As a space designer, you spend only half of your daily work on work cases, while the other half is wandering around various platforms on the Internet, such as PINTEREST or INSTAGRAM. The purpose is to absorb other people's designs as much as possible, so that they can eventually be integrated into their own design cases. Broadening the horizon has always been an important means for designers to enhance their design capabilities, so that they are not limited to the limited style of the moment.
Because of this kind of daily work, we have seen the changes and differences in domestic and foreign design in the past ten years of catering design. It is undeniable that in recent years, with the upgrading of the domestic catering industry, Party A has paid more and more attention to the needs of design, more and more good design cases in China, and more and more diversified design styles.
In contrast, the foreign case style is more "cured", but from the perspective of operation, the curing of the style often makes the design life greatly extended, and the diversification of the style of our catering industry makes the operation difficulty of the catering brand increase, the design life of the store is relatively short, and the appearance is that after two years of beautiful design, it feels that the design has a sense of obsolescence. In this context, how to add new design elements to make consumers feel creative is the responsibility and mission of designers.
This time, let's take a look at Southeast Asian cafes and see what is worth learning.
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Specialties of Southeast Asian cafes
Design
Through the above three diagrams, you can basically summarize. Southeast Asian cafes pay special attention to the use of outdoor space, and this utilization will not be over-designed, through the simple gravel floor, with simple tables and chairs and Southeast Asian plants, so that the café and the external environment to form a harmonious transition. This design allows consumers to better integrate into nature and enjoy the sun, and its casual feeling is born.
Of course, the characteristics of the design are often attached to the objective environment, Southeast Asia belongs to the subtropical rainforest climate, warm and humid, rainfall is relatively large, gravel ground can enhance the permeability of the ground, avoid water in the ground area. Simple tables and chairs can also withstand the effects of wet weather. In contrast, the outdoor design of many of our domestic cafes, personally feel that it is often overdecorated, Party A often emphasizes the internet celebrity characteristics first, a variety of artificial exaggerated ornaments, strange shapes of tables and chairs fill the eyeballs; often incompatible with the external environment.
Especially in first- and second-tier cities, high-rise buildings are lined up, and the outdoor guest seating area is itself a rare thing, so why not create a simple and comfortable external space to let consumers better experience the simplicity of nature.
A friend said: "This idea is good, but it is too difficult for the city to find such a storefront," then try the following game.
It is also interesting to introduce the outdoor floor into the interior space and let the inside and outside merge together. Of course, some people will say that such ground is inconvenient to walk on and very difficult to clean.
I think there are two sides to everything, and this kind of treatment is actually quite fun and special. Rather than opting for a flat and easy-to-sweep ground, I prefer to choose a fun and memorable treatment of points.
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Practical examples
The following figure is the scheme we have come up with, and it is also borrowed from this form of treatment, when we consider how to form a style differentiation in a small space and divide the area through the ground. If the area is large enough, or there is external space, I believe this kind of play will be very brilliant.
Someone may ask a Southeast Asian café what we can learn about this ground? Can't we learn from the style of the interior? Of course, the internal design of Southeast Asian cafes also has places worth learning from, but their style is relatively solidified, and the design methods are more similar, if you must learn from them, you can pay attention to the large restaurants and hotels in Southeast Asia, but we are now from the perspective of cafes, and we will not say more.
The purpose of writing this article is to hope that everyone's vision is not limited to the current influencer style, if you want to store design a longer life, then we must absorb new things. If you feel that the risk of the new style is relatively high, then play the combination of styles, and then do a certain upgrade on the basis of the current popular style.
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