项目坐落于日本茨城县佐岛郡境町，是一家集餐饮与购物于一体的咖啡厅，在这里，游客可以品尝与购买境町的特色小吃红薯干。

The café provides an eating area and a shop where visitors can enjoy and buy hoshi-imo or dried sweet potatoes, a specialty of Sakaimachi.

▼项目概览，overall of the project © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

建筑外表皮上的木制百叶采用了当地生产的木材，象征了红薯干的纤维纹理，同时起到了包括遮阳在内的调节外部环境的功能。

We created a screen with an image of the fiber of dried potatoes by combining louvers of locally produced wood, which performs as a device for the space to adjust its environment conditions, including sunlight-shielding.

▼项目与周边环境鸟瞰，aerial view of the project and surrounding environment © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

▼项目鸟瞰，aerial view of the project © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

此外，隈研吾事务所还在咖啡厅附近60米的距离，设计了其他两栋小型建筑，分别为「境町S-Gallery」与「境町S-Lab」。通过这种点状分布的商业空间，形成相互联系的商业网络，为日本地区普遍的公路沿线大型商店赋予了全新的定义，将境町重新变为一个步行友好的城市。

We’ve also designed ‘Sakaimachi S-Gallery’ and ‘Sakaimachi S-Lab’ within the distance of 60m from the café to set up a network among those small dots in area, in an attempt to transform the town to a more walker-friendly place, which had been badly affected by large-scale stores built along bypass highways, a typical scene of provinces in Japan.

▼立面的木制百叶象征了特色红薯干的纤维纹理 © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office
The wooden louvers on the facade symbolize the characteristic fibrous texture of dried sweet potatoes

▼木制百叶起到了遮阳等环境调节的功能，Wooden louvers provide shading and other environmental conditioning functions © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

▼外观细部，exterior details © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

项目旨在将小型商业空间与以人为本的城市设计相结合，以达到振兴当地经济的目的。

The project aims to connect the activity to invigorate local economy and the human-centered urban design.

▼室内概览，overall of the interior © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

▼楼梯，staircase © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

▼室内材料细部，interior detail © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

▼夜景，night view © Kawasumi·kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

Location：Sakaimachi, Sashima District, Ibaraki Prefecture
Date：May 2021
Type：Cafe
Area：106.33 m2
Project team: 須磨哲生、関口朋実、半田千尋、鈴木公雄、叶子萌、間瀬京子
Structure: 江尻建築構造設計事務所
Construction: 中和建設株式会社