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Functionality
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Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Restaurant
6.83
6.77
7.29
6.16
6.76
Sanchit Arora
Sanchit Arora Principal Architect at Renesa Studio
Simple lines ! beautifully designed...
7
7
7
5.5
6.63
Jan Clostermann
Jan Clostermann Founder and Director at CLOU Architects
6.5
5
7
5
5.88
Jason Chan
Jason Chan Founder at Jason Design Group
7.13
7.54
8.47
7.75
7.72
Justine Fox
Justine Fox Founder and Colour Specialist at Studio Justine Fox
6
6
6
5
5.75
Bin Ju
Bin Ju Founder and Chief Design Director at Horizontal Design
6.18
6.5
6.34
6.82
6.46
Maja Bernvill
Maja Bernvill Creative Director at Specific Generic
7
7
9
7
7.5
Stéphane Bernier
Stéphane Bernier Partner and Director of Retail Strategy and Innovation at Ædifica
7
7
8
6
7
Marie Hesseldahl
Marie Hesseldahl Partner and Head of Interior and Product Design at 3xn
7
7
7
5
6.5
Marie-Andree Busque
Marie-Andree Busque Director Interior Architecture at Sid Lee Architecture
7
7
8
6
7
Constance Guisset
Constance Guisset Founder at Constance Guisset Studio
7
7
7
7
7
Adi Utama
Adi Utama Global Office Development at JetBrains
7
7
7
7
7
Islam El Mashtooly
Islam El Mashtooly Creative Director at OBMI
7
7
7
6
6.75
Liyun Hao
Liyun Hao Founder and Design Director at EVD
7
7
7
6
6.75
Designer
Client
Mooi Archive
Floor area
201 ㎡
Completion
2022
Social Media
Instagram
Lighting

MOOI ARCHIVE is located in Jiangsu Intelligent Manufacturing New City Park, whose site was formerly known as Nanjing Second Machine Tool Factory. As a historical old enterprise, it has now become a new industrial park. The design team preserved the old factory structure and created an original concept bar in which the boundaries are dissolved.

Due to the good street location, the design team used “disappear” and “blend in” as the design logic and “MOOI” (The meaning “beautiful” in Dutch) was used as a symbolic expression to further deepen the brand concept. The outdoor landscape is extended indoors and subtly integrated into the community life in the street, reproducing the imagination of “dining in the park” and bringing consumers a rare experience of close contact with nature.

At the beginning of the project, the design team wanted to respect the original appearance of the building while reducing the homogenized spatial design. How to find a new way to reconstruct the spatial framework, and how to reduce the heaviness of the building with a friendly and light experience, became the focus of the team’s thinking and vision.

TRIOSTUDIO took “disappearance” as a clue through repeated structural rethinking, and built a steel frame inside the whole building with a special structural form to create an 8-meter-long bottomless support mechanism, suspending the back kitchen area on the second floor, cleverly dividing the dining space and functional space, and realizing the “dissolution” of the column into the space.

The height of about 11 meters in the old factory building brings the possibility of creating open space. The frame of the old building becomes the façade of the restaurant, and the nesting of the old and new spaces allows the boundaries to melt away, creating the possibility of spatial extension.

TRIOSTUDIO planted a 5-meter plum tree in the dining area, deeply blurring the boundary between indoor and outdoor feelings, and adapting the greenery of the landscape to the industrial style of the space under the giant scale of the overhang. The space no longer emphasizes its own existence and “disappears” into the nature. The rich indoor and outdoor greenery eliminates the boundary between inside and outside of the concrete building, allowing customers to be in close contact with nature.

MOOI ARCHIVE stands on the corner of a city campus, creating a new atmosphere in an old place. It is a place where people reconstruct their sense of connection to space, neighborhood and nature, and where they can feel a unique experience like a community. In a daily life that tends to be humdrum, it inspires people to explore some new life aspirations.