© Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

架构师提供的文本描述。蓝瓶咖啡(来自加利福尼亚州的奥克兰)在日本开设了第一家烘焙/咖啡店，作为日本蓝瓶咖啡的生产基地。模式建筑师受托对东京Shirakawa Kiyosumi的原存储大楼进行翻修，以容纳烘焙、咖啡馆、办公室、咖啡师培训室和糕点工厂。蓝瓶咖啡公司是第三波咖啡公司的领导者，他们努力实现最佳的风味和香气，同时促进公平贸易和改善咖啡农场的劳动环境，建立一个平衡的生产循环，并发展一种积极的关系，使咖啡师和消费者提高认识，共同成长。

Text description provided by the architects. Blue Bottle Coffee (from Oakland, California) opened their first roastery/café in Japan, to operate as the production base of Blue Bottle Coffee Japan. Schemata Architects was commissioned to renovate the former storage building at Kiyosumi Shirakawa in Tokyo to accommodate roastery, café, office, barista training room and pastry factory. Blue Bottle Coffee is a leader of the third-wave coffee companies; they strive to achieve the best flavor and aroma, while promoting fair-trade and improving the labor environment of coffee farms, to construct a balanced production circle and to develop a positive relationship in which baristas and consumers raise awareness and grow up together.

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

我们尊重和支持他们的立场，使建筑向外开放，并创造一个持续的空间，使每个人都能建立并参与平衡的关系，以了解彼此的行动，并为取得更好的结果而合作。为了保持这种跨越空间边界的关系，我们在每一层都安装了非常大的玻璃门和屏风，以保持相邻空间、内外以及上下层之间的透明度。

We respect and support their stance by making the building open to outside and creating a continuous space where everyone can establish and be involved in the balanced relationship to stay aware of each other’s action and to collaborate for better results. In order to maintain such relationship across spatial boundaries, we install very large-sized glass doors and screens on each floor to maintain transparency between neighboring spaces, inside and outside, and lower and upper floors.

 Floor Plan

以前的储藏室没有窗户，所以我们在中央做了一个大天窗，在二楼的空间里分配自然光。天窗位于连接第一层和第二层的空旷空间之上，上层的室内绿色植物反射出丰富的自然光，并将奇异的森林般的光线和阴影传递到底层。

The former storage building had no windows, so we made a large skylight in the center to distribute natural light throughout the space on the second floor. The skylight is located right above the void space connecting the first and second floors, where the indoor greenery on the upper level reflects abundant natural light and delivers the exotic forest-like light and shade to the lower level.

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

顾客没有普通的咖啡馆体验，但他们实际上可以看到和感受到在烘焙厂的生动的生产过程。他们可以在咖啡厅里享受咖啡，同时透过充满异国情调的绿色植物和光线，仰望二楼，可能会对楼上的空间感到好奇。

Customers are offered no ordinary café experience, but they can actually see and feel the lively production process in the roastery. They can enjoy coffee in a café space, while looking up to the second floor through the void space with exotic greenery and light, and might become curious to see the space upstairs.

此外，部分玻璃地板是插入在第二层之上的主要烘焙机，烘焙中心，视觉连接上下层。通过开业，楼上的员工可以观察顾客如何享受咖啡，这给了他们更多的动力，他们还可以不断地监控楼下的生产，并立即对出现的任何问题作出反应。这些视觉联系产生了一种积极的关系，使在场的每个人，包括工作人员和客户团结在一起。

In addition, a glass floor is partially inserted on the second floor right above the main roasting machine, the heart of the roastery, to visually connect the lower and upper floors. Through the opening, the staff upstairs can observe how customers enjoy their coffee, which gives them further motivation, and they can also constantly monitor the production downstairs and immediately respond to any arising issues. These visual connections generate a positive relationship uniting everyone present, including the staff and customers.

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

Architects Schemata Architects

Location 1 Chome-4-8 Hirano, Kōtō-ku, Tōkyō-to 135-0023, Japan

Category Office Buildings

Architect in Charge Jo Nagasaka

Design Team Ryosuke Yamamoto

Project Year 2015

Photographs Takumi Ota