studied to produce a design that would work well with the rest of the facility design. The immediate inspiration was the expansive views and colors of the golf greens and sky.
- Inspiration
- Golf, the links, the very green golf greens, big blue sky, Big beautiful views
- Project Duration
- 6 weeks from request to provide design services until completed construction and open. Project is in Quang Nam, Vietnam.
- Operation Flow
- The program of bar, restaurant, lounge, awards ceremony room was a tight fit. Placing the bar at the opaque wall allowed the space to be re-arranged as required for different functions. The lounge is primarily for daytime and daylight use. The free form curved bar facilitates communication - more than 2 people sitting at the curved bar can comfortably see each other when talking. The angled back bar wall enhances the effect of the mosaic mirror reflecting the view of the golf course inside the bar.
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