Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe / Schemata Architects

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Meguro, Japan
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  397
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Photographs
    Photographs: Takumi Ota
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  ERCOL, ISHINOMAKI LABORAORY, Mala Gruppen
  • Collaboration: SOUP DESIGN, HOSHIZAKI, WHITELIGHT.Ltd, 1lux, GRANSCAPE Inc
  • Architect In Charge: Schemata Architects, Jo Nagasaka
  • Project Team: Ryosuke Yamamoto, Yui Matsushita
  • City: Meguro
  • Country: Japan
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Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe  / Schemata Architects - Windows, Facade
© Takumi Ota

Text description provided by the architects. It was such a great honor for me to design the renovation of my favorite building that I used to see every day. About nine years ago, we had co-established a shared office HAPPA across the street from the building and relocated our former office there; we employed to observe the neighborhood through the glass and this building was my most favorite among others on the street.

Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe  / Schemata Architects - Chair
© Takumi Ota

Incidentally, Blue Bottle Coffee decided to open their fifth shop there and we were commissioned to renovate the building to accommodate cafe/office, spaces used for barista training and workshop. It was a three-story steel structure formerly used as an electric factory, and we intended to hereby create a “fair relationship” between all people present, which is our basic spatial concept for Blue Bottle Coffee.

Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe  / Schemata Architects - Image 10 of 14
© Takumi Ota
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Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe  / Schemata Architects - Table, Windows, Chair, Beam
© Takumi Ota
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Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe  / Schemata Architects - Countertop, Kitchen, Chair
© Takumi Ota

Since this neighborhood is located far from the station, the streets are lined with many unique and small-sized shops. In order to continue the sense of small scale into the space, floors are divided in a stepped-floor style, while utilizing the existing openings formerly used for loading/unloading and storing. Horizontal pivot windows installed on the front glass façade help defining the boundary between the interior and the surrounding environment, while establishing a visual relationship of “see and be seen” so that people become aware of each other’s presence wherever they are in the space.

Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe  / Schemata Architects - Windows, Door, Facade
© Takumi Ota

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Address:Nakameguro, Meguro, Tokyo 153-0061, Japan

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Cite: "Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe / Schemata Architects" 08 Nov 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/799007/blue-bottle-coffee-nakameguro-cafe-schemata-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

© Takumi Ota

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