Susuru in New South Wales, Australia by Prevalent

Article source: Prevalent

Situated in a prominent building from 1906, SUSURU Ramen and Gyoza bar enlivens the façade and street it rests on. Working closely with the City Council, the design breaks away from the traditional mining aesthetic typical of the area. As the city grows and develops, it attracts more foreign attention, whom don’t necessarily have the same rapport with what was largely a mining town many years ago. The SUSURU restaurant is for the newcomers, for those visiting, and most importantly, for those long term residents wanting to see the city develop and diversify.

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• Architects: Prevalent
• Project: Susuru
• Location: 140 King Street, Newcastle, NSW, 2300, Australia
• Photography: Jan Vranovsky
• Software used: Revit, Rhino and 3dS Max
  
• Lead Architects: Ben Berwick
  
• Gross Built Area (square meters or square foot): 250sqm
  
• Completion Year: 2017

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With the introduction of a new and foreign food type to the city, opportunity was afforded in this design for something completely fresh. Taking cues from Tokyo metro station and train design, a predominantly white interior acts as a backdrop to a yellow highlight, a signifier of the brand. To this base, we add in temporary graphic design elements, menu boards, signage, tablet covers and doors that are made to add focal points and to draw attention. These elements are cycled seasonally, much like advertisements adding life to the metro stations and train carriages.

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

As the architects, we oversaw the project from idea conception, brand development through to product and material sourcing, project management, marketing and advertising and User Experience (UX) interface design of the ordering systems. This gave us complete control over the entire process, similar in nature to Gesamtkunstwerk.

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Where we could, local fabricators were used, particularly to re-liven the metal industry in the city, with designs for furniture, as apposed to equipment for mining. Repetitive products that could be sourced in bulk were imported from larger factories in China.

The response thus far from the city seems unprecedented, described as “Newcastle Urbanisation (finally)”, as a “prelude to the plausible future of 2049”, and resembles “what a hospital cafe might look like when drawn in a Pokémon graphic novel.”

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovsky

Image Courtesy © Prevalent

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Tags: Australia, New South Wales

Categories: 3dS Max, Building, Restaurant, Revit, Rhino

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