This is AD ARCHITECTURE's first project that combines the functions of a cafe and a whiskey bar, a self-imposed challenge for the design team.

Innovation:
Designers have to gain insight into business models and consumer trends and translate them into space design. In a fast-evolving situation like business, the frequency of challenges will be more frequent. In this project, the design team tries to create the possibility of serendipity and the unknown to make breakthroughs.

This time, the design team incorporated an out-of-the-box perspective while staying grounded in market and business logic. This must be about creating something unique in the city. This kind of fun and exploration of the city is a spur to make breakthroughs and find the uniqueness.

The design team hoped to create a new sense of tension in the artistic site, to achieve a new breakthrough by thinking in the opposite direction, and to bring out the uniqueness of the space with a "radical" approach.

Creativity:
By amplifying existing forms, the design team created a complicated spatial realm full of visual variations. This is the first time the team has presented a space in such a radical way.

The project creates storytelling scenes with a strong sense of experience. The story is composed by transient images. The chief designer wants the space to be enriched by user participation, as the effect of instantaneous fragmentation. Although these images can make people feel the story, they are indefinable, or in the designer’s words, they are "psychedelic images".

The entire space is internally free and can function in different scenarios. The sense of fluidity of the space creates a dialogue with people and forms a dynamic scene. The form of the space is full of imagination: it can be a cave, a space capsule, or a neuron... It can flexibly switch between the leisure of a cafe during the day and the excitement of a whiskey bar at night.

Functionality:
The project is a composite space running multiple businesses. It operates as a café and a whiskey bar normally, and holds themed parties on special occasions and designer toy exhibitions and small art exhibitions from time to time. This flexible mode meets various scenario-based demands and effectively enriches the operation hours of the space.

Sustainability:
The design team remains the old tree at the entrance and brings the view of outdoor plants into the indoor space. To protect the environment, reusable handmade paint is widely used, which makes repainting convenient and enables the recycling of the decorative materials.