a glance contained in the unique ‘sushi senju’ restaurant.
Kubo Tsushima Architects not too long ago accomplished the inside design of ‘Sushi Senju’ – a extremely personal, members-only venue restaurant with six workplace seats and 4 personal rooms. Positioned in a dead-end alley in a residential space, barely offset from Tokyo’s bustling Omotesando Boulevard, the unique eating spot occupies the primary ground of a constructing with glass partitions on all sides. “We determined to create one other facade behind the glass wall and designed the constructing to seem like a small teahouse enclosed in a glass field, seen from the alley,” share the architects.
Sushi Senju with a glass exterior | photographs © Emon Osaki, Nacasa and Companions Inc.
Kubo Tsushima Architects stimulates diners’ 5 senses
Desirous to sharpen diners’ 5 senses and absolutely immerse them within the ritual of sushi preparation, Kubo Tsushima Architects (see extra Right here) designed “Sushi Senju” as a dimly lit inside that minimizes visible data. ‘The ground gentle is used to create a faint and blurred sense of spatial distance. The partitions have been plastered with a black Japanese sumi ink coloration theme and a fade impact was created on the partitions as the colour of the sumi ink modifications from gentle sumi ink to darkish sumi ink. elaborates the studio.
the six-seat counter the place a sushi chef feasts on his dishes
Upon coming into ‘Sushi Senju’, diners are greeted by a ready space and a comfortable gravel backyard with stones resulting in a six-seat counter space – evoking a tea ceremony corridor – the place a sushi chef he delights in his gastronomic preparations. The transition from the white cobblestone backyard to the darkish, inky black room exemplifies the architects’ sensory strategy to design, inviting curiosity and a way of exploration as you uncover the restaurant. Reaching the tip of the backyard, friends enter the restaurant’s personal rooms, together with a cloakroom and personal rest room. ‘Regardless of its small measurement, the house is summary and symbolic, like an ink portray with a hazy sense of distance,‘ finish the observe.
dimly lit interiors to scale back visible data
evoking a tea ceremony corridor