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INSIDE Aoti
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Guangzhou, China
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INSIDE Aoti
Guangzhou, China
Firm
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
INSIDE has opened its flagship restaurant and brand headquarter on South Aoti Road, Tianhe, Canton. R-BAS was invited to complete the custom design of the interior, landscape and many of the furniture pieces.
With the keywords of 'an everyday bistro, multi-space office and a communal spot for the local residents', INSIDE Aoti is conceived as a cosy and inclusive room that preserves and further celebrates the design notion of INSIDE Guangzhou, i.e., the behaviourally created space acting as a context of the customers' activities.
Facing several sports fields by a pedestrian road, the new restaurant is located within a once thriving shopping mall that is undergoing an adaptive renewal outside the Guangzhou Ring Motorway. The existing site is 18m deep with no openings on the rear. Thus, R-BAS's main design intent is to effectively increase the footfall, optimising the ungifted, dark aura of the interior.
Considering the status quo, the idea of placing a thick massing of concrete onto the site was agreed through negotiation. This morphological palimpsest of La Muralla Roja features five platforms of varying heights with kitchen underneath, slowly ascending, offering spaces for dining, studying, coworking, recreational activities and staff relaxation, connecting an exquisite staircase made of steel at the back and an internal meeting room on the adjacent attic level. Users can meander freely without solid barriers on the platforms; an angled horizontal mirror hung atop subtly reflects the lush vegetation around the sports fields. Thereby a clear holistic vision is gained from both the indoor and outdoor perspectives.
The black exposed aggregate concrete laid on L1 stretching from the area at the front of the sunken bar to the raised al fresco yard is extroverted in nature, depicting a public liminal realm amidst the façade of the massive platform-structure being shifted inwards. Accommodating several benches and tables under the foliage shadows of a flamboyant tree (Delonix regia) and alongside a tuft of gently swaying fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum) grown in the carefully designed planters, the open yard brings a laid-back sense of philoxeníā déjà vu.
INSIDE Aoti seeks to question the perception of the interior as interiority by developing a language of uncontinuous architectural elements—the wall, floor and ceiling planes that define the physical boundaries of space. Partition walls between the costumer and service zones extend only partway high. At the upper attic meeting room, where a 100mm gap is left from the perpendicular exterior wall of the building, a balustrade is constructed invisible in itself. Decorated with a linear fissure at the base, the monolithic concrete massing seems afloat over the ground, declaring independence from the tribute to the floor.
With the keywords of 'an everyday bistro, multi-space office and a communal spot for the local residents', INSIDE Aoti is conceived as a cosy and inclusive room that preserves and further celebrates the design notion of INSIDE Guangzhou, i.e., the behaviourally created space acting as a context of the customers' activities.
Facing several sports fields by a pedestrian road, the new restaurant is located within a once thriving shopping mall that is undergoing an adaptive renewal outside the Guangzhou Ring Motorway. The existing site is 18m deep with no openings on the rear. Thus, R-BAS's main design intent is to effectively increase the footfall, optimising the ungifted, dark aura of the interior.
Considering the status quo, the idea of placing a thick massing of concrete onto the site was agreed through negotiation. This morphological palimpsest of La Muralla Roja features five platforms of varying heights with kitchen underneath, slowly ascending, offering spaces for dining, studying, coworking, recreational activities and staff relaxation, connecting an exquisite staircase made of steel at the back and an internal meeting room on the adjacent attic level. Users can meander freely without solid barriers on the platforms; an angled horizontal mirror hung atop subtly reflects the lush vegetation around the sports fields. Thereby a clear holistic vision is gained from both the indoor and outdoor perspectives.
The black exposed aggregate concrete laid on L1 stretching from the area at the front of the sunken bar to the raised al fresco yard is extroverted in nature, depicting a public liminal realm amidst the façade of the massive platform-structure being shifted inwards. Accommodating several benches and tables under the foliage shadows of a flamboyant tree (Delonix regia) and alongside a tuft of gently swaying fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum) grown in the carefully designed planters, the open yard brings a laid-back sense of philoxeníā déjà vu.
INSIDE Aoti seeks to question the perception of the interior as interiority by developing a language of uncontinuous architectural elements—the wall, floor and ceiling planes that define the physical boundaries of space. Partition walls between the costumer and service zones extend only partway high. At the upper attic meeting room, where a 100mm gap is left from the perpendicular exterior wall of the building, a balustrade is constructed invisible in itself. Decorated with a linear fissure at the base, the monolithic concrete massing seems afloat over the ground, declaring independence from the tribute to the floor.
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