BOOLEAN (TOKYO UNIVERSITY TETSUMON CAFE) by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
This is an interior designed project for a café space located at the side of the entrance of Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Building in the University of Tokyo.

Holes overlapping each other makes the place feel more open as if there were floating spheres passing through the wall and ceiling, and framed scenery through the hole provides people a new perspective from which to view everyday life.

At first the place was just a waiting room with a vending machine, covered with hard materials, such as stone flooring, walls, and stainless window sash. In order to offset the feeling of hard materials, the architecture team used two L-shaped wooden objects placed in different orientations, one to be a partition wall, and the other for a bench.

“Imagining variously-sized spheres floating around in three-dimensional space, we cut circles out of the partition wall and bench as if the floating spheres burst and made holes on contact with them.”

People can see the surrounding scenery through the holes on the partition wall and hang out with other people sitting in the café.

Photographer: DAICI ANO