Moore Wilson's Sushi House
The brief from our client, Graham Moore of Moore Wilson’s Supermarkets, was to create a vending station in the concourse of the central Wellington cash and carry multi store. The concept was a cottage facade wrapped around two sides of the central lift shaft.
The cottage's architectural styling and design was intended to refer to worker's cottages that once proliferated around the area. We studied old photographs of these little cottages, which informed our design process. The design also needed to be functional as a small food shop where customers could easily help themselves to Sushi from cabinets.
Human Dynamo designed, then pre-fabricated and painted the cottage in our workshop. It was installed over three nights for minimal disruption and an element of surprise for customers.
The cottage was designed using various computer aided design techniques, using the 3D model to manufacture CNC milled moulds to cast fiberglass components supported by a metal framework. Although the cottage looks like wood, it is mainly fibreglass. The roof is made of corrugated iron.
The Resene colour range was used to design the colourway of the cottage; special consideration was taken with regards to the colour scheme as they reference Japanese and Colonial heritage. Designed by our resident art director Sue Dorrington, the colour scheme won a Resene Total Colour Award.
The Sushi house project followed the successful ‘Chook Wagon’, a build of the large scale Citroen 1940's Light Truck Van selling French styled rotisserie chickens. Designed, built and installed by Human Dynamo Workshop in 2012.
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Design for the cottage fabrication on two sides of a lift shift, by Dominic Taylor.
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The red cottage created a warm heart to the Moore Wilson's complex.
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The upper front cottage is hoisted into place.
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Up she rises.
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From left: Carl Hobman, Fabricator and model maker, Andrew den Haan, CNC operator and fabricator, Dominic Taylor, Installation Designer, Sue Dorrington, art director, Rob Uivel, Director of Human Dynamo and Project manager.
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The red Sushi House at Moore Wilson's. A fibreglass and steel fabrication.
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Winner of Resene Total Colour Awards - Commercial Interior Public and Retail 2014