Aura Kazi Kuu: Baa ya Kokteli by Kacper Gronkiewicz is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Nafasi za Ndani na Maonyesho Competition Category.
ChumaMambo ya Ndani· 2020
Aura Kazi Kuu: Baa ya Kokteli
Client: Kacper Gronkiewicz
Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award Winner in Mambo ya Ndani Category
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About Aura Kazi Kuu: Baa ya Kokteli
Maandishi ya Kitabu: Aura ni baa ya kokteli iliyoko ghorofa ya chini ya jengo la karne ya kumi na tisa katikati mwa Warsaw. Mambo ya ndani yanajumuisha eneo la mita za mraba 25, na nafasi kuu ina urefu wa mita 4.8. Shaba iliyong'arishwa na yenye rangi isiyometameta imelinganishwa na mazulia laini yenye mchoro yanayopamba ukuta mkuu. Vifaa vya shaba vimetumika kwa ajili ya rafu, meza ndefu na taa nyembamba za kunyongwa, huku sahani za rangi ya dhahabu zikiwa juu ya kaunta ya vinywaji, ambayo imesimama juu ya msingi wa marumaru. Mfululizo wa mashimo sakafuni una meza maalum zilizotengenezwa kwa urefu tatu tofauti, hivyo kuruhusu eneo hili dogo kutumika kama mkahawa wakati wa mchana na kama baa wakati wa usiku.
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award
Aura Kazi Kuu: Baa ya Kokteli ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima unaotolewa kwa miundo mizuri inayokidhi mahitaji ya kitaalamu na ya kiviwanda yanayotarajiwa kutoka kwa kazi zilizobuniwa vizuri. Washindi wa Chuma huonyesha ustadi mkubwa, utaalamu wa hali ya juu, uelewa wa kitaalamu na uwezo wa kibunifu wa waumbaji wao. Aura Kazi Kuu: Baa ya Kokteli inatarajiwa kuwa kazi inayothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambayo ni ya vitendo na bunifu. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Chuma ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora za tasnia na una sifa za kiufundi zenye uwezo zilizounganishwa na ujuzi na kipaji. Aura Kazi Kuu: Baa ya Kokteli inaheshimiwa kwa uangalifu wake na imebuniwa kutoa maboresho ya ubora wa maisha yanayosaidia kuufanya ulimwengu kuwa mahali bora zaidi.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- Gronkiewicz contrasted polished and mat, veneered and raw brass with soft patterned carpets lining the wall. To optimise the venue's limited space a set of holes was designed in the floor for several combinations of custom made big and small tables. Bringing gold into interior, the architect installed various brass fixtures throughout the space, from the shelves to the high tables and slim lighting pendants. Golden plates are also used to top off the drinks counter, which perches on a mismatch marble base. Velvet upholstered seats and cobalt blue toilet complement the red hues of the floor and vintage barstools.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Area of the premises - 25sqm, height of a main space - 4,8m. Combination of 3 small (50cm in diameter) and one large (100cm in diameter) tables are possible. The height of tables may be adjusted to high, medium and low level.
- Tags
- Aura, bar, cocktail, Warsaw, carpet, interior, gold, custom-made
- Production Technology
- Minor craft services of the area encouraged architect to use customized solutions. Arched benches were made by the craftsman next door while stone slabs cladding the bar came from a stonemason based on one of Warsaw cemeteries and are the leftovers of his commissions. Its scales cladding bar's rear wall are posed on 5 mm steel shelves - invisible yet resilient. A shabby mint green background of original nineteenth century walls was yet raised by the painter from neighbourhood. The blue walls and vaulted ceilings were finished with water resistant blue paint and instead of a wallpaper Gronkiewicz used old carpets to paste up the main wall. All this involved prototyping and none of this would be possible without local contractors.
- Design Challenge
- The small premises (25sqm/80sqf) implied a very careful functional layout. The bar consist of the clients' area, bartenders open and hidden working space, toilet, technical facility and a storage for beverages on the off-sight mezzanine. Designer had to adjust the set of holes in the floor according to existing 19th century layout of steel supporting beams and yet obtain ergonomic distances between fixed tables, stools and benches.
- Research
- Together with investors designer tried to make out how people would use the place in the daytime, evening and by night keeping in mind natural lighting conditions and the downtown location. They based on Investors curriculum from other similar places as well as the observations made in neighbourhood bar, cafe and vegan patisserie. They came up with few sets of tables dedicated to specific time of the day and provided dimmable light to transform the place from a daily cafe to a bar or even a small concert venue. Table tops not in use are hanging on the walls as decoration.
- Inspiration
- First inspiration came from Franz West's sofas upholstered with old carpets and exhibited in Kassel during Documenta X in 1997. This unconventional use of private second-hand objects gave a hint of cosiness to the public space. An idea appealed to the Investor who had inherited some old family carpets and this pushed architect toward Moroccan imagery - Marrakesh vibrant marketplaces and villa Majorelle Gardens. In his formal language Gronkiewicz was also largely inspired by Giorgio de Chirico paintings. The name of the bar relates to latin aurum - gold and also to a colour of bourbon based drinks served here.
- Project Duration
- The project was executed in Warsaw in January 2019 and rendered to public in June 2019.
Aura is set on the ground floor of a former tenement house of Jochwet Taubenhaus that was built in the 19th century in the very centre of Warsaw. It has survived German bombings during Second World War. There has been several kinds of business ran in the small corner premises on the ground level of the building since then - all left some history in the walls which Gronkiewicz wanted to evoke. - Operation Flow
- Architect elaborated the unique system of tubes inserted in the floor where the custom made tables can be slotted into and set at various heights to respond to different use of the space during the day and by night. The design does not freeze the space, on the contrary, it opens it for interaction. To maximize customers space and enhance the view on the street Gronkiewicz got rid of windowsills and replaced it with upholstered benches.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Kacper Gronkiewicz
- Image Credits
- Photographers: Łukasz Kuś, Magda Rzeszot, 2019
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