Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata

Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata

BREAD, ESPRESSO & JIYUGATA

Aki Hamada Architects

STATUS
Built

AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Tokyo, Japan

TYPE
Commercial › Retail

A plan for a bakery & café in Jiyugaoka, Tokyo. Located on the third floor of a complex facility, the shop site has superb views of the sky through a terrace on one side and a large glass wall on the other side.

Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata
Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata

A dynamic space was pursued by smoothly connecting the boundaries of the indoors/outdoors or boundaries between elements such as walls, windows, shelves, and chairs, while enhancing the identity of the site.

For this narrow flat-shaped site, boundary conditions were determined based on the existing structure, traffic lines, and human scale, in order to achieve a proper arrangement of fixtures (e.g., bread display shelves, and counters) and smooth human traffic.

Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata

By simulating tension for these conditions, curved surfaces were determined and formed the surfaces in this space.

For precise construction of free-form surfaces, 2-dimensional developments of board shapes were calculated to be enable paneling along tertiary curved surfaces.

The curvy surfaces appear to be plastered, but are actually made by a highly versatile method of sticking dry boards using 2-dimensional development calculations.

Democratization of the free shape was explored while attending to rather common construction processes.

Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata
Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata

Every form of life has some meaning. We desired to create shapes adapted to an environment and the movement of human, like a life-form that is adapted to nature.

A wooden board as a bone – a boundary condition determined by a network of relationships – is covered by a white curvy wall as a continuous skin with tension.

Various stories will be born in such a space, we believe. There are some reasons for peculiar shapes to be created.

Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata
Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata

We aimed to create a place in which the meaning of the place would be misinterpreted, yet the place would accept various interpretations of visitors.


Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata
Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata
Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata
Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata


Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata
Bread, Espresso & Jiyugata