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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Ape Yakitori Bar in Newcastle, Australia by PrevalentJanuary 12th, 2023 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Prevalent Âpé Yakitori Bar attempts to provide authenticity to a standardised, early 2000’s tenancy shell, a prevalent and often challenging typology that today dominates our cities. Yakitori, literally translated as grilled bird, remains one of the most traditional and efficient practices of cooking. Each individual part of the chicken, or animal, or vegetable (in its modern interpretation) is utilised, from the heart to the thigh, liver and neck. It is the act of deconstruction to base constituent parts without wastage.  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský
 Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský Âpé, which is ancient Ainu Japanese for fire, is a design predicated around base, constituent elements, that are carbon neutral or negative, set within a glowing sodium orange setting, a nod to the heart of a traditional Ainu Japanese home, the hearth, and the glow of sodium lights along the harbour of Newcastle. Having worked with this client on previous projects, such as SUSURU, we were afforded the opportunity to control all capital within the project. To that end, our specification for the project became a funding mechanism to support early-stage, innovative material fabricators creating carbon negative materials. The wealth of the project was channeled into companies developing or supplying materials that exist as part of bioremediation, carbon sequestration, and/or the circular economy. A snapshot of materials specified were:  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský Mycelium grown on agro-industrial by-product and waste material, as part of the bioremediation process, fashioned as acoustic panels. Sourced from Mogu. Cellulose fibre extracted from waste pineapple leaves, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere during growth, whilst preventing further release of carbon where the leaves would have otherwise been burnt, fashioned as a “leather” clad bench seat and branding assets. Sourced from Piñatex. Rubberwood, sourced as the discarded by-product of the harvesting of rubber, expanding the material life cycle, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, whilst preventing carbon release that would usually occur through the burning of the timber. Utilised for furniture. Carbon neutral stone, made from the dust by-product produced by the cutting of up to 20 various natural stones, utilised for surfaces. Existing autoclaved aerated concrete, lightly sanded or left in its as found state, unfinished, preventing further material resourcing, whilst mitigating construction waste. Utilised for walling.  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský These very base element materials, from mycelium to cellulose fibre, sit proud in a shell that exposes the tenancies of past. Wires, pipes, paint and services remain exposed, to not only show the inner workings of a technical space and tenancies adjacent, but also to reinforce siting within what was once a very industrial city. This also mitigates the unsustainable, sterile approach of utilising material to cover and hide. Like fire being the catalysing element between ingredient and meal, we exaggerate the proportion of the tenancy shell with primary forms that glow, which encompass and synthesize all elements within the space. Where ingredient becomes meal becomes sustenance, it is our aim that Âpé’s design provides a cohesive, authentic space that highlights the importance of material carbon neutrality, teachings of sustainability from our ancestors many times removed, and overarchingly, a positive experience for inhabitation.  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Jan Vranovský  Image Courtesy © Prevalent
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