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The Orient – Chain of Restaurants in Kolkata
Modern Japanese Style Interior Project in West Bengal, India – design by Salient
21 Jan 2020
The Orient Restaurants
Architects: Salient
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal state, India
The Orient Restaurants reflecting Feng Shui & Taoism

The Kolkata-based Orient chain of restaurants raises the standards of the hospitality experience, which is enhanced through design. The twin restaurants, with their oriental cuisines and contemporary Japanese style interiors, draw special attention from the crowd of the city centre mall which they occupy. With a 60-cover seating capacity each, the design incorporates ancient Japanese techniques ?Feng Shui? and ?Taoism? to reflect their cuisine in space.
Sited in an amicable location on the ground floor of the mall, the restaurant occupies a plot area of 1550 sq ft. A challenging floor area ratio resulted in a linear geometry with two entries- one from the mall and the other from the street on the plot periphery. The confining service areas like the kitchen, bar and amenities such as bathroom, hand wash area etc. help in gaining about 1100 sq ft of dining space.

The design is derived from the notion of providing a private dining space for maximum seating. Typically, solid partitions form heavy volumes that result in the creation of suffocating spaces. An alternative is hence ...