R&D Cocktail Lab is located at Taipei’s prime section, surrounded by bars. Research‧Develop is run by the concept of deconstruction and creation. Employing Taiwan’s fresh food ingredients to be the materials for research and development, and providing “special blend” wine in a way of no wine list to reconstruct customers’ preference to and impression on the taste of wine.
Similar to the deconstruction concept of LOGO, the design merges the English tavern elements with the Oriental vocabulary such as plaques, grilles, Chinese herbal medicine cabinets, red bricks and so on. Under the harmonious reconstructing modern and retro, fashionable and traditional, western and oriental elements, a unique and exclusive style is made.
The elongated-shaped architecture with three narrow stairs is decorated by the connection of heterogeneous mirror and metal materials plus the permutation and variation of height of tungsten lightings, which emphasizes penetration and extension. The light band brings forth the openness of circulation and vision, brilliantly improving the flaw of the original architecture.
The scale of the bar on the first floor is not reduced because of the structure of the original inner area measure. Instead, it maintains the original height and depth, making the customers not only experience happy gathering time but experience more profound culture of wine as well. Behind the bar, the plague, “companions of poetry and wine,” decorated with grilles, Chinese herbal medicine cabinet, and mirror displays, researches and developments, and customizes flavor cocktails exclusively for you.
The design does not follow the regular style to plan the theme; instead, it presumes the operator’s enthusiasm and expectation on the space, which becomes the elements and energy of creative thinking. Realizing the operator’s store-running mode, the phrases and words in Compendium of Materia Medica, the collection of Chinese herbal medicines in Chinese history, are engraved on the vertical wall to echo the spirit of the entrepreneur—research, development, and deconstruct--- and produce customized charm exclusively for each customer.
The merge of the East and the West continues profound culture.
