Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Team: studio 8 1/2
Year: 2017
Area: 25 sq. m.
Located on the ground level of the old existing house on the corner of two busy and noisy boulevards in the city. The gross area is just 25.00 sq.m located on a single level and divided as following: entrance hall with small bar and place for customers, small hall with three tables and area for merchandising – cups, mugs, t-shirts, bags, and books; plus service spaces – a tiny storage room and a toiled which are connected with almost invisible doors disappearing on the grey wall.
The main idea is to put the accent on the coffee itself and to place the coffee-machine in the center of the café-bar. The material palette is clean and simple – gray terrazzo tops and sides for the bar and table-tops, natural plywood and black-painted steel elements. Every material is used in simple combination with the others and the clear gray-painted walls plus natural concrete floor and the line of cement-tiles in it. The customers can take their coffee away or to choose a cozy place on the bar looking outside over the boulevard or a chair in the small room with tables – all the furniture is custom-made.
