How an unexpected ingredient guided material experimentation at this winning Kyoto café

The AoQ coffee stand is situated on the ground floor of a two-storey wooden building at an intersection near Kyoto’s main station, surrounded by hotels and offices. - Daisuke Shima

G Architects Studio focused on creating a distinctive façade for AoQ, a subsidiary of long-established local confectionery company Suetomi. - Daisuke Shima

$The designers applied copper foil to the walls, accelerating the oxidation process with soy sauce to achieve a reddish-brown hue and ammonium chloride for a bluish patina, replicating natural weathering in a fraction of the time. - Daisuke Shima$

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Location

319 Tamatsushimachō, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, 600-8427, Japan

Design

Ryohei Tanaka/ G Architects Studio

Client

Suetomi

Floor Area

10 sq-m

The Kyoto-located Suetomi AoQ Café Stand won the Best Use of Material category for its innovative and unconventional treatment of its c

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