Sik Mul Sung is a Mars-themed cafe with its own vertical farm

South Korean studio Unseenbird has designed a restaurant in downtown Seoul, the place greens are grown in a glass-fronted cultivation room earlier than being harvested, ready and served to clients on a conveyor belt.

Sik Mul Sung cafe was arrange by agri-tech start-up N.Factor, which additionally runs a vertical farm on the outskirts of Seoul, to make the corporate’s know-how tangible and accessible to on a regular basis customers.

Native observe Unseenbird was tasked with designing the cafe’s inside and wrapped massive parts of its partitions, counters and fixtures in sheets of chrome steel.

That is contrasted with ornamental crimson rocks and a ground fabricated from matching pebbles, in a reference to N.Factor’s ambition to construct a vertical farm on Mars.

The cafe’s space-age theme can be mirrored in its futuristic inexperienced perspex surfaces, that are performed off towards textured plaster partitions.

Sik Mul Sung’s focus is a brightly lit, glass-fronted cultivation room the place rows of greens develop in a vertical farming system designed by N.Factor, which might operate with out daylight or soil.

When clients place an order, the greens are harvested and used as elements for salads and ice cream.

Meals is delivered to diners by way of a conveyor belt that circulates the cultivation room and runs alongside the curved bar.

The meals itself is offered on round plates that rotate to recall a planet in orbit.

“Clients can really feel the values and desires of the corporate collectively by experiencing cultivation, harvesting, processing and consumption right here,” mentioned Unseenbird.

“Not solely was the attribute utilized functionally to the area however the model identification was effectively realised with the ending supplies and tones.”

Sik Mul Sung has been shortlisted within the small interiors class of this yr’s Dezeen Awards.

Different tasks within the working embrace a serene timber and travertine studying room in Shanghai and a espresso store in Shenyang, China, the place stacked bottle-green beer crates type the furnishings.

The pictures is by Yongjoon Choi.