Lonely Noodle Shop by J&Dragon Group
With the speedy progress of the ‘one-person’ city population, enterprise styles and spaces that react to the wants of solitary folks are growing. If one particular of the main obstacles in the life of present-day youth is “social phobia”, then “loneliness” is the accompanying “symptom”. J&Dragon Group has built a themed pop-up store, “Lonely Noodle Shop”, which attempts to soothe the “lonely” folks in the city at night time by making use of a bowl of noodles for a area knowledge.
Restaurant? Encounter store? exhibition space?
Situated on the 1st flooring of Shanghai TX Huaihai, the Lonely Noodle Shop is only open up from 8pm to 2am every single night. As the slogan of the store reads, “Give your self a bowl of noodles to acquire a break from fact.” The Lonely Noodle Shop features a time to recover the city “lonely”. The limited running hours, a golden information, a particular expertise and a “blind box show” geared up by the manager are all section of a journey to recover “loneliness”. A special working strategy has given delivery to a specific place design and style. Compartments for one individual only, surrounding a phase at the coronary heart of the place. Below, a touching efficiency is offered and a bowl of “At least for tonight, you will not be alone” is served to you.
An innovative experience
The in general façade of the store is interspersed with polished metallic scaffolding, as if the city ended up complete of get, nonetheless slightly chilly. The stainless steel scaffolding installations at the entrance, with each other with the luminous light-weight strips, variety the only lighted interface on the street late at night.
The monitor on the other aspect of the shop tells the metropolis about the emotion of “loneliness” in the night by means of a paragraph of golden words and phrases that hit the coronary heart.
Right before getting into the store, meandering traces guideline the waiting circulation of folks by means of the scaffolding, a compact spatial constraint that evokes a psychological reaction and sets the stage for the upcoming journey.
Getting into the principal place, the ‘lonely’ men and women with their numbered cards are gradually guided to the corresponding numbered rooms by means of linear strips of light-weight in the aisles, a dimly lit journey that, in between light and shadow, immerses the physique and thoughts in the anticipation of the subsequent journey.
The transition from the corridor to the separate feeding on spot is presented in the variety of a curved revolving door. When the doorway opens, the lights come on, illuminating a fully diverse house from the earlier one. The therapeutic inexperienced color can make consumers extra comfy and calm, immersing them selves in the atmosphere of the room and taking pleasure in a bowl of noodles for a when.
The just one-individual booth appears to be to wrap the person in it, with music participating in and an emotionally evocative greeting in entrance of the display screen that immerses the entire body and intellect, followed by a “Blind Box Show” session that culminates in an immersive experience by way of the window of the display. The central stage space is a focused room. The prime is a round room that unites various private rooms. A bowl of noodles, a track and a efficiency that heals all people who comes below.
Throughout the two-thirty day period procedure, the Lonely Noodle Shop has grow to be one particular of the scorching matters in Shanghai, attracting several younger men and women by means of social media to knowledge it. With the swift variations and improvements in the commercial room marketplace, knowledge will carry on to be emphasized. This progressive case is a rare endeavor, and the style and design will existing far more prospects under the new business mode.
Job Title: Lonely Noodle Shop Job Space: 138 Sq. Meters Spot: TX Huaihai, Xuhui District, Shanghai Completion Time: 2021 Structure Firm: J&Dragon Group Style Administrators: JASON CHAN Main Designer: ELLA Inside design: XIAO LEI, A BAO Images: CreatAR