The design starts from the use of the brick as central decorative element, which is also representing a connection between the Italian and Chinese cultures.

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Architects: STUDIO RAMOPRIMO

Location: Beijing, Beijing, China

Design Team: arch.Marcella Campa, arch.Stefano Avesani

General Contractor: Beijing Shengda Xin Building Deco Engineering Co. Ltd.

Area: 60.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Cristiano Bianchi, Courtesy of RAMOPRIMO, Mengyan Wang

From the architect. The design starts from the use of the brick as central decorative element, which is also representing a connection between the Italian and Chinese cultures.
© Cristiano Bianchi

Decorative brick patterns on walls, as a direct result of the ?Hutong Materials Catalogue? research that designers are carrying on the contemporary use of traditional building materials in Beijing. For the project, traditional grey bricks have been collected in the old Hutong districts, cut into slices, painted white and randomly embellished with different colors. 

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For the winebar?s name and logo, the clients, a mixed Chinese and Italian couple, asked us to play with the idea of mouth (?bocca? in Italian) as element referring to both food and eroticism, and to use therefore a yellow resin fl...