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“Five colors cooked by yin and yang, and three flowers braised in water and fire. “

The overall design for the T0 Japanese cuisine brand is inspired by Chinese five elements, namely metal, wood, water, fire and earth, which is coincident with their different series of products. Two elements, water and fire, is adopted in T0渋谷中すし| Yakiniku restaurant that combining OMAKASE sushi and charcoal fire roasts.    

Fire, smoke removed but flames retained. Thus, perfection is attained. Water, vapor steaming but warmth left. Thus, things are quietly moisturized.

As for the extraction of fire and water, in order to combine attributes of Japanese cuisine with Modern oriental touches inside Shanghai, we were brought on board to design the interior with oriental “aura”rather than its “form”.

Through one entrance, there are two dining zones, featuring fire and water respectively. First, for the fusion of fire and water, the traditional Japanese architectural wooden frame structure is borrowed to build up and divide the interior space. Meanwhile, two circulations for sushi (water) and yakiniku (fire) are arranged on an irregular layout, also, different dining zones are distinguished by different floor heights. Two zones are divided by a bidirectional glass wine cabinet in the middle, which can be opened at both sides and enable either zone to be seen from the other side. Besides, by means of “creating spaces within a space”, we embedded every private dinning rooms in the space, where layers of space by different floor height, collision of materials different in texture, lighting design in different ways, circulations in different orientation, and scenery is changing along with the moving between open and enclosed spaces, all of these are forming a fascinating sense of oriental mystery.