The interior design of a coffee shop can make-or-break an establishment. With an inviting design, you can transform drinking a simple cup of coffee into a wonderful experience. However, when you only have a few square meters and various machines and properties to distribute, finding an efficient configuration is not easy.
How to Divide Spaces Without Traditional Solid Partitions
Functionality, good ventilation, comfortable lighting, and access to views are some of the important required characteristics that make for human comfort in inhabited or occupied spaces. Nonetheless, those elements are becoming harder to achieve within smaller city dwellings. Architects and individuals, therefore, turn towards design solutions to create more agreeable and personalized settings.
An initial solution to upscale and widen spaces is to reduce the amount of standard solid partitions or walls and replace them with alternative means of spatial separation.
The Rise of the Design Thinking Movement and its Relation to Architecture
'Innovation' and 'design thinking' could possibly be two of the most extensively-used phrases both online and offline during the past decade. To respond to the global need of "changing the status quo", established companies, start-ups, and even universities have used this framework to generate novel ways of solving problems and create new products, taking into account their desirability, feasibility, and viability. And with that, a new archetype was conceived: the design thinker, someone who has the creative toolkit to generate something disruptive. So what is the meaning behind design thinking and what is its relationship with architecture?
TOMORE zero Co-working Space / SIDES CORE
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Architects: SIDES CORE
- Area: 151 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Filaments inc., betchu-kaguseisakusho
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Professionals: Hitoba Design Co. Ltd., REM inc., Filaments
Lula Hair Salon / YYA / Yusuke Yoshino Architects
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Architects: YYA / Yusuke Yoshino Architects
- Area: 65 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Addwall, MIYAKOYOGYO, ModuleX, Union
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Professionals: YYA / Yusuke Yoshino Architects
Laughter Hair Salon / SIDES CORE
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Architects: SIDES CORE
- Area: 89 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Daiko
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Professionals: THE, DAIKO, SIDES CORE
Escenario SHIROKANE Building / Ryuichi Sasaki / Sasaki Architecture + Rieko Okumura / YTRO DESIGN INSTITUTE
- Area: 346 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Lighting Sou, Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio
Blue Bottle Coffee Kanda Manseibashi Cafe / Schemata Architects
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Architects: Schemata Architects
- Area: 24 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Bootleg, HOSHIZAKI
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Professionals: TANK, WHITELIGHT.Ltd
Share Salon JAM / kfuna
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Architects: kfuna
- Area: 99 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: BEAUTY GARAGE, TAKARA BELMONT
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Professionals: kfuna company limited
Coyane Saikaitoki Restaurant / DO.DO.
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Architects: DO.DO.
- Area: 67 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: BEAL, JFE, Maxray, Sincol
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Professionals: USHIO LIGHTING INC.
LIM・loji Hair Salon / Schemata Architects
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Architects: Schemata Architects
- Area: 563 m²
- Year: 2021
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Professionals: Schemata Architects
CIEL / Soeda and associates Architects
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Architects: Soeda and associates Architects
- Area: 272 m²
- Year: 2021
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Professionals: Ryotaro Sakata Structural Engineers
PALETTE Workspace for Continuous Employment / A Nomad Sub + nanometer architecture
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Architects: A Nomad Sub, nanometer architecture
- Area: 860 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Brunch, Promenade Furniture, fabriscape
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Professionals: 6D, NAWAKENJI-M, Tact Comfort
Garden/House / MAMM DESIGN
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Architects: MAMM DESIGN
- Area: 115 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Lighting M
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Professionals: Ohno JAPAN
Shikism Building / Ryuichi Sasaki + Sasaki Architecture
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Architects: Ryuichi Sasaki / Sasaki Architecture
- Area: 771 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Shinko Stainless Kemma
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Professionals: Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio, Isoiso Design, Lighting Sou, YTRO DESIGN INSTITUTE, Kyodo Kensetsu
Tomonoki-Himawari Kindergarten / MAMM DESIGN
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Architects: MAMM DESIGN
- Area: 933 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Acor, CURATIONER, TEIKOKUKIZAI, Toto, YKK AP, +1
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Professionals: Izumi Okayasu Lighting Design, Ohno JAPAN, SWIMMING, ZO Consulting Engineers
BED / Sohei Arao
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Architects: SIDES CORE
- Area: 32 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Fabric Scape
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Professionals: DAIKO