Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has refurbished the interiors of the Endo on the Rotunda sushi restaurant on the former BBC Tv Centre in London.
Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKAA), which designed the unique house, made various vital modifications to the omakase restaurant, which is positioned within the rooftop pavilion on the eighth ground of the round glass constructing.
“This tasks was an uncommon one,” KKAA architect Javier Villar Ruiz informed Dezeen.
“It consisted on the renovation of an area that we at KKAA had initially designed. The unique counter that after structured the entire house, now was going to be lowered with the intention to create a novel lounge house.”
To maintain the “spirit of the unique counter” within the novel lounge house, KKAA designed a huge cedar wooden bench with an undulating, stacked form that offers the room an natural really feel.
“We prevented the plain answer of simply populating the novel house with lounge chairs and tables and ornamental parts; and as an alternative we gathered the seatings into one substantial wood bench that recovers the presence energy of the counter,” Ruiz defined.
“Certainly, we designed this bench as the results of stacking sections of wooden precisely to those within the counter, making a dialogue between each bench and counter,” he added.
By including extra wooden, the studio additionally aimed to melt the house, which has floor-to-ceiling home windows.
It additionally added a wavy set up fabricated from polyester cloth, designed to seem like paper, which is suspended from the ceiling and provides an ethereal really feel to Endo on the Rotunda.
“Sushi eating places in Japan are often compact, cozy, intimate, enclosed areas,” Ruiz stated. “For Endo we needed to remodel a rooftop pavilion primarily made out of glass and metallic showcasing impacting panoramic views of London.”
“The undulating types of the ceiling, the counter and the bench have the intention to melt the geometries of the present structure, creating a way of consolation,” he continued.
KKAA selected to work with wooden as it is the customary materials used for sushi bars.
“Due to the dialogue between the novel lounge bench and the sushi counter, utilizing wooden was the pure alternative,” Ruiz stated.
“Real Japanese sushi expertise is at all times associated to the presence of wooden, specifically within the counter, not solely as a result of its customary really feel, however due to the sensorial qualities that it brings to the entire expertise: the pure heat of its contact and the refined nuances of its scent.”
The restaurant, which seats 10 folks, serves an 18-course edomae sushi menu that mixes British produce with Cornish and Spanish seafood.
Different current Kengo Kuma and Associates tasks embrace a wood Christmas tree that may ultimately be became furnishings and a Chinese language clay museum cloaked in handmade tiles.
Mission credit:
KKAA staff: Javier Villar Ruiz, Jaime Fernandez Calvache and Marian Dominguez Duran
