‘Gimisa’ is a beverage cultural house launched by a World Barista Championship Judge. This place is a showroom, an academy, and a café at the same time, and it deals with ‘everything about coffee’ from the import of green beans to ‘how to handle beans’ including roasting. ‘Gimisa’ intends to propose a new taste experience by reinterpreting not only coffee but also various unknown Korean ingredients.
STUDIO MUTE designed the space to reveal the characteristics of 'raw materials', starting from the client's values that place importance on the characteristics of Ingredients itself. The raw materials in this space were placed heavily in lumps, allowing you to feel the original sensation of each material. From the entrance, guests enter and experience the unfamiliar texture of the door handle made of a stone. Although it is a common stone, the feeling and energy of a stone as a doorhandle would be special, and it makes us re-think about the material itself again.
Construction using unprocessed natural materials as it is and enjoying it by consumers can be the first step in establishing an eco-friendly interior field system. This is because raw materials can be reused as they are or reworked and designed. Also, ‘Gimisa’ has very Korean characteristics. [This name is derived from the name of the SPECIAL SERVANT (Gimisanggung in Korean), who tasted first and checked for poison on behalf of the king of ancient Korea.]
In line with Gimisa's intention to experience a new taste, it was given this name in the sense of 'tasting new'. The interior design was designed to structurally reveal such Korean characteristics avoiding cliché of Korean traditional design. The ‘island-style floating floor’ in the most central hall is done by the same concept. It is a lounge-like place where you can “taste’ the drinks that have just been served by bringing your legs up and quench thirst in a traditional Korean House ‘Hanok’.
There are different ways to sit and enjoy here. The high table using the traditional Korean table ‘soban’ also allows you to enjoy drinks at a desired height according to your reclining posture or height. There is a ‘Maru’ in the basement. It is a place where you can take off your shoes and step up based on the Korean traditional culture. When you put your shoes on the stepping stone and sit on the table, the outside light gently enters through the semi-transparent fabric, so you can focus on ‘drinking’ while feeling the breeze and the sound of rippling water projected on the wall.