yirob
Kwon Byungguk

yirob

DEEF DESIGN STUDIO as Architects

"To benefit my mealtime, to benefit my table, to benefit my mouth."

yirob planned a fusion restaurant that combines Korean food with Japanese style. At the first meeting, I was curious about the essential background of creating these menus after listening to the experimental menu list such as red pepper paste cream pork belly pasta and shiregi vongole. If I summarize the cooking and life of the client and chef in one sentence, I can say, "If it's obvious, it's not fun, right?"

The mixture of all-too-familiar menus raises curiosity. This special combination creates curiosity and fun that can only be felt in Y-Rob. yirob tried to experiment, introduce, and develop such a variety of fusion dishes to give people the pleasure of eating.

photo_credit Kwon Byungguk
Kwon Byungguk

We tried to solve the spatial design by utilizing the 'familiar and unfamiliar' characteristics of fusion food. We did not want to interfere with their curious emotions by preventing their intentions from being revealed with indirect expressions. For example, Korean details are transformed into exotic designs to direct them. With the same concept, it is an exotic design, but it can be said that it has a Korean meaning.

photo_credit Kwon Byungguk
Kwon Byungguk

 

The spatial design base is highlighted by warm beige-toned European beauty, bean jagal floor, wood film and red color. When viewed largely, these color lines, walls, and patterns and textures expressed on the floor have an exotic production, but they have an oriental meaning, and the grid of gates and pillars of counters also contain the same meaning. In other words, I think they are concepts that will not be easily revealed until the dual meaning is directly heard and interpreted. I think the most important core element in this space is that the above concepts are partially melted, both in overall and in detail. In this space, rather than directing the spatialization strategies to be easily exposed, we expected visitors who will feel the pleasure of gastronomy to focus on the menu of yirob and the processes that will be discovered one by one after another.

photo_credit Kwon Byungguk
Kwon Byungguk

I'm rooting for yirob and the chef's cooking list, which will continue to be written in a fun way, and we want to enjoy it together.

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