Architects:Prevalent

Area :200 m²

Year :2022

Photographs :Jan Vranovský

Manufacturers :  Piñatex, Mogu, NewMatPiñatex

Lead Architect :Ben Berwick

Builder :Scope Commercial Construction

Mechanical Engineers :Marline

Acoustic Engineers :Spectrum Acoustics

Student Of Architecture : Josh Healey

Signage : Domus Vim

City : Newcastle

Country : Australia

Carbon Neutral Authenticity - Âpé Yakitori Bar attempts to provide authenticity to a standardized, early 2000s tenancy shell, a prevalent and often challenging typology that today dominates our cities. Yakitori, literally translated as a grilled bird, remains one of the most traditional and efficient practices of cooking. Each individual part of the chicken, animal, or vegetable (in its modern interpretation) is utilized, from the heart to the thigh, liver, and neck. It is the act of deconstruction to base constituent parts without wastage.

Âpé, which is ancient Ainu Japanese for fire, is a design predicated around the 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 harbor 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.