Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect

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Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect

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  • Project Name: Option Coffee Bar
  • Practice: TOUCH Architect
  • Products: Danpal , iLight , DVP , HACO
  • Completion year: 2019
  • Gross Built up Area: 150 sqm
  • Project Location: Udonthani
  • Country: Thailand
  • Clients: Panupant Laoraoviroj
  • Contractors: SI Architecture and Construction
  • Photo Credits: Metipat Prommomate
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Excerpt: Option Coffee Bar, designed by Touch Architect, is a time-sharing, massing, and zoning design was created to suit both contrast functions of a healthy food restaurant in the morning while used as a craft-beer bar in the evening. A simple white box was created to show contrast from the context and focus on the art elements inside. This makes it easier to catch the eyes of people around the site. At the same time, it generates a ‘simply different’ atmosphere by using all black and white materials. It arouses customers’ sensations by changing emotions during the timeline.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] Option Coffee Bar is located at the city center of Udonthani, Thailand. It has a limited land area which can be approached from main street directly. There are three primary functions which are café, restaurant, and bar, together in one space with time-sharing functions; café / bakery and healthy food restaurant in the morning, while using as a craft-beer bar in the evening.

Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
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Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
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Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
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Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
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Since it is a time-sharing, massing and zoning design of this café was created in the way to suit these both contrast functions. There are two floors, the first floor with café and counter bar, and the mezzanine floor for only customers’ seats, which fit in a rectangular function box, by concerning building codes, rules, and regulations. In order to maximize the number of seats, an open-plan and flexible seating is needed. Furthermore, Loose furniture is used at a mezzanine floor in order to flexi the space to be a temporary event or an art showcase.

Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
© Metipat Prommomate
Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
© Metipat Prommomate
Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
© Metipat Prommomate

Simple white box was created to show contrast from the context, together with, focusing on art elements inside. This makes it is easier to catch the eyes from people around the site, while generate ‘simply different’ atmosphere by using all black and white materials. A major plain of this white box comes together with 2 types of voids, which are ‘transparent’ and ‘translucent’. A translucent one which is the front façade, made of double layer of clear-colour polycarbonate which creates variation of light. It allows natural sunlight from outside to inside during daytime as for café, while creates colouring effect from multi-colour lighting from inside during nighttime as a bar. It arouses customers’ sensation by changing emotion during timeline.

Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
© Metipat Prommomate
Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
© Metipat Prommomate
Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
© Metipat Prommomate
Option Coffee Bar | Touch Architect
© Metipat Prommomate

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