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Choui Fong Tea Café 2

IDIN Architects

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JURY VOTES
Restaurant
7.00
6.56
7.11
5.56
6.56
Agata Kurzela
Agata Kurzela Founder and Design Director at Agata Kurzela Studio
7
7
6
6.5
6.63
Allen Zhou
Allen Zhou Founder at Shengtang Shijia Design Studio
4.9
5.89
5.81
5.4
5.5
Lara Francis El Hani
Lara Francis El Hani Senior Manager Interior Design – Head of Department at Kling Consult
5.94
3.61
6.91
4.01
5.12
Rahul Bansal
Rahul Bansal Architect at group dca
5
5
5
5
5
Anette Skeie
Anette Skeie Head of Design at Norco Interior
6.2
5
6.6
6
5.95
Mireia Luzarraga
Mireia Luzarraga Cofounder at TAKK
5
5.49
4.92
4.64
5.01
Leali Ezzat
Leali Ezzat Founder and Design Director at ELE Interior
6.5
6.5
6.5
5.94
6.36
Javier Guzman
Javier Guzman Cofounder at Zooco Estudio
5
5
4
4.5
4.63
Alex Mok
Alex Mok Cofounder at Linehouse
7
5
7
4
5.75
Shamsudin Kerimov
Shamsudin Kerimov Founder at Kerimov Architects
4.82
5.49
5.69
5.2
5.3
Lori Ferriss
Lori Ferriss Executive Director at Built Buildings Lab
6.72
6.39
5.73
5
5.96
Ziwei Guo
Ziwei Guo Founder and Director at Pure Design
7.9
6
7
7
6.98
Louisa Fan
Louisa Fan Director of Design Luxury and Lifestyle Brand at IHG ® Hotels & Resorts
5.7
5
5.8
5.2
5.43
Jukka Halminen
Jukka Halminen Founder and Creative Director at Design Office Koko3
5.7
5.9
6
5.7
5.83
Vineeta Singhania Sharma
Vineeta Singhania Sharma Founder at Confluence
6.58
5.78
6.98
5.78
6.28
Yang Yan
Yang Yan Founder and Chief Architect at y.ad studio
4.5
5
4.5
4
4.5
Client
Shanya Wanasphitaksakul
Floor area
1330 ㎡
Completion
2019
Architect, Interior Designer
Architect, Interior Designer

This Tea Cafe is the second phase, located on the plantation hill near the first cafe, which has now become one of the most famous tourist attractions in Chiang Rai. The site is full of the tea plants, so the design concept is aim to allow visitors to access such a panoramic view with universal design. The building appears as one story with a large dining area in several steps where every table is accessible to the view. The ramp surrounding the dining area is for wheelchair whereas the above extended eaves are added to protect from heavy rain. The scatter skylights are settled to solve the issue of the lack of light, instead of having huge glass planes with unpleasant joint and structure. The cone shape of skylights benefits to diffuse light sufficiently for the dining area whereas also create the volume for tree courtyard. The Cafe is one of the role model architecture that impulses the local economy and community, supporting the Choui Fong Tea plantation to become one of the top destinations in Chiang Rai province. The design is derived from the analysis of the real user behavior patterns in the first phase cafe. All functions were interpreted into the program and finally transformed into an architecture successfully. By this process, the project appears to have its unique character, which definitely explains the designer's belief that architecture is a problem-solving solution where the result should be unique, aesthetic, and beneficial to people in better living.