My Meat Run Laboratory is a modern vegetarian restaurant that provides fusion vegetarian cuisine and buffet salad bar to clients who need a meat-run menu. Restaurant located near the D2 exit of Lai Chi Kok MTR station. Provides a range of Hong Kong-style food including stir-fried spaghetti, vegetarian BBQ pork rice, deep-fried vegetarian chicken, some of which is vegan, and others could be made vegan upon special request. The lunch menu changes weekly. Dishes with meat menu all made from plant ingredients and taste like real meat.
The brief design of My Meat Run Laboratory is a concept from an old-school fashioned college with vintage furniture and lightings. The interior design idea combines a biology and chemistry laboratory. From the physical parts, the client would need a seating plan with a maximum of 100 ppl included four-seats, single-seat, 6-8 ppl table, and some face-to-face couple seat.
At the social parts, My Meat Run Laboratory aims to attract more levels of awareness from teenagers, undergraduate students, and vegetarians. The environmental idea designed to develop a laboratory with a real recycled high school classroom interior for clients to experience a time travel journey while dining. That vintage classroom furniture all refurbished from abandoned school furniture in the period of the ’80s to’90s.
In this project, W Interiors Design Limited takes parts in spacing planning, interior design, lighting, Engineering Project Management planning, including the outlook and interior manuscript with also 3D rendering. The challenges to fit in all different sizes of tables and seats based on the real abandoned classroom furniture and, at the same time, to meet the target of having a maximum of 100 clients seating to dine inside the restaurant.
Design development and design output to the management office is the highest cost involved in this project; there are regulations of all scales, including the lightings, pumping, and electricity. It is crucial to ensure the design idea meet within these regulations.
To cooperate with the contractors and suppliers to perfect the design and build out the concept step by step in stages.
This project takes approximately three months for design stages, including design development, design modification, interior construction planning, parties’ collaboration, and space planning. Two extra weeks for document submission to all different management parties for official approval; The construction time takes approximately one and a half months. The whole progress takes up to four to five months. The completion was in June 2019, and the business has been run smoothly ever since.
PROJECT DATA
Project Title
My Meat Run Laboratory
Location
D2 Place, Cheung Sha, Wan, Kowloon
Completion Date
June 2019
Site Area
10,000 square metres
Gross Floor Area
10,000 square metres
Building Height
10 feet
Interior Design Firm
W Interiors Design Ltd.
Principal Designer
Will Tsang
Lighting Consultants
Will Tsang
Interior Fit-Out Contractor
Will Tsang
