Blue Bottle Coffee opened the fourth shop in Japan in Roppoingi, Tokyo. The shop is located on a back street at a distance from the busy avenue, facing a small sunken public plaza like a park where people can freely enter.

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Architects: Schemata Architects

Location: Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo 106-0032, Japan

Architect In Charge: Jo Nagasaka

Design Team: Ryosuke Yamamoto, Yui Matsushita

Area: 139.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Takumi Ota

Construction: TANK

Collaboration: SOUP DESIGN(sign), hoshizaki(kitchen), WHITELIGHT.Ltd(sound plan), 1lux(lighting plan)

Floors: B1F
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Blue Bottle Coffee opened the fourth shop in Japan in Roppoingi, Tokyo. The shop is located on a back street at a distance from the busy avenue, facing a small sunken public plaza like a park where people can freely enter.

© Takumi Ota

Plan

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Our design is based on our vision of a cafe staying beside the plaza and quietly embracing the environment.

© Takumi Ota

Main interior finish material is basswood plywood, and the entire walls are composed of regular repetition of wall cabinets with doors, while the strict regularity is moderated by inserting irregular grids of frames encasing ...