Chengdu Doko / House Fiction


GF South Facade. Image © Fangfang Tian

GF South Facade. Image © Fangfang Tian
  • Interiors Designers: House Fiction
  • Location: Daci temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • Area: 200.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2018
  • Photographs: Fangfang Tian

GF Entrance. Image © Fangfang Tian

GF Entrance. Image © Fangfang Tian

Text description provided by the architects. The site is facing a Tang Dynasty buddha temple.

It is exactly the red wall surrounded of the temple leads the design of a signature view finder, which freezes outdoor scene for interior, also as lens to recording customer’s circulation for passers to better understand interior structure.


GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian

GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian

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GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian

GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian

Besides, this restaurant mainly provides Japanese fusion dessert,  so  “coral red” in colour dictionary of Taisho and Showa period was chosen for the passage.


GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian

GF Interior. Image © Fangfang Tian

Corridor Layer. Image © Fangfang Tian

Corridor Layer. Image © Fangfang Tian

It is mean to emphasise dialogue with the red wall. This passage made up with scissor staircase from GF, interlayer platform and column-free spiral to 1F.


Passage Detail. Image © Fangfang Tian

Passage Detail. Image © Fangfang Tian

Metal net and glass curtain wall build up double facade for both GF and 1F. Door frames and window frames pull or push metal net .


Passage View Finder. Image © Fangfang Tian

Passage View Finder. Image © Fangfang Tian

At the same time when soften indoor-outdoor edge, it also meat to set a swordsmen-image, this is to respond the name of this restaurant which is actually a line of  Tang Dynasty poem.


1F Windowsill Cassette. Image © Fangfang Tian

1F Windowsill Cassette. Image © Fangfang Tian