"spatial experiences based on perception and sensation"
"It's not just about making a bar, but about using architectural relationships to stimulate relationships between people,"
"people moving through the space will experience a flow of fleeting, distorted visual images, and that continual transformation, rather than any kind of solidity, will characterise their individual spatial experience."
Ichio Matsuzawa designed the AWT Bar as an inviting, memorable environment based on transparency and distortion. Matsuzawa previously led design work at Sanaa on major museum projects including Louvre-Lens and the expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and created transparent aesthetic installations at the Barcelona pavilion, the Sharjah Biennial and the Inujima Art Houses. The AWT Bar features warped, freestanding clear acrylic walls that spill from interior to terrace and form softly defined nooks for sitting, eating and drinking. Each wall is a single sheet of heat-deformed acrylic, rippled like liquid. Fabrication involves steel moulds and a gigantic oven. The design aims to produce flowing, distorted visual impressions and continual transformation of individual spatial experience. Artist cocktails by Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Chim Pom from Smappa!Group and Miwa Yanagi are offered at the bar.
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