This is the project for a restaurant and cafe in a new large-scale commercial building in front of Miyazaki Station in Miyazaki City. It is located on the 7th floor of the building, facing the rooftop courtyard and away from the other tenants. On the way to the 7th floor, visitors are exposed to the miscellaneous information of the commercial building, but as they pass through the courtyard on the 7th floor (on rainy days, they have to use an umbrella in the courtyard), we aimed to gradually reset their consciousness and facilitate their transition to a comfortable eating and drinking experience. 

The client is KOTOBUKI Co., Ltd in Kanoya City, Kagoshima Prefecture, which sells livestock materials. They purchase livestock raised on their own feed from the farmers they sell to, buying it back as raw materials for meat, cheese, gelato, etc., creating a cycle between them and the livestock farmers. KOTOBUKI Co., Ltd proposes a "food story" with a flow from fodder to production, processing, and consumption, and this restaurant and cafe is the final point where the fodder sold reaches the customers. 

Instead of building a relationship with the surroundings by creating beautiful openings (beyond which one could only see the large billboards in front of the station and not the rich natural scenery of Miyazaki), the design aimed to create an atmosphere where space, including the interior and exterior, is unified by erasing any sign of the space itself. Space is to be abolished in order to encourage a dialogue with the food, the artwork, and with the external garden, and to provide the visitor with an instinctive experience without making them aware of where they are, while they would normally be very aware of being surrounded by the miscellaneous information of a commercial building. By sorting through the noises one by one with care and precision and processing them meticulously, you will get the feeling of being somewhere else. Client