"Grandma's Home" is a restaurant chain that offers affordable cuisines in China. Originated in Hangzhou, the restaurant's slogan reads "Grandma's from Westlake". This new branch restaurant is located on the 8th floor of the shopping mall in GDA Plaza. Chinese restaurants tend to use dark color tones for its interior space design with a variety of traditional Chinese design symbols or homely style.
How to break through the stereotype impression of Chinese restaurants and bring it closer to the taste of the emerging young consumer groups? We look at the complex words, images and purposes behind "Grandma's Home" restaurant and explore to sort out and express a line of clues, e.g. the emotions implied by the symbol "grandmother's home", impression of Chinese restaurants, and its slogan which indicates unique landscape features of Jiangnan, the region south of the Yangtze River.
The large kitchen occupies a unique spot in the restaurant, dividing the space into two dining areas that are connected by a narrow and long corridor. The whole space is shaped like a dragon. What we wanted to achieve is a continuation of the dining atmosphere into the corridor and spatial experience, while shading the area from the setting sun.
All the challenges can be solved with the help of this long and narrow corridor. Curved stainless steel ceiling covers up and hides the fire equipment, sprinklers, air conditioning outlets, fresh air system and lights while providing shading function. We use stainless steel materials that have been treated with an atomization process, so that the cold metal texture becomes more soft.
The kitchen has 3 pick-up areas. Hand-made mirror-like stainless surface mimics the shape of ripples on water while ceiling lamps hang as if water drops are falling. At the entrance, a tilted stainless steel warehouse amplifies the spatial experience with its reflection and slope.
The whole space is covered by a mirror of stainless steel with multiple water-related elements superimposed on each other: water surface, splash, droplets. Together with aqua green terrazzo, the restaurant creates a Jiangnan impression of "lotus leaves in a glistening lake". In addition, hand-plaited bamboo element adds harmony to the space, while tilted wooden-framed mirrors bring the relationship closer to some of the traditional symbols.
In the fast-paced restaurant industry in China, it is our wish that diners could experience fashionable and unique attentiveness and care in this reputable and affordable restaurant chain. Inheritance and renewal hence enters the dialogue.
The main contractor:
Zhejiang Grandma's Home catering operation Co.,Ltd.
Design:
Hangzhou AN Interior Design Co.,Ltd.
Designer:
Weng Shanwei,Yuan Jiadie
Metal:
hangzhou MaCheng decoration engineering Co.,Ltd.Construction: hangzhou
JingYu architectural decoration engineering Co.,Ltd.
