Japanese design team cooks up aluminum-framed drop-in cafeteria
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ROKU Edogawa drop-in cafeteria (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
No welding is required in assembling the structure (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
The designers have chosen extruded aluminum for the shell due its strength-to-weight ratio (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
Ceiling panels come with integrated lighting (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
ROKU Edogawa drop-in cafeteria (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
Ceiling panels come with integrated lighting (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
No welding is required in assembling the structure (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
The designers have chosen extruded aluminum for the shell due its strength-to-weight ratio (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
ROKU Edogawa drop-in cafeteria (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
The designers have chosen extruded aluminum for the shell due its strength-to-weight ratio (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
Ceiling panels come with integrated lighting (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
No welding is required in assembling the structure (Photo © Kai Nakamura)
LED lighting is integrated into the frame
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Architects, it seems, are increasingly interested in transforming a building's use without making permanent changes to the fabric itself. If the BEEBOX we covered in January (a sort of drop-in, self-contained office desk) is exhibit A, then B is an altogether grander intervention. A design team led by Tokyo's Masatomo Kojima has cooked up ROKU Edogawa, a flexible aluminum structure designed to transform any interior space into a cafeteria.
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