Vivarium Restaurant By Hypothesis

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“Vivarium” （温室）餐厅，是泰国Hypothesis设计工作室屡获殊荣的新作，他们将曼谷一座拖拉机仓库以低成本改造成一座拥有热带雨林气息，生机勃勃，充满绿色植物的餐厅。仓库原有的结构保留不变，并涂成白色；新增的结构则刷成红色，形成鲜明的新旧对比。此外为了减少装修的成本，设计师积极利用了现场可以找到的任何元素：铁门，钢管，枯枝，树根；甚至还动用了脚手架，让其成为空间中的装饰架。这个郁郁葱葱充满生命力的餐厅从地面，墙面，到天花都妆点了植物，用活力温馨的环境点题，创造出一个完美的生活容器。

Vivarium, a restaurant designed by a young Thai design agency, Hypothesis, won this year’s INSIDE award in the bars and restaurants category. Announced at the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors in Singapore, the converted industrial warehouse in Bangkok demonstrates the firm’s novel technique of adaptive reuse as a strategy to preserve the project’s contextual history, to create dialectics between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’, and to minimize the project’s construction cost.

Old vs. New
In order to highlight the former industrial characteristics of the warehouse, the majority of the existing structure was kept unchanged but delineated from the new addition through the differentiation of finishing colors – the old parts were kept in their original white color whereas the new additions were painted with red rust protection primer – accentuating the contrast between the old and the new. To minimize the renovation budget, Hypothesis employed found objects from around the site – iron doors, steel pipes, dead branches, and tree roots – as decorative interior elements, as well as using scaffolding structures, inspired by the ones previously existed on the site, as decorative shelves within the restaurant space.

Vivarium as a Concept
With the aim to inject life and energy into the warehouse for the new restaurant program, the design team thought of a terrarium as a concept for the interior. A lush green-scape of hanging plants populates the upper volume of the double height space. Placed around the restaurant are ceramic follies designed by Yarnnakarn Art and Craft Studio, adding to the intricacy and lushness of the interior landscape – counterbalancing the rustic industrial setting. The design theme was then reflected in the name of the restaurant, Vivarium – a container of life.

Project Name: Vivarium Restaurant
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Client: Krung Thai Tractor Company Limited
Interior Design: Hypothesis
Collaborators:
Architect: Stu/D/O Architects
Lighting Design: In Contrast Design
Ceramic Design: Yarnnakarn Art and Craft Studio
Botanist: Bankampu
Contractor: PSM Design
Project Manager: Project Alliance
Area of Project: 652 sqm.
Budget: $170,000
Completion Date: February, 2015

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