Come True Coffee Shop by Hui Hsin Cheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
BronzeInterior· 2022
Come True Coffee Shop
Client: Homeyoung interior decorating and design Ltd.
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Come True Coffee Shop
Come True is a coffee shop located on a busy street in Taipei City, Taiwan. The interior covers 50.5 square meters on the ground floor and offers take-out coffee and souffles. Seating is kept flexible, with simple bench seats and standing tables, so visitors can choose a corner that suits their group size and activity. The ceiling combines golden light strips, blue mesh panels and interlaced triangles. Light passes through the mesh and forms scattered dots. Gold and dark tones and a curved bar front express the brand and its African coffee origins.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Come True Coffee Shop is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Come True Coffee Shop is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Come True Coffee Shop splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative integration of African elements through geometric patterns and lighting design in Come True Coffee Shop has created a unique atmosphere - could you elaborate on how you translated these cultural elements into modern architectural language?
In the design of Come True Coffee Shop, the integration of African elements is expressed through geometric patterns, lighting and spatial layout. The purpose is to combine the spiritual connotation of traditional culture with modern architectural language to create a space that is both full of cultural depth and A contemporary atmosphere.The following are several key steps and methods in design:1. Inspirational transformation of geometric patternsGeometric patterns, common in traditional African arts and crafts, have strong visual appeal and cultural symbolism. We extracted core elements from these patterns, such as rhombuses, triangles and radial structures, and simplified or reorganized them into wall decorations, floor joints and furniture details. At the same time, neutral tones and raw wood materials were chosen to balance the visual weight of the pattern and harmonize it with the simplicity of the modern style.2. Lighting atmosphere creationThe lighting design is based on the theme of "Light and Shadow Game", inspired by the mottled light and shadow effect formed by the sunlight penetrating the leaves on the African land. We used carved lampshades and perforated metal panels to form unique patterns on the walls and ceiling through carefully calculated light projections, imitating the rhythm of nature and adding layering and dynamic beauty to the space.3. Selection of materials and colorsThe natural materials and strong colors of African culture are a hallmark of the design. In the cafe, wood and stone with natural textures are selected as the basic materials, combined with warm copper and dark brown colors to echo the natural landscape of Africa. These materials and colors appear understated yet individual in modern spaces.4. Cultural metaphor of spaceIn the overall space layout, taking into account the social nature of "gathering" in African culture, we designed a centralized seating area to allow customers to interact naturally. At the same time, the open spatial structure symbolizes the vastness and inclusiveness of the African land, enhancing the cultural narrative of the space.5. Integration of function and beautyAll cultural elements have been considered both functionally and aesthetically. For example, the geometric patterns on the wall are not only decorative, but also have sound-absorbing functions; the lighting design not only provides visual beauty, but also improves the lighting conditions of the space, making the overall atmosphere more comfortable.This design method not only respects the original appearance of African culture, but also innovatively interprets it through modern architectural language, ultimately creating a unique, harmonious and story-telling cafe space.
The ceiling design of Come True Coffee Shop, with its golden light strips and blue mesh panels creating scattered light effects, is particularly striking - what inspired this specific approach to creating a dynamic yet cozy atmosphere?
The ceiling design of Come True Coffee Shop is inspired by the natural and lively movement of birds flying in the sky. The golden light strips symbolize sunlight, while the blue mesh panels represent the sky, creating a dynamic and harmonious environment. The interlaced triangles mimic the flock of birds in flight, adding a sense of freedom and vitality. The scattered light passing through the net panels evokes the feeling of sunlight filtering through leaves or clouds, enhancing the cozy yet vibrant atmosphere. This design blend captures both the energy and warmth of a welcoming coffee space, encouraging customers to relax, socialize, or focus on their own moments of savoring.
Given that Come True Coffee Shop operates as a social enterprise supporting the African Clean Water Project, how did this mission influence your interior design choices and the overall spatial narrative?
