L'Aromate, Shanghai

The restaurant we designed this time is located near a small river surrounded by greenery, providing people with a peaceful and relaxing place in Shanghai. Therefore, the main intention of this design is to maintain this tranquility while injecting modern design elements to form a unique visual highlight. 

The restaurant location is close to a small river surrounded by trees. It offers a calm retreat from Shanghai. The intention was to preserve this calm while at the same time reinvigorate it with modern design elements to form an unique visual identity.

In order to ensure this design effect, Rumo Space designed a unique grid pattern using a leather strap. Compared with simple plant roots extending to the wall, the design of Rumo Space creates a sense of movement and dynamics in the space to catch people's attention. We designed two colors of leather straps that intersect each other in a vibrant flat pattern. Let it wrap the entire space like a tailor-made haute couture to create a sophisticated design atmosphere. Moreover, the criss-crossing lines in the patterns we designed also extend to the design of different scales of the space, such as our custom-made furniture, lighting, and patterns on wooden floors and mosaics.

To achieve this, Roomoo created a web pattern made by leather ribbons. As a comparison of plant roots spreading into the wall. It creates a sense of movement and dynamism within the space that catches the eyes. The two colors of leathers make a vibrant graphic pattern. We wanted this canvas to be like an “haute couture”, that would wrap around the space, like a tailor-made garment. Our pattern’s horizontal and vertical lines continue at different scale into our custom-made furniture, custom-made lightings and patterns on wood floor and mosaic.

项目场地已有现存的建筑和餐厅，但是它原本的立面外观并不显眼。为此，在原建筑立面，我们用垂直的青铜色管道设计了第二层表皮我们还设计了嵌置于地面的灯光，让它日夜照耀着新增的表皮，使之更加耀眼而鲜明。在原有的建筑立面和新设计的垂直管道立面中，我们设计了花坛，植物的根茎可以缠绕着青铜管道向上生长并形成一个隐藏的小花园。这样的话，立面就从另一个不同的尺度上，呼应了我们室内部分的皮革带图案。

An existing architecture and restaurant were at this place. The original appearance of the facade was not very conspicuous. To solve this problem, we added a second layer, constituted by vertical bronze color tubes, in front of the facade. It allows highlighting the facade day and night with lightings inlay on the ground. A flower pot between the original facade and the vertical tubes allows the plants to climb on it and to create a small hidden garden. Therefore, the façade was at a different scale similar to our indoor wall leather ribbon pattern.

原本的建筑里餐馆是无法上到屋顶的,但是我们决定打开屋顶顶板，并使楼梯延伸到屋顶平台。在这个过程中，我们既能扩大营业的面积，又能提供一个令人身心愉悦的楼顶露台。

At the origin, the rooftop was not accessible from the restaurant. Therefore, we decided to open up the rooftop slab and to continue the staircase to the roof. In this process, we enlarged the business area and offered a pleasant roof garden.

接着，第二个挑战是功能的复合性。客户希望这个项目具备有多种功能：比如酒吧，用 餐区，咖啡厅和聚会场所（比如生日或婚礼）。我们需要思考如何有序地置入到空间中。

The second challenge was that the client wanted mix functions such as bar, dining, coffee lounge and parties (such as birthday or wedding).

于是，我们就家具的摆设进行了研究，以便于使用时更加灵活。此外，一楼的家具设计了可移动的家具体系，它们可以灵活拆分，以适应不同场合及活动的需求（如派对或婚礼）。二楼则设置了私人休息室和私人餐厅。

Therefore, the furniture plan was studied to provide flexible arrangements. The first floor offers moveable furniture that can be combined or stay separated in order to adapt to different events such as parties or weddings. While the second floor offers a private lounge and a private dining room.

最后一个挑战是项目有限的预算。所以我们的主要创意集中在对制作工艺的强调，而非使用昂贵的材料。比如，我们所使用的皮革带来自上海一家工厂回收的人造皮革带。

Last but not least, the budget was limited. Our main creative idea was to focus more on craftsmanship than on expensive materials. Our leather ribbons are coming from recycling fake leather belt from a Shanghai factory.

每条皮带都被手工安装在金属的结构上。这样就能降低成本。

Every leather belt has been installed manually on a metal structure.

此外，我们设计的一楼木地板图案和二楼的马赛克图案，也展示了我们用定制图案展示手工技艺的愿望。

The beautiful wood floor pattern and mosaic pattern on the ground floor and the second floor are also a continuity of this desire to show the craftmanship using customize pattern.

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项目信息（About Project）

Design Team（设计团队）: RooMoo

Website（公司网站）: www.roomoo.cn

Email（公司邮箱）: info@roomoo.cn

Press contact（联系人）: info@roomoo.cn

Client（客户）: L’Aromate

Project year (project completion time): 2020

Project name: L'Aromate Restaurant 

Project Area:  366  M ²

Number of Floors: 3

Location (project address): Jiading district, Shanghai

Photographer: Xiao Yuuuun Studio 

Construction Team: Zhuoqi Space Design (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Lighting Design: RooMoo

Furniture Suppliers (furniture suppliers): Shanghai Dingluan Industrial Co., Ltd.

Lighting Suppliers: HUAFENG LIGHTING

Built-in furniture design: RooMoo

Leather installation and supplier: Shanghai Yizhu Engineering Co., Ltd.

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