LENTO DISCOVERING GUNKAN
Discovering Gunkan was a collective dinner and spatial intervention held on the rooftop of the Gunkan Building, a surviving example of the Japanese Metabolist architecture movement.
Through a six-course menu imagined by chef Paco La Monica as a sensory narration, the event explored the themes of transformation and mutation.
Designer Gala Espel created a suspended setting inspired by notions of adaptability and modularity, while artist Natalie Tsyu introduced sound as a responsive medium, activating the site through sensors and kinetic
elements that translated the building vibrations into acoustic textures.
Rather than fix the Gunkan in time, the project treated the building as a living system, inviting guests to
experience it not as a relic, but as a body still capable of change.
Artist : Natalie Tsyu
Designer: Gala Espel
Chef: Francesco Paco la Monica, Alessio Gorni
Curation: Lucia Filippini, Dominika Demlova