Tea Shop Parvati
TEA SHOP PARVATI
Keisuke Hatakenaka Architects Studio
ARCHITECTS
Keisuke Hatakenaka Architects Studio
LEAD ARCHITECT
Keisuke Hatakenaka
MANUFACTURERS
AGC, TOOU
PHOTOGRAPHS
Nao Takahashi
AREA
40 m²
YEAR
2020
LOCATION
Toshima City, Japan
CATEGORY
Restaurants & Bars, Coffee Shop
Text description provided by architect.
A specialized shop selling and serving Darjeeling tea close to Senkawa station in Toshima-ku Tokyo.
The shop consists of 3 separate areas, a seating area, kitchen, and storage to store tea leaves at a constant temperature.
The shop is located at a corner of a residential area and in order to meet the owner’s request to build a store where customers can drop in casually, one corner of the shop is built with an open counter and another corner is fully opened to the street.
Since existing eaves, tents and shutters could be utilized, light and inexpensive hollowness polycarbonate plates are used for those two openings, and in accordance with the usage of these openings, one is built with a rotating window and another with a large sliding window.
In order to reduce the cost of construction, a separate ordering system was taken and the owner himself had built a portion of the construction by himself.
Thus, each Demolition → Woodwork → Furniture work → Painting work → Equipment work was designed to be completed separately by itself.
