designs inspired by tradition
Our on site presence was useful in demarcating the exacting shape and proportion to the fins [ribs] to be installed as partitions for the restaurant, it is easily decided once the information becomes ready for replication and construction. The template served as a guide for the manufacture of several of these ribs and they were rapidly constructed on premises to shape the various private rooms of the restaurant.
Some images of the screens with individually crafted bowed arches, echoing the simple aesthetics of Terengganu’s boat building tradition. In plan, they form a visually continuous sweep of curves running the entire depth of the restaurant.
This is a detail of the ribbing pattern of our partition wall of the restaurant, echoing the curved shaped of Terengganu “sampans” or fisherman boats, made entirely by hand to this day and laminated carefully to emulate the same intricate and sophisticated detail that goes into making these wonderful traditional water crafts of this eastern state of Peninsula Malaysia.
Although limited in design ‘moderations’, we have kept most of the geometry to its simplest form with strong references to the architecture of the boat industry prevalent in this ‘eroded’ part of the world, being the lamination and the craftsmanship that is required to achieve the final result.
These are the most recent images of the duyong restaurant at the newly opened Heritage Bay Clubhouse in Terangganu, East Coast of Malaysia, designed by zlgdesign. Serving probably the best coffee in this part of Malaysia, the restaurant is part of the very nice resort enclave of Pulau Duyong, a heritage development site comprising Heritage Bay Club house and Chalets, about fifteen minutes from the city airport.
