THE ROUGE

The project is to create an annex for a sushi restaurant by renovating an adjacent building, maximizing the number of private rooms. The existing building is an old brick-masonry townhouse, and the original construction’s large open space framed by massive sidewalls are strikingly simple and powerful. These walls retained the traces of the past renovations that the buildings had undergone. The project aimed at inheriting and enhancing the building’s history while allowing for the inevitable re-fragmentation required by the new program.