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Architects: Various Associates
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Feng Shao
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Text description provided by the architects. C2 Cafe & Bar is not simply a socializing space. The client hopes it will become a "private" destination where young urbanites can shake off pressures, troubles and obtain inner peace.
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With a limited area of 75 meters, the site has to accommodate multiple functional areas, including a kitchen, a bar counter, a public seating area and an independent private room. As approaching the design, Various Associates firstly tried to figure out how to create a unique, distinctive and exquisite space while meeting the demands of functional layout.
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![C² Cafe & Bar / Various Associates - Interior Photography, Table, Lighting, Beam, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f77/5b4e/63c0/17ae/2200/099c/medium_jpg/23.jpg?1601657667)
The client hoped the project could be based in different corners throughout the city and provide an urban "holiday cabin" to the community. Besides, a relaxing and intimate atmosphere was required. Taking "Cabin in City" as the design thread, Various Associates conceived an isolated, delicate and distinctive wooden cabin in the concrete jungle.
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Cross sections of cylinders can be seen everywhere in the space. Those details soften the hard edges, remove the coolness of the modern city, and produce a peaceful, cosy spatial ambience. In this space, people are able to take off all pressures and return to a serene state.
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The ceiling features a unique slanting structure, which help integrate the interior and outdoor space. The interior space in not merely a flat view, but is more like an artwork enveloped by exquisite framework, waiting passers-by to explore.
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The silver oval art installation hanging in the space not only breaks the fixed, conventional pattern of the space, but also injects a futurist feeling into it. The mirror-like surface reflects the surroundings and shows a micro world.
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For Various Associates, this project is a new attempt. The studio hopes it breaks the boundaries between cafe and bar, gets intimate with the community via a popular appearance and hence brings people closer together. Through the project, Various Associates explored the possibilities of getting close to community via design, with a view to conveying the concept "Design is Life".
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With an intimate, simplistic and cabin-like ambience, C2 Cafe & Bar offers a novel destination to theneighbourhood and young urbanites who are living a fast-paced life.
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![C² Cafe & Bar / Various Associates - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5f77/599f/63c0/17bc/c900/0d82/newsletter/4.jpg?1601657228)