Kurukuru Restaurant | Licht Architecture

Located in Sandy Bay, a former bank building has been transformed into a colourful and vibrant Japanese restaurant. Joining the Bento franchise, Kurukuru Ramen provides a unique dining experience filled with colour and chaos.

To help promote repeat visitation and to break up the large open internal space, we proposed several ‘districts’ within the space. Each district has its own unique atmosphere created through lighting, volume, layering, seating arrangements, colour and aspect.

Cylindrical forms are layered across the ceiling in an array of black exteriors with hollow interiors of block colour, colour graphic, or LED lighting. Bright pink steel framing dances around the room as partitions and a cage-like ceiling. Pink and yellow Perspex, perforated screens, blue upholstery and neon lighting is scattered throughout the interior, resulting in a fit-out that is bold and dares to be different.