mokkado Café / MUKU design studio

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The interior design is based on:“Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based inImizuCity, Toyama Prefecture. The café is a renovation of a 100-year-old old house, the birthplace of the founder, and also a factory of a Toyama-based company that manufactures and sells medicine in a traditional Toyama style. The company, which now mainly handles Chinese herbal medicines along with a variety of healthy food products, will operate a café offering chai and shaved ice based on Chinese herbalism along with a corner where medicine can also be purchased.Moreover, the ivy planted at the base of the rope partition which envelopes thedomaallow visitors to visually enjoy the growth of the café. The idea is to provide an opportunity for guests to leave the hustle and bustle of life behind and become more conscious of their own body and mind.Consequently, the café offers a cozy environment where people would naturally gather and interact whilst strongly conveying the memories of the land and the story of the building.Within the center of a building, a space like adoma(space where people can walk in their shoes in a Japanese house typically made with earthen floor) and steps and benches generated from zoning of the various floor levels offers a free atmosphere that welcomes the various ways in which guests spend their time and a pleasant spatial experience that seamlessly connects the inside and outside.An artwork fabricated from stones and timber found under the floor of the old house planted with medicinal herb plant is installed in the center ofdomato act as a symbol to connect the nostalgic memory of the old house and the story of the cafe.