Architecture studio Schemata Architects has created Blue Bottle Coffee Toyosu Park Cafe, a wooden cafe in Japan with an open design that gives visitors an unobstructed view of the sea. The cafe is located in Tokyo’s Toyosu Park, which sits next to Tokyo Bay.
“The aim was to create a relationship in which the entire park would feel like a seating area from the point of view of the cafe side, and the cafe is one of the diverse places to be from the point of view of the park side,” said Jo Nagasaka, Founder, Schemata Architects.
The wooden building comprises three volumes with sloping roofs of different heights and was designed to blend in with the trees in Toyosu Park. Schemata Architects used mainly wood for its structure, with two types of wood forming decorative pillars that support roofs that vary in height.
“The tree species used are cypress (hinoki) and larch,” Nagasaka said. “The safety engineering construction method using laminated wood allows column spans to be skipped and seating to be arranged freely.”
The cafe’s facade is covered in beige-hued fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP), which also forms small tabletops. Schemata Architects chose to use this FRP to create a coherent colour palette for the cafe.
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