dhanie & sal draw on skeletons and x-rays for cafe design
Within the entrance yard of a home in a residential space of Bandung, IndonesiaSawo Rontgen is a small out of doors cafe which takes its cues from its avenue title. Sawo Cafe’s second house is on “rontgen” avenue, the title translating to “X-rays” and the positioning having a robust connection to medical establishments. Enjoying with this idea and constructing on it to design the mission’s visible identification, Dhanie & Sal create a construction of hole metal beams, wrapping its exterior in a fragile, semi-transparent pores and skin. The cafe is dressed with glass bricks stacked in a geometrical composition and acid glass that exudes a blurred visible factor meant to resemble the pores and skin and bone high quality of X-ray imaginative and prescient.
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sawo rontgen takes form as a semi-transparent floating field
To attain an “X-ray-like” character, Dhanie & Sal explored totally different morals of transparency and experimented with materiality and structural qualities. In a floating field composition, architects they organized glass bricks alongside the entrance yard to delimit the house like a café, forming a pseudo-boundary towards the home. The acid glass wraps the pavilion like a fragile matte pores and skin and hides parts of the present home, whereas rejuvenating it with a further layer with out making vital adjustments. The juxtaposition of the 2 new trendy supplies towards the uncovered metal beam construction and the enveloping pure supplies leads to a broad spectrum of visible transparency that is still delicate to the context of the construction.
Sawo Espresso opens its second house in a residential space in Bandung
Dhanie & Sal composes the glass bricks in a zigzag sample to make sure a geometrical visible function in addition to a robust bond with even weight distribution. As soon as in place, the bricks had been stretched to create vertical gaps between them, permitting air to circulation out and in of the wall whereas decreasing materials utilization by twenty %. In an extension of the wall mannequin, which initially appeared as a realistic method, it then developed right into a definitive language all through Sawo Rontgen.
The glass pavilion holds inside it a white espresso bar, a signature function of Sawo espresso, welcoming clients as they enter the cafe space. Hidden contained in the field is an out of doors seating space organized in a fluid round form, taking cues from the model’s emblem. Its robust type and reference to nature evoke a soothing ambiance for leisure. Subsequent to the gazebo, a metal staircase results in the indoor sitting space on the higher ground.
a round out of doors seating space emulates Sawo Espresso’s emblem
Dhanie & Sal juxtapose glass supplies to create a broad spectrum of visible transparency