Sonore in Hoshino Resort Oirase Keiryu Hotel by fan Inc.

Name of Company or Individual: fan Inc.

Country: JAPAN

Website: http://www.fan-inc.com

Project Name: Sonore in Hoshino Resort Oirase Keiryu Hotel

Project Completion Date: 10/5/2019

Project Completed City: Aomori-ken

Interior Division: Restaurants

Restaurant Sonore has been opened in Hoshino Resort Oirase Keiryu Hotel in Aomori prefecture, Japan. This hotel is built in the national park of Oirase mountain stream, and it is a French restaurant that you can enjoy the full course unique to Oirase while feeling the nature of Oirase mountain stream. 

We wanted to produce an experience-based restaurant unique to Hoshino Resort. A luxury experience taking advantage of the blessed natural environment of a national park, and first-class cuisine and services provided by Hoshino Resort. By making the resonance between these two elements, we aimed to create a dramatic, exciting and unique experience that guests can enjoy only in the restaurant. 

From the reception area with calm atmosphere, you go into the closed space with a door, where you cannot see what will be ahead. Once you open the door, you are in the outside space in the woods facing to the Oirase mountain stream right in front of you. The space on the wooden deck space along the mountain stream is named “Apelo”, where you enjoy an aperitif and amuse-bouche using local ingredients from Oirase for around an hour. After "Apelo", you once again walk through a closed space and enter into the authentic main restaurant inside of the hotel, where you can enjoy the full course of the French cuisine and the best wines. You literally experience the restaurant by moving.

The theme of the design is to talk with the nature of Oirase. We wanted to design what can be created only in the forest of Oirase. In Apelo by the mountain stream, we designed the shape and the positions of the deck space and the tarp at the site. They are not something that you could make into drawings by CAD, but it is work of deciding them while looking at the shape of forests and how to grow trees. Also, in the main restaurant, we added an accent to the authentic atmosphere such with the chandeliers, the partitions and the artworks using wood from the forest. In addition, the main back wall of the restaurant is finished with a pseudo-rock wall with an image of a rock wall formed from the eruption of Mt. Hakkoda in Oirase and gives an overwhelming presence of it.

We believe we were able to design an dramatic and extraordinary "experience" through cuisine using various ingredients unique to Oirase.