The project is located on the fifth floor of a “Japanese Jewish” building in Bund 5, Shanghai, with the busy Zhongshan East Road and the riverfront landscape below, the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyscrapers lining up outside the window, and the “Oriental Pearl”, the symbol of the new era Shanghai, looking across the river from the restaurant.
In the lighting design, the designer gave primary consideration to the overall atmosphere and the creation of style, fully considering the guests’ dining experience, trying to create a “natural, relaxed” spatial state, which developed the “wine cellar” and “rooftop garden” two independent but interlinked lighting themes.
The entrance of the restaurant is a whole wall of red wine, in order to create the dim and dark atmosphere of the wine cellar, after several trade-offs, the designer shielded the light from one side of the glass window and added wooden blinds, highlighting the theme of “wine cellar” on the whole. In the entrance area, the co-interior designers designed a structure similar to an algae well at the top of the space to create a surface luminescence effect at the top, creating the visual impression of natural light spilling down from the top of the wine cellar. At the same time, RGBW four-color LED lighting is used to create the real visual impression of natural light, and through system control, the light color is presented in real time in line with the external environment, so as to achieve the state of being quickly brought into the “wine cellar in the sky” as soon as you enter the door.
Based on the lighting theme of the “roof garden”, the designer brings the outdoor light into the interior naturally and hides the light completely in the horizontal structure inside the windows facing outward; sets precise lighting for the floral art in the restaurant, making the flowers the main character of the space, and creates the light and shadow effect of large green plants on the façade and ceiling, so as to enrich the visual feeling of the “roof garden”. The visual impression of the “rooftop garden” is enriched by the precise lighting of the floral arrangements in the restaurant. In addition, the kerosene lamps, which are repeatedly considered and carefully set, make the experience of the rooftop garden more authentic and realistic. The candelabra and the duck oven fire make the restaurant both model and have the firework atmosphere that is rarely found in similar restaurants. Since opening, guests have invariably shown their love for the inexplicable, yet comfortable and thoughtful light that permeates the restaurant to the point of not wanting to leave.
PROL light stone in lighting design to explore the deep relationship between lighting design and business, the restaurant, as a specific business form and carrier, the designer with “hidden light” this way of thinking to face, so that the light environment to complete the basic function and appearance of visual satisfaction, but also to inspire people for the space more profound emotional resonance, thus more like the space, a sense of belonging, so as to bring higher commercial value for the restaurant.
