Gluck Cafe 咖啡馆室内设计 by Hsin Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

铜室内· 2020

Gluck Cafe 咖啡馆室内设计

by Hsin Chen

Client: Komet Design Studio

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Gluck Cafe 咖啡馆室内设计

Gluck Cafe 是一处位于台湾桃园市河滨公园旁的商业空间室内设计。Gluck 一词源自德语,意为幸运与幸福。这处65平方米的空间由一栋屋龄30年的老屋改造而成,融合了咖啡馆、选物店与展示区域等多重机能。平面布局采用回字动线:外围方形区域布置展示陈列架与吧台座位,内部方形区域则容纳配备厨房设备的工作区与结帐柜台。设计选用大理石、水泥、木材与钢材等材质,并以大面积玻璃立面将河岸景致引入室内。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Gluck Cafe 咖啡馆室内设计是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Gluck Cafe 咖啡馆室内设计将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Gluck Cafe 咖啡馆室内设计出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The word Gluck came from German sounds like Good luck. It means lucky and happiness. Designer extends the smiley face U with a big and a small circle, represents circulation and continuous. The linear structure is in loop shape, a bigger square on outside, which is the display stands and bar seating area. Inner square shape is the Nakajima working area, it contains simple kitchen equipment and checkout counter. Lights hide on track of the display stands preserve flexible space for exhibits.
Dimensions & Packaging: The whole space uses grey blue color, which is the natural color of river and sky, giving us the warmth feelings. Golden sunlight irradiated on the river, echoing the interior steel display stands. Ceiling uses white, and a big chandelier is on the middle. This chandelier, birdie was designed by LUDOVICA+ROBERTO PALOMBA, using the imagery of branches and birds, which fits the main core that designer wants to convey, coexist with nature.
Tags: Local, Natural, River view, Furniture, Artistic, Utensils, Gallery, Iron piece, Marble
Production Technology: Designer breaks the sense of distance of aesthetic space, creating a space that closes to people. The facade uses a large number of glass, make the natural views as a part of design. Interior uses natural materials such as marble, cement, wood, and steel. The material uses on floor is different, the front side uses cement powder to present the sense of nature, at the same time echoing the land of farmers; Wooden floor is used on the back side, emphasizing interaction between human and nature.
Design Challenge: Lots of problems could be found in a 30 year old home such as leaking water, exposed pipeline and etc., designer has to put in efforts to solve and reinforce it. There is a small washroom and abnormal corner near the staircase, designer moves sink of the washroom to the corner to maximize space, the sink was decorated with metal frame mirror for visual unity. Other than that, designer plants new plants, place artworks, so that the sunlight which directly enters the space could be reduce.
Research: This case is on the riverside in a lively city. Designer hopes that this space can be given meaningful through integrating healthy ingredients of local farmers, communication between human and artistic. The space should be regarded as the organism of life, inspire more creations through design, at the same time transmit positive values.
Inspiration: This case is beside Riverbank Park, therefore the inspiration came from the views surrounding it. In order to create a complex commercial space that integrates catering, interior design, aesthetics and product of local farmer, Komet design reforms the 65m2 long shaped, 30 year old commercial space, and let it close to nature. The design idea came from circle of life, the loop shape circulation symbolizes the farm grows out and taken from the ground should be cast away on the ground.
Project Duration: The project finished in December, 2017 in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The compound business area aim for relaxing integrates culture, cafe, souvenir shops and etc. It is in loop shape structure, Nakajima working area was constructed by marble, echoing the quite of nature; the blue facade sheet is to puzzle out wave of the river, creating unique expression of space. The cement structure staircase had been replaces by steel, and embedded it into the wall. To balance the whole visual, designer extends a row of golden round rod to second floor.
Team Members: Komet Design team
Hsin Chen
Image Credits: Photographer Beck Chen, 2018