Inspired by the Impressionist painting of Tainan City, this project aims to create a museum-like dining space with the beauty of nature. We surround the architecture with trees and a large landscaped pool from the outside and the interior patio, projecting water ripples and leaf shadows on the wooden-textured raw concrete façade and the glass windows with natural light. When natural light goes through the architecture, it merges the space and the surroundings with organic patterns, creating an interesting visual effect as if the heavy concrete box is floating on the landscaped pool.
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Hospitality Architecture (Built)
Firm
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute
Architect/Designer
Keng Fu Lo
Design Team
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute
Location
Tainan
Country
Taiwan
Photographer/Copyright
©YHLAA, LEE Kuo-Min
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https://www.chain10.com/
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Belonging to a 50+20-year governmental loaned land, our goal for this project is to exceed its usage and make it more sustainable. Located between an industrial and residential area, we arranged trees and the landscaped pool to form a green barrier with the park to the north. This green barrier purifies traffic pollution from the nearby highway and industrial pollution from the factories. By planting more trees, we hope to achieve carbon neutrality in this high-people-flow space and change the microenvironment, lowering the temperature to 1 – 1.5 Celsius with the building shadows, trees, and the landscaped pool. We hope that this green barrier could bring positive changes to the community, and eventually build up a small ecological area with the surrounding natural fields for local species to thrive.
Considering the future reconstruction and reuse, we kept everything as simple as possible. We used a raw concrete façade to replace the traditionally preferred tile façade, which is favored in Taiwanese architecture for aesthetic purposes, making the architecture comparably lighter and more adaptable to the seismic zone. Modularized materials, such as decorative steel, recyclable glass, and recycled stone, are chosen for interior design to limit future waste in recycling and rebuilding. Those materials can be used in other construction without further reprocessing. We also select sustainable materials such as FSC-certified wood and other materials that are more tolerant of the weather and environmental conditions to decrease the need for redecoration in the future.
In this restaurant project, we try to rethink a new sustainable possibility for a high-carbon-emission space. By changing the physical environment, we balance the waste created in this high-activity area and establish a new natural field that can last longer as long as the project works.
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