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Project: ANAN, VW Autostadt Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg/Germany
The brief was to design a Japanese noodle bar that conveys the atmosphere of present-day Tokyo. The solution chosen by the architects was to impose a geometric order on the existing space. The formal structure developed for the project consists of a series of distorted hexagonal cells organized by a geometric pattern on the floor and ceiling. The cells are made of 25 mm thick acrylic panels that span the 3.5 m from floor to ceiling and are covered with graphic motifs produced by a group of young Japanese designers. The cells can have many different functions: they may contain a cash desk, a table, vending machines, or plastic trays stacked to form a three-dimensional column. The use of acrylic for the ceiling-height cell dividers makes the whole space appear transparent, even though it is organized into a series of smaller enclosures. At the same time the different graphics and sensibilities on display (the former extending, like the acrylic dividers, from floor to ceiling) serve to create a heterogeneous, urban whole.
The jury's verdict:
"What impressed the jury about this project was the persuasively successful realization of the restaurant concept in the interior design of the space, which was made possible by the sparing use of materials and colours combined with the precise placement of colour and design elements."
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