Hachiban Ramen, Aeon Mall Tân Phú, Ho Chi Minh City, HCMC building Vietnam photos, Southeast Asia architecture design
Hachiban Ramen, Aeon Mall Tân Phú in Ho Chi Minh City
10 February 2024
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Address: 30 Đ. Tân Thắng, Sơn Kỳ, Tân Phú, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Photos by DeconPhotoStudio (Hiroyuki Oki)
Hachiban Ramen, Aeon Mall Tân Phú – Ho Chi Minh City Building
1. About the inspiration of the project and the key concept
I wanted to organise the ingredients of ramen into a space.
I’ve put a lot of effort in creating a space with the express method as “Fun to look at!”.
The main target customers were narrowed down to Vietnamese families and young people.
For this target group, I asked myself: “In what way can I express the (Japanese ramen) image in a space to everyone?”
After repeated trial and error, I have decided to stick with this approach.
First of all, we wanted to incorporate soft, free-form curves into the design, given the food ingredient “ramen” and the compartment shape being a semi-circle. Then, with a particular playful intent, I tried to create a design that would make people unintentionally want to “Snap!” and take a photo of it.
The spherical shape of the pillar rolls is reminiscent of a noodle ball, and the letter “8” is painted on the floor of the two pillars. This represents the “8” of the corporate name.
In addition, a large “daruma”, a well-known good-luck charm in Japan, is suspended from the ceiling. It is common to draw a lucky character on the belly of Daruma so I designed to paint the logo “8-ban Ramen” on its belly. Furthermore, we made Daruma itself luminous and extremely outstanding. The symbolised “Daruma” will develop an overwhelming presence.
Curved wood panels were randomly hung from the brown-painted ceiling. The “menma”, a typical ingredient for ramen noodles, was also represented. The curved random wood panels suspended from the brown ceiling reminded me of “menma floating in ramen soup”, which is why I came up with this design.
The LED letters on the object made in the shape of a Chinese spoon gave an image of “eating a boiled egg in a spoon”.
The curved line on the upper part of the kitchen lowering wall also expresses the softness of the noodles. We used the colour green as the CORPORATE COLOUR and installed a red display shelf below it, which is related to the complementary colour. The contrast helps attracting people’s gaze to the kitchen side and also contributes to the effect of showing a lively and clean kitchen.
2. About the difficulties we faced and some initial setbacks
The design regulations of the SHOPPING MALL required a ceiling by all means, so it was very difficult for me to find a way to hang the wooden panels in a random way.
We also had to redo the 3D sculpture for the Chinese spoon and daruma many times before reaching this detail at last.
3. Regarding the construction techniques and main materials used in the project
Walls: mortar paint, bamboo braided panels, laminate
Floor: tiles
4. Space composition and main reasons
I feel that Vietnamese people love a visual that they find “interesting”.
I hope that by building such a space design, people will become familiar with Japanese ramen and hopefully it will spread to the Vietnamese more and more.
Hachiban Ramen, Aeon Mall Tân Phú, Ho Chi Minh City – Building Information
• Project Name: HACHIBAN RAMEN（8番らーめん） – ÆON MALL Tân Phú
• Architecture firm: SEMBA VIETNAM
• Principal architect: Mamoru Maeda (Mr.)
• Project location: Ho Chi Minh City
• Built area: 200㎡
• Site area: 200㎡
• Photography: DeconPhotoStudio (Hiroyuki Oki)
• Visualization: SEMBA VIETNAM
• Tools used: software used for drawing, modeling, rendering, postproduction and
photography ;AutoCAD, Sketchup, Photoshop, Illustrator
• Design team: Mamoru Maeda (Mr), Nguyen Ngo Thuy Dien (Ms)
• Collaborators: MIRAI IDCD (TRẦN BÌNH TRỌNG)
• Interior design: Mamoru Maeda , TRẦN BÌNH TRỌNG
• Design year: July /2023
• Completion year: December /2023
• Landscape:
• Civil engineer:
• Structural engineer:
• Environmental & MEP engineering: Kitchen (HOSHIZAKI VIETNAM)
• Lighting: Motom
• Construction: HTB
• Supervision:
• Materials:
■ Main finishing / equipment
Internal audience seats
Floor: Ceramic tile
Counter: laminate
Wall: mortar paint, natural bamboo panel
Ceiling: LGS + PB top lime plastering iron finish, MDF laminate finish
Features and lighting fixtures:
kitchen
Floor: Anti-slip tile
Ceiling: System ceiling
• Client: MESA GROUP
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Hachiban Ramen, Aeon Mall Tân Phú in Ho Chi Minh City images / information received 090224 from Semba Vietnam
Phone: +84 28 6288 7733
Location: 30 Đ. Tân Thắng, Sơn Kỳ, Tân Phú, Thành phố , Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam, Southeast Asia
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