Schemata Architects

Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe

Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota

BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE SHINJUKU CAFE

Jo Nagasaka, Schemata Architects

COLLABORATION
SOUP DESIGN(sign, HOSHIZAKI ELECTRIC CO.,LTD.(kitchen, WHITELIGHT.Ltd(sound plan, 1LUX(lighting plan)

CONSTRUCTION
Tank

AREA
155.1 m²

PHOTOGRAPHS
Takumi Ota

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Tokyo, Japan

CATEGORY
Coffee Shop

Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota
Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota

Text description provided by architect.

The cafe is located on the ground floor of a newly opened commercial facility connected to Shinjuku Station. We intend to create a fair relationship between all people present.

Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota
Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota

“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 more.

First, we carefully adjusted details to suit everybody’s eye level at the same height, and then placed a hollow-square counter in the center, where multiple layers of people overlap each other.

Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota
Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota

Furniture height is set below the waist height to keep out of sight; and floor and ceiling are finished with the same material as the common area to erase the boundary between the shop and the common area, allowing the space to extend beyond to 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 Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota
Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota
Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
© Takumi Ota


Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
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Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe
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