Wednesday, September 1, 2010

MOONSOON RESTAURANT Sapporo, Japan 1989–1990



PROGRAM: Restaurant installation design CLIENT: JASMAC Corporation
SIZE          : 435 m²

CONCEPT:
For a two-fold programme of formal eating and relaxed lounging an opposition of moods was created. The result is two synthetic and strange worlds: fire and ice. Inspired by the seasonal ice buildings of Sapporo, the ground floor features cool-greys materialised in glass and metal. Tables are sharp fragments of ice: a raised floor level drifts like an iceberg across the space. Above the ice chamber whirls a furnace of fire, rendered in searing reds, brilliant yellows and exuberant oranges. A spiral above the bar tears through the ground-floor ceiling, curling up to the underside of the upper-level dome like a fiery tornado bursting through a pressure vessel. A plasma of biomorphic sofas accommodates eating and lounging and allows an infinite configuration of seating types with movable trays and plug-in sofa backs.

ARCHITECT      : ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
DESIGN             : Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
DESIGN TEAM  : Zaha Hadid with Bill Goodwin, Shin Egashira, Kar Hwa Ho, Edgar Gonzalez, Brian Langlands, Ed Gaskin, Yuko Moriyama, Urit Luden, Craig Kiner, Dianne Hunter-Gorman, Patrik Schumacher

CONSULTANTS: Michael Wolfson, Satoshi Ohashi, David Gomersall
MODEL              : Daniel Chadwick
PRODUCER      : Axe Co Ltd

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