by

---

DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

: The Champagne glasses move together and melt into one seamless entity just like people’s souls after Champagne tasting.

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

: The Champagne River Bar serves as a transformation of an unfathomable event into the material world in form of an organic shaped glass pavilion. The glass walls appear to be a hybrid form, capturing simultaneously the expressive essence of both liquids and solids.

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

: the construction of advanced concepts of this pavilion

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

: about 6 months

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

: Here, a journey of knowledge begins with the Seine at one’s feet which, at dusk, shines in all its glory – an obvious gesture of a poet raising a toast to the city’s unmistakable skyline. It is only this moment of unlimited convergence that counts.

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

: At the moment we have already proposed the concept for several locations: 01 Paris 02 Luxembourg 03 Bosphorus

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

: The interior of the River Bar is designed in a manner which enables each guest to sit at the glass front and thus to enjoy the exclusive panoramic view of the Seine. Especially for the purpose of the Champagne Bar, a table has been designed in which a holder for the Champagne bucket is already integrated. The entire interior is largely reduced to a few main objects: the Champagne table with chairs, the bar counter with bar stools and the Champagne Relief Wall.

DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?

: especially the Interiordesing was co-developed with Peter Donders from Belgium

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

: This bar concept is intended for special locations where the surrounding panorama acts as part of the interior

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

: Architecture as a corporate design in the form of merged wine glasses

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

: it was the first possible location

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

: imagination drawings ArchiCAD 3ds Max

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

: continuous panoramic view

DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?

: I developed the architecture myself, from the first drawings, through a physical model, to a 3D model through CAD

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

: All supporting elements should remain as invisible as possible so that the rounded glass walls look like wine glasses

DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?

: the investigation was based on the fact that most of the wine pavilons do not have the characteristics that this concept has to offer

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

: the production of rounded conical glass walls

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

: to show that there are also alternative solutions for such plants

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

: the development of a new type of pavilion