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Cenchi Coffee

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Bar - JIN Weiqi
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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Bar
6.35
5.96
6.65
6.16
6.28
Andre Flinterhoff
Andre Flinterhoff Cofounder at Archicon Architectural Intelligence
6
4.5
6.5
5.5
5.63
Christian Buratti
Christian Buratti Art Director at Quadrastudio
6.5
6
6.5
6.5
6.38
Claudio Pironi
Claudio Pironi CEO at Claudio Pironi & Partners
5
4
4.5
5.5
4.75
Tanya Khanna
Tanya Khanna Founder at Epistle
5.53
5.2
5.32
5.32
5.34
Stephanie Ledoux
Stephanie Ledoux Partner at AW²
6.01
5.66
6.12
5.84
5.91
Peter Culley
Peter Culley Founder and Creative Director at Spatial Affairs Bureau
Love the recognition of the emotion...
7.92
7.67
8.67
6.45
7.68
Anda Zota
Anda Zota Editor in Chief at Igloo
Clear and simple solutions, love it...
6.67
6.45
6.45
6.38
6.49
Horace Pan
Horace Pan Founder at Panorama Design Group
5
5.5
6
5.5
5.5
Christina Wissing Oppermann
Christina Wissing Oppermann Commercial Director at Brandt Collective
6.02
5.6
6.79
5.93
6.09
Arne Schultchen
Arne Schultchen Founder and Creative Director at design for human nature
I love the inviting setting of the...
7
7.5
7.5
8
7.5
Bart Veen
Bart Veen Experience Designer at Bart.Agency
I like how the design makes it a bi...
6.5
5
6.3
6
5.95
Talar Bardakjian
Talar Bardakjian Creative Director at ODG
Blurring the line between the front...
7.6
7.6
8.6
6.3
7.53
Filip Janssen
Filip Janssen Founder at Zware Jongens
Smart design....
6.8
6.6
7.5
6.75
6.91
Salone
Salone Founder at Salone del Salon
6.31
6.17
6.31
6.24
6.26
Client
Cenchi Coffee
Floor area
46 ㎡
Completion
2022
Lighting

Cenchi Coffee Coffee, barista and space will form an overall experience process, which are different in each cafe. In Cenchi Coffee the process will be "inviting guests step into the kitchen". We treat this small space facing the street as a big kitchen: the whole cafe is a kitchen area. The three blocks of ordering table, pour-over coffee bar and espresso bar are fully open and arranged on the central axis. All guest seats are located inside the kitchen area. The three blocks can be surrounded, like the kitchen island at home, which breaks the distinction between the "front" and "back" of the traditional bar counter. Therefore, when customers first enter the cafe, they will feel that the layout is a little "strange". Once the memory of "visiting a friend's house and chatting with the host while preparing dinner next to the kitchen island" is aroused, it will really relax. When a customer sees the barista close to him after sitting down and prepares a cup of coffee for him, it will naturally shorten the sense of distance between the host and the guest when he casually brings it to him. On the side close to the door is a seat that can "drink a cup and go". On both sides of the pour-over coffee bar, there are bar chairs to watch the dripping operation from a close distance, while the floor of the innermost row of seats is raised by 40 cm, which makes the guest's line of sight level with the barista's after sitting down, which is convenient for "drinking and chatting" for a long time. The idea of "inviting guests step into the kitchen" comes from some ideas of the two owners of Cenchi Coffee: serving the guests of the surrounding community, providing a gathering place for coffee lovers, cupping and sharing activities from time to time, and so on. White ceramic tile material brings recognition to Cenchi Coffee. Because of its economy, white ceramic tile was widely used in the facade of urban buildings in China in the 1980s and 1990s. Now it has become a "material with era memory". It will give people a sense of security. In the collage design, we use long strip ceramic tiles to make "edge wrapping", mosaic small ceramic tiles as "core material", and deal with the hard material of ceramic tiles according to the material logic of rattan furniture, which makes people have the impression of "never seen" but "deja vu". Place and material are both familiar and unfamiliar, and the feeling between these two ends can be enjoyed while drinking a cup of coffee.