NIGIO is located in Qinhuai District, Nanjing City, which started in Xi'an, Shanxi Province in 2014. The brand attaches great importance to the sense of ceremony and the uniqueness of the restaurant environment. As the first store in Nanjing, how to fit the historical building, complete the creative transformation, and present the diversification of the brand has become the main topic of the design team. 

After analyzing the on-site environment and functional demands, the design team drew inspiration from the oriental construction culture, and combined the dry-column architectural intentions in southern residential buildings with the "ground floor overhead" feature of traditional Japanese residential buildings. Building is a way of spatial reconception to fully create accessibility in a small space. 

Based on the respect and continuation of the overall frame of the historical building, the design team retained the internal cladding texture and the original roof truss, and built a dark-style aluminum-steel frame in the red brick mottled factory space. Enhances the "dramatic" character of the space. A new space is designed to be juxtaposed in the original frame, presenting a state of mixing old and new, low-key blending into the Japanese culture of harmony and silence, becoming a must-see for food lovers in the city to explore and inquire. 

We thought about the high-efficiency layout of the space. The newly built steel frame cuts the interior of the compact restaurant into a double-storey space. The design of the private room on the second floor with a semi-enclosed structure around the atrium meets the needs of private gatherings. The first floor focuses on restoring the open atmosphere of traditional izakaya cuisine to distinguish it, and it is also a local transformation based on the universalization of commercial space.