「麹中カフェ」+クスキチオフィス

We converted an old restaurant overlooking a massive 600-year-old camphor tree into a Café and Office space. The spatial qualities required by an office and a café are different, so separating them completely with a blank wall and creating two distinct spaces is a common approach. However, what people want form a space is not always clear cut. Sometimes one wants to eat quietly and they might want an office like silence, or another time officemates might want to have a meeting in a café like atmosphere.
So, what we decided is not to separate the different programs with an immovable wall, but rather mark changes in space through changes in the level of the ceiling and floor. In that way we can say we created not 2, but rather 2.5 spaces. The 0.5 represents a space in an intermediate state. It can be used as a part of café or an office meeting room via semi-transparent sliding doors. Actually, if we look back to Japanese architecture of old, changes in ceiling or floor levels were commonly used to demarcate space. We simply reinterpreted this old approach.