GOSHO JAPANESE RESTAURANT IN PORTO BY ANC ARCHITECTS

For the space of a restaurant, architecture is designed to cherish `being` in public. The restaurant Gosho (`Imperial Place`) is located in a five star hotel and serves Japanese food, brief that, on its own, sends us off to a collection of obvious references. But one requires a more complex experience when eating out, so much so because we all try extreme sports and we observe western etiquette while drinking green tea. The relatively long-lasting scenery that is put together crosses different effects.

 

Besides evoking traditional Japanese architecture, through a crude and strong presence of the materials, the design creates theatricality with two entrance tunnels and a raised arrival, underlines with white paint the amusing and seemingly irrational posture of the existing structure, nourishes a certain mystery by dissolving the space limits with a permeable curtain, a translucent screen and dark periphery walls and offers comfort with acoustic absortion in those same walls. In short, with several themes, an atmosphere for sophisticated moments of leisure was designed.