In China’s burgeoning food and beverage market, hot pot is the largest category, and “Guanyejie” Macao Hot Pot is a highlight. It is a famous hot pot brand of Macao in Beijing. “Guanyejie” is an old street on Taipa Island, Macao. It is a famous food street in Macao, in which many lifetime-honored brands with the history of over a hundred years have stores. It is the place where Frankie, the founder of the brand, grew up. 

The designer presents a unique urban civilization with ancient urban texture and modern styles, conveying the warmth and leisure of Macao style. The hot weather in Macao leads to the local architectural characteristics, namely the various window-shades and hollowed-out brick for ventilation and shelter, which can be seen everywhere. These two local residential elements constitute the building facade featured by this design. The neatly arranged hollow bricks form a contrast to the floor window-shades opened at will, conveying a strong sense of vacation, exquisite and lazy. 

The design of “Guanyejie” Macao Hot Pot flagship store has been aiming to provide consumers with a relaxed and leisurely atmosphere. As the brand attaches great importance to the selection of food ingredients, the selection of tableware, tables and chairs reflects a sense of delicacy. Walking into the hall, you will be welcomed by the rotating stairs, which are the visual focus of the whole space. The ultimately simple lamps of vertical and horizontal series run all the way from the 12 meters-high daylighting glass ceiling to the water surface below the stairs. Light gray stone and light oak strips convey a warm and leisurely mood under the light. 

Since the designer and the owner are good friends, based on trust, the communication cost in the whole design process is minimized. The rooms on the second floor draw back 1.2 meters to form a balcony. The actually usable area is reduced by nearly 80 square meters on this high-cost land in exchange for ampler layering and one more private chat place for customers. There is no extra decoration inside the rooms. The “decorative painting” is composed of hollow bricks and European-style lines on the outer wall, implying the history of Macao being a place where Chinese and Western cultures blend. 

The wall lamp also applies hollow bricks. The faint light and shadow of the trees, together with the rattan leisure chair, create an atmosphere of a tropical resort hotel,giving you the feeling of traveling to a tropical resort hotel in an instant. The whole spatial design is concise and restrained, completed at one go, but the expression is rich and full of dramatic effects.