Coffee House
Interior Architecture | CommercialF&B (Coffee Specialty Cafe)Singapore, 2023Coffee House is a brick-and-mortar café concept for an online coffee brand (TAG Espresso) that seeks to translate the online experience of fostering community through the art of coffee appreciation into a physical venue.
Drawing inspiration from the Chinese characters “咖啡屋”, which translates to ‘Coffee’ and ‘House’, the project showcases the form of a ‘House’ being inserted into the shop lot as the first gesture. The resultant negative space is allocated as the main dining space and characterized as a ‘garden’ space, akin to a backyard garden of someone’s home – familiar and communal. A central island constructed out of concrete breeze blocks anchor the centre of the space, where coffee is being brewed and served. It is lit by a custom pendant light feature that mimic diffused sunlight into the space. Banquette seating constructed out of natural plywood, line the perimeter of the space, behaving like makeshift park benches.
