This is a renovation project on 5F of the kitchen studio Hue, following the first renovation on 6F, 7F, and RF in 2012. ?6F had been used as the tableware storage room and the library. But this time they decided to use it exclusively as the tableware storage room and relocate the library to 5F. In addition, they also wanted to open a cake shop on 5F.

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Architects: Schemata Architects

Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Architect In Charge: Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architects)

Project Team: Ryosuke Yamamoto, Ou Ueno

Construction: TANK

Area: 512.8 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Takumi Ota

© Takumi Ota
From the architect. This is a renovation project on 5F of the kitchen studio Hue, following the first renovation on 6F, 7F, and RF in 2012. ?6F had been used as the tableware storage room and the library. But this time they decided to use it exclusively as the tableware storage room and relocate the library to 5F. In addition, they also wanted to open a cake shop on 5F.

© Takumi Ota

?A library and a cake shop? are apparently a rather unexpected combination: we provided a kind of ?backstage? space in between, intended as a ?buffer zone? that visually connects both functions while keeping some distance in between at the same time.

Plan

We als...