“The Room” offers Italian bistro cuisine in the heart of Hong Kong city within a well-known shopping complex. The challenge is to create an overall spatial experience for this restaurant of being sophisticated yet affordable. The given site was leak of strong context; the dining area is confined within a singular space just like a room. To go beyond the physical limitation on the size of the restaurant, we draw inspiration from the Dutch artist, Maurits Cornelis Escher, in order to transform the “room” into a dramatic and engaging place.
The structure of space for the dining “room” was re-configured d on the artist’s perception on impossible perspectives.
With the use of architectural components such as windows, balconies and staircases as the basic ingredient for making this spatial order. These components are constructed onto the ceiling and to the walls that wraps around the entire room. The design of the window as one of the key component is detailed as a lighting fixture on ceiling, as an opening view to the shopping center and also as a mirror wall that reflects the interior.
Loft-style is applied to the interior furnishing for bringing diners an idyllically homely dining experience to creating a “room” context. This design takes a contemporary elaboration on the spatial structure so as to arise the emotions of the consumer and to establish a brand new relationship between people and food space.
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my ment… let me go upstairs and check.” ─ M. C. Escher
