Tearoom Nigo / G architects studio
Textual content description offered by the architects. The positioning is situated in Tokyo’s outdated city Asakusa. The road approaching the 1400-year-old Asakusa temple is a well-liked vacationer spot. It’s a two-story wood constructing located on the finish of a slender avenue, simply off the principle avenue. We remodeled a 70-year-old stamp store right into a restaurant.
We saved the outdated constructing because it was, and put in two geometrical kinds: the inexperienced partitions on the bottom ground, and the pink ellipsoid object on the ceiling on the primary ground.
The inexperienced partitions appeal to consideration from the road. Additionally they perform as bearing partitions, supporting the tilted construction after the neighboring home was taken down.
The pink disk is a contemporary homage to the tearoom, a conventional Japanese architectural model. We modified the spherical disk to an ellipsoid form in order that it matches the dimensions of the room. It’s hanging at a peak of 1850mm from the ground and was painted pink. If you sit on the tatami ground and lookup, the colour impact makes it unattainable to maintain a viewpoint, and consequently, the depth feels misplaced. This provides the slender tearoom-like area a particular, tense, ambiance.
This restaurant additionally features as a vacationer data heart for the Oku Asakusa space. Oku Asakusa is historically well-known as a red-light district – equivalent to Yoshiwara – and there are lots of bars and plenty of colourful indicators. The inexperienced partitions and the pink object symbolize such locations.
Lastly, we want to clarify our use of “shakkei”, a conventional methodology used for Japanese gardening. We created a small tsuboniwa (spot backyard) by the doorway of the bottom ground and on the finish of the primary ground. You’ll be able to see the neighbor’s conventional Japanese home on the additional aspect, and in addition from the window dealing with the road, you see the brand new landmark of the realm “Tokyo Sky Tree”, which was visually “trimmed” by the very slender alley. We tried to usher in the outdated and new “shakkei” to this little restaurant.
*Extra notes: The identify of the restaurant “cya shitu nigou (Tearoom Nigo )” means it’s the consumer’s second enterprise (Nigo means second in Japanese). But it surely additionally implies “second lady”, that means adulterous lover, evoking the affiliation of the red-light district.