Come True Coffee: When Design Flows with PurposeAt Come True Coffee, we seamlessly integrate the founder’s Clean Water Project in Africa into the spatial narrative.Photographs documenting the real well-building process in African villages are displayed throughout the interiornot merely as visual elements, but as emotional touchpoints that connect people to purpose.This design transforms the café from a simple dining venue into a space with a mission—where visitors can see, feel, and connect with the brand’s social commitment.Each cup of coffee symbolizes a contribution toward bringing clean water to remote communities.Inspired by the purity and flow of water, the interior features soft blue tones, natural textures,and light that ripples across surfaces like reflections on a calm streama metaphor for hope and renewal.Along the walls, photo displays and QR codes invite guests to witness real stories of change,turning everyday moments into acts of empathy.Ultimately, the entire space becomes an extension of the brand’s philosophyblending design, beauty, and social responsibility into one heartfelt story.Here, design does not simply create aesthetics—it creates meaning.And every visitor becomes part of that story.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A cup of fragrant coffee can have a hundred taste angles.
The dining space that is not deliberately stereotyped allows people to more freely find the most suitable corner in a corner of the busy Taipei street in accordance with the number of participants and behavior patterns.
Come True Coffee provides Taipei people who are busy with work, a comfortable and complete space to savor the beauty of every cup of coffee. The lighting design uses dots of light scattered like leaves, presenting the natural flavor from Africa with modern elements. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 50.5 square meter , 1F
- Tags
- Come True Coffee Shop , Taiwan , Da'an Dist. , Taipei City
- Production Technology
- The light penetrates the stencil to form a number of scattered small circles of light, creating a delicate, elegant and romantic space texture. Gold and dark tones are used in the interior to exude understated luxury and create a brand image of high-end boutique. The ring-shaped light strip is matched with blue mesh panels and a ceiling with intertwined triangular surfaces. Just like the African grassland under the setting sun, covered with golden brilliance, the birds spread their wings and soar, and the brisk rhythm leaps out, activating the indoor atmosphere.
- Design Challenge
- Setting up a takeaway coffee shop on the bustling streets of Taipei is the first brand management method that customers have tried. Passing the simple African elements to customers and harmoniously integrating with the fashionable business district street atmosphere, creating a new brand image is the design focus of this cafe. The designer disassembles the African elements in an abstract way, transforms them into geometric shapes, and integrates them into the space design with various changes in the form of light sources.
- Research
- The owner's business philosophy is a social enterprise that returns business profits to the world. 50% of the profits will be donated to the "African Clean Water Project" to build water wells in Africa in cooperation with World Vision. Baristas go deep into Africa to find suitable coffee beans and bring the mellow coffee taste from Africa to people. The designer integrates the brand concept and the background story of the founding into the space. A coffee bean display tube is set up in the cabinet to display various coffee beans used in the store. It also allows customers to have a deeper understanding of the brand concept.
- Inspiration
- The store is located on the prosperous Zhongxiao East Road. It provides take-out-oriented coffee and souffles ,while healing the mood of people who are working busy. The ceiling made up of golden light strips with blue mesh panels and interlaced triangles is like a flock of birds flying in the blue sky. The light penetrates the net plate, forming a scattered dots of light, creating a cozy space full of vigor and romance.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2019 and finished in November 2019 in Taiwan, Taipei City.
- Operation Flow
- There are not many seats in the store, you can choose to sit on a simple bench seat or a standing table to lean against, just like a street coffee bar, you can communicate freely or concentrate on tasting. The time to enjoy a cup of coffee is an exclusive time zone that is worth putting down and savoring.
The facade and modeling bar table use flowing lines to outline the C-shaped arc line that symbolizes Come True, and combine with the tabletop to increase the interaction with customers, showing the brand spirit and image. - Patents
- Copyrights belongs to Homeyoung interior decorating and design Ltd.
- Team Members
- Design Director :Cheng Hui Hsin and Designer: Lin Wan Ju
- Image Credits
- All images: Yana Zhezhela and Alek Vatagin / Cheng Hui Hsin(Design director),Come True Coffee ,Cafe shop,Taipei, 2022
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