Keiji Ashizawa draws on "whiteness of tofu" for tactile Saga Hirakawaya restaurant
Japanese designer Keiji Ashizawa paid homage to the food on offer when designing the Saga Hirakawaya tofu restaurant, which hopes to revitalise a depopulated community in Japan.
Located in the hot spring resort Takeo Onsen in Japan's Saga prefecture, the curved restaurant was designed to blend in with the surrounding environment, including a historical tower gate.
The Saga Hirakawaya restaurant is located next to a historical tower gate
"Tofu, a food culture rooted in the region of Saga prefecture, is the main ingredient of this restaurant," Ashizawa told Dezeen. "Since tofu is a simple food, we chose materials with a sense of simplicity such as wood, concrete and walls finished in plaster to bring out the texture in the materials." "With a background of wishing to use local materials, wood was used for the entrance, windows and undersurface of eaves to match the wood from Ariake, a furniture brand based in Saga."
Volcanic ash was used for the plaster
The studio also used shirasu ? a type of volcanic ash from Mount Sakurajima in Kyushu ? as a plastering material for the building's exterior walls.
Saga Hirakawaya has a curved design forming a semi-open interior courtyard, which holds a foot bath with hot spring water that aims to encourage the restaurant's customers to eat and stay outside the establishment for longer.
Wooden furniture matches the pared-down interior
Inside the 435-square-metre restaurant, the interior matches the exterior with ...
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