It is an extension of two-story wooden house at residential street in Odawara city.

The extended part was planed for cafe and residence. Basic structure is built up with mutually connected ten wooden big-size tables with 42mm-thick flames and 9mm-thick plywood top panel.

Each of them with different size and height creates various spaces below with suitable furniture, lighting and plants. Connected ten tables look like being floated on 250mm-thick concrete slab which stood by 1.8m higher from a foundation around the residence.

There are tables, chairs and roof which covers them, and this place becomes café when a freshly poured cup of coffee comes. This such a primitive scene of cafe is considered as a structure for making this architecture. Each of space offers a place for reading, gathering, having a view of trees outside and so on. Taking small scales of furniture in cafe as foot in the door for planning, all the places including boundary of inside and outside are gradually separated each other but are connected and shares this place at the same time. It is a cafe like a park in a peaceful residential street where people chose a favorite place and take a cup of coffee for relaxing.

The small gardens are quite important for this café, because we wanted to design the café which was composed of only seats and small gardens. Two spaces” seats and small gardens” being arranged separately, people can experience unclear boundary of inside and outside. There are different type of seats, the bar, two chairs, 4 chairs and floor seats. Depending on the seat type, we designed different type of small gardens. For example, in table seat one’s eyes are interrupted by trees from 1m to 1.8m height. And in floor seats people can enjoy to look at dry garden which was extended from existing house side. Depending on the type of seats, orientation and hour, the light streaming in each seats and small gardens will changes gradually, and it create depth of space in this cafe.