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Located in the center of Taipei city, a cottage made of balmy wood and clear cement, with the rustic charm of fair-faced concrete, reveals a substantive Japanese style. The Chinese red lanterns at the entrance emit appealing light and shadow, and the exposed beams, columns, and brick walls manifest a rough and bold Industrial style, achieving a genuinely eclectic aesthetic look and embodying the vision of an innovative Japanese cuisine restaurant.



To adapt to the catering consumption patterns changed by the pandemic, we make the most of the long-patterned layout and set up an L-shaped bar counter and a take-out window facade to facilitate the storeowner to receive the customers. Exploit voluminous eco-friendly green building materials like timbers with recyclable characteristics to furnish the space, revealing the Japandi aesthetics that attach importance to nature.



As this is a newly opened Japanese cuisine restaurant, we choicely utilize cotton linen fabric symbolizing rice bags to make the outdoor hanging drapes and indoor wall decors and bring Japandi charms through rustic wooden and clear cement features. In addition, hang red lanterns representing Taiwan at the entrance, and then create the Industrial interior style with unadorned ceilings, walls, and exposed pipelines. The novel mix and match aesthetics comply with the design themes of localization and innovation, which successfully attract young customers from surrounding schools and contemporary art museums.



For the past few years, the catering consumption pattern has changed; people tend to take food home instead of eating in restaurants. Consequently, we divide the long-patterned space into a meal-preparing lot and dining area; set up an L-shaped bar counter with only fifteen seats, making the chef can talk with customers directly. Moreover, design a take-out window facade and arrange the cash register in front of the window so that the cashier can simultaneously serve indoor and outdoor customers. Hope to keep down operation impacts, even if the pandemic continues to grow.