Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka,Schemata Architects
14/04/2015.
[TOK] Japan
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
To rehabilitate a former store, darkly, without windows or openings, it is never an easy work, even less, if the aim is to obtain an opened and luminous space, with indoor greenery wich receives at the same time offices and a cafe. In this context Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects developed their project.
Outside view. Blue Bottle CoffOutside view. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.ee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota. Click above to see larger image.
Access detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Bar detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Bar detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Bar detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Staircase. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Indoor greenery detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Hole detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Office space image. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Courtyard image. Indoor greenery detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Indoor greenery detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Indoor greenery detail. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Office images. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Side façade. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Main Façade. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph © Takumi Ota.
Ground floor plan. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects.
First floor plan. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects.
Section. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Photograph by Takumi Ota.
Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects were the managers of restoring a former storage building in Tokyo, for the Californian company Blue Bottle Coffee, obtaining an opened and luminous space, with indoor greenery which receives at the same time offices and a cafe.
Descripción del proyecto por Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects
Blue Bottle Coffee (from Oakland, California) opened their first roastery/café in Japan, to operate as the production base of Blue Bottle Coffee Japan. Schemata Architects was commissioned to renovate the former storage building at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa in Tokyo to accommodate a roastery, cafe, office, barista training room, and pastry factory. Blue Bottle Coffee is a leader of the third-wave coffee companies; they strive to achieve the best flavor and aroma while promoting fair trade and improving the labor environment of coffee farms, constructing a balanced production circle, and developing a positive relationship in which baristas and consumers raise awareness and grow up together.
We respect and support their stance by making the building open to the outside and creating a continuous space where everyone can establish and be involved in a balanced relationship to stay aware of each other’s actions and collaborate for better results. In order to maintain such relationships across spatial boundaries, we install very large-sized glass doors and screens on each floor to maintain transparency between neighboring spaces, inside and outside, and lower and upper floors.
The former storage building had no windows, so we made a large skylight in the center to distribute natural light throughout the space on the second floor. The skylight is located right above the void space connecting the first and second floors, where the indoor greenery on the upper level reflects abundant natural light and delivers exotic forest-like light and shade to the lower level.
Customers can enjoy not only the unique cafe experience, but they can also see and feel the lively production process in the roastery. They can enjoy coffee in a cafe space, while looking up to the second floor through the void space with exotic greenery and light, and might become curious to see the space upstairs. In addition, glass is partially inserted on the second floor right above the main roasting machine, the heart of the roastery, to visually connect the lower and upper floors.
Through the opening, the staff upstairs can observe customers enjoying their coffee, which gives them further motivation, and they can also constantly monitor the production downstairs and immediately respond to any arising issues. These visual connections generate a positive relationship uniting everyone present, including the staff and customers.
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Architects
Project team
Ryosuke Yamamoto.
Collaborators
Sign.- Soup Design. Plant.- Solso. Pendant.- Fresco. Stool.- Standard Trade. Condiment.- O.F.C. Kitchen.- Maruzen. Roaster.- DCS. Environmental plan.- Levi. Sound plan.- Whitelight. Ltd. Lighting plan.- Endo Lighting.
Builder
TANK.
Area
Floor area.- First floor.- 271.72 sqm. Second floor.- 271.72 sqm.
Dates
Completed.-10/2014. Open.- 02/2015.
Location
1-4-8 Hirano Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Photography
Takumi Ota.
Jo Nagasaka. Schemata Architects
Schemata Architects is an architect practice, Tokyo based, founded by Jo Nagasaka, in 1998. Jo Nagasaka established Schemata Architects right after graduating from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1998. He established the shared creative office “HAPPA” in 2007. Currently, he has an office in Kitasando, Tokyo. Jo has extensive experience in a wide range of expertise from furniture to architecture. His design approach is always based on a 1:1 scale, regardless of what size he deals with. He works extensively in Japan and around the world while expanding his design activity in various fields.
His main works include Sayama Flat/ HANARE / FLAT TABLE / ColoRing / BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE / Kuwabara Shoten/OKOMEYA / DESCENTE BLANC / HAY / Signage and Furniture Design for the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo/Musahino Art University Building No.16 etc.
His main works include Sayama Flat/ HANARE / FLAT TABLE / ColoRing / BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE / Kuwabara Shoten/OKOMEYA / DESCENTE BLANC / HAY / Signage and Furniture Design for the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo/Musahino Art University Building No.16 etc.
