Article source: Niji Architects

This cafeteria is a timber framed, single-story building located in Ushimado of Setouchi city, Okayama prefecture, Japan. It serves as a canteen for a local construction company as well as a cafeteria for the local community. The building structure and its finishes are  kept simple and the presence of the building is kept to a bare minimum. The building design focuses mainly on its primary function as a cafeteria for the local people and to familiarize itself to the community.

Image Courtesy © Masafumi Harada / Niji Photo

• Architects: Niji Architects  (AI Design + OHNO JAPAN)
• Project: Cafeteria
• Location: Ushimado, Japan
• Photography: Masafumi Harada / Niji Photo
• Building area: 166.32m2
• Total floor area: 144.00m2
• Type of Construction: Timber structure
• Number of stories: 1F
• Building height: 3.37ｍ
• Principal use: Shop(Cafeteria)
• Principal designer: Masafumi Harada / Niji Architects
• Construction: UG Giken
• Design period: August 2012 – December 2012
• Construction period: January 2013 – April 2013

Finish

• Structure: Exposed timber structure
• Roof: Folded metal roof
• External façade: Clear float glass t=10mm with glass film
• Window: Wooden sash window and Aluminum sash window