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AD Architecture brightens China’s nightlife with Wu Club

The new Chaoshan cuisine restaurant and club project is located within a building in the CBD of Shantou, Guangdong Province, China

by Georgina Johnston 29 March 2021

The combination of private dining rooms, a tea room, a cigar bar, a whisky bar and an audio and video room provides a unique spatial environment. 

The designers accentuated light and used it to convey the spiritual world. Light produces a mysterious, tranquil ambience whilst evoking emotions and illusionary effects. 

The team adopted a creative and experimental approach to express paint, which is given different hues and textures. Besides, the wooden floor and stone materials form a contrast. The solid and the soft, the cool and the warm, collide yet harmonise with each other. Moreover, elements such as humor, mystery and dream are incorporated into the space.

The space connects a series of activities, and forms an interesting and theatrical scene. Polygonal planes, slanting structures and "floating" forms are brought into the space, which challenges established architectural values and releases imagination. Irregular geometric shapes break with the convention, and indicate an attitude of exploring undefined order and an experiment of achieving self-worth. 

As the elevator door opens, people are taken into another world of walls adorned with metal and stainless steel, black stone slabs, and the 2.5 m by 5.2 m large smart glass door equipped with a face recognition system.

Irregular structures constitute a sculpture-like space, 5.2 m high slender passages link up all functional areas. Structures set at staggered heights generate "floating" visual effects within the space, and even makes people feel dangerous and distant. The wall paint features metal-like textures, and the ceiling coating looks like a travertine surface, making the space appear surreal.

The cigar room is the first functional area that comes into sight. It is indistinctly revealed by a metal curtain, small yet exquisite, with a cool spatial character. It has a small scale, aiming to bring people closer together.

The height of the audio and video room is subtly lowered, to evoke and accentuate people's emotions. The whiskey bar connects the audio and video room and the outdoor terrace.  Reflective stainless steel is utilised to create a symmetric space. The stretched aluminum foam generates strong and unexpected visual experiences. As a part of the whiskey bar, the outdoor terrace offers a perfect place to relax and embrace the night breeze.

The tea room is used before dining, serving people at the leisure time after a busy day. The design team gave it a cozy, tranquil ambience and simplistic spatial form. Black porous paint finish, smoked wood flooring, as well as blue light, result in a serene tea drinking and communication space.

Private dining rooms are characterised by irregular spatial form, which look like a void, full of surprises and uncertainties. Unique structures extend from the passageway to the inner area. The floating art installation on the top resembles a flying saucer, which not only adds playfulness to the space, but also provides lighting for the dining table.


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