The new cafe designed by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects is located on the ground floor of a newly opened commercial facility connected to Shinjuku Station. Schemata intended to create a fair relationship between all people present: “hosts” and “guests” mixing with each other, people waiting in line, seated and standing customers; staff working at the casher; ballista brewing coffee inside the counter and others.
Blue Bottle Coffee
To create a fair relationship between all the presents, Schemata Architects adjusted details to suit everybody’s eye level at the same height in a new cafe nearby Shinjuku Station.
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- 28 April 2016
- Tokyo
First, they carefully adjusted details to suit everybody’s eye level at the same height; then placed a hollow-square counter in the center, where multiple layers of people overlap each other. Furniture height is set below the waist height to keep out of sight; and floor and ceiling are finished with the same materials as the common area, in order to extend the space beyond the lease line and create a cafe that serves the entire facility. The new Blue Bottle Coffee counter stands here in the light-filled urban square.
Blue Bottle Coffee
Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Design: Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects
Project team: Ryosuke Yamamoto
Construction: Tank
Collaboration: Soup Design (signage), Hoshizaki Electric Co., Ltd (kitchen), Whitelight Ltd. (sound), 1LUX (lighting design)