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Nampa House

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Material
5.82
5.91
6.36
5.73
5.95
Tola Ojuolape
Tola Ojuolape Senior Project Designer at Selina
Beautifully curated space. It appea...
6
7
6
5
6
Daniel Wigham
Daniel Wigham Strategy & Sustainability Lead at StudioXAG
6
7
7
5
6.25
Bill Bouchey
Bill Bouchey Principal - Director of Design Interiors at HOK
Concerns with the acoustical abilit...
6
4
7
5
5.5
Tiffany Yao
Tiffany Yao Regional Workplace Manager at Newmark
Thoughtful uses of wood, stone and...
6
6
6
6
6
Anika Hülser
Anika Hülser Head of Interior Architecture at HPP Architekten GmbH
6
7
7
6
6.5
Kate Shepherd
Kate Shepherd Cofounder & Strategic Director at The Future Collective
6
5
6
5
5.5
Martin Mostböck
Martin Mostböck Founder and creative director at AID at Martin Mostböck. AID - ArchitectureInteriorsDesign
5
6
6
7
6
Aezad Muzaffar Alam
Aezad Muzaffar Alam Co-Founder and Design Director at REFORM Studio
6
5
6
5
5.5
Penny Craswell
Penny Craswell Writer at The Design Writer
The material selection in this spac...
7
6
8
6
6.75
Zhang Jiliang
Zhang Jiliang Vice President at Greentown China Holdings
5
6
5
6
5.5
Christina Wissing Oppermann
Christina Wissing Oppermann Commercial Director at Brandt Collective
5
6
6
7
6
Comments
Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Restaurant
5.78
6.11
6.11
5.78
5.94
Tola Ojuolape
Tola Ojuolape Senior Project Designer at Selina
6
6
6
5
5.75
Daniel Wigham
Daniel Wigham Strategy & Sustainability Lead at StudioXAG
6
6
6
5
5.75
Anika Hülser
Anika Hülser Head of Interior Architecture at HPP Architekten GmbH
6
7
7
5
6.25
Kate Shepherd
Kate Shepherd Cofounder & Strategic Director at The Future Collective
6
5
6
5
5.5
Martin Mostböck
Martin Mostböck Founder and creative director at AID at Martin Mostböck. AID - ArchitectureInteriorsDesign
4
6
5
6
5.25
Aezad Muzaffar Alam
Aezad Muzaffar Alam Co-Founder and Design Director at REFORM Studio
6
6
5
6
5.75
Penny Craswell
Penny Craswell Writer at The Design Writer
7
7
7
7
7
Zhang Jiliang
Zhang Jiliang Vice President at Greentown China Holdings
5
6
6
6
5.75
Christina Wissing Oppermann
Christina Wissing Oppermann Commercial Director at Brandt Collective
6
6
7
7
6.5
Client
Lotte
Floor area
268 ㎡
Completion
2020
Director
Sangyoon Kim
Designer
Jonghwa Na
Designer
Sojin Lee
Designer
Jisoo Kang

Nampa House is a restaurant that originated from a homemade food that has been descended over 200 years within a noble family. The designer has taken inspiration from the nature surrounding the old house of Nampa and its everyday objects. Naju where Nampa house is located is known for traditional craftmanship including weaving, carpentry, dyeing, and basketry. These local traditional characteristics are also applied to the design such as a translucent curtain that resembles weaved linen. The curtain divides the hall and room allowing psychological communication with the hall area while offering privacy for the room. The overall design of the hall is intended to bring nature inside. There are rocks and scenery of mountains along with objects inspired by nature visualize birds resting on a stream near Nampa house. The painting of Keumsung Mountain of Naju that fills the wall is a work done by artist Kim Su. Keumsung Moutain has a similar silhouette to Samgak Mountain of Seoul and by overlapping two mountains on a sheer fabric it creates the illusion of two mountains are standing together at the same place. The color of space is inspired by clay and wood of Nampa house’s wall and the column with a darker tone standing at the center of the hall is taken from the structures of the house that are being stained over time. Part of a wall is decorated with a traditional wood-burning technique to show the history of cooking food by making fire. It is part of Danmyun collection in collaboration with National Intangible Cultural Property Yungjo Kim. Danmyun (cross-section in Korean) has the meaning of everything on earth leaves traces and that traces are the residue of time. By taking elements from the past and making connections with the sense of the present, the designer has created a space where past and future are coherent.