The "Rice Home" by AS Design is a trendy fusion cuisine restaurant which located in Guangzhou China, this project is just completed on Apr 2013.

The design language is for young people to understand – "Hexagon & Bright Yellow” as a symbol, which is easy to think of beehive in nature. We distributed this natural structure in every corner, represents a dynamic “Home / Living space” and young & dynamic image of the brand, with the meaning of being hard working to delve into new food products.

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+ Statement from AS Design

Located in Guangzhou City, China, “Rice Home“, a newly launched premium casual dining brand originated from Hong Kong, paid attention to the pursuit of superior rice quality, attentive and dedicated service, elegant and clean dining environment, emphasizing on unique and contemporary recipes, creatively blended modern and innovative food made with rice with diversification to meet the young and trendy customers' needs, to pursue new stimulus from their dishes to interior design with style, highlighting and showing the charm of cosmopolitan in new era.

Four Lau and Sam Sum, Chief Designers of AS Design, used the shortest time to complete the design concept. They tried to get customers to have a visual impact and experience on this new casual dining brand, to expand the fun and design possibilities, but also to break the whole dull and boring culture of the industry. The design language is for young people to understand – "Hexagon & Bright Yellow” as a symbol, which is easy to think of beehive in nature. We distributed this natural structure in every corner, represents a dynamic “Home / Living space” and young & dynamic image of the brand, with the meaning of being hard working to delve into new food products.

Irregular hexagons give customers the sense of dynamic, and also enhance spatial layering at the shop front, where 3-dimensional black hexagons are surrounded by the inner and outer increasing contrast in colors, which made the indoor dining space particularly warm. Interior walls were decorated with light-colored hexagons and black background, completely desalinated a huge wall, prompting a sense of space to an infinite extension. The 3-dimensional hexagons at the ceiling is to connect indoor and outdoor, with bright yellow and lighting effects that injects a huge 3-dimensional sense of tension into the small space and also hides all of the air conditioning.

The bowl-shaped sculptures at the curved wall create visual sense of food aroma and arouse appetite. The yellow spheres are symbolic of certain food elements / particles; it connect to the TVs are used to promote new food product. The food menus are demonstrated by TV to achieve the high-tech effect. Designers hope to use simple elements to create space diversity, activating the imagination and expectations of this fast food brand.

+ Project facts

Project: Rice Home
Location: Shop 1, L3, Hengbao Plaza, No. 133, Bao Hua Road, Li Wan District, Guangzhou, PRC
Category: Interior Design
Design Firm: AS Design Service Limited
Photography: Sing Studio By Sum Sing

Designers: Four Lau (Creative Director), Sam Sum (Art Director)
Design Team: Ka Him (Assistant Interior Designer)
Completion: 09/04/2013
Area: 117 SQM / 1259 SQF
Client: Hung's Management Service Limited
Contractor: J.H Decoration & Design Co. Ltd

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Holzer Kobler Architekturen, in collaboration with pbr AG, Generalplaner and Topotek1, Landschaftsarchitektur, has completed the Paläon Research and Experience Centre.

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+ Description from Holzer Kobler Architekturen

The Schöningen Spears, approximately 300,000 years old, are the oldest preserved hunting weapons of mankind discovered until now. Visible from far away, the sculptural building of the PALÄON now towers over the significant archeological site at the edge of the brown coal mine. Designed by Holzer Kobler Architekturen, the building stands as a landmark with the hilly landscape mirrored in its reflective façade. The exhibition forms the heart of the project, which presents the original excavation area in a spectacular manner.

Architecture

The PALÄON pushes itself out of the slightly hilly topography and cuts into the forested meadows. The volume of the three-story building and the paths emanating from it form lines of sight that divide the landscape into vectors. A second winding path system forms synapses that connect to the surroundings. The building is a camouflage – a hyperrealistic abstraction of the landscape.

The metallic skin of the PALÄON mirrors the meadows and forests that surround it as well as the movements of the clouds in the sky passing by. Through its archaic form, the research and experience center becomes one with its surroundings. Sharp, largeformatted cuts into the building façade offer wide-reaching and fascinating views to the place where the spears were discovered, the pit of the brown coal mine, the nearby forest, and the Przewalski horses grazing in the meadows. The expressive openings cut into the building like spears in the skin of the horses and reflect this dynamic in the form language. The abstract cuts into the building also formally react to the neighboring traces of opencut mining. The resulting expressive architecture mediates between manmade and natural landscape and forms an emblem for the place.

Exhibition

The experience exhibition, with its presentation of the original site from Schöningen lies at the heart of the project. Memorable images speak to the visitor's senses and emotions. New findings on our ancestors, the homo erectus, his daily life and the flora and fauna that existed around 300,000 years ago are presented as well as connections to current themes such as climate change and sustainability.

The circuit through the exhibition begins in the three-story foyer in the middle of the building, which connects all of the views to the outside. The tall space creates view axes to the research and exhibition areas in the first and second floors as well as vistas to the brown coal mine. Here is where all paths leading to the programmatic areas, such as exhibition, educational areas, administration, restaurant or shop, begin and end. The foyer then leads one back to prehistoric times through the lacquered cross-section of the geological and archaeological layers of the excavation.

Central to the exhibition design is the sculptural white exhibition structure, whose form vaguely resemble those of horse bones. Through enlargement and abstraction, a row of theme cabinets form a spatially activating element with views alternating with large-format artwork. Highlight to the exhibition circuit is the spears` cabinet that presents the world-wide uniques wooden spears from the stone age. Finally the panoramic cinema makes 300,000 years emotionally experiential.

Upon leaving the main exhibition space and crossing the foyer one last time high above the entrance, current archaeological excavation and research work in Schöningen can be experienced in the research area. In the laboratory, visitors solve a tricky case with modern archaeological methods. The professional laboratory and workspaces of the archaeologists on-site are strung along the exhibition circuit and can be examined by the visitors. The 'Adventure Research' that takes place here daily is Architekturen Holzer Kobler 3/8 made comprehensible for laymen, children and experts and allowed to be experienced close-up – in the PALÄON itself and the exhibition site outdoors.

Landscape

For the design of the outdoor spaces of the new research and experience center, two complementary form languages were introduced into the landscape. They differ functionally and formally in the newly created park landscape echoing an inter-glacial cycle of primeval times and in the access and gathering areas, which are strongly influenced architectonically through the building. To the east, dense woods will soon cover half of the area of the site. To the west and surrounding the PALÄON stretch dappled forests, as well as meadows and a lake, which also accommodate the fencedin area for the Przewalski horses. A curving network of paths leads the visitor to special viewpoints, attractions, and makes necessary connections. For example, the design of the playground was inspired from extinct primeval animals. And from a slightly raised point at one area of the lake, the visitor is given an ideal view of where the wild horses reside.

+ Project facts

Location:
paläon
Forschungs- und Erlebniszentrum Schöninger Speere
Paläon 1
38364 Schöningen
www.palaeon.de

Opening: 24. Juni 2013
Floor Space (Total): 4.090 qm
Floor Space Exhibition: 600 qm
Total Area incl. landscape: 240.000 qm
Client: Stadt Schöningen
Occupant: paläon GmbH
Curator: Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege
Architecture: Holzer Kobler Architekturen, Zürich/Berlin, in collaboration with pbr AG, Generalplaner, Braunschweig
Landscape architecture: Topotek 1, Berlin
Exhibition design: Holzer Kobler Architekturen, Zürich/Berlin
Graphic design exhibition: Holzer Kobler Architekturen, Zürich/Berlin
Graphic production: PIGMENTPOL Sachsen GmbH, Satz und Reinzeichnung Kerstin Hübsch
Media planning: Jangled Nerves, Stuttgart
Light planning: Lichtvision Design & Engineering GmbH, Berlin
Implementation exhibition: Seiwo Technik GmbH, Bel-Tec Gesellschaft für Film-, Theater-und Ausstellungsbau mbH
Fittings exhibits: id3d-berlin gmbh
Artists installations: Jens Najewitz, Stephan Hüsch, Misha Shenbrot, Alexej Tchernyi, Ekkehard Runge
Illustrations: Benoit Clary, Wu Zhio, Christian Meier zu Ermgassen, Simon Schede