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Cafe Camellia

Limtaehee Design Studio

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JURY VOTES
Bar
7.27
6.84
7.67
6.69
7.12
Jaime Velez
Jaime Velez Design Partner at Velez + Valencia Arquitectos
7.02
7.6
6.95
6.31
6.97
Carolin Krebber
Carolin Krebber Founder at Büro agata/ Co-founder Format F/ allmannwappner
7.6
6.1
7.24
6.38
6.83
Firas Alsahin
Firas Alsahin Co-Founder and Design Director at 4SPACE Design
I loved the space, the contrast cre...
8
7
9
6
7.5
Philippe Paré
Philippe Paré Principal and Managing Director at Gensler
7.17
5.88
6.98
7.02
6.76
Jason Su
Jason Su Design Director at HCD Impress
7.24
6.81
6.88
6.95
6.97
Yen Kien Hang
Yen Kien Hang Founder / Design Writer / Author at OutOfThePackage
Interesting use of materials, and t...
7
7
7
6
6.75
Maria Messina
Maria Messina Creative Director and Design Architect at FAAB
7
6
8
6
6.75
Ayça Doğan
Ayça Doğan Head of Design at CBRE Netherlands
8
7.8
8.5
6
7.58
Elise Zoetmulder
Elise Zoetmulder Founder at Zoetmulder
7
7
8
8
7.5
Maximilian Pecher
Maximilian Pecher Senior Designer and Creative Lead at NorthernLight
7
7
8
6
7
Rachna Agarwal
Rachna Agarwal Founding Partner at Studio IAAD
7.1
6.74
6.67
7.24
6.94
Lin Chen
Lin Chen Founding Partner at Topos Design
7
7
8
6.5
7.13
Evans Lee
Evans Lee Founder & Design Director at Evans Lee Designers
7
6.5
7.6
6
6.78
Emma Holt
Emma Holt Associate Director at Ben Adams Architects
The irridescent smooth metal combin...
8.12
7.64
8.5
7.69
7.99
Andres Fredes
Andres Fredes Creative Director / Partner at ALLDSGN
7
6
8
8
7.25
Kristen Becker
Kristen Becker Partner at Mutuus Studio
7
8
8
7
7.5
Toni Black
Toni Black Interior Director at Blacksheep
7.29
6.2
7.13
6.62
6.81
Client
Camellia Hill
Floor area
133 ㎡
Completion
2021
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[Cafe Camellia] Since the outside of the café is covered with camellia flowers of which the vigorous red is symbolic, we propose the interior should be more calm and stable. Our intention is to withdraw several elements of the nature, characterizing Jeju Island where the climate and the geology are quite different from the main land of Korea. We chose wind, cloud, water, stone, and soil for those elements. 

In order to shape ‘wind’, we adopted bamboo split. Thanks to its elastic property, bamboo split makes a beautiful aerodynamic shape, if it is properly hanged. Beautiful three dimensional wave lines on the ceiling could be achieved after many trials by arraying and overlaying a bunch of bamboo splits. The slight difference of each split of bamboos resulted in aesthetically interesting gradation unintentionally. 

In order to describe ‘cloud’ which is composing and dispersing, I tried an anodizing method to treat metal surface. I happened to get acquainted with this technology previously and have longed to try it sometime. I applied this in this project, and with the consequence of several trials, we could luckily obtained the fantastically beautiful patterns of the reception table. 

In case of ‘stone’, we adopted two different types of stones, one from the mountains and the other from the ocean. Though the compositions are the same, owing to the difference of cooling temperature their shapes and handling properties are different. We used both on the same table with different methods of building-up, one for sleek and one for harsh shape. We also induced a water stream falling on the stone to make dynamic vision and sound. The symbolic wall was prepared with the mixture of regional soil and cinnamon, of which method was traditionally used to prevent insects.