Chez Moi is a baking workshop, bistro, culinary classroom, and a community cultural centre located in Dalian, China, designed in 2020 by R-Bas.

Description
R-BAS celebrated the completion of the Chez Moi project in Donggang, Dairen (Dalian). This project covers architecture alteration and interior design of a baking workshop, a bistro, a culinary classroom, and a community cultural centre.
Chez Moi means ?at my home? in French. The client?s expected atmosphere is to ?go all the way to share a stove on a winter?s night?. Therefore, it is conceived as a harbour of community affections that aims to improve the distant neighbourhood relations of this newly developed quayside residential district. Chez Moi is envisaged as a place shared and hosted by Donggang residents to connect through a variety of arts, cultural and educational activities together with the display of local agricultural produce. The venue also provides an authentic European-style bistro catering service that focuses on Slow Food philosophy. At the initial stage of design, the architect pondered: ?how does architecture define a community"? A community is an assemblage of homes linked by internal streets and communal spaces that lead to the public territory. R-BAS thus creates a comprehensive landscape to fulfil this purpose. The side façade incorporates a large glass curtain wall to cancel the boundary between the inside and the outside as sunlight pours directly into the dining area. Ge...