We renovated a former fishing gear warehouse in Miyagawa-cho, Miura-city, with a population of 1300, into a bagel shop.The project began with local residents' concern about their future due to a decrease in population and tax revenues and they were looking for the possibility of utilizing vacant houses in the city. We came to think, "we can?t stop a population decline immediately, however, might be able to attract people to visit this area? and then we decided to use a vacant house in Miyagawa-cho which was a southernmost part of Miura Peninsula.   

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Architects: ROOVICE

Location: Miyagawacho, Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture 238-0231, Japan
Architect In Charge: Miyagawa Resort LLC.

Design Team: ROOVICE, Glove Caravan

Area: 214.8 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Akira Nakamura

Construction: ROOVICE (member:Tomoe Naito, Motomi Kuroda )

Site Area: 373.2m2

Total Floor Area: 42.8m2

© Akira Nakamura

From the architect. We renovated a former fishing gear warehouse in Miyagawa-cho, Miura-city, with a population of 1300, into a bagel shop.The project began with local residents' concern about their future due to a decrease in population and tax revenues and they were looking for the possibility of utilizing vacant houses in the ...