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Blazing Night is a hybrid cafe and bar. Inspired by the dialectics of day and night, it uses time as a design concept. Centered around a symbolic round bar, shifting light transforms the venue from a bright daytime cafe into an immersive night bar, acting as a temple of time.
Taking Apollo and Dionysus as aesthetic symbols, Nietzsche explored the dialectic spirit state: dreaming and intoxicating, illusion and ego. The space's name - Blazing Night, consisting of contrasting imagery: day and night, brightness and darkness, is also full of contradictions as well as experimental fantasy. Therefore, ofD takes the dialectic spirits as a spatial metaphor from the perspective of time: blazing the day, tipsy in the night, now and the future, turning the space into a temple of time, transcending limits and boundaries, and evoking the original desire.
Located in Sihai Cheng, which brings together a series of artistic, fashion, fresh brands and lifestyle elements, Blazing Night is based on a compound model of a cafe by day/a bar by night to illustrate the vision of interacting with the future. Therefore, using time as a design concept, ofD transforms the complex commercial format into an immersive emotional experience. With the interweaving of brightness and darkness, an experiential field of desire and illusion is formed, attracting the new generation.
Due to the increase of variable and unstable factors in the current, ofD hopes that the commercial space could capture sharing sentiments among the ever more diversified and multi-cultural trend. By creating a narrative context with dialectic visual language, and using multilayered styles to reflect and highlight the brand story, ofD discusses the spirit area of the new generation with the use of transcendent symbolism.
The light gives us the basic perception of time. Taking the variation of time as a design idea, ofD deploys visual languages to compose a flowing spatial narrative: as day turns to night, the cafe turns into the bar, light and color changing accordingly, and the passage of time is presented visually.
Blazing Night is both the creation and the re-creation of time. Like the start point and the terminal point, they are integrated as one at the moment and eternally. The blazing fantasy is the future and the prediction, carrying the consciousness of freedom and releasing the experience of spirit. Moving in this dialectical circle, coffee and wine, day and night, brightness and darkness, reality and dream, the utopian and the anti-utopian, all coexist under the dome of time narrative.
