With a limited area of 75 m, the site has to accommodate multiple functional areas, including a kitchen, a bar counter, a public seating area and an independent private room.
To create a relaxing and intimate atmosphere Various Associates conceived an isolated, delicate and distinctive wooden cabin in the concrete jungle.
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.
The ceiling features a unique slanting structure, which helps integrate the interior and outdoor space. The interior space is not merely a flat view, but is more like an artwork enveloped by exquisite framework, waiting passers-by to explore.
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.
Various Associates hopes this project breaks the boundaries between cafe and bar, gets closer to the community and uses design to improve life: hence the company’s concept "Design is Life".
With an intimate, simplistic and cabin-like ambience, C² Cafe & Bar offers a novel destination to the neighbourhood.