Shanghai, China
Located in Xi’an, close to Jinghe Wetland Park, the Birch Forest Restaurant designed by Kris Lin International Design for Kingfar Group is a mixed multi-function space divided into two floors, the first floor is a cafe, and the second floor is a restaurant and art gallery space.
The Birch Forest Restaurant has recently been awarded a 2023 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
With its high-quality river resources, rich surrounding green fields, and beautiful Wetland Park, the project has achieved unique ecological resources.
The grid system of the indoor ceiling takes the intertwined canopy in the forest as the intention and abstracts the canopy group images in the forest into a tensile architectural structure, which has become the most expressive image characteristic of this case.
The whole indoor space is neatly arranged like an artificial forest in the whole forest.
Mortise and tenon joint is a commonly used skill in Chinese traditional architecture, drew inspiration from the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors, it creates a visual art effect for space creation as well as completes the interpretation of traditional culture.
The biggest challenge of this project is the construction of a continuous curved surface of the ceiling grid.
Through the three-dimensional design in the early stage, we selected the aluminum plate for machine cutting in the factory, and finally, went to the construction site for installation and splicing.
From the perspective of environmental protection, there are no abandoned building materials and construction wastes at the construction site, thus effectively saving costs.
The restaurant often bears the mission of offering a relaxing, sensitive, immersive, and intimate environment to let people temporarily get away from their daily routines.
This attribute determines that its spatial design shouldn’t be merely restricted to creating distinctive experiential consumption scenes for brands, but also needs to convey positive aesthetics and humanistic care to the public and return to the essence of life, especially in the post-pandemic era.
Project: Birch Forest Restaurant
Architects: Kris Lin International Design
Lead Architects: Kris Lin and Anda Yang
Client: Kingfar Group
Photographers: Kris Lin International Design
