Design for a Vietnamese restaurant | Rhizomet Studio

The Vietnamese restaurant Miss Dô is set in the food court of a shopping mall, south of Berlin.
The project takes form around the concept of the Opposite.

Inside one of the most artificial and anthropized landscape – the quintessential non-place of a shopping mall – we introduced a ground-braking element whose force escapes the control and planning logics of this typology.

The inclusion of a strong vegetal component generates a degree of unpredictability in a strongly planned environment: the non-hierarchical nature of the plants un undermines and makes continuous in time the relation between the vegetable world and the surrounding landscape.

The Oxygen and the humidity released by the leaves induces in the costumer the instant notion of being in a third place rather in a shopping mall. That sense put the costumer in a perceptive relation with latitudes closer to south east Asia rather than Berlin.

The feature of the opposites takes place also throughout the orthogonal iron structures that runs along the walls. That structures operates as support for the tables and for the plants. The same oxymoron set for the relation between built environment and vegetation can be identified in the opposite formal language of the geometrical iron structure una the encircling nature of the plants.

The forniture itself is been designed in order to empower the Vegetation-centred nature of the whole space. The shape of the tables recalls the icebergs wich, despite their huge masses, emerge from the water surface. Analogously the tables – held by a light steel structure – relief the ground from their own weight.

Graphic design: Studio Amanda Haas

Construction: IMAB Massivbau

Indoor Green: Opera Verde Org.

Tables: Cedrimartini

Chairs: Scab Design

Stools: Ahmet Sisman

Lights: WETRO 1.0 by Wever & Ducré

Spotlights for plants growing: Ambralight