Islands of Green
LOCATION
Shanghai
TYPE
Interior
YEAR
2025
CLIENT
LePin
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Conceived as Islands of Green, the dining space reintroduces nature into everyday use through planted islands, soft architectural forms, and a restrained green palette. Food becomes a medium that reconnects people with nature, while space acts as a vessel for perceiving ecological order. Rather than functioning solely as a service space, the restaurant is designed as a calm, immersive environment shaped by light, rhythm, and material continuity. By integrating artificial green islands, planted backdrop walls, a flowing ceiling, and layered lighting, the design reshapes the existing structure with minimal intervention. Subtle shifts in light and spatial depth allow diners to sense growth, time, and the quiet breath of space, dissolving the boundary between daily dining and spatial experience.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Conceived as Islands of Green, the dining space reintroduces nature into everyday use through planted islands, soft architectural forms, and a restrained green palette. Food becomes a medium that reconnects people with nature, while space acts as a vessel for perceiving ecological order. Rather than functioning solely as a service space, the restaurant is designed as a calm, immersive environment shaped by light, rhythm, and material continuity. By integrating artificial green islands, planted backdrop walls, a flowing ceiling, and layered lighting, the design reshapes the existing structure with minimal intervention. Subtle shifts in light and spatial depth allow diners to sense growth, time, and the quiet breath of space, dissolving the boundary between daily dining and spatial experience.



