Photo: Takumi Ota
Blue Bottle Coffee Shinjuku Cafe 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: “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; then placed a hollow-square counter in the center where multiple layers of people overlap each other.
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, allowing the space to extend beyond and create a cafe that serves the entire facility.
The new Blue Bottle Coffee counter stands here in the light-filled urban square.
Data
Title：Blue Bottle Coffee SHINJYUKU Cafe
Architects：Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects
Project team：Ryosuke Yamamoto
Location：NEWoMan SHINJUKU 1F 4-1-6 Shinjyuku Shinjyuku-ku Tokyo Japan
Usage：cafe construction：TANK
Collaboration：SOUP DESIGN（sign）/ HOSHIZAKI ELECTRIC CO.,LTD.（kitchen）/ WHITELIGHT.Ltd（sound plan）/ 1LUX（lighting plan）
Floors：１
Floor area : 155.19m²
Structure：RC
Completion：02/2016
Open：03/2016
Photo：Takumi Ota