Kan Japanese Restaurant

Location: Beijing, China.
Area: 226sq.m
Architects: Deguchi Kan Japanese Restaurant
Tsutomu, Okamoto
Keizo, Langxu Wang.
Kan, a high-end Japanese restaurant that designed by odd, is
whispering a story about presents where a brand-new form is ready to
unfold the design idea.
Underneath a purely black space, lighting up six square boxes in
various shapes was inspired by traditional Japanese Juubako, a wood
box with multiple layers, which only appears as a food container in
significant events or ceremonies. Based on the concept above, a
profoundly old painting technique, known as Maki-e, which originating
from Tang Dynasty but fostering in Japan, has been sublimated for a
higher quality and endowed them new life. We call it ‘a present from far
afield’.
Traditionally, the craft of producing Maki-e is to blend metal powder with
lacquer, then draw on wood material through skilled craftsman’s hand. This
time, under the premise of preserving the original visualization experience,
we strived to replace the traditional method by changing it into glass clip
painting, as a result, perfectly depicting the glorious time of traditional art.
These six gift boxes are scattered in a T-shaped black space, including
five private rooms and one semi-open Itamae area. Boxes are
presenting in either floating or ground-touching, but in the meantime,
respectively separated. On top of this, this space has ingeniously
created a sense of staggering.
Allocating a karesansui landscape alongside the traffic flow of
customers, it is expected to bring the joy to people who wandering
and discovering in this space. The viewing window embedded in
wall not only breaks the stiff boundary between internal and
external but also offers an extraordinary observing experience.
To ensure the freshest food can be
immediately delivered into chief’s hands, the
kitchen and Itamae preparation area are
connected closely to each other while
embodying its distinctiveness in a semi-open
shape. This is the only gift box opening to
public. In the whole picture scroll, those
wooden lines in light tone concretize a
cluster of clouds from remote sky, black
wood grid and terrazzo cooperatively
abstract an image of mountains nearby.
Behind bar counter, the niche is covered by
marble in dark tone with unique texture that
has a strong visual contrast with the entire
light tone
Where light illuminating, scattered gold
powder shines beautifully upon the black
wall. Designed for a purpose of business
banquet, these two private rooms receive
more metal elements rather than wood
materials, which fill up the space with both
formality and vitality.
In four-person private room, ceiling
and wall stretch together and
eventually shape like an arch. In terms
of wall, those exquisite natural stones
are input with new figure language by
carving them into single small pieces.
Speaking of six-person Washitsu (a
Japanese-style suite), it utilizes similar
materials but in a different expression.
Compared with other private rooms, this
one is lack of dazzle, but full of quality and
simplicity with wood grid outlining in dark
brown, chartreuse green Tatami cushion,
beige coarse texture painting and white
matte Japanese paper film.
ANTI GRAVITY STORE
Location: Nanjing, China
Area: 120sq.m
Architect: Qing Yan
In this design, we aim to use visual inertia to "get
rid of" gravity, and break through the shackles of
the earth's gravity to make the marble, which was
originally heavy under people's inertial thinking,
suspend in space.
We choose black stone as the skin color of the
corridor facade in the central area of the marble
exhibition hall. Black will increase the weight and
mystery of the object. Black stone is used to
wrap the surface of the box structure, while gray
stone is used for the surrounding walls and the
ground, which will further enhance the contrast
and visual sense of gravity suspension.
By using the mirror image
principle of top mirror stainless
steel, the whole space is raised,
and at the same time, the wrong
visual effect of no top connection
and no ground connection on the
center black box body is created.
As if standing solid stone floating
in the air, it seems that everything
has lost its weight.
The use of white terrazzo and metal
materials enriches the exhibition
and sales categories of the
exhibition hall. At the same time, it
will further display the excellent
detail technology. The whole white
terrazzo floor is highly integrated
with the platform. Complete as a
whole, it forms a strong perceptual
contrast with the suspended
marble.
The variety of marble is rich. If you
want to show as many kinds of stone,
marble lines and mosaic series as
possible in the exhibition hall. We need
to keep the whole space visual center
simple, and display different categories
and colors of stone in four enclosed
spaces according to the style. By using
the method of plane composition, the
relationship between stone materials
can be formed into different
combinations and arrangements, and
the core goal of simultaneous display of
many kinds of products is formed.
THANK YOU! :D BY: GOWTHAMAN &
FELCINA.

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