KFC
Restaurant
Design
Project
in Yuhe
Square, Lijiang
Location:
Lijiang Scenic
Spot, Yunnan
Province,
China (Yuhe Square)
Project
Area:
334
Square
Meters
Number of
Floors:
2
Business
Attribute:
Restaurant
Materials: 11 kinds of local characteristic cloth, old elm board, cement brick
Design
Company:
ROOMOO
The main designer:
Tao,
Design Team:
Dai
Yun Feng、Wu
Xiao Yan、Guo Jia Nv
Photocopy Right：ROOMOO
&
skylook（Photographer）
Website：www.roomoo.cn
Design Story :
Lijiang is a popular tourist destination in China and also a gathering place of
the Naxi ethnic group. Architectural style and cultural customs here are unique.
The project itself is an old building of the tourist area. The preservation of
the old building and the proper introduction of new design elements are the
attractions in this design.
As to protection of the old structure and the wooden columns, we adopt the
treatment methods of deinsectization, anticorrosion and waterproofing to make
the original building materials and wooden beam and column structure reflect the
original state of nature while extending the service life. Adding steel
structure reinforcement to support the use of the two-floor restaurant ensures
the stability of the structure.
We use the whole space as an exhibition room for a very special collection of
unique local fabrics as concept. The 11 kinds of specially-selected fabrics with
traditional Naxi characteristics naturally become the “collection”, covering
every corner of the whole restaurant space: ceiling, walls and furniture. The
vibrant colours, pleasant visual experience and the natural touch of the local
traditional cloth are important reasons for our choice and also the most
challenging part of the project (the dirt resistance and fire resistance of the
fabric are the significant taboos in the restaurant design project). In the
middle and later stages of the design, we experiment with the 11 kinds of
fabrics themselves and finally realise the protection of the natural surface of
the cloth and meet with requirements for fire-protecting rating standard, which
plays the decisive role in implementing the concept. At the same time, the local
handicraftsmen’s work for 11 hours per square meter also contributes a lot to
the integrity of the project. The use of local smoked elm adds another important
colour to space -- black and it creates areas and frames in addition to the
fabric, which controls the balance in spatial hue.
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