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Miyagawa Bagel Shop in Miura

Warehouse Renovation Japan building design by Roovice architects

6 Jun 2016

Miyagawa Bagel Shop

Design: Roovice

Location: Miyagawa-cho, Miura-city, Japan

Miyagawa Bagel

Roovice architects renovated a former fishing gear warehouse in Miyagawa-cho, Miura-city, with a population of 1300, into a bagel shop. The project began with local residents’ concern about their future due to a decrease in population and tax revenues and they were looking for the possibility of utilizing vacant houses in the city.

Miyagawa Bagel

Roovice, architects came to think, “we can’t stop a population decline immediately, however, might be able to attract people to visit this area” and then they decided to use a vacant house in Miyagawa-cho which was a southernmost part of Miura Peninsula.

Miyagawa Bagel

It is located in a valley overlooking a small bay, where it takes about one and a half hours away from Tokyo and an hour from Yokohama. While it is located in a place where even local residents don’t visit frequently, there is an old saltpan nearby and also a pleasant place to be felt familiar with the song of birds and the sound of wave.

Miyagawa Bagel

After thinking how to can attract people into this small town, the architects decided to open a shop where they sell bagels using locally grown wheat and cream cheese kneading locally grown vegetables.

Miyagawa Bagel

Original exterior walls were replaced with the corrugated plate of clear polycarbonate. This design allows people to see inside of the shop even in less crowded road. The interior design proposed to a new feeling of nostalgia, applied to a whole counter with lauan, which was a similar material to the existing one, and with white tiles (100mm x 100mm), which has been commonly used since long time ago.

Miyagawa Bagel

The concept was aimed at bringing surrounding green environment into the inside of the shop, opening to the outside and providing the information of local foods. Roovice architects expected the inflow of people even from Tokyo, such as a little away from the area as weekend activities. In addition, Roovice architects believed that they could revitalize the local community, leading them to think the possibility of starting something by themselves, if they opened a shop at an unfavorable location as seen from the local people and received any response to it.

Miyagawa Bagel

Photography: Akira Nakamura

Miyagawa Bagel Shop in Miura images / information from Takeshi Hosaka Architects

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