Baby Cafe, Tokyo
Tokyo Baby Café is a café Tokyo‘s neighbourhood for parenst and their babies, there everybody coud enjoy,being out with children without worrying about them. The palce is fully stocked with children’s books and toys, there is a playroom, private rooms and separate zones for nursing and changing diapers.The spaces are easily accessible with a stroller, light switches and door handles are placed on a safe distance from the kids.
The cafe was designed to be enjoyed by two very different sizes of users, adults and small children; in terms of this, the interior displays this difference in scale. Besides scale, children and adults see the world through different eyes. Taking a table as an example, adults live their lives aware of tabletops, and the things placed on top of them, but children see the table’s underside: table’s legs can look like pillars, and the reverse of the tabletop is like a roof. The cafe’s “absolutely huge” and “absolutely tiny” furnishings take advantage of these two perspectives. A nursing sofa becomes a playroom when blown up on a massive scale.
Big windows pair with small ones, and large light bulbs with small ones. The floorboards vary in size, and the undersides of tables, where parents eyes don’t reach, hide pictures of parent and baby animals.
