Matera Sushi Restaurant Design

Interior | Matera, Italy

Matera Sushi Restaurant Design

A sushi restaurant concept inspired by the geology of the stone city, using warm materials and cave-like layering to create a quieter dining experience.

“Design is not about filling space, but about leaving perceptible clarity between function, circulation and atmosphere.”

The geology of Matera becomes the starting point for the spatial language. Warm stone, softened arch-like relationships and layered interfaces turn the dining room into a quieter, more enveloping place.

Compared with a conventional sushi restaurant, the room unfolds like a landscape narrative, making the movement from entrance to seat part of the experience itself.

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02 / Technical Facts

Material and Operational Logic

  • Program

    Interior

    This interior project in Matera, Italy focuses on the relationship between arrival, service flow and the main stay areas.

  • Material

    Wood / Stone / Light

    Low-saturation material, continuous surfaces and maintainable construction details establish a stable commercial base.

  • Light

    Ambient

    Lighting is treated as a structural tool for circulation and atmosphere, avoiding decoration while strengthening the sense of stay.

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03 / Design Draft

Tracing the first order of the space.

This area is reserved for early plan logic, sightline studies and proportion sketches. No original designer draft has been provided yet, so an AI-generated sketch is used as a placeholder until scanned drawings or hand sketches are available.

  • Flow

    Circulation

    Arrival, waiting, service and main stay areas are clarified first, so the spatial reading starts from the first step.

  • Scale

    Proportion

    Interface height, seating scale and visual anchors control rhythm before the project becomes a finished rendering.

  • Material

    Texture

    Wood, stone, lighting and wall texture are folded into the early study so construction language and atmosphere stay aligned.

04 / Landscape Sequence

A horizontal spatial narrative

The wide image sequence keeps the key rooms, lighting relationships and circulation layers readable through continuous browsing.

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Sample Material

05 / Documentation

Design Material and Immersive Review

VR Panorama
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Plan / spatial reading
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Section / material atmosphere