"Floating white pillows"
The 25㎡ coffee shop is on the roof fire out of the circle
The project is located in Fengshengli, Nanjing West Road, Shanghai. Passing through the dense Shikumen buildings and new business shops, a small shop of less than 25 square meters near the subway entrance is the Bird Cup. Cramped and crowded – how to extract an "emotional landmark" in a noisy environment became the primary design clue.
Emotional landmarks
F.O.G. is not limited by the attribute of "commercial space", trying to make the "emoticon" design attract people to stop. The overall space adopts the method of subtraction, using glass materials and matte metal in a large area, paving a highly recognizable gray and white space; the spatial form is transparent and flat, rigid and soft: the curved roof, the uniform light under the soft film ceiling, so that the original gray and cold metal image can be loosened, creating a gentle dream.
Roof dreams
Although the curved roof is the biggest highlight of the project, it is also the biggest difficulty. Temporary commercial construction often uses the roof as a carrier for signboards, and F.O.G. decided that it would dominate the structural beauty of the space. After a long period of conceiving of the architectural image of the "big roof" and based on the observation of the project environment and the perception of the owner's personality, the design team finally presented a "white floating object" that softened the expression of the space.
Clouds, pillows, balloons, spaceships... Its form cannot be associated with any single image, and is intended to lead people to find a very random, loose, and emotional connection between themselves and space. Just as coffee is meant to eliminate fatigue, designers pin their hopes on emptying people for a moment through these white floats. At the same time, the "cloud" image and the "little bird" form an intertextuality, which is also an allusion to the Internet age, symbolizing the intersection of natural life and information data.
After coordinating with the site, engineers, construction teams, etc., F.O.G. finally used a C-shaped structural system to support the weight of the entire roof, retaining only an ultra-thin inclined column, thus ensuring that the roof visually gave people a "floating feeling".
Coffee Station
From the roof to the space under the eaves, floating objects and metal shells naturally connect and complement each other. The flat visual sense cut by the knife worker echoes the DNA of the speed, interaction, and fluidity of the coffee station; the face-to-face chimerism leaves gaps in the wall and the ground, becoming a window for space tuna; the designer also deliberately suppresses the chroma and purely realizes spatial extension through the free plane. In addition, the glass façade effectively dissolves the barrier between the customer and the barista, and the tilt of the ultra-thin column becomes an "unstable factor", enhancing the dynamic sense of the space.
From the space as a whole to the details, the skeleton to the skin membrane, F.O.G. always seeks a balance between order and ingenuity, industrial sense and temperature, hoping that this miniature building can transcend the ordinary functional existence, have "emotion", "imagination" and "daily life", so that beauty can become the second nutrient in addition to caffeine, and dissolve people's difficulties.
Floor plan and design updates
Project information
PROJECT INFO
Project Location | Shanghai
Project area | 25 sq.m
Project Status | Built
The design team | Xiong Aijie, Hou Shaokai, Song Yuzheng, Feng Nanqi, Li Jie, Zou Dejing, Zheng Yu, Zhan Di
Structural Consultant | Yuan Xin, Cai Xinyu, Tao Xinwei
Photography | Photography of the architectural space of Yan Yu
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