Tablehat by
Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects

Courtyard gardens bite through the walls of this cafe in Japan by Tokyo studio Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects (+ slideshow).

Glass screens allow views across the courtyards from each of the five dining areas that comprise the Tablehat cafe, some of which are only large enough to accommodate a single table.

A wooden roof sits like a series of boxes atop the single-storey building, with openings that let daylight through to the plants and flowers in the courtyards.

The cafe was constructed beside the client’s house and a door leads into it from the side of the existing building.

Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects more recently completed a controversial house with holes in the walls and floors.

Tablehat

This small cafe is built in the peaceful residential street of Odawara city.

If it looks up, there are some on which the air of various sizes is likely to collect.

On the scale as shown in a table, they stood in a row superficially and have floated, under them, tables, chairs, plants, and the kitchen are placed.

The air as the exterior enclosed by the foundation of concrete and the air of various sizes which collects on it as an inside are making a border of inside and outside in the place with a height of 1.8 m.