AD ARCHITECTURE Wu Club

Project Name: Wu Club Client: Ms. Wu Design Company: AD ARCHITECTURE (http://www.arch-ad.com/) Email: office@arch-ad.com Chief Designer: Xie Peihe Design Team: AD ARCHITECTURE Project Location: Shantou, Guangdong Project Area: 600 m2 Main Materials: Foamed Aluminium, Moorgen Smart System, Metal Net, Rock Slab, OIKOS Paint, Timber Floor，SIKI Design Time: January 2020 Completion Time: July 2020 Photographer: Ouyang Yun

WU Club is a space full of unknowns and uncertainties, in which this is a tangible future. New Chaoshan Cuisine | A Diversified Space Wu is a window, through Wu Ke, looking at the sky; entering Wu is a peach for the future. "The mountain has a small mouth, as if there is light, walk back ten steps, broad and cheerful"

The project is situated within a building in the CBD of Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. It's a new Chaoshan cuisine restaurant & club, which bears the mission of carrying forward Chaoshan cuisine. Composed of private dining rooms, a tea room, a cigar bar, a whisky bar and an audio/video room, it adopts a novel operation concept and provides a unique spatial environment.

Light acts as a medium that conveys physical phenomena in the space. The designers accentuated light since it's a visible substance, and intended to convey the spiritual world through the materiality of light. Light produces a mysterious, tranquil ambience whilst evoking emotions and illusionary effects.

Polygonal planes, slanting structures and "floating" forms are brought into the space, which challenges established architectural values and releases imagination.Irregular geometric shapes break with the convention, and indicate an attitude of exploring undefined order and an experiment of achieving self-worth.

The design team adopted a creative and experimental approach to express paint, which is given different hues and textures. Besides, the wooden floor and stone materials form a contrast. The solid and the soft, the cool and the warm, collide yet harmonize with each other. Moreover, elements such as humor, mystery and dream are incorporated into the space.

As approaching the project, the design team tried to apply Western design order to create and interpret Oriental spatial qualities and philosophy. Winding passages lead to various serene functional areas, which are dramatic yet restrained. The space incorporates the collision and fusion of Oriental and Western aesthetic philosophies.

Private dining rooms are characterized by irregular spatial form, which look like a void, full of surprises and uncertainties. Unique structures extend from the passageway to the inner area. The floating art installation on the top resembles a flying saucer, which not only adds playfulness to the space, but also provides lighting for the dining table.