Tea Shop Parvati / Keisuke Hatakenaka Architects Studio

A specialized shop selling and serving  Darjeeling tea close to Senkawa station in Toshima-ku Tokyo.  The shop consists of 3 separate areas, a seating area, kitchen, and storage to store tea leaves at a constant temperature. The shop is located at a corner of a residential area and in order to meet the owner’s request to build a store where customers can drop in casually, one corner of the shop is built with an open counter and another corner is fully opened to the street.