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OBROS COFFEE, Koriyama, Fukushima

Kotaro Anzai, Life style koubou

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Designer
Kotaro Anzai, Life style koubou
Client
OBROS COFFEE
Floor area
111.78 ㎡
Completion
2016

Two brothers had decided to open this coffee shop in the center of city, that was flourishing as one of shop street in previous time, to create and enliven people’s communication, relationship and also revitalize the community in this town through coffee. The 50 years architecture of shop used to be a post office and had been finished its role was concerned demolition, when it was considered to start this projects. In this situation, Life Style Koubou joined this project and had proposed initial concept that keeps this architecture and is fully renovated to succeed history and local culture. As concept of the coffee shop was creating the spatial and time, which people are able to have communication variedly regardless of age, sex and nationality, the design of architecture had set up to create seamless environment with making use of existing old material and structure to fit as an interior and an exterior. The idea is from practical greenhouse at farm that was landscape in the original state of this city that make people remind good old. Another important reason why we chose this practical greenhouse style was that it was a message to reutilize old existing architecture and materials, and create something in the current situation, which is basically scrapping old architecture and building new one for this 50 years.