Blue Bottle Coffee

Schemata Architects designed Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi in Tokyo, based on the vision of a cafè staying beside the plaza and quietly embracing the environment.

Blue Bottle Coffee opened the fourth shop in Japan in Roppongi, Tokyo. The shop is located on a back street at a distance from the busy avenue, facing a small sunken public plaza like a park where people can freely enter.

Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo, 2016

Schemata Architects’ design is based on the vision of a cafè staying beside the plaza and quietly embracing the environment.

Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo, 2016

Main interior finish material is basswood plywood, and the entire walls are composed of regular repetition of wall cabinets with doors, while the strict regularity is moderated by inserting irregular grids of frames encasing several doors.

Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo, 2016
Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo, 2016
Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo, 2016
Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo, 2016
Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo, 2016
Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo, 2016
Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, plan
Schemata Architects, Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, section


Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafè, Tokyo
Program: cafè
Architects: Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects
Project team: Ryosuke Yamamoto, Yui Matsushita
Construction: TANK
Floor area: 139.31 sqm
Completion: 2016