“Under Clouds, Galleria Branch” is the second Yunnan cuisine restaurant designed by CPLUS for the Under Clouds brand, which occupies 340 square meters and is located in Galleria – Instreet  (hereinafter referred to as Instreet) in Chaoyang District in the northeast of Beijing. Due to the architectural strategy of breaking the monotonic internal space with “Doors” and wrapping the restaurant’s façade by the sealed wall with a central floor-to-ceiling window, all the concepts have focused on establishing a warm connection with the city.

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The Instreet is enclosed by high-rise buildings on three sides without vehicle access. It is a sunken plaza designed for local residents that integrates leisure and commerce. The entire block uses a unified facade design with gray metal shutters and floor-to-ceiling window walls, for increasing the visual thematic connection and presenting a modern commercial atmosphere.

Designers replace the original façade with “red walls”, making the entire restaurant unique and full of vitalities in the Instreet. The wall is divided horizontally by sunlight and shadow in the morning, showing different levels of red tone. Different tree shadows appear on the wall during different times.