Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
16/06/2018.
[Qinhuangdao] China
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Ideas Center´s Aranya renews a part to turn it into a restaurant tailored to the small diners that flood the center.
Red flying house. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Yellow trace. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Red flying house. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Exterior night view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Aerial view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Exterior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Aerial night view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Exterior night view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Exterior night view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Yellow trace. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Yellow trace. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Red flying house. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Red flying house. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Interior view. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Circular dining hall. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Circular dining hall. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Circular dining hall. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Bathroom. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
Corridor. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab. Photograph by CreatAR Images
First floor plan. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Second floor plan. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Top plan. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Elevation. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Analysis first floor. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Analysis second floor. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Analysis axis floor. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
First floor plan. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Second floor plan. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Top plan. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Elevation. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Elevation sunboard. Polycarbonate Neverland. Aranya Kid’s restaurant by Wutopia Lab
Wutopia Lab designs this restaurant for children in charge of Aranya Center. He renews part of his clubhouse turning it into an attempt to 'Neverland', a magical reality. The new design wraps the facade with polycarbonate panels.
Description of project by Wutopia Lab
Wutopia Lab was commissioned by Aranya to renovate part of club house into a restaurant for kids. We hope to create a 'Neverland' for kids in this space of less than 1,000 square meters.
By digesting the physical properties of materials, we hope to create a place that loses material texture and spatial orientation. The carbonate polymer material used in the “One person’s gallery” case was used in combination with light to create an experience of losing sense of size and texture. Bubbles, colorless and transparent, will refract the rainbow, and are fleeting and unpredictable, but kids love them. The kid's restaurant should be a polycarbonate neverland.
We used polycarbonate panels to wrap the original facade, a mixture of prairie villa style and contemporary art deco-style, creating a new translucent facade. We put vertical greening and large staircases between the old and new façades. This hierarchical facade was regarded as a complete facade.
We re-organized function and streamline. Directly from the outdoor stairs, first stepping into the light forest on the second floor. Under the soft lighting of the light ceiling, the matte PVC pipe encloses a circular dining hall and two private dining room surrounded by polycarbonate panels. Circular, diffuse lighting, white tones make you losing sense of texture, scale, and direction to this space.
You can enter the ground floor under the starry skies along the grand staircase. Under the starry sky ceiling, we created a playground for kids using PVC hollow balls, glass fiber cloth, marine plastic balls, artificial stone and floor glue. With a magic mirror as the border of the game space, we try to distort the realism of the place, as if time is not passing.
At the edge of the main space, there is a pink memory bathroom, a sea sound bathroom, a mirror pool, a stainless steel slide, a trampoline, a bubble tree, and a mysterious picture book area. They are the corners hidden in this neverland that waiting for kids to discover for themselves.
The most important climax of the entire restaurant is the red flying house built on the roof with double perforated aluminum panels. Following the yellow trace, going through a stainless steel floor, bypassing the bubble tree, twisting toward the ridge, and you can see the light is getting brighter and brighter. This flying house could become an obvious sign of the park easily. It could also be a lighthouse, pointing out the limitations of our lives.
We hope that the architectural practice of Wutopia Lab can use a rich imagination and exaggerated artistic techniques to perform "special performances" on daily life, turning everyday life into a "magic reality" and creating a daily miracle that can reveal the truth of real life. We hope that design can turn reality into an illusion without losing its truth. The Anaya Kid's Restaurant is the best example of this design philosophy.
More information
Design firm
Wutopia Lab
Chief designer
MIN Erni, YU Ting
Project architect
YU Ting
Design team
Dali PAN, Wutian SUN, Zhilin MU
Scheme design
WIN DESIGN
Construction team
Beijing Weihong Hengye Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.
Lighting Consultant
Chloe ZHANG, Chengyi QIN
Location
Aranya, Qinhuangdao, China
Area
1.000 m²
Project Year
May 2018
Yu Ting Wutopia Lab Architects
Wutopia Lab is founded by the chief architect Yu Ting in Shanghai, which is an architecture company based on a new paradigm of complex system. Wutopia Lab regards Shanghai's culture and life style as a starting point, using architecture as a tool to promote sociological progress within building practice. Wutopia Lab focuses on human and is dedicated to link different aspects of urban life: traditional, daily and cultural to interpret Urbanian lifestyle, and to develop acontemporary Chinese aesthetic based on Shanghai.
While facing each project, Wutopia Lab's practices are promoted to show different innovative strategies, thinking modes and forms. Wutopia Lab is committed to comprehensive design, not only to complete the concept and deepen of buildings, but also focuses on early planning and analysis along with landscape and interior design. Wutopia Lab also has the capacity to coordinate and collaborate different types of departments and on-site construction.
While facing each project, Wutopia Lab's practices are promoted to show different innovative strategies, thinking modes and forms. Wutopia Lab is committed to comprehensive design, not only to complete the concept and deepen of buildings, but also focuses on early planning and analysis along with landscape and interior design. Wutopia Lab also has the capacity to coordinate and collaborate different types of departments and on-site construction.
