Cheering Restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnamese Design Interior, Asian Wood Building, Architecture, Images
Cheering Restaurant in Hanoi
Vietnam Architecture Interior: Hoan Kiem Timber Building ? design by H&P Architects
16 Oct 2016
Cheering Restaurant in Hanoi
Location: No. 2 Ly Thuong Kiet street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, Vietnam
Design: H&P Architects

Located at the center of Hanoi, Cheering Restaurant is renovated from a long-closed project which still had a steel frame structure and reusable covering materials such as glass, steel, bar steel, sheet-metal roof.

The life on sidewalk, where many daily activities of Hanoi people, especially cuisine happen from daytime to nighttime, inspired the designers to create a space that recalls ancient trees ? a familiar image in streets of this thousand-year-old city.
The solution proposed welding the entire existing steels to create a new system that can bring technical pipes inside and be covered by low quality wood bars (9,2 cm x 120 cm x 1,5 cm) forming timbers of 40cm x 40cm section. Covering wood is selected to resist the tropical climate.

On the three-dimensional network divided by 4, the ?timbers? stacked perpendicularly to each other and gradually spreading upwards in order to create ?tree roots? for separating spaces and make children playground.

The ?tree roots? continue growing alternately to make a stable frame which helps reducing heat and creating various shadows from the polycarbonate roof. In the middle...