Gold Interior · 2020
ERC Cafe Commercial Space
by Ya Wun Yang and Yun Fang Huang
- Golden A' Design Award 2020 in Interior
- CLIENT: Homker Design Co.,Ltd.
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About ERC Cafe Commercial Space
ERC Cafe is a cafe interior design covering 218 square meters over two levels. The layout includes a front entrance, a counter, a kitchen, and seating areas with sofas, bar seats, a community table and standard coffee tables. Red brick, metal work, grinding stone, glass, timber and mineral paint give the space a loft character. Fabric is cut into segments and hung from the ceiling in arch shapes, which soften the hard surfaces and diffuse light and air. The double height entrance and the full height windows open the interior to the street and recall a greenhouse.
About the Golden A' Design Award
ERC Cafe Commercial Space is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. ERC Cafe Commercial Space is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. ERC Cafe Commercial Space creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- In this Loft styled cafe, it was filled with classic elements such as red bricks, metal work, cement finished surfaces, etc., along with an outstanding design feature of fabric. As the design team believed that this cafe has a wide range of consumer segments which warranted a free flowing and soft texture fabric to soften up such rustic and hard spatiality with a feminine touch.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The design area of the two levels is of 218 square meters in total, mainly comprised of front entrance, counter, kitchen, and seating areas such as sofa area, bar stool area, community table, and normal coffee table area, etc.
- Tags
- Fabric, Light and Shadow, Screen, Flowing, Greenhouse, Cafe Design
- Production Technology
- Fabric, Metal Work, Vintage Red Tiles, Grinding Stone, Glass, Timber, Mineral Paint
- Design Challenge
- As much fabric was used in the space, on one hand, the replacement of fabric in maintenance shall be considered, and on the other hand, the fabric shall be hung in seemingly effortless fashion so as to articulate the envisaged arch shape, which also led to its installation technique that was also challenging.
- Research
- In echoing with the unique styling of the architectural form of the building, as well as the tree plantation on the street, the spatial planning anchored on theme of infusion into the building while accentuating the serenity of cafe. In material selection, the solid and robust metal work was complemented by soft and translucent fabric material, as well as by the authentic red brick wall, for a balanced spatial quality.
In referencing the formal vocabulary of greenhouse arch, fabric was cut into segments and hung from the ceiling as light and air diffuser, as well as serving as spatial demarcation in an ever changing forest environment. - Inspiration
- As this Cafe must echo the creative aspiration of Infusion of red brick wall and plant, as well as new visuals, as requested by the client, along with its corner location and curtain wall glass windows, the design of the overall space was anchored on a greenhouse filled with trees, wind, light, i.e. a domain of enriched dynamic visual experiences.
- Project Duration
- The project was finished in February, 2019 in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- In terms of spatial layout, it was about expanding the double ceiling height area at the building entrance, which increased the vertical spatial connection with transparent spatial quality, and the kitchen was moved to the same side as the counter so as to create a more functional and flowing working circulation, as the original kitchen was designated as a shared seating area with unobstructed window view out.
- Image Credits
- Sam Siew Shien, 2019
