The cafe is located in the suburbs, away from the hustle and bustle of the city center, facing a main road in a quiet residential area with fields, rivers, and woods in the neighborhood. We completely renovated the existing building, which had the appearance of a typical large roadside restaurant, into a book café. The client is involved in activities to preserve the local wooded area and river, and the following points were told to us at the start of the design process.

-To create a place where people can live in harmony with nature and people through food, and create a sustainable lifestyle.

-To make it a calm place with a sense of life and take care of children and the elderly, especially children in order to achieve a sustainable society and community.

-To make use of the 40,000 books he owns to create a library where people can feel and think about "nature and important things that we want to preserve. 

-To provide opportunities for experiences related to food and greenery, and to provide a place where people can experience culture, art, and intellectual things. 

-The wooded area in particular was the original landscape of Musashino where the cafe exists, but now that the relationship between people and the area has broken down, he would like to create a place where people can discover new possibilities for people and the environment by relating the wooded area to agriculture and food.

In order to understand these ideas, we walked through the wooded areas and riverbanks and thought about how we could materialize the client's experience and ideas. We not only wanted to create a friendly place with plenty of local trees, but also to express the wooded area in the space, and to include the sense of the river somewhere. Finding answers to the client's requests was a challenging and rewarding task, as we felt the joy of creative design.