We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Alvan Suen about their original and creative Restaurant and Office design work. Alvan Suen is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original restaurant and office works.
Alvan Suen ("AS") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Fusion Restaurant and Office. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
AS : I wanted to design a space that can function as a restaurant as well as a working place, meanwhile to create a style that can represent the company and the menu.
AS : The main focus is to combine Japanese, industrial and futuristic elements to create a refreshing project that has its own strong identity and language.
AS : I will further develop the same design concept and make a new branch restaurant to further promote the company. Also, the award-winning headquarter design will definitely contribute to all the other restaurant concepts, making the public to be interested and look forward to the future project of The Food Story.
AS : One month
AS : I don't want to just create a good-looking space, I would like to design something that nobody has ever seen and refreshing.
AS : No, I intend to produce the work myself.
AS : To explore new possibilities
AS : I simply started and finished the design without references.
AS : The Food Story, the landlord and the working partners of the company.
AS : It's more like an experimental project that the project is not limited to follow any style. It's mainly about creating something new and nobody has ever seen.
AS : "Fusion" means the mixture of few things and I was creating a Japanese-like, industrial and futuristic restaurant as a concept. Also, the menu of the restaurant is also fusion.
AS : Rhinoceros
AS : As a result of combing different elements from three different styles, it does not feel like a typical restaurant and the experience is refreshing.
AS : I worked on this design all by myself.
AS : The biggest challenge is to create a nice and sizable dining space, a well-equipped central kitchen for a catering group for different food tasting and comfortable working space as the headquarter back office, while fully satisfy all the restriction and limitation on licensing requirement in a factory in Hong Kong. Then the challenge that came after was to create a project that can represent and echo with the company's concept visually and physically.
AS : I want to see how others think about such design and if this will be appreciated and valued by people from all around the world.
AS : I tested and threw away many concepts and such an idea is totally different from those. I have learned that deadline is not an excuse to proceed and insist on something that is not right.
